The president of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz has returned home for the first time since being wounded by one of his own soldiers last month. President Abdelaziz was shot in the arm by a Mauritanian army soldier in what the government said was an accident. He had been in France for the last six weeks […]
Sierra Leone’s incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma has won the presidential election, the election commission has said. He received almost 59% of votes cast, meaning there is no need for a run-off as he won more than 55%. His main challenger, ex-military ruler Julius Maada Bio, took 38% of the ballots in Saturday’s peaceful poll. […]
News coming in has it that former Vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama, has passed on this morning at the Korle-Bu teaching hospital. Alhaji Aliu Mahama served under the erstwhile Kufuor administration from 2001 to January 7 2009. He died at the age of 66. The former Vice President has been ill for some time now […]
The African Development Bank has proposed floating the continent’s first infrastructure bonds to member nations. It aims to raise up to $22bn (£14bn) for investments in much-needed projects like ports, railways, roads and energy. It is a project that is attracting interest from outside the continent too, with some Africans in the diaspora wanting to […]
The Ghanaian-born Professor George Ayittey stressed the importance of media and free flow of information on the advancement and development of societies, adding that out of the 54 countries in Africa, only 10 have free media. Dakar — The Ghanaian-born Professor George Ayittey Thursday stressed the importance of media and free flow of information on […]
Dakar — The Sudanese-born tycoon, Mo Ibrahim Friday argued that the “media is a mirror” of every society and should not therefore be blamed if it carry negative happenings. He made the argument during “the head of state round table discussion” which was part of the concluding programs of the African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF) […]
The president of Central African Republic is reported to have ordered the detention of his own son for refusing to pay a large hotel bill. Police detained Francois Bozize’s son for several days after he ran up a bill of up to 12,000 euros ($15,000) at a hotel in the capital, reports said. The bills […]
ACCRA, Ghana – A five-story shopping center built earlier this year in a bustling suburb of Ghana’s capital collapsed Wednesday, killing at least one person and leaving several dozen people trapped in the rubble, authorities and eyewitnesses said. Rescue crews used cranes to try and remove debris from the top of the building amid fears […]