AFRICA NEWS

    At least two persons have been confirmed dead after a church building collapsed during an ongoing church service on Saturday.   The building is said to be the Holy Ghost Church in Nigeria’s Taraba State.       According to reports, the building collapsed following a heavy downpour …

I have studied the trend of development in Africa and realize that our leaders are indeed misleaders without vision. They are leading us into nothingness and the future generations would wake up into an Africa that would offer nothing to the world      1. Education   Our education has …

President Joe Biden of the United States has nominated a daughter of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, to serve as a judge on the US district court for the Central District of California. Frimpong was born in the United States to Ghanaian parents domiciled in the US. …

The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), have suspended Guinea “from all ECOWAS governing bodies with immediate effect.” The suspension takes mmediate effect and will remain so until further notice. This was contained in a communique issued after an emergency ECOWAS meeting was held online on …

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today, Wednesday, September 8, 2021, chair a virtual emergency Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting to deliberate on happenings in Guinea. President Akufo-Addo, who is Chairman of ECOWAS will lead his colleague Heads of State to address the coup that has …

The Dean of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Professor Vladimir Antwi-Danso says the imposition of protocols on countries after the coup are not helping but rather a punishment to the citizens living in the country.     According to Prof. Antwi Danso the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS …

Guinea President, Alpha Conde has been arrested by the military following a coup d’etat in the country Sunday afternoon. Per the information, as well as photos and videos, the country’s President is under house arrest.   Earlier reports had it that there was heavy gunfire in the heart of Guinean …

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday sacked Health Minister Pavithra Wanniaarachchi and reshuffled his cabinet amidst growing opposition criticism that some of the ministries, including health, were under-performing as the Coronavirus pandemic worsened.   The changes were made in the foreign, education, transport, media, power and energy portfolios.   …

President Akufo-Addo has charged Ghanaians to unite and free the nation from the economic arrangement designed by the country’s former colonial power. Taking to Twitter to commemorate Founders’ Day on August 4, the President noted that such collective action is the best way the country can “pay homage to successive …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo together with 22 other African leaders are calling on the donors of the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group to raise an ambitious USD100 billion to support a resilient African post Covid-19 recovery and to help African countries transform their economies. They also pledged …