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Category: Africa
Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana cocoa growers step up fight to improve farmers’ pay
Although Côte d’Ivoire is the world’s top cocoa producing country, accounting for around 45% of the global cocoa beans production, the country receives just 4% ... Read More
Comoros to assume Africa Union chairmanship in 2023
Comoros will assume for the first time the chairmanship of the African Union in 2023 as Senegal’s mantle comes to end this month. The island ... Read More
Ghana, Burkina Faso re-affirm cooperation to fight terrorism against backdrop of diplomatic crisis
Ghana Thursday announced commitment to deepen cooperation with Burkina Faso in the fight against terrorism in the sub-region after a brief diplomatic crisis between the ... Read More
OIC handpicks Nigeria as food storage hub
Member-states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have chosen Nigeria to serve as a food and grain storage hub for the group’s member states. ... Read More
Gambia: Four soldiers arrested over botched military coup
Gambian authorities have arrested four soldiers indicted for a failed military coup aiming to topple incumbent President Adama Barrow and his administration. “Based on intelligence ... Read More
Ghana: Four men handed 10-year prison sentence for abducting two Canadian women
Four men have received each 10 years in prison for kidnapping back in 2019 two Canadian female volunteers in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi. The ... Read More
Germany hands over 20 looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria to deal with ‘dark colonial past’
A ceremony held in Nigeria on Tuesday (20 December), which saw twenty historic bronze sculptures returned to the country by Germany as part of efforts ... Read More
Relaxation of UN embargo on arms exports to Congo hailed as ‘injustice righted’
The United Nations Security Council has just adopted a resolution relaxing the embargo on arms exports to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a decision ... Read More
Nigeria collects $1.4Bn in VAT in Q3 2022
Nigeria’s federal government generated 625.39 billion nairas ($1.4 billion) in value-added tax (VAT) in the third quarter of 2022, reports say. The figure accounts for ... Read More
Burkina Faso debunks Ghana’s claims Wagner awarded gold mine in exchange for support
Burkina Faso’s Minister of Mining Tuesday branded rubbish Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo’s claims that the insecurity-dogged country has awarded a mining field to the Russian ... Read More