German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Algeria from Monday to press efforts to get North African countries to reduce the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean into Europe. Merkel, who last week hosted Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, is hoping for partnerships with Maghreb countries and Egypt to prevent a new wave of migrants making the … Read more
President Adama Barrow of The Gambia has pardoned over 170 prisoners as part of the country’s 52nd Independence Day celebration which coincided with his historic swearing-in ceremony last Saturday. Local media reports that prison authorities began releasing inmates from the dreaded Mile II prisons facility on Saturday. 74 prisoners were let out with 100 others … Read more
Pensioner Sarjo Manneh celebrated more joyfully than most when former leader Yahya Jammeh agreed to leave The Gambia in January. After a decade, he believed he might see his son again. But nearly a month later, he is still waiting. His son Chief Ebrima Manneh, a journalist for a pro-government newspaper, went missing in 2006 … Read more
Violent anti-police protests that have swept the suburbs of Paris since early February spread into the French capital’s city center on Wednesday night. Two hundred demonstrators gathered in the neighborhood of Barbes, near Paris’ Gare du Nord train station, protesting against the alleged rape of a 22-year-old black man by police. An investigation into the … Read more
Three people including a 16-year-old have been charged in southern France on suspicion of planning an ‘imminent’ terror attack, judicial sources said. The three – arrested on Friday near the coastal city of Montpellier – were identified as Thomas Sauret, 20; his partner, a 16-year-old minor named only as Sarah; and Malik Hammami, 33. They … Read more
Regent of Bimbila, Yalimogo Andani Dasana, has appealed the Minister for Gender, Women, Children and Social Protection, Madam Otiko Hafisa Djaba, not to let the death of women and children killed in last Thursday’s chieftaincy clashes be for nothing. Yalimogo Dasana premised his appeal on the fact that perpetrators of a similar incident sometime ago … Read more
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that the 10 persons that died in the recent chieftaincy clashes in Bimbila in the Nanumba-North District of Northern Region will be the last of its kind under his governance. The president has also assured non-interference of government in chieftaincy issues as they are the preserved of tradition. … Read more
Tunisia’s prime minister on Tuesday rejected German claims that his country has been blocking the return of rejected asylum seekers including the key suspect in the Berlin attack, hours ahead of talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel. The German leader plans to press Youssef Chahed to speed up the repatriations of Tunisians, with the issue taking … Read more
The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery and Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu will be visiting Bimbilla where a protracted intra-ethnic chieftaincy violence killed many and uprooted dozens from their homes. Their visit, according to the Northern Region Police Public Relations Officer (PRO), ASP Ebenezer Tetteh will be “a fact-finding mission and also to [enable … Read more
The US has imposed sanctions on the new vice-president of Venezuela, accusing him of involvement in international drug trafficking. The order adds Tareck el-Aissami to the US narcotics “kingpin” sanctions list “for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking”. Sanctions were also slapped on wealthy businessman Samark Bello, described as Mr Aissami’s “primary frontman”. … Read more
Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, and Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante-Apeatu will visit conflict-hit Bimbila Tuesday to meet a special investigative team probing the recent violence. The chieftaincy conflict that started last week in the Northern Region town has so far claimed ten lives – seven women and three children. A dozen more are … Read more
At least 11 people, including eight minors, were arrested in the northwestern Paris suburb of Argenteuil on Sunday, in the latest of a string of violent protests over the alleged police rape of a 22-year-old black man identified as Théo. Around 50 people gathered in Argenteuil’s main square at around 5:30pm local time in response … Read more
The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has hinted of plans by government to take full control of Northern region town of Dollar Power and Bole Accra being controlled by armed men there. The armed men attacked members of the Bole District Security Council last year, killing a soldier and a mother. JoyNews’ investigative journalist Kwetey Nartey … Read more
The Interior Ministry is undertaking a restructuring of the procedure used by the Ghana Police Service to recruit officers. Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, says the move is aimed at to riding the Service of criminals. “How do you have policemen becoming armed robbers? It means that the recruitment wasn’t well done. If we had investigated … Read more
Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski has urged his US counterpart Donald Trump to consider deporting fugitive former Peruvian leader Alejandro Toledo. Mr Toledo, who is believed to be in San Francisco, is accused of taking $20m (£16m) in bribes. He denies wrongdoing. In the phone call on Sunday, Mr Kuczynski asked Mr Trump to “evaluate” … Read more
A refugee situation has been created in Yendi a second largest but highly polarized city in the Northern region after a six hour heavy fighting between chieftaincy factions in Bimbila, Nanumba North district capital, on Thursday left six women, three little children and two men dead. Informants have said more than 30 family fleeing the … Read more
A refugee situation has been created in Yendi, a second largest but highly polarized city, in the Northern region after a six-hour heavy fighting between chieftaincy factions in Bimbila, Nanumba North district capital left 11 persons dead. At least 30 families fleeing the grinding chieftaincy unrest to Saboba and Chereponi entered Yendi waiting for other … Read more
The heir to Saudi Arabia’s throne has been awarded a medal by the new director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, who honoured his counter-terrorism work. Mike Pompeo, making his first overseas tour since being confirmed as spy agency chief in late January, made the presentation to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef at a weekend … Read more
There is uneasy calm in the Northern Region town of Bimbilla following the deployment of a team of Police-Military to the area. The enskinment of a sub-chief earlier this week sparked a gun battle between feuding factions, resulting in the deaths of at least 10 people. Police say so far, three children – one girl … Read more
A peaceful rally in a Paris suburb has descended into violence amid anger over the case of a black youth worker who was allegedly raped with a police baton. Police on Saturday fired tear gas at protesters who threw projectiles at officers and set cars and rubbish bins alight. More than 2,000 people gathered peacefully … Read more