Year: 2024
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Ghana
Deputy Finance Minister John Kumah dead
Deputy Finance Minister and Member of Parliament for Ejisu, John Kumah has been reported dead. Sources close to the family…
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Ghana
Official: Mahama picks Prof. Opoku-Agyemang as running mate for 2024 polls
The National Executive Committee of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has officially endorsed Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the…
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Canada
Canadians killed in Nashville plane crash identified as Ontario couple and 3 children
An Ontario couple and their three children have been identified as the victims of a deadly plane crash in Nashville.…
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Africa
US sanctions Zimbabwe leader and wife for alleged corruption and human rights abuse
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and first lady Auxillia have come under a slate of new US sanctions imposed that also…
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Africa
World’s largest hunger crisis looms in Sudan, UN warns, as humanitarian response hits ‘breaking point’
The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a…
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Africa
Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis: Dozens of women feared abducted in Gamboru Ngala
Dozens of displaced people are feared to have been abducted by Boko Haram jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria. The victims were…
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Africa
Senegal president announces March election
Senegal’s government has announced that the country’s presidential election will take place on 24 March. The announcement follows tension in…
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Africa
Liberia’s leader sets up task force to fight corruption
Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai has set up a task force to crack down on corruption and to recover stolen state…
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World
Trump challenges Biden to debates ‘anytime’
Donald Trump has challenged Joe Biden to TV debates, as the rivals hurtle towards a White House rematch following their…
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Ghana
We’ll now refine bauxite mined in Ghana – Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has affirmed Ghana’s commitment to refining its mined bauxite to produce alumina, earmarked for supply to the Volta…
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