News link 2021-06-09 Second Edition
News link 2021-06-09 Second Edition
News link 2021-06-09 Second Edition
An Accra High Court injunction on the #FixtheCountry protest has been quashed by the Supreme Court. Recall that the #FixTheCountry campaigners were served with an injunction by the Ghana Police Service on Thursday, 6 May 2021, which prevented them from…
ECOWAS envoy and former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday visited Bamako to meet with the head of the transitional government Colonel Assaime Goita and his Prime Minister. Mr. Jonathan told reporters that he had travelled to Bamako to meet…
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has announced plans to spearhead the planting of one million trees, this year, as part of their response to the Seven-Year Laudato sì Action Platform announced by Pope Francis. The Bishops in Ghana committed themselves…
The 29TH meeting of the administration and finance committee of ECOWAS started on Tuesday. The meeting, which is the first since Mali was officially suspended from the community, will among others, focus on ECOWAS mid-year budgetary. WADR’s Atiewin Mbillah-Lawson attended…
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Outgoing ICC Prosecutor has urged the UN Security Council to keep focus on justice in Darfur. In her final briefing to ambassadors, Fatou Bensouda underlined that the Court is the only institution that promised hope to victims of the brutal…
The USA had classified 4 West African counties as among the “safest in the world” for its nationals and other traveller, in relation to the risk of contamination with Covid-19. Ghana, The Gambia, Senegal and Togo are now considered level…
More than 50 percent of those who sat the University of Liberia Entrance and Placement Exams have failed. According to the University, of the over eleven thousand undergraduate applicants, less than 40 percent passed in all subjects. WADR’s Darlington Porkpa…
President Nana Akufo-Addo has described as misguided, attempts by some separatist groups to get the Volta Region and other areas to secede from Ghana. The President said the move is misplaced and unacceptable. The Homeland Study Group wants the Volta,…
An umbrella body for women in the northern Nigeria, staged a protest on Wednesday, to call for urgent action to halt the rising spate of insecurity in the country, particularly in the north. The group called Jam’iyyar Matan Arewa say…