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Equatorial Guinea: The incumbent leader leads the polls

Equatorial Guinea's President has taken the lead in Sunday’s presidential election. The Interior Minister unveiled the provisional results Monday (Nov 21). In this race for a sixth seven-year term, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has so far obtained 44.2 % of the...

Mali forbids NGOs financed or funded by France.

The Malian junta announced Monday evening that it would ban the activities of all non-governmental organizations financed or supported by France, including those operating in the humanitarian field. This decision is likely to affect many NGOs that France has continued...

Famous Moroccan lawyer and former minister of human rights imprisoned

The Moroccan opponent Mohamed Ziane, former president of the Rabat Bar and Minister of Human Rights between 1995 and 1996, was arrested and imprisoned Monday evening after being sentenced on appeal to three years in prison, a judicial source...

Ghana and Ivory Coast report advances in getting buyers to pay cocoa premiums.

Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's two largest cocoa producers, noted Monday "efforts" by some manufacturers to better pay producers, after giving them an ultimatum earlier this month. In a joint statement, the national cocoa management bodies of the two...

ECOWAS Security, Defence Ministers commit to address cross border security issues

 The Ministerial Session of the Accra Initiative (AI) ended in Accra yesterday after further delib­erations on the need for joint actions by member States to address cross border security issues. The conference brought together Ministers of Security and Defence of...

‘Africa must invest in zero-carbon transport, energy systems’

African leaders must invest in efficient and zero-carbon transport and energy systems, and technologies to minimise air pollution, Mr Desmond Appiah, the Ghana Country – Lead, Clean Air Fund (CAF), has said. According to him, transport and energy systems powered...

Equatorial Guinea ruling party wins 99% of votes in early results

Preliminary election results released by Equatorial Guinea’s government on Monday showed the ruling party winning over 99 percent of votes counted so far in presidential, legislative, and municipal elections held on Sunday, November 20. The tiny oil-producing Central African state...

Uganda to send 1,000 troops to regional force against M23 in DRC

Uganda’s army said on Monday that it will send 1,000 troops to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by the end of this month to join a regional force mandated to help end decades of instability. Uganda will be the...

Ghana, 2 others to benefit from ‘Technology enabled Open School for All’ project

Ghana together with two other African countries will be benefiting from a project dubbed “Technology-en­abled Open School for All” project meant to transform the future of schools systems and learning through digital economy. The project is a joint one by...

150,000 displaced children in Mali lack a legal identity (NGO)

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has said that nearly 150,000 children displaced by the conflict in Mali do not have birth certificates and are at risk of exclusion and disenfranchisement because they cannot prove their identity. "Thousands of children are...
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