Barefoot, wearing traditional costumes including animal hide skirts and elaborately beaded headdresses, the contestants strutted the stage before Ghanaian Rebecca Asamoah was crowned the first ‘Miss Africa Continent’. The 24-year-old dental hygienist beat 11 finalists drawn from an original list of 40 contestants from across the continent in the inaugural pageant at Johannesburg’s Gold Reef […]
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On April 28, 40 traditional leaders, representing all provinces of the DRC, convened in Gombe to demonstrate their commitment to addressing sexual violence in their local communities. During the training session, organized by the DRC’s Office of the Personal Representative in Charge of the Fight against Sexual Violence and Child Recruitment and the United Nations […]
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Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Turn left out of my house and you will come across a Presbyterian Church, a Seventh Day Adventist, an Assemblies of God, Rama, and a Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry, all within 3-minutes. If you turn right and walk across the main road, you will get to a public school, which is distinguished by […]
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The images that photojournalists Adriane Ohanesian and Klaas van Dijken brought back with them from war-ravaged Darfur, in western Sudan, are moving, eye-opening – and exceptionally rare. Darfur, once a household name globally, has fallen out of the international spotlight in recent years – and not because peace has come to the people there. A […]
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Akwaaba! In Ghana, the word akwaaba is widely used as a welcoming greeting. Welcome to Ghana, and a look at the state of healthcare in this developing nation. In this series, I will be describing different facets of today’s healthcare system in Ghana, from the small rural village clinic to the most prestigious teaching hospital […]
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By Winston W. Parley Report reaching the NewDawn says fire has been discovered in the office of the captain of the abandoned ship discovered on Tuesday evening in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County. State securities are said to have taken over the vessel marked “TAMAYA 1” since Wednesday. There are conflicting accounts about which country’s […]
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By Kwabena Opong Political frustration can breed bad breadth. Even more so it generates poor language skills that could be detrimental for national cohesion and peaceful coexistence. In Rwanda it is such bad choices in language by individuals and on radio that developed into a genocidal war in which several thousands of Rwandans (Rwandese) lost […]
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Yinka Adegoke Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has built one of Africa’s best known startup ecosystems in Accra, Ghana over the last eight years—and now it’s doubling down on a push to take its vision pan-African. As MEST has grown, it has opened up its local entrepreneur training program to founders from Nigeria and […]
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By Derrick Kiyonga Citizens claim the president is 79 years old. Two citizens yesterday asked the High court to halt the May 12 inauguration of President Museveni. In their application, Moses Bigirwa and Hakim Kizza contend that Museveni is 79 years old, which according to the Constitution would make him ineligible to be president of […]
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This year marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s economy and its people. The country is on the brink of finalising an historic deal which will end a decade and half of sanctions and unlock substantial new funds for economic growth and development. At the heart of this are the negotiations between the Zimbabwe government and […]
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