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UK Appoints First Black Female High Commissioner
The Foreign Office has appointed its first black female career diplomat as a high commissioner as it steps up efforts to change the overwhelmingly white, male face of the diplomatic service.
NneNne Iwuji-Eme, who has spent 16 years in…
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Zimbabwe Pardons 3,000 Inmates to Empty Overcrowded Jails
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has on Wednesday, granted amnesty to at least 3,000 prisoners in a move meant to de-congest the country’s prisons.
“Commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment is, hereby, granted to all…
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Trump Announces $50bn In China Tariffs
The US plans to impose tariffs on about $50bn in Chinese goods and limit the country's investment in the US in retaliation for years of alleged intellectual property theft.
The White House said the actions were necessary to counter…
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Trump Attacks Former Vice Amid Reports Of 2020 Presidential Run
Reports that Joe Biden is preparing a run for the White House in 2020 seemed to draw a response from Donald Trump on Thursday, the president tweeting that the former vice-president would “go down fast and hard, crying all the way” if he…
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Protect The Environment – Israeli Envoy To Students
As part of activities to mark Israel at 70 in Ghana, the Embassy of Israel in partnership with the Akrofo Human Resource Development Centre and Bueman Senior High School in Jasikan, has embarked on a Tree Planting project.
The project…
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Peru President Pedro Pablo Resigns
Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has quit over a vote-buying scandal.
He has denied wrongdoing but said on Wednesday that he did not want to be an obstacle to the country’s development.
Party leaders in Congress later agreed to…
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I’m Living In Hell, Says France’s Ex-President
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy says allegations he received campaign funding from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are making his life "hell".
"I am accused without any physical evidence," Mr Sarkozy told magistrates as he was…
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Kidnapped Dapchi Schoolgirls Freed In Nigeria
Nearly all of the 110 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants in the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the government says.
Officials said at least 101 girls were reunited with their families after being brought back to the…
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Facebook Boss Apologises For Data Breaches
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the social network "made mistakes" that led to millions of Facebook users having their data exploited by a political consultancy.
Cambridge Analytica is accused of improperly using the…
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Kidnapped Dapchi Schoolgirls ‘Freed in Nigeria’
Many of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants from the town of Dapchi have returned, according to residents who spoke to the BBC.
People said that many of the 110 schoolgirls were brought back in a vehicle convoy this morning.…
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