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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…

Vice-president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah avoids runoff vote, as win extends Swapo party’s 34-year hold on power Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner of last week’s presidential election in a result that will extend the ruling Swapo party’s 34-year hold on power. Nandi-Ndaitwah, the current vice-president, won with 57% of…

US president remembers ‘stolen men and women and children brought to our shores’ and lauds American investment in country Joe Biden addressed America’s history of enslavement in a speech on Tuesday at Angola’s National Museum of Slavery, calling it “our nation’s original sin” during a trip in which he also lauded recent US investment in…

Infected people described as having flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches An unknown disease killed 143 people in a south-west province of Democratic Republic of the Congo in November, local authorities told Reuters. Infected people had flu-like symptoms including high fever and severe headaches, Remy Saki, the deputy governor of Kwango province, and…

Court said five women were victims of ‘systematic kidnapping’ by state over forced removal from mothers as small children The Belgian state has been found guilty of crimes against humanity for the forced removal of five mixed-race children from their mothers in colonial Congo. In a long-awaited ruling issued on Monday, Belgium’s court of appeal…

Witnesses say people scrambled to escape after teargas used during pitch invasion at match in Nzérékoré At least 56 people have died and dozens of others were injured in a crowd crush at a football stadium in southern Guinea, authorities in the west African state said. The Stade du 3 Avril in Nzérékoré, the country’s…

Nana Kwame Bediako is challenging the status quo with an unorthodox run for presidency appealing to younger voters It was a bombastic statement from the man who wants to disrupt Ghana’s two-party political scene. “I’m here to represent Africa’s greatest hope,” Nana Kwame Bediako told an audience in a Palace of Westminster committee room in…

Dave Lewis says the near-constant stream of clean electricity could supply the grid as early as 2030 In the south-west of Morocco, a sprawl of wind and solar farms stretching across an area the size of Greater London could soon generate the green electricity powering more than 9m British homes. This is the unflinching vision…

Recently elected PM Navin Ramgoolam tells parliament contents of negotiations ‘unknown’ to new government The Mauritian prime minister has asked for an independent review of the Chagos Islands deal with the UK, according to parliamentary records. According to the Mauritian parliament Hansard record, the new prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam, said during a session on Friday:…