A Christian pastor has discovered one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds in Sierra Leone’s Kono district. The diamond, weighing 709 carats, is now locked up in Sierra Leone’s central bank in...
All eyes will be on the Confederation of African Football congress in Addis Abba on Thursday where Madagascar Football Federation boss Ahmad Ahmad and incumbent CAF president Isaa Hayatou will engage...
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has hinted that Ghana’s socialist party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), which was founded by Ghana’s first President Kwame Nkrumah, is on the...
Bawumia in Mauritius: The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, left Ghana today, Friday 10th March, 2017, for Mauritius. He is billed to be in the Southern Africa country for 3 days. Included in the...
Ghana’s socialist party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), on whose ticket Dr Kwame Nkrumah became the country’s first president, is on the path of extinction as a political party,...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the international community to take action to avert famine in Somalia where a biting drought has left three million people going hungry. Somalia...
The movie, ’76, which was directed by Izu Ojukwu, emerged the biggest winner at this year’s The Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award (AMVCA). The event was held at the Convention Centre of the Eko...
Somalia's Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Haire, says 110 people have died from hunger in a single region in the past 48 hours amid a severe drought. The figure for the south-western Bay region is the...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Saturday he would not impose his successor and that if the ruling ZANU-PF party felt he should retire, it would hold an extraordinary congress to choose a...
MTN, Ghana’s leading telecommunications company, and Business World, Ghana’s foremost business magazine, have announced that Mr Yaw Nsarkoh, Unilever Executive Vice President for Ghana and...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino met Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on Friday a day after he attended a birthday party for the country's football chief, an official said. Zimbabwe Football...
West Africa correspondent for the Indian-based, Indo Asian News Service (IANS), Francis Kokutse, has decided to join the race for the Vice President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in the...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino will meet more than 50 presidents of African football associations in an unprecedented summit in Johannesburg this week, officials said on Sunday. Each of the...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be in South Africa and Zimbabwe this week to meet African football bosses and attend a birthday party. He has invited all 54 African national football association...
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is concerned that the armyworm outbreak could spread to the whole of southern Africa, threatening crops. So far, seven of the 15...
An outbreak of armyworm caterpillars present in several southern African countries threatens to strip the entire region of key food supplies, warned the UN food agency Thursday. "It is probably only...
South African farmers are battling an alien armyworm invasion that has already caused devastation on their crops. The maize-destroying caterpillars have destroyed eight per cent of this farm....
Peeling back the maize plant's leaves reveals a small brown caterpillar -- an armyworm that writhes as it burrows into the heart of the crop, producing a sticky dark paste. Eighty percent of the...
International experts will hold emergency talks in Harare on Tuesday to tackle an outbreak of crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars advancing across several African countries. The armyworm has already...
Forced evictions are at the heart of most African land disputes, and local anger over those displacements threatens investment across the continent, a report said Thursday. A joint analysis conducted...
