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Liberia’s President, Joseph Boakai has announced that he will slash his salary by 40 percent. His office said he hoped to set a precedent for “responsible governance” and demonstrate “solidarity” with Liberians. Government salaries have been under intense scrutiny recently as Liberians complain about the rising cost of living. Around …

As the custom demand by belief for all Muslims to commemorate the divine faith exercised by father Ibrahim/Abraham in the holy Quran to his maker annually, which is the celebration of ‘Eid al-adha’. Mr. Abdalfatah Alsatarri, the Ambassador to Ghana on this faithful day of , Sunday 16 June 2024, …

An ambush by a “terrorist group” killed 21 Nigerien soldiers near the country’s border with Burkina Faso on Tuesday, Niger’s ruling military junta said in a statement read on national television. The statement Tuesday evening did not specify which group was behind the attack. Niger is struggling with a deadly …

The Kenyan Defence Forces has been deployed to support the National Police Service in addressing the security crisis triggered by the ongoing violent protests across the country. This deployment is in line with Article 241(3) of the Constitution of Kenya, which empowers the military to assist civil authorities in maintaining …

A section of Kenya’s parliament is on fire, minutes after protesters broke through police lines to storm the complex. Live footage on local television showed smoke coming from inside the complex. There have been reports of people being wounded as police fired rounds to disperse the crowds.     A …

The American Consul General in Ghana, Elliot Fertik, has explained how easy and flexible the process and requirements for a visa application could be for anyone. To the Consular, the processes are simple but it takes just a slight mistake for a person to be denied a visa. In an …

According to the Ghana AIDS Commission, an estimated 50 persons get HIV every day. The majority of the new infections have been identified as persons between 15 and 49 years old, the economically active population. The data announced during the release of the 2023 national and sub-national HIV and AIDS …

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has slipped and fallen over at an official event to mark 25 years of democracy in the country. The president, 72, fell as he climbed the steps on a vehicle which was supposed to take him around Eagle Square in the capital, Abuja. He had to …

The wreck of a plane carrying Malawi’s vice-president has been found with no survivors, President Lazarus Chakwera has said. Saulos Chilima and nine others were flying within the country on Monday morning when their aircraft disappeared from airport radars. The plane, a military aircraft, was flying in bad weather. Soldiers …

A winger for Crystal Palace in the Premier League, Jordan Ayew and Louis Mafouta, a striker for Amiens in Ligue 2, both notched incredible hat-tricks as Ghana defeated the Central African Republic (CAR) 4-3 in a thrilling 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying match. For the second successive game, Otto Addo’s …