Ghana First to Approve Oxford’s ‘World Changer...
Ghana has become the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine described as a "world changer" by scientists who developed it at the University of Oxford.
The mosquito-spread parasitic disease kills more than 600,000 people every year. The majority are ... Read More
African Journalists Mourn, Pay Tribute To Late FAAPA Preside...
The Late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi
African journalists have been paying tribute to Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, President of the Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA), who died on Saturday April 8, 2023, in Rabat, Morocco.
The journalists, who received the news of ... Read More
Ghana Has High Access To Electricity In sub-Sahara Africa â€...
Ghana has placed first in access to electricity rate in sub-Sahara Africa, a latest report by the World Bank has stated.
The World Bank’s April 2023 Africa’s Pulse Report, which assessed electricity access rate between 2015 and 2021 scored Ghana 81.2 ... Read More
First Quarter Was Deadly For Migrants In Mediterranean, UN S...
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers' boats, the U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday, citing delays by nations in initiating rescues as a contributing ... Read More
Malawi President Pardons Former Minister Jailed For Corrupti...
Malawi's president has pardoned a former minister of Homeland Security who was jailed in 2020 for corruption and placed on a U.S. travel ban. Uladi Mussa was among 200 prisoners released as an act of mercy during Easter. But critics ... Read More
UN Chief Appeals For Urgent International Aid To Somalia
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the international community to give more emergency humanitarian aid to Somalia.
Guterres, in his second visit to the country since 2017, said the Somali people deserve the solidarity of the international community to effectively respond ... Read More
Help Ghana Shoulder Debt Burden – IMF Pleads
Kristalina Georgieva -IMF Boss
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has doubled down on its plea to wealthier nations to support Ghana and other weaker economies to help such countries extricate themselves from the shackles of debt.
The call also comes at a ... Read More
Boat With 400 Migrants Adrift Between Greece, Malta
A vessel with around 400 people on board is adrift between Greece and Malta and is taking on water, support service Alarm Phone said Sunday, after a sharp rise of migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.
Alarm Phone said ... Read More
Ethiopia To Integrate Regional Forces Into Central Army, Pol...
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
The Ethiopian government has said it intends to integrate all regional special forces either into the national army or the federal or regional police, a move likely to be perceived as an attempt to diminish the autonomy ... Read More
Report: China Helped With Africa Pandemic Debt Relief
A new report by researchers from Johns Hopkins University is giving China better than expected marks for its performance in helping to restructure the crippling debt loads carried by some African countries.
The report is based on a detailed evaluation of ... Read More