AFRICA NEWS

Yaw Annor has been named in FIFA’s list of top 10 goal scorers in 2022 after his spectacular performance in the just-ended 2021/2022 Ghana Premier League season.   Ashanti Gold striker Yaw Annor is the seventh player with the most goals in 2022, according to a chart released by the Federation …

The President of Ghana,  Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 23rd June 2022, at the invitation of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, participated in the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the BioNTech vaccine manufacturing plant in Kigali, Rwanda. “As I said in Marburg, the Pan-African Vaccine Manufacturing Project fits …

Burkina Faso’s military ruler has in a surprise move met the president he overthrew in a coup last January. Former President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré was accompanied by another former president, Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo. Officials said the meeting showed Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba’s desire for reconciliation and that the country’s security …

The President of Malawi, Lazarus Chakwera has stripped his Vice-President Saulos Chilima of all his delegated powers after the latter was named in a US $150 million corruption scandal involving government contracts. The vice-president has not yet responded to the allegations.   A report by the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) …

The leadership of the Economic Community of West Africa met in Accra on Saturday to find a lasting solution to the political situation in Guinea, Mali, and Burkina Faso. At the meeting which was the sixth extraordinary meeting of the Authority of Heads of State and government on the political …

Families of the 44 Ghanaians who were murdered in Gambia alongside some other West African nationals appear to be getting closer to securing justice and reparation. A white paper signed off by Gambian President Adama Barrow appears to clear earlier doubts about the commitment of the Gambian Government to prosecute …

The President of Ghana,  Akufo-Addo has been selected to chair the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), an international partnership of countries highly vulnerable to a warming planet. President Akufo-Addo takes over as Chair, following the end of Bangladesh’s two-year term as Chair of the Forum, which serves as a South-South co-operation …

The President of Ghana Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that Africa is the best endowed continent in the world. The continent, he said, is the richest one by all standards, and yet, unfortunately, the mass of her people, in the midst abundance, are the poorest on the planet. He …

The Black Starlets of Ghana will play against Nigeria and Togo in group A of the 2022 WAFU Cup of Nations which will be hosted at the Cape Coast Stadium. Ghana has been handed a tricky draw as they will face perennial rivals Nigeria and Togo in a group with …

In early March the United Nation’s General Assembly voted on a resolution demanding Russia immediately stop its military operations in Ukraine. Out of 193 member states, 141 voted in support of the resolution, five voted against, 35 abstained and 12 didn’t vote at all. Of the 54 African member states, …