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UN Security Council Visit To Draw Attention To Lake Chad Crisis

UN Security Council envoys on Thursday travel to Africa's Lake Chad region, where famine, the Boko Haram insurgency,...

Business

ICC Hails Entry Into Force of WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has welcomed the entry into force of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO)...

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Japanese Delegation Visit GPHA To Explore Business Opportunities

A 40-member Japanese delegation led by the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana has visited the Ghana Ports and Harbours...

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We Deliberately Set ‘high Bar’ For Mo Ibrahim $5m Prize – Chair

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation says it has found no winner, again, for its prestigious Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in...

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No Ibrahim Prize Awarded For African Leadership Again

The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership — the world’s biggest individual prize — drew a blank...

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No Ibrahim Prize Awarded For African Leadership

The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership -- the world's biggest individual prize -- drew a blank once...

International

Former FIFA Secretary General Valcke Appeals 10-Year Soccer Ban

Former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke has appealed against his 10-year ban from all soccer related activities,...

Sports

Akufo-Addo Backs 10 World Cup Slots For Africa

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has added his voice to the clamour by heads of Africa’s football associations...

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India Needs More Inclusive Growth

India's rapid economic growth has lifted 140 million people out of poverty in the past decade but many of its people...

International

Some Promises Kept But Tired Old Words Are Not Enough

If Gianni Infantino should be upset at scepticism enshrouding his first year as FIFA president then he need only delve...

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Polisario Dismisses Morocco Pullback As ‘window Dressing’

Polisario separatists have dismissed as "window dressing" Morocco's announcement of a pullback from a zone of the...

International

Morocco To Pull Out of UN Buffer Zone

It was annexed by Morocco in 1975 - a move resisted by the Polisario Front. Morocco is to pull out of a UN buffer zone...

International

Crisis In Baringo As Kenya Red Cross Pulls Out

A humanitarian crisis is looming in Baringo County after the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) suspended its operations...

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With Trump At Helm, US Takes Seat At UN Rights Council

The United States will on Monday claim its seat at the UN Human Rights Council under the new presidency of Donald...

International

Hayatou Hunts Chiyangwa

ZIFA and Cosafa president, Philip Chiyangwa might have plunged himself into hot water over his “birthday...

International

Morocco King Urges UN Measures On Western Sahara

Morocco's King Mohammed VI has called on the United Nations to take "urgent measures" following months of tensions with...

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UN Warns Burundi’s President Over Fourth Term

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza against seeking a fourth term,...

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Morocco Urges UN To End Polisario ‘provocation’

Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Friday asked the United Nations to take urgent measures to end "provocation" by the...

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UN Syria Talks Open As Blast Reflects Fragility of Truce

The first full day of a fresh round of Syria peace talks began in Geneva Friday as a suicide bombing killed 42,...