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Ghana is set to commence salt production on a large scale as the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced. In his 67th Independence Day celebration address at Koforidua, he attributed the feat to the Ada Songhor Salt project, led by Electrochem Salt Mine Limited. This development Akufo-Addo expressed confidence …

The United Nations has called on members of parliament in The Gambia to withdraw a bill lifting the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM). The Gambia’s parliament began examining the legislation on Monday. FGM was banned in The Gambia in 2015. Influential Muslim clerics have been pushing for the ban …

A devastating fire has ravaged through a house, reducing it to ashes at Appia Nkwanta in the Adansi Asokwa District of the Ashanti region, Ghana. “The intense inferno lasted over four hours and properties worth millions of cedis completely destroyed,” reports said. When personnel from the Fomena Fire Station arrived …

Jimmy Chérizier, alias “Barbecue”, considered the most powerful gang leader in Haiti, set the scene this Tuesday, March 5, for the crisis currently affecting the poorest country on the American continent. The gangs, which control entire swaths of Haiti and the capital, announced last week that they were ganging up …

In a study published on Monday March 4 by The Lancet Infectious Diseases, scientists from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Erlangen looked at the case of a 62-year-old German man from the city of Magdeburg (central Germany) who has been vaccinated no less than 217 times …

Popular Tanzanian singer Zuchu has apologized after authorities in the Zanzibar archipelago suspended her. She was suspended from all artistic activities on the archipelago for six months over a performance they deemed inappropriate. Zuchu’s performance on Zanzibar’s Kendwa island last month featured sexually explicit language and gestures. The Zanzibar Arts, …

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has reacted after the killing of one of its staff in the country. In fact, it has severely condemned the killing of Charles Kiir Gone. Charles Kiir Gone was serving with the peacekeeping mission in Wau, in the north-west of the country. …

On March 6, 2024, Ghana will celebrate the 67th anniversary of its independence, a day that marks the declaration of independence from the United Kingdom by then Prime Minister Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on March 6, 1957. In 2017, President Akufo-Addo announced that the celebration would alternate and be held each …

A man drowned in a public well while trying to rescue his 15-year-old son who had fallen into the well in Oju town of Oju Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. “The man sent his son to fetch water from the well which was meant for use in his …

In Ivory Coast, a man of God has prophesied that Josey and Serey Dié will part very soon as it’s a prophecy that won’t please those concerned. This is a recurring theme in Africa, as men of God often make prophecies about celebrities from the world of music and sport. …