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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted party nomination forms as he officially kick starts a bid to secure a second and final term in charge of Africa’s most-populous nation. Buhari was at the Abuja headquarters of the All…
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The Kenyan maker of a film about a lesbian romance has gone to court to challenge the constitutionality of its banning in her home country. Wanuri Kahiu's film Rafiki could not be shown in Kenya because the Kenya Film Classification Board…
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Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has been speaking at the funeral service for the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, which is taking place in Ghana's capital, Accra. The president said that Mr Annan had "brought renown to our…
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South Sudan warring parties have signed a final power-sharing agreement meant to end five years of civil war. The ceremony on Wednesday evening in the Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, follows an agreement reached last month by President…
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Two men named as suspects in the poisoning of a Russian ex-spy in the UK claim they were merely tourists. The men, named as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, told the RT channel that they went sightseeing in Salisbury but returned to…
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Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a category two storm as it approaches the US but officials still warn of a "disaster at the doorstep". Florence's winds may have dropped to 110mph (175km/h) but its slow-moving nature could mean it…
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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has secured the services of Mckinsey Group, an international consulting firm, to offer its expertise to help boost revenue generation. Speaking at a media forum in Accra, Mr Emmanuel Kofi Nti, the…
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Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi has defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists, despite international condemnation. She said Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo had broken the law and their conviction had "nothing to do with freedom of expression at…
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Former Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Hannah Bisiw, has backed John Dramani Mahama to become the National Democratic Congress (NDC)’s presidential candidate for the 2020 elections and go on to defeat Nana Akufo-Addo and become President…
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The late former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, will be buried today, Thursday, 13 September 2018, after laying in state at the forecourt of the Accra International Conference Center (AICC) for three days. A burial service will be held…
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