Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is readying for the 2018 elections with party youths already making plans for him to roll out campaign rallies across the country’s ten provinces. National political commissar in the ruling Zanu-PF youth league Innocent Hamandishe told members at a meeting on Tuesday that they should prepare for Mugabe’s rallies and that […]
Zimbabwe’s tobacco farmers have raked in more than 102 million U.S. dollars from auction floors and contract buyers since the beginning of this year’s marketing season on March 15, figures released by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) on Wednesday showed. At least 36.2 million kilograms worth 185.5 million dollars have been exported at […]
Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya is gearing up to his biggest test yet when he attempts to break the sub two hours marathon run in a special course in Monza, Italy in May. The event, dubbed Nike’s Breaking2 project, will feature star runners Kipchoge, Zersenay Tadese of Eritrea and Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia […]
The World Snooker Championship, which runs from April 15 to May 1, will be broadcast live on Facebook throughout North and South America as well as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, organizers announced on Tuesday. Fans in those territories will be able to watch the event free simply by connecting to World Snooker’s […]
Former New York marathon champion Stanley Biwott of Kenya has pulled out of the London Marathon set for April 23. Biwott, 31, will miss out after citing a recurrent in a hamstring injury, which has failed to heal since he got injured five months in New York. Biwott dropped out approximately 14km into the race […]
Protesters in several provinces of Tunisia staged general strikes on Tuesday to demand employment and better development in several underprivileged areas of the country. Hundreds of unemployed young people demonstrated in Tunisia’s southern Tataouine province Tuesday during a strike to show their dissatisfaction with the “unsuccessful and ineffective promises” of the government. Tataouine, some 500 […]
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo has declared there will be no new vehicles for members of his government, state-run The Ghanaian Times reported here Tuesday. “No matter how dilapidated the vehicles in our fleet, we are going to have to make do with them. These are difficult times for the Ghanaian people and we should be […]
Australian scientists have made a breakthrough in preventing cancer from mutating in the body. The team from Melbourne’s Olivia Newton-John (ONJ) Cancer Wellness and Research Centre have been able to interrupt the body’s wound-healing process and lock cancer cells into a “harmless” state before they can mutate and spread.The process has proved successful in treating […]
Experts in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) from across Africa and beyond are set to convene in the Rwandan capital Kigali next month to discuss the transformation of Africa using the power of technology. Rwanda will host the third Transform Africa Summit 2017, from 10th-12th May, that will primarily focus on developing smart cities in […]
Leader of Gambia’s socialist PDOIS party Halifa Sallah Wednesday advised President Adama Barrow to honor the promise of resigning after three years, an agreement he has penned with coalition partners. “It was our conviction that if President Barrow leads the example of limiting his own term, then no other leader will ever emerge again that […]
Five leading economic institutes raised their joint growth outlook for Germany on Wednesday, saying the European largest economy would expand faster than last autumn’s forecast despite external risks. The German institutes latest outlook expects Germany’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow 1.5 percent in 2017 and 1.8 percent in 2018. The previous forecasts were 1.4 […]
Two claims have been found for the responsibility for Tuesday night’s attack on a Borussia Dortmund (BVB) team bus. The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe has been investigating the attack on the bus. Three explosive devices went off, placed by the side of the road, next to the bus transporting the football players to […]
The Burundian government has suspended activities of the Movement for Solidarity and Democracy (MSD) “for announcing a plan to create a rebel group,” a senior official said Wednesday. Home Affairs and Civic Education Ministry Spokesman Therence Ntahiraja said the ministry had suspended activities of the MSD for six months. “Offices of the party countrywide are […]
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s with-us-or-without-us ultimatum to Russia, Moscow is likely to continue its support for the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad, U.S. experts said. Trump grabbed headlines worldwide earlier the week when his administration made it clear to Moscow that the Kremlin’s support for Assad would not be tolerated, after the alleged […]
South African Parliament Speaker Baleka Mbete has decided to postpone debate and vote on the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma, Parliament said Wednesday. The decision followed a request by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), under whose leader the motion was tabled, for postponing the motion pending conclusion of the Constitutional Court application […]
Five persons have been arrested in connection with the violent clashes that rocked Agbobloshie on Tuesday. According to the police, some locally manufactured weapons were retrieved from some of the suspects. Two factions, Konkombas and Dagombas, on Tuesday clashed at Agbobloshie killing two persons, and leaving almost eight people critically injured. The confusion was started […]
The Kumasi High Court, presided over by Justice Obri Yeboah, has granted the 13 members of the Delta Force vigilante group bail. These 13 were remanded into police custody on the 6th of April 2017, by the KMA Circuit Court for charges of conspiracy to commit crime, assault on a public officer, causing unlawful damage, […]
Elvis Amoako, a 20-year-old student on Tuesday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court, for allegedly defiling an 11-year old girl at Odorkor, a suburb of Accra. Amoako, who was charged with defilement pleaded not guilty. The court, presided over by Mrs Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, admitted Amoako to bail in the sum of GHc20,000.00 with three […]
An Advisor to the Governor of the Central Bank of Ghana, Catherine Ashiley said the novelty which went into the production of the commemorative new GHc5 note has won the admiration of many countries in the world. The latest GH5 note which was printed this year and co-circulates with the existing GHc5 was for the […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama has taken responsibility for the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) defeat in the 2016 elections. Some dedicated party members have blamed the executives of the NDC for the party’s defeat. In view of this, a thirteen member committee led by Prof. Kwesi Botchway was tasked to investigate the party’s defeat. But […]
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