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Ghana Library Association Calls For Creation of National Library

Mr Samuel Bentil Aggrey, the President of the Ghana Library Association, has called on the Government to create a...

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Rwanda Tops Africa’s Best Performing Institutions, Ghana Is 12th

Rwanda has been ranked as the country with the best performing institutions in Africa. The East African country is...

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Boko Haram Attack In Chad Kills Nine Troops, 40 Jihadists

Nine Chadian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on an army post in the Lake Chad region on Friday, local and...

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Over 80 West Africans Share Knowledge On Responsible Mining

Over 80 West Africans who have previously attended Australian-funded mining courses met on 27 April in Accra to share...

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Niger Gold Seekers Dig Deep For Bullion Dreams

Arriving on motorcycles and donkeys, in cars, or even on foot, hundreds of people have flocked to a site in southern...

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France Says ’20 Fighters Killed’ In Northern Mali

France says it has killed about 20 suspected fighters in a forest near Mali's border with Burkina Faso. French Mirage...

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Around 20 Jihadists Killed Or Captured In Mali’s North

French soldiers killed or captured about 20 jihadists in Mali's restive north where a French soldier was killed on...

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Senegal Court Upholds War Crimes Ruling Against Habre

A special court in Senegal on Thursday upheld former Chadian dictator Hissène Habré's life sentence for war crimes,...

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Jubilation As Sentence of Chad’s Ex-Ruler Upheld

About a dozen people in a court room in Senegal's capital, Dakar, jumped up and down, crying "We won!" when an appeals...

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Ex-Chadian Leader’s Life Sentence Upheld

An appeals court in Senegal has upheld the life sentence given to Chad's former leader HIssene Habre for crimes against...

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Is the Habre Verdict A Turning Point For African Justice?

Chadian lawyer Jacqueline Moudeina has fought for close to two decades to deliver justice for the victims of former...

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Desert Warlord Turned Brutal Tyrant

A desert warfare specialist, Chad's Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 and quickly embraced the role of ruthless...

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Final Verdict For Chad’s Habre On War Crimes Appeal

Chad's former president Hissene Habre will learn Thursday if his lawyers' appeal against sentences for war crimes,...

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After Six Years, US Troops End Hunt For LRA Warlord Kony

US special forces on Wednesday begin pulling out of Central African Republic where they deployed in 2011 to help hunt...

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Chad’s Hissene Habre Awaits Appeal Verdict For War Crimes

Chad's former president Hissene Habre will Thursday hear the final decision on an appeal against a life sentence for...

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US Counting On French Anti-Terror Ops In Africa

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Sunday urged France to continue its African anti-terror operations under its new...

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Boko Haram Raid Killed Nine Nigerian Soldiers

Nine Nigerian soldiers were killed and 14 others are missing feared abducted after an attack this week by suspected...

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Nigeria Marks Third Anniversary of Schoolgirl Kidnap

Nigerians rallied Friday to mark the third anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, as their...

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Tensions Simmer After Ile-Ife Ethnic Clashes In Nigeria

For his whole life, Hausa trader Bashiru Tanko has lived peacefully alongside the Yoruba people of Ile-Ife in southwest...