Kenyans will enjoy lower call rates in Kenya, according to new guidelines released by the Kenya Communications Authority. Kenyans will benefit from lower call rates, which will see costs come down after CA’s review of mobile termination rates (MTRs) and fixed termination rates (FTRs), according to a statement by CA General Manager Ezra Chiloba. The […]
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Women are sorting bad nuts from good nuts at the Sagnarigu shea processing facility in Ghana’s Northern Region, a gated facility equipped with cooking stoves produced from mud with an accompanying saucepan stand. Some 90 women, skilled in processing and trading Shea from across the Tamale area, work here to process the nuts from the […]
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Years of frustration with the racial composition of the political influence industry have begun to boil over. HAILEY FUCHS & LAURA BARRÓN-LÓPEZ Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have a warning for Washington, D.C., lobbyists: Diversify your firms or you won’t have an audience with us. Long a bastion of white men, K Street has […]
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KWABENA OPONG Reacting to fears of the spread of Omicron, the latest Covid-19 variant discovered in South Africa, Europe’s top clubs are threatening not to release players for the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) scheduled to start January 2022. In a letter to the Deputy General Secretary of FIFA – Mattias Grastrom – the […]
Dec 27 2021 | Posted in
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The changing tide in the fight against bandits in Nigeria UCHENNA EKWO As recent security challenges demonstrate, fragile states and conflict-regions of the world are increasingly becoming safe havens for terrorists and transnational organized crimes. In Africa, terrorism is shrinking the continent’s investment space, and, in some cases, certain African countries are losing ground in their […]
Dec 15 2021 | Posted in
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DANA KENNEDY Mayor-elect Eric Adams made an emotional visit Thursday December 2 to Elmina Castle, the first European slave-trading post in sub-Saharan Africa — located on the west coast of present-day Ghana. Adams, on a private trip with his family, walked in and around the old castle, examining the shackles used to imprison Africans while […]
Dec 15 2021 | Posted in
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ANGELA DEWAN The UN’s World Food Program and multiple media organizations have been warning that the African island nation of Madagascar is on the brink of the world’s first climate-change-induced famine. But a new study says the human-made climate crisis has had little to do with the current food scarcity in the country. Consecutive years […]
Dec 14 2021 | Posted in
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President Roch Marc Christian Kabore faced demands Thursday December 9 for tougher action against Burkina Faso’s jihadi insurgency, a day after the crisis cost the prime minister his job. Seeking to defuse anger over a bloody 6-year-old campaign that has claimed about 2,000 lives and forced 1.4 million from their homes, Kabore on Wednesday accepted […]
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KOFI AYIM Merry Christmas! We used to say that to each other not long ago. The spirit of Christmas would affect every home on the days leading up to December 25. Those were the days when we were young, back home in Ghana. We would put on (sometimes because our parents made us) the best […]
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Millions of people in Ethiopia could be pushed deeper into hunger as the World Food Programme (WFP) faces a major funding shortfall that threatens its operations there over the coming six months, the UN agency warned on Monday, December 6. WFP urgently needs $579 million to deliver food aid and livelihood support to some 12 […]
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