IS Is Reorganizing, Targeting Europe
Despite defeats in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State group has reorganized and is now "more focused than ever" on attacking Europe and other areas outside that conflict zone, a senior UN official...
Tag: Mali
M.anifest Wins Award & Performs @ 2017 Midem Artist Accelerator Event
Rapper M.anifest last night won an award at the 2017 International Midem Awards held in Cannes, France. The second edition of the awards scheme took place at the Majestic Hotel, and saw four...
Why Are Sahel Countries Deploying An Anti-Jihad Force?
France has asked the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists and criminality in the Sahel region, with a vote expected as early as...
M.anifest Performs In France With Wyclef Jean
Rapper M.anifest headlined the 2017 Midem Artist Accelerator concert at the Majestic Hotel – Beach in Cannes, France last night. He performed on the main stage at the event, an international...
France Will Ask UN To Authorize Sahel Counter-Terror Force
France will ask the UN Security Council to authorize an African military force for the Sahel region that will be sent to root out jihadists and drug traffickers, the French ambassador said Tuesday. A...
EU To Give 50m Euros To New African Fighting Force
The European Union has agreed to give more than 50m euros to fund a new African joint military force in the Sahel region. The force will be made up of troops from Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso...
New App Helps Mali Skin Doctors Reach Out To Distant Patients
In Mali, where skin conditions are widespread and skin doctors are scarce, physicians have turned to technology to treat patients remotely. From his Bamako office, Professor Ousmane Faye, one of a...
EU To Give 50 Million Euros For African Force In Sahel
The EU is giving 50 million euros to set up a joint African military force in the Sahel region to fight jihadists, the bloc's foreign affairs chief said Monday. The funds will help pay for the troops...
French Forces Battle Militants In Northern Mali
French forces operating in northern Mali said Friday that they had taken "out of action" around 20 militants in operations against jihadist groups this week. Soldiers taking part in Operation...
Ibrahim Danlad Reveals Desire To Be ‘best In the World’
Black Starlets goalkeeper, Ibrahim Danlad targeted the golden gloves award before the start of the Under-17 African Championships in Gabon. The Black Starlets who were making their return to the...
Dorinda Martey Making A Case For ‘natural Hair Movement’
The apparent reemergence of the natural hair movement in Africa, particularly Ghana, has not only gotten many interested, but has actually convinced many more young Ghanaian women to take the...
Six Killed In Attack On Niger Military Post
Six members of the Niger security forces were killed when heavily-armed attackers ambushed a military position near the border with Mali, a security source told AFP on Thursday. "There are six dead...
Black Starlets Should Have Won the Africa U17 Title
Former Ghana international Mohammed Polo insist the Black Starlets should have won the Africa U17 Championship. Ghana failed to make history by becoming the first African country to win the...
GFA EXCO Member Osei Palmer Lauds Black Starlets AFCON U17
Ghana Football Association Executive Committee member Winfred Osei Palmer is impressed with the Black Starlets second place finish at the Africa U17 Championship. Ghana managed the runners-up...
Slave Trade To People Trafficking In SE Nigeria
They travel thousands of kilometres across west Africa to get to the southeast Nigerian city of Calabar where small boats are supposed to take them to a better life. But these migrants aren't about...
Starlets Lost Out On Gold Due To Lack of Funds – GFA Vice President
The vice president of the Ghana football Association, Mr George Afriyie has attributed the failure of the Black Starlets to clinch gold in the just ended African U-17 nations tournament to lack of...
Starlets Lost Out On Gold Due To Lack of Funds – GFA Veep
The vice president of the Ghana football Association, Mr George Afriyie has attributed the failure of the Black Starlets to clinch gold in the just ended African U-17 nations tournament to lack of...
Akufo-Addo Leaves Ghana For Niger
President Akufo Addo will leave Accra today for Niger as part of his tour of some West African countries. While there, the President will hold bilateral talks with his counterpart Mahamadou Issoufou,...
Ghana, Mali Pledge To Deepen Bilateral Relations
Ghana and Mali have pledged to work towards strengthening the ties of cooperation that exist between them, after the Presidents of the two countries expressed satisfaction with the current state of...
Ghana, Mali Pledge To Strengthen Bilateral Relations
Ghana and Mali have pledged to work towards strengthening the ties of co-operation that exist between them, after the Presidents of the two countries expressed satisfaction with the current state of...