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Ghanaians In The Diaspora Are Tired Of Being Disenfranchised During Elections
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Africa’s Telecommunication Professionals Hold Virtual Preparatory Meeting Ahead Of World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC)...
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Zimbabwe’s President Expels Health Minister Over Graft
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Girls’ right campaigners cautiously welcome Tanzania move to allow pregnant girls back to school
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Ghana’s Quest For A National Cathedral Has An Immoral Foundation
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A Million Livelihoods In Kenya, Tanzania At Risk As Mara River Fish Driven To...
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Rorya, Tanzania — At Koryo village, in Tanzania’s northern Rorya district brightly dressed women flock to the river with piles of their laundry bags.
Some of them walk for...
Child Prostitution Rampant In Zimbabwe’s Slums
Harare — Donning mini-skirts, popular for being dress codes for the oldest profession here, girls as young as 12, file past the railway tracks towards Harare-Chinhoyi highway, where one...
Zimbabwe Hit By Sixty COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours
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Thomas Sankara Trial Set To Resume
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — Thomas Sankara's trial is set to resume on Wednesday, February 2nd after a military court restored the constitution on Monday, January 31.
The trial was due...
Campaigners hail Sudan’s move to criminalize female genital mutilation
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Family Demanding Answers Six Years After Disappearance Of Scribe
Harare, Zimbabwe — Six years after the disappearance of Zimbabwean journalist Itai Dzamara, his wife Sheffra is still demanding answers about his whereabouts from the authorities of this country’s regime.
On...
Organization Of African First Ladies For Development
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The campaign is...
The Ghanaian Christians Working For The Salvation Of A Dying Earth
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BREAKING: Kenya confirms first case of Novel Coronavirus as WHO declares its outbreak officially...
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How Greed Is Destroying Afrikan Environments And Ecosystems
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Thousands Denied Healthcare In Cameroon As Suspension On Medical Charity Persists
Tens of thousands of people are missing out on free essential healthcare services in the restive English-speaking North West Region of Cameroon as the government maintains a suspension on...
Desert Locusts Invasion Cause Panic In Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro Region
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — At first glance, Hilder Tarimo, a local farmer in a sleepy Ngai Nairobi village in Tanzania’s Siha district, thought the dark dense blot darkening...
Ghana’s Opposition Leader John Mahama Heads To Court To Force Re-run Of Polls
Ghana’s main opposition presidential candidate in the December 2020 elections has filed a petition at the country’s Supreme Court seeking to annul President Nana Akufo-Addo's re-election.
John Mahama of the...
How An Organization Is Using “Safe Spaces” To Fight Forced Early Marriages Of Girls...
Ganyurey, Kenya August 10 — It is 4 PM in the evening, and Halima Hassan, a pupil in Ganyurey Primary School, has just returned from a COVID-19 pandemic awareness...
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