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Apply for visas early – Canadian High Commissioner

  • January 25, 2018

Mrs Heather Cameron, the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, has advised Ghanaian students with interest to study in Canada to apply for their visas early to avoid last minute stress. She said very often students waited until the eleventh-hour to apply for their visas and that always created traffic and work for the Embassy. “The […]

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Winnie Mandela hospitalised, family confirms

  • January 24, 2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, known in South Africa as the “mother of the nation”, was hospitalized for a kidney infection, the family announced on Tuesday. Winnie Mandela, 81, who is considered a heroine in the fight against apartheid, had been persecuted by the authorities of the white minority regime. She was appointed minister after the 1994 election. […]

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Top Jammeh generals arrested after sneaking back into The Gambia

  • January 24, 2018

Military authorities in Gambia arrested two of ex-strongman Yahya Jammeh’s generals after they returned unexpectedly from exile over the weekend, the army said in a statement on Monday. Gambia’s current President Adama Barrow was sworn in a year ago as a West African regional intervention force closed in on the capital Banjul forcing Jammeh, who […]

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AU gears up to launch highly-anticipated single African sky

  • January 23, 2018

The African Union Commission is set to launch the first AU Agenda 2063 Flagship project, the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on January 28, 2018, as a historic event at the African Union Summit, nearly two decades after the adoption of the 1999 Yamoussoukro Decision. Speaking ahead of the launch […]

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Museveni defends death penalty plans as NGOs protest

  • January 23, 2018

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has vowed to enforce the death penalty again, despite opposition from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the country. “We believe in the Law of Moses; eye for an eye,” he said in a tweet: Last week, Mr Museveni said he ‘could start signing death warrants’ while speaking at a graduation ceremony for […]

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African energy stakeholders to meet leading international businesses in Washington, D.C. to discuss investment partnerships

  • January 23, 2018

Representatives of African governments together with key players within the African energy and power industry will once again converge in Washington D.C to meet U.S. governmental agencies and leading international energy investors and businesses from US and around the world for the 2018 Edition of the Powering Africa: Summit. U.S. Governmental agencies and leading businesses […]

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George Weah sworn in as Liberia’s president

  • January 22, 2018

Former international footballer George Weah has been sworn in as president of Liberia. “I have spent many years of my life in stadiums, but today is a feeling like no other,” President Weah told crowds in the capital Monrovia. It is Liberia’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Mr Weah thanked his predecessor, Ellen […]