Israel on Sunday began warning thousands of African migrants that they must leave by the end of March, officials said, under a plan that could see them jailed if they refuse. Immigration authority spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told AFP that officials began issuing migrants letters on Sunday advising them that they had 60 days in which […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the Ghana Health Service; the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA); Samsung; and Good Neighbors (a Korean NGO) are digitizing healthcare in rural and hard-to-reach communities using touchscreen tablets. Under this partnership, the e-Tracker—a tablet-based tool was developed to allow health workers to electronically collect and analyze health […]
At least five migrants have been shot in the French port city of Calais, after a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans. Four Eritrean youths aged 16-18 are in a critical condition and have been rushed to a local hospital for surgery, AFP news agency reports. A fifth man was taken to nearby Lille due […]
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage Kenya’s two leaders as part of efforts to resolve the unfolding political crises in that country. Dr Chukwuemeka B. Eze, the Executive Director of WANEP, described as very unfortunate the ‘self inauguration’ of Mr Raila […]
The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity. According to a special gazette notice issued today under the Prevention of organized Crimes Act, the government declared as follows: “IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 22 of the organized Crimes Act of […]
The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of TV channels that defied a ban on live coverage of the the symbolic inauguration of Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. The human rights body released a statement that also highlighted the deteriorating human rights record […]
Kenya’s main opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has declared himself the “people’s president” at a controversial “swearing-in” ceremony in the capital. Thousands of his supporters attended the event, despite a government warning that it amounted to treason. The authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of the event. President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in […]
Ghana lost more than $24 billion between 2010 and 2016 as a result of insufficient power supply and outages, Mr Robert Jackson, the United States (US) Ambassador to Ghana, has said. Mr Jackson, who was interacting with students of University for Development Studies (UDS) on Wa campus on Monday, said unreliable and inadequate power supply […]
Liberia’s newly sworn-in President George Weah pledged to cut his own salary by a quarter on Monday, in a nationwide address in which he warned of tough times ahead for a “broke” country. “The state of the economy that my administration inherited leaves a lot to do and to be decided,” the former international soccer […]
The outgoing Chairperson of the African Union (AU), President Alpha Condé of Guinea, has handed over the headship of the continental body to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda with a call on the members of the AU to emulate the recent example of Ghana in the creation of jobs for the youth. He said it […]
