Tunisia Extends 2015 State of Emergency
Tunisia has extended for another four months a state of emergency in place since a 2015 jihadist attack, the president's office announced on Wednesday. "President Beji Caid Essebsi decided on...
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100 Migrants Rescued From Desert In Niger
Around 100 Libya-bound migrants, including women, have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger after being abandoned by their smugglers, a security source told AFP. The migrants are believed to...
Tunisia Extends 2015 State of Emergency
Tunisia has extended for another four months a state of emergency in place since a 2015 jihadist attack, the president's office announced on Wednesday. "President Beji Caid Essebsi decided on...
100 Migrants Rescued From Desert In Niger
Around 100 Libya-bound migrants, including women, have been rescued from the Sahara desert in Niger after being abandoned by their smugglers, a security source told AFP. The migrants are believed to...
Talks To Settle Tanzania Gold Fraud Dispute
Tanzania has agreed to negotiations with Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold which it accuses of operating illegally and evading taxes, a government statement said Wednesday. Barrick is the majority...
Egypt Parliament Agrees Island Transfer To Saudi Arabia
Egypt's parliament approved on Wednesday a controversial maritime agreement with Saudi Arabia that transfers two Red Sea islands to the kingdom, state television and a lawmaker said. The deal, which...
Talks To Settle Tanzania Gold Fraud Dispute
Tanzania has agreed to negotiations with Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold which it accuses of operating illegally and evading taxes, a government statement said Wednesday. Barrick is the majority...
Egypt Parliament Agrees Island Transfer To Saudi Arabia
Egypt's parliament approved on Wednesday a controversial maritime agreement with Saudi Arabia that transfers two Red Sea islands to the kingdom, state television and a lawmaker said. The deal, which...
Egypt Parliament Approves Island Transfer To Saudi
Egypt's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial maritime accord with Saudi Arabia that transfers two strategic Red Sea islands to the kingdom, state television and a lawmaker said. The deal,...
Egypt Parliament Approves Island Transfer To Saudi
Egypt's parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial maritime accord with Saudi Arabia that transfers two strategic Red Sea islands to the kingdom, state television and a lawmaker said. The deal,...
Macron In Morocco To Discuss Libya, Qatar Crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron was in Morocco Wednesday on a 24-hour visit for talks on battling terrorism as well as the Libyan conflict and Qatar's dispute with its Gulf neighbours. As he stepped...
State Institutions Owe GHC95million In Water Bills In Ashanti
The Ghana Water Company says a GHC95million debt owed it by 24 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies and other state institutions in the Ashanti Region alone is hampering its expansion...
UPDATE! Handcuffed Ghanaian Deportees Arrive From the US
About 78 Ghanaians have arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra from the United States of America as the second batch of deportees following Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal...
Ghana Armed Forces Dismisses KABA’s Claims
The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has responded to recent claims in the media by one Kwodwo Asare Baffour Acheampong, also known as KABA, that the top hierarchy of the military knew about tension in...
Bawumia Backs Call For Study of Civic Education In Schools
The Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has supported calls for the study of civic education to be reintroduced into the school curriculum. Speaking at a National Dialogue on restoring Ghanaian...
63 Ghanaians Were ‘ordered Removed’ By A Judge – US Embassy Explains
The United States Embassy in Accra has explained the 63 Ghanaians deported from the US to Ghana Wednesday morning was based on the orders of an immigration judge. “U. S. Immigration and Customs...
Morocco Jails 25 Protesters Over Rif Protests
A court in Morocco on Wednesday sentenced 25 demonstrators and suspected members of a grassroots protest movement to 18 months in jail each, a defence attorney said. They were among 32 people...
Constituency Cries For Dev’t Help
The Salaga North constituency in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region perhaps is the most deprived constituency among the 275 constituencies in Ghana. The constituency, one of the infant...
Danger, Extortion, Suffering On Migrant Route To Europe
Extortion, corruption and fear; violence, hunger and sometimes even death: for west African migrants dreaming of reaching Europe, the road to get there can be an absolute minefield. Whether it's The...
Villagers Fear S.Sudan Famine
South Sudan's northwest is untouched by civil war, yet hunger still wreaks havoc: here food shortages are cyclical and the annual "hunger gap" is about to begin. About 800 kilometres (500 miles) from...