Zimbabwe Honors Ousted Leader
Mugabe National Holiday – Zimbabwe has officially declared 21 February to be Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, thereby making the former president’s birthday a public holiday. This comes...
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Ransomware ‘here To Stay’
Cyber-thieves have made at least $25m (£19m) from ransomware in the last two years, suggests research by Google. The search giant created thousands of virtual victims of ransomware to expose the...
Startup Company Introduces Digital Office Software
A Ghanaian startup, Logique has raised US$4.8 million from local investors to develop software that will transform how work is done in the office. The funds were raised to build a suite of enterprise...
US-Led Strike Kills Founder of IS Propaganda Agency
A US-led coalition air strike on eastern Syria has killed a founder of the Islamic State group's notorious Amaq propaganda agency, Syrian opposition activists said on Wednesday. Rayan Mashaal, also...
Computer Pioneer Harry Huskey Dies Aged 101
Engineer Harry Huskey, who helped build many of the first ever computers, has died aged 101. Dr Huskey was a key member of the team that built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (Eniac)...
Thousands Saved Off Libyan Coast Over Easter
Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya during one of the busiest weekends of the year for rescue workers. More than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in...
Chinese Fake Bank Founders Jailed For Swindling
A court in the Chinese city of Nanjing has jailed two men for swindling customers of their savings through a fake bank, state media report. The men, surnamed Zeng and He, were found guilty of...
You Wiped My 2012 Tears – Akufo-Addo Tells Upper West
President-Elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed his profound gratitude to the people of the Upper West region for their support in the just ended national elections. He said their massive...
You Wiped My 2012 Tears – Akufo-Addo Tells Upper West
President-Elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has expressed his profound gratitude to the people of the Upper West region for their support in the just ended national elections. He said their massive...
Winning 5 UW Seats Has Wiped Away My Tears – Akufo-Addo
Akufo-Addo, president elect of Ghana, with others on one of their campaign tours President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed happiness over the number of parliamentary seats won by the...
Think, Think Different!
I dedicate this article to the late Steve Jobs, my role model who oversaw Apple Inc.'s 1997 "Think Different" campaign. It might sound quite heretic to religious people, but I have to be as honest as...
Football World Rallied Around Crash Club
The football world has rallied around a Brazilian club which lost most of its players in a plane crash in Colombia. Only six of the 77 people on the plane, carrying members of the Chapecoense team,...
Football Rallies Around Brazilian Team
Since the early hours of the morning, people have been coming to Chapecoense's stadium. The football world has rallied around a Brazilian club which lost most of its players in a plane crash in...
An Intriguing Story of Maasai Pastoralists
My dear reader, this article is characterized with a long digression because it is more or less a commentary on James Karuga’s (a freelance Reuter journalist) article. If heaven was to be an...
Could India and Pakistan Go To War?
After all, both countries have long been nuclear powers -- a deterrent that encompasses the lives of a combined 1.4 billion people. Both nations have also seen some years of relative peace along...
Pull Down ‘racist’ Ghandi’s Statue From Legon – Professor Demands
A former Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has started a campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Ghandi, from...
Can Russia Regain Its Economic Influence in Africa?
As already well-known since Soviet days, Russia has pursued a pragmatic policy aimed at enhancing multidimensional ties with the countries of the continent on the bilateral and multilateral basis....