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Calls grow for reforms of Ghana’s education sector

Calls have been made for Ghana’s government to decentralize challenges bedeviling the development of the girl child.  The call follows startling revelations that over two hundred thousand girls do not attend school.  Correspondent Eric Mawuena Egbeta reports…

Togo warns against unregulated use and import of drones

In Togo, public authorities are speaking out against the unregulated use of drones and other remote-controlled flying devices.  The minister in charge of civil security, Yark Damehane, and his counterpart in charge of the armies, Essozimna Marguerite Gnakade, said the…

UN concerned about human rights in Burkina Faso

In Burkina Faso, the United Nations has expressed serious concern about the military's decision to suspend the activities of political parties after a second coup in Burkina Faso in the space of eight months. Captain Ibrahim Traore took power, forcing…

Eight killed in landslide at Guinea gold mine

In Guinea, no fewer than 15 miners were killed on Thursday after a landslide hit an artisanal gold mine in the country’s northeast Siguiri region. An official of Norassoba town, Fatoumata Traore, confirmed that the landslide had killed eight people…