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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 …

          I welcome Your Excellencies to your second home, Accra, Ghana’s capital, for the 59th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). I acknowledge with gratitude the presence of the representatives of the …

Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s first president and one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism, has died aged 97. Kaunda was admitted to a military hospital in the capital, Lusaka, on Monday suffering from pneumonia. His aides said he did not have Covid-19. In the 1950s, …

One of the world’s largest diamonds has been unearthed in Botswana, the country’s government has announced. The 1,098-carat stone, believed to be the third largest “gem-quality” diamond ever found, was presented to President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Wednesday. The discovery was made earlier this month at the Jwaneng mine, around 75 miles from the …

  Nigerian police have fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in Lagos and the capital, Abuja, with reports of arrests and injuries. Activists had called for nationwide protests on Saturday on Democracy Day, which marks Nigeria’s move to civilian rule more than 20 years ago, over what they criticise …

The popular Nigerian preacher and televangelist, Temitope Balogun Joshua, also known as TB Joshua, is dead, his church confirmed Sunday morning. The founder of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), died in Lagos on Saturday evening shortly after concluding a programme at his church. He died a few days to …

A Tanzanian female Member of Parliament (MP), Condester Sichwale, was on Tuesday, June 1, thrown out of the parliament by the Speaker of the House for wearing tight trousers. Madam Sichwale was kicked out after a male colleague, Hussein Amar, complained about her mode of dressing, Global Publishers reports. In …

Checks by 3FM via a proxy in Mali indicate the country is divided a day after the Republic was suspended from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The decision to suspend the Sahelian country from the bloc was taken at an emergency summit summoned by the bloc’s Chair …