Ethiopia re-activated cellphone data services and unexpectedly allowed access to social media sites that had been blocked since a wave of anti-government protests last year, a government spokesman told AFP on Thursday. Africa’s second most-populous country shut down internet access even to diplomatic installations last week in a move the government said was necessary to … Read more
Dr Otchere Addai-Mensah, acting Dean of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at the College of Health Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has declined President Akufo-Addo’s appointment as the Director of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Graphic Online has gathered. The development followed criticisms by New Patriotic Party (NPP) … Read more
Dr Otchere Addai-Mensah, acting Dean of the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences at the College of Health Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has declined President Akufo-Addo’s appointment as the Director of the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), Graphic Online has gathered. The development followed criticisms by New Patriotic Party (NPP) … Read more
A Nebraska state senator has resigned amid a political row sparked by a photo he posted on Twitter mocking women protesting against Donald Trump. Bill Kintner retweeted a post implying that three female protesters were too unattractive to be sexually assaulted. The tweet drew criticism from other lawmakers, who threatened to submit legislation to boot … Read more
The Saudi-led coalition bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen has said it attacked a funeral hall in the capital, Sanaa, based on “bad information”. At least 140 people were killed, most of them civilians, in the attack on 8 October – one of the single worst death tolls in the two-year conflict. An inquiry blames “non-compliance … Read more