Africa

Views: 2   By Africanews By African News with AFP Ethiopia: At the first sound of gunfire, Lelise Abdissa leapt into a ditch for cover, only to be crushed by other panicked revellers as Ethiopian troops clashed with protesters during a religious festival five years ago. She awoke hours later in a hospital with a […]

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Views: 3 Ghana: President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed his strong support for the existence of term limits for Presidents because it enhances democracy and injects fresh ideas into governance. Term limits, according to the President, promote “stability of democracies, especially the Presidential systems,” adding that, “speaking personally, I support the idea of term

Views: 2 North Korea has restored communication lines with the South, months after it cut a cross-border hotline. The move comes days after the country’s leader Kim Jong-un said he was willing to restore communication as a conditional olive branch. However, Pyongyang also said the restoration of their relationship was dependent on the “attitude of

Views: 0 The accident is reported to have been Sunday evening, around 10 pm between an Accra-Kumasi bound bus and a Cargo Truck at Konongo. An eyewitness who spoke to  Starrfm.com.gh said one of the buses attempted to overtake another vehicle which led to a head-on collision with an oncoming bus. The injured people have

Views: 0 A prominent Tory donor who contributed to Boris Johnson’s leadership campaign was involved in one of Europe’s biggest corruption scandals, a BBC investigation has discovered. Mohamed Amersi has given nearly £525,000 to the party since 2018. Leaked documents reveal how he worked on a series of controversial deals for a Swedish telecoms company

Views: 2 He added the measure would not have any effect on the “operations and intelligence mission conducted by France in the Sahel region.” France has troops in Sahel through its anti-terror mission, “Operation Barkhane,” operating across Chad, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Burkina Faso. Algeria recalled its ambassador to Paris for consultations on Saturday, after

Views: 3  Zimbabwe: PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged universities and institutions of higher learning to use their knowledge to offer solutions to problems bedevilling the country. He said universities and institutions of higher learning should empower communities with knowledge to beneficiatiate their products. He said this while officially-opening the Chinhoyi University of Technology dairy and

Views: 1 United States of America has warned Sudan against disrupting the transitional system. Washington has threatened to stop bilateral aid, including military and security cooperation between the US and Sudan. In a statement on Saturday, the US Department of State said that the Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, held talks