Sierra Leone Pastor Finds Huge Diamond In Kono
A Christian pastor has discovered one of the world’s largest uncut diamonds in Sierra Leone’s Kono district. The diamond, weighing ...
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Ahmad Confronts Hayatou Today
All eyes will be on the Confederation of African Football congress in Addis Abba on Thursday where Madagascar Football Federation ...
Mugabe Predicts CPP’s Death
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has hinted that Ghana’s socialist party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), which was founded ...
Why The Vice President Left Ghana On A 3-Day Trip
Bawumia in Mauritius: The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, left Ghana today, Friday 10th March, 2017, for Mauritius. He is ...
CPP Closer To Extinction -Robert Mugabe Cries Out
Ghana’s socialist party, the Convention People’s Party (CPP), on whose ticket Dr Kwame Nkrumah became the country’s first president, is ...
UN Chief Urges ‘massive Response’ To Avert Somali Famine
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the international community to take action to avert famine in Somalia where ...
2017 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards (AMVCA)
The movie, ’76, which was directed by Izu Ojukwu, emerged the biggest winner at this year’s The Africa Magic Viewers ...
More Than 100 Die From Hunger In One Region
Somalia's Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Haire, says 110 people have died from hunger in a single region in the past ...
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe Says Will Not Impose Successor, Party Will Choose
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Saturday he would not impose his successor and that if the ruling ZANU-PF party ...
MTN Hosts Unilever Vice President
MTN, Ghana’s leading telecommunications company, and Business World, Ghana’s foremost business magazine, have announced that Mr Yaw Nsarkoh, Unilever Executive ...
FIFA Chief Infantino Meets Zimbabwe’s Mugabe
FIFA president Gianni Infantino met Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on Friday a day after he attended a birthday party for ...
Kokutse Joins GJA Race
West Africa correspondent for the Indian-based, Indo Asian News Service (IANS), Francis Kokutse, has decided to join the race for ...
FIFA Boss Infantino Calls Unprecedented African Summit Meeting
FIFA President Gianni Infantino will meet more than 50 presidents of African football associations in an unprecedented summit in Johannesburg ...
FIFA Head Infantino To To Meet African Football Bosses
FIFA president Gianni Infantino will be in South Africa and Zimbabwe this week to meet African football bosses and attend ...
Armyworm Outbreak Could ‘spread’
The United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it is concerned that the armyworm outbreak could spread to the ...
Armyworms Threaten Southern Africa Food Supply
An outbreak of armyworm caterpillars present in several southern African countries threatens to strip the entire region of key food ...
South Africa’s Battle With Armyworms
South African farmers are battling an alien armyworm invasion that has already caused devastation on their crops. The maize-destroying caterpillars ...
On A South African Farm, Despair Over Armyworm Attack
Peeling back the maize plant's leaves reveals a small brown caterpillar -- an armyworm that writhes as it burrows into ...
Emergency UN Meeting In Harare Over Armyworm Outbreak
International experts will hold emergency talks in Harare on Tuesday to tackle an outbreak of crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars advancing across ...
Forced Evictions Dragging Down African Investment
Forced evictions are at the heart of most African land disputes, and local anger over those displacements threatens investment across ...