No pay for Ghana’s ‘ghost workers’
Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has suspended the salaries of about 26,000 public sector workers. It is part of a drive to clean up government payrolls Read more
Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has suspended the salaries of about 26,000 public sector workers. It is part of a drive to clean up government payrolls Read more
Results from Thursday’s legislative elections in Algeria show that the governing National Liberation Front (FLN) and its allies have won a majority of the seats. Read more
South Sudan’s government has increased registration fees nearly six-fold for international aid groups seeking to operate in the war-torn nation, an official told Reuters. Two Read more
Zimbabwe is the most highly developed country in Africa after South Africa, President Robert Mugabe has said. He denied that the country was a fragile Read more
A Somali government minister was shot dead Wednesday near the country’s presidential palace in Mogadishu. The minister of public works and reconstruction, Abbas Abdullahi Sheikh Read more
South Africa’s Cosatu labour federation abruptly canceled speeches at a May Day rally on Monday including an expected address by President Jacob Zuma after the Read more
France has killed more than 20 militants hiding in a forest near the border between the West African countries of Mali and Burkina Faso this Read more
Mali’s National Assembly has voted to extend a state of emergency by six months in a bid to quell an upsurge in attacks by Islamist Read more
Pope Francis warned against religious fanaticism on Saturday, wrapping up a brief trip to Cairo where he urged Muslim leaders to unite against violence by Read more
JOHANNESBURG – South African President Jacob Zuma has signed the anti-money laundering bill FICA, which allows increased scrutiny of the bank accounts of “prominent individuals”, including Read more
Minister of Defence, Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali has called for a greater military cooperation between Nigeria and Sudan particularly in the area of procurement and production Read more
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked nearly 10,000 civil servants for having fake education certificates. He was responding to the release of a government report Read more
Nine people have died and eight are sick in Liberia after attending the funeral of a religious leader, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Read more
CAIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrives in Cairo on Friday hoping to mend ties with Islamic religious leaders just as Egypt’s ancient Christian community faces Read more
A special tribunal upheld the life sentence for Chad’s former President Hissene Habre for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the final decision of Read more
A South African man on Friday appeared in court for allegedly planning to assassinate 19 government officials and high-ranking businessmen. The 33-year-old, who was arrested Read more
Ghana’s finance minister says investors were optimistic in meetings with senior government officials who accompanied Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia to the World Bank spring meetings Read more
Jonas Chanda, Chairperson of the Zambian Parliamentary Committee on Health, Community Development and Social Services on Wednesday said that no fewer than 15,000 girls dropped Read more
A South African court has annulled initial agreements the government reached with three countries to help it build nuclear power stations. The deals with Russia, Read more
The Liberian authorities have ruled out Ebola as the cause of the deaths of nine people from a mystery illness in the south-east of the Read more
The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, says Africa loses over 50 billion dollars, yearly, to illicit financial flows through money laundering, corruption and tax Read more
A military court in Somalia has executed four men it said were al Shabaab militants who were behind a 2016 attack that killed 80 people, Read more
Gambia’s President Adama Barrow is to embark on a tour of ECOWAS countries that helped him to assume office. He assumed office after disputed elections Read more
An ex-child soldier who has spent years risking his life to fight illegal mining and wildlife poaching has been given a prestigious award. The Goldman Read more
Ghana, Kenya and Malawi will pilot the world’s first malaria vaccine from 2018, offering it for babies and children in high-risk areas as part of Read more
A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia’s semi autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, killing at least six soldiers and injuring another eight, a Read more
Kenyan troops killed 52 al Shabaab fighters in an attack on the militants’ camp in southern Somalia on Friday, a military spokesman said. Colonel Joseph Read more
Twenty children have been killed in a minibus crash near the South African capital Pretoria, emergency services have said. The children died after the vehicle Read more
Egyptian Foreign minister Samih Shoukri Thursday started talks with the Sudanese officials in Khartoum amid a simmering diplomatic row between the two countries. Mr Shokri Read more
Zimbabwean farmers who cannot afford to pay their children’s school fees will be able to offer goats as collateral for loans instead of paying directly Read more
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