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Foreign Food Chains Brave Risks For A Bite of Iran

For years, Iranians have had to put up with the likes of "Mash Donalds" and "Pizza Hat". Now real Western food...

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Aid and Conditionality: Enhancing Good Governance In Sub-Saharan Africa

The persistent low state of development in sub-Saharan Africa has become a global challenge.  Academics and...

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Internet Back In Somalia After Weeks-Long Outage

Somalia rejoined the world wide web on Monday, more than three weeks after internet access was cut when a container...

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Kofi Humado Accused of Leading Payments

A deputy National Coordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme , Jacob Adongo, has accused former Sports...

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CSOs Platform Calls For An Extension of IMF Programme

The Civil Society Organisations’ Platform on Ghana IMF programme says an extension of the package will best serve the...

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CSOs Platform Wants IMF Programme Extended

The Civil Society Organisations Platform is advocating an extension of Ghana’s IMF programme, saying the package...

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Pre-Paid Meters To Be Installed For At Least 95% of All ECG Customers

The Electricity Company of Ghana would soon be compelled to install prepaid meters across the country to reduce the...

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Congo Votes For Parliament With Opposition Calling Foul

Voters went to the polls in legislative elections in the oil-rich Republic of Congo on Sunday, the first since a...

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Lesotho’s Economic Woes Create Generation of Migrants

In a cottage in rural Lesotho, Tisetso Litheko lays out six full passports packed with immigration stamps showing his...

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Opposition Cries Foul As Congo Votes For Parliament

Congo voters go to the polls Sunday in legislative elections in the oil-rich African country, the first since...

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The Ghanaian New Graduate Should Be Blamed For His Unemployed Situation

Guess What? Another national service period is about ending! And what next? Well, your prediction is right; aside the...

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Guinea-Bissau Parents Coax Truant Teachers Back To School

The school year is ending in the west African nation of Guinea-Bissau, but some pupils will hardly notice the...

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Dangote Invests $4.6 Billion Into Farming In Nigeria

Dangote Group, controlled by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to invest $3.8 billion in sugar and rice and...

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Fast-Growing Pakistan Aims To Raise Contraception Use

Pakistan will raise the rate of contraception use to at least 50 percent within the next three years, the health...

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Accidental Internet Cut-Off Hits Somalia Hard

Last month, a baby was born in the Somali capital Mogadishu with a terrible eye defect that requires treatment abroad....

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False Claims, Dumb Defence

She’s not just any weightless propagandist or faceless serial caller whose words ought to be disregarded or treated...

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Adwoa Safo Fires Back

Embattled Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, Sarah Adwoa Safo, says she...

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War Has Cost $226 Billion To Syria Economy

Syria's six-year conflict has ravaged its infrastructure and caused losses to its economy of $226 billion, according to...

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Adwoa Safo Urged To Apologise Over Community Day SHS Claims

Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency Sarah Adwoa Safo has been urged to do the honourable by apologizing...