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Honeymoon period will be short as John Mahama tries to fix economy, seen as a huge factor in election Ghana’s electoral commission had been due to announce the official results of Saturday’s presidential election by Tuesday. But by Sunday morning Mahamudu Bawumia, the country’s vice-president and the flag-bearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP),…
Television and film star, who wrote first play to premiere on Broadway with all female and black cast and creatives, hopes writers’ conference will bring on new talent A group of upcoming playwrights is gathering in the Zimbabwean capital Harare this week for an 11-day event organised by celebrated American-Zimbabwean actor Danai Gurira as part…
UN health body says patients could have more than one disease as unidentified illness continues to cause alarm Ten patients suffering from a mystery disease that has broken out in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have tested positive for malaria, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said. However, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus…
Senegal also requests departure of French troops, saying they are ‘not compatible’ with country’s sovereignty France has begun recalling its military assets from its former ally Chad in the latest blow to its dwindling influence across its former colonies in Africa. Two Mirage fighter jets returned to a base in eastern France on Tuesday, said…
Hundreds injured in Sudanese military attack in Kabkabiya during town’s weekly market day, group says A Sudanese military airstrike on a market in North Darfur has killed more than 100 people, a pro-democracy lawyers’ group said, amid a war marked by claims of atrocities on all sides. The Emergency Lawyers group said the strike on…
Writers JM Coetzee, Annie Ernaux, Kazuo Ishiguro and Olga Tokarczuk are among the laureates imploring the prime minister to act on behalf of the British Egyptian political prisoner A group of Nobel laureates have written to the British prime minister Keir Starmer urging him to intervene to help free the imprisoned writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah….
Recent killings and arrests of government critics suggest end of reformist approach under Samia Suluhu Hassan, say political rivals When Samia Suluhu Hassan took office as Tanzania’s president in 2021, many in the east African country hailed what they hoped was a new dawn after the authoritarian and repressive rule of her predecessor John Magufuli….
Ruling New Patriotic party concedes defeat after vote dominated by economic crisis and high cost of living Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama has won a historic comeback election victory after voters appeared to punish the ruling New Patriotic party over its management of an economic crisis. The NPP’s candidate, the vice-president, Mahamudu Bawumia, on…
Once one of Africa’s economic powerhouses, Ghana has struggled with a cost-of-living crisis and high inflation Millions of Ghanians head to the polls in a presidential election on Saturday after a campaign dominated by what many see as the west African country’s worst economic crisis in a generation. Twelve candidates are vying to to take…
