AFRICA

The President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the Ghana School of Law, Mr Wonder Victor Kutor, has noted that 65 per cent of lawyers called to the Gambia Bar this year are Ghanaians who failed the law entrance examinations in Ghana. After Ghana failed them, he explained, they …

The most recent coup d’etat on the continent happened in the West African country of Guinea on September 5, 2021. The overthrow of Alpha Conde will be remembered much for the ‘victim’ as it will be for the one who led the operation – Mamady Doumbouya, leader of the Elite …

The testosterone tang of aftershave and burnt tyres wafts over an asphalt track outside Johannesburg, where hundreds gather to watch cars skid into circles at dizzying speed, stunt performers hanging perilously out of windows. White plumes of smoke billow into the air as drivers take turns spinning round and round …

President Nana Akufo-Addo President Nana Akufo-Addo has said “admitting the African Union to an expanded G21 would have the same galvanising effect within Africa that the EU’s participation in the G20 has within Europe, strengthening policy coordination and coherence across the fifty-four (54) African economies.”  Speaking on Wednesday, 22 September …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today mount the podium at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly Hall at the annual gathering of world leaders in New York City, United States. It will be the fifth time he addresses the UN General Assembly as President, having done so four times …

Authorities in Sudan have confirmed foiling a coup attempt in the early hours of Tuesday, September 21, 2021. The state-run SUNA News Agency said in its report: “At dawn today, the security and military authorities thwarted a coup attempt. “And the attempt was completely controlled and all those involved were …

Panicked students along with their teachers came out to survey the damage after a fire gutted a dormitory at the Ofafa Jericho high school in Kenya’s Nairobi county. About 40 students were hospitalized after inhaling smoke in the Monday night disaster. “Most of the students actually who were taken to …

• Nkrumah’s overthrow was the act of imperialist elements • The 1966 coup brought an end to the First Republic • Gen. Afrifa was one of the architects along with Kotoka  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda has classed former military ruler General Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifa as a pawn that …

Sixty-three endangered African penguins have been killed by a swarm of bees in a rare occurrence near Cape Town, bird conservationists in South Africa say. The protected birds, from a colony in Simonstown, were found on a beach with multiple bee stings but no other injuries. An official from the …

Former President Jacob Zuma says SA is moving from a democracy to a constitutional dictatorship. This after the Constitutional Court on Friday gave its verdict on the former president’s rescission application. Zuma had asked the apex court to set aside his 15-month contempt of court jail sentence, which was handed …