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The Constitutional Council in Senegal has declared this Tuesday March 6 that the presidential election must take place before the end of the mandate of President Macky Sall. It also rejected another recommendation made to President Sall and declared that the list of 19 candidates already validated by the institution …

An anti-LGBTQ bill passed by Ghana’s parliament last week, has not yet reached the desk of President Nana Akufo-Addo, he said on Monday. This is his first comments on the bill’s passage. He said Ghana will not backslide on its human rights record, and added that the bill had been …

A mother of three children has committed suicide in Enugu State over the unbearable economic hardship and rising cost of living in Nigeria. “The woman had gone to the Ogui Police Station in the Enugu North Local Government Area of the state and dropped her three kids, without leaving a …

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 …

Fighters from the M23 rebel group have captured the town of Nyanzale from the military in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “We are now in Nyanzale, the enemy has fled,” rebel spokesperson Willy Ngoma told the BBC Great Lakes service. Army commander Jerome Chico Tshitambwe confirmed to the Reuters …

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, …