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Tanzania To Speed Up Hydropower Project On UNESCO Site

Tanzania's President John Magufuli plans to speed up the building of a hydroelectric dam in one of Africa's largest...

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World Poverty Could Be Cut In Half If…

A new UNESCO policy paper shows that the global poverty rate could be more than halved if all adults completed...

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Ghana’s Failing Education System Can Be Salvaged By PPPs – IMANI

Yesterday’s Parliamentary debate on basic schools with crumbling buildings and the subsequent revelation by the...

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At Least Eight Drown In Boat Capsize Off Kenya Coast

Eight people died and at least two were missing after an overloaded boat capsized off Kenya's Lamu Island on Tuesday,...

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ITU Awards GIFEC

The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has been awarded the 2017 World Champion in ICT...

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Rural Broadcasters To Benefit From UNESCO Project

A broadcaster development project dubbed “Promoting human development among Sudan’s rural communities: supporting...

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Creative and Employable Skills For Life.

Progress by any other name is spelled W-O-R-K. And the earlier we let the nation’s youth appreciate the necessity for...

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When NGOs Engage GES Over Girls’ Education In Ghana

As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about...

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When NGOs Engage GES Over Girls’ Education In Ghana [Article]

As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about...

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US-Led Syria Strike Kills Scores of Relatives of IS Fighters

Dozens of relatives of Islamic State fighters were killed on Friday in new US-led strikes on Syria, just hours after...

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Syria Army Takes Control of Damascus-Palmyra Road

The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since 2014 after...

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German Map Project To Aid Future Rebirth of Aleppo

With its battered facades, pulverised houses and skeletons of buildings, one of the world's oldest cities, Aleppo, has...

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Jewish Hardliners Ejected From Jerusalem Mosque Compound

A group of hardline activists were removed from the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem on Wednesday...

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Asantehene Applauds Government For Fight Against Galamsey

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has commended the government for its bold step to halt illegal mining (galamsey),...

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President Akufo-Addo Visits Renewable Energy and Industrial Maintenance Center In Cape Verde

President Akufo-Addo on Saturday, May 19, visited the Centre for Renewable Energy and Industrial Maintenance (CERMI)....

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“Ghana Is Committed To ECOWAS Project”

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated Ghana’s full commitment to the ECOWAS project, reassuring the...

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Ghana Committed To ECOWAS Project – Akufo-Addo Reassures

President Akufo-Addo has expressed satisfaction so far with the outcome of his tour of the countries in the ECOWAS...

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Children In War Zones Need Education, Say Campaigners

Campaigners Friday pleaded for more help for millions of children in conflict zones who are missing years of school,...

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Tunisia Seeks UNESCO Status For Jewish Pilgrimage Isle

Tunisia plans to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, site of Africa's oldest synagogue and an...