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GHANA ELECTION: EC rejects denying security agencies special voting rights
Ghana’s Electoral Commission has described as baseless and unfounded a viral video suggesting that the Commission has denied security agencies the opportunity to register in the special voting exercise slated for Tuesday, December 1, 2020. The commission in a statement…
Nigeria: Rights group demand lower cost of governance
Nigeria’s third Gross domestic product GDP report released by the National Bureau of Statistics last week, indicated that the Country has slipped into a Recession. According to statistics Bureau – NBS, the eceonomy contracted by double digit. However, the decline…
Mauritania: HRW urges Parliament to revise draft law
Human Rights Watch is calling on Mauritania’s parliament to revise a draft law on associations it is due to confirm during its current session. The rights body wants the law to meet international standards on freedom of association. The law as drafted…
Ethiopia: 4000 cross into Sudan daily – UNHCR
The United Nations said Tuesday that an average of 4,000 women, children and men are crossing the Ethiopian border into eastern Sudan every day. The United Nations refugee agency reports that those fleeing the fighting continue to arrive exhausted from…
Nigeria: Bandits abduct 12 police officers
Suspected bandits have kidnapped 12 police officers along Katsina-Zamfara expressway, a report by BBC Hausa has revealed. According to the report, the officers, who are assistant superintendents of police, were kidnapped ten days ago. The officers were on their way…
Côte d’Ivoire : CPJ condemns ill treatment of journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on the authorities in Cote d’Ivoire to drop their investigation into journalist Yao Alex Hallane Clément, and cease intimidating and harassing members of the press. Police officers arrested Yao, a reporter with the…
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Court rules against Switzerland’s planned deportation of gay Gambian
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against Switzerland’s intended deportation of a homosexual Gambian man, saying Switzerland has not properly examined the risks to which the man would be exposed. In a decision handed down on Tuesday, the…
Ghana: President Addo accepts Special Prosecutor’s resignation
Ghana’s President NanaAkufo-Addo has accepted the resignation of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor. A letter issued Tuesday afternoon and signed by the Chief of Staff, AkosuaFremaOsei-Opare, stated that the President had taken due note of the other matters raised in…
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