The Congolese army has announced that government solders have killed 23 members of the Codesco rebel group and taken back control of two villages, including one of the group’s important bases in Djugu town in the north-eastern Ituri province. Codesco has been active in the region for three years. Its …

Uganda has decided to allow imports of used clothing, reversing a previous decision introduced last month, to ban second-hand garments and footwear, amid fears they could spread coronavirus. The ban was welcomed by textile and clothing manufacturers as a boost to the Ugandan industry. But traders of used garments complained, …

The ongoing tussle between the Ghana Football Association and former Ghana coach James Kwasi Appiah looks like it will not end anytime soon after the association revealed that it is not responsible for paying the coach’s salaries. Kwasi Appiah this week revealed that since leaving his post at the beginning …

The Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Anthony Akoto Osei has been stranded in the United States for more than a month. The Tafo MP, Citi News understands, was out on official assignment before the President ordered the closure of the airport making it impossible for him to return into the …

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) aims to fully operationalize the use of the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) as the national single window platform for import facilitation effective June 1, 2020 at the Ports and other entry points. ICUMS which is currently being piloted since April 28, at the Tema …

Singer Sista Afia has reacted to rapper Eno Barony’s diss song which is currently making waves on social media. The Argument Done song seems to settle the score between the duo with regards to who the best rapper is. Eno Barony also called out Medikal saying he is the one writing songs …

The cold store of Madam Gladys Afari, a 58-year-old widow at North Taifa (Nkate Burger) in Accra, was razed last Wednesday, with the cause of the fire unknown. Items destroyed included cartons of fish and meat, two deep freezers, and an unspecified amount of money, being the previous day’s sales. …

Gun-wielding men on Friday besieged the Northern Regional office of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and destroyed properties belonging to the party. The incident occurred minutes before the start of an executive meeting, Regional Secretary, Mohammed Abdul-Salam said in an interview. Abdul-Salam said the attackers bounced into the office, started ransacking and destroying …

The Convention People’s Party (CPP’s) Acting General Secretary Kwabena Bomfeh (aka Kabila), has single-handedly thrown out Lawyer Bright Akwetey, a three-time failed flagbearer aspirant of the CPP and others from the party’s headquarters. The incident occurred on Friday, May 8, 2020. Recently, Bright Akwetey and a defeated former Central Regional …

Ghana has recorded its biggest single-day spike of 921 new infections of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has effectively seen the country record a quantum leap of infections from 3,091 to 4,012 after recording its first two cases on March 12, 2020. According to an update on the Ghana Health Service’s …