USAID and KOICA Enhance Health Care Using Samsung Tablets
Melinda Tabler-Stone - U.S. Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission
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 ... Read More
Calais migrants: Five shot in mass brawl
A man gets medical help from rescue workers after clashes in Calais, northern France
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 ... Read More
WANEP urges AU to re-engage Kenyatta and Odinga
Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta
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 ... Read More
Kenya govt declares Odinga’s resistance movement a cri...
Raila Odinga says he wants to create "a proper democracy" in Kenya
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 ... Read More
Human rights bodies condemn media shutdown in Kenya
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 ... Read More
Kenya’s Raila Odinga ‘inaugurates’ himself...
Raila Odinga says he wants to create "a proper democracy" in Kenya
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 ... Read More
Erratic Power Situation Costs Ghana Over $24b In Six Years ...
Robert P. Jackson - US Ambassador to Ghana
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, ... Read More
George Weah to revise constitution and reduce his salary
President George Weah
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 ... Read More
Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is new AU Chairman
Paul Kagame - Rwanda President
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 ... Read More
US Ambassador Urges Ghana to Pass RTI to Show Seriousness Ab...
Robert P. Jackson - US Ambassador to Ghana
Mr Robert Jackson, United States Ambassador to Ghana has added his voice to the growing calls on government to pass the Right to Information Bill (RTI) to show that the country is ... Read More