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News link 2021-06-09 Third Edition
News link 2021-06-09 Third Edition
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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…
A new study by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) says high unemployment rate, particularly among the youth puts Ghana at risk to the threat of violent extremism. According to the study, unemployed youth were the segment of the population…
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A survey by Afrobarometer, published on Wednesday, has revealed that majority of Senegalese want their country to follow the economic models of China and the United States of America. 60 percent of those polled want their country to follow the…
The Ministry of Health has disclosed that Seventy-Five Ghanaians, mostly men, die from tobacco and shisha smoking-related illnesses on a weekly basis. The ministry further revealed that close to a million of the country’s population smoke cigarettes, shisha, and other…
Governments of the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Republic of Ireland, Norway and those of the European Union (EU) have called for dialogue in resolving the Nigeria-Twitter faceoff. The countries made the call in a joint statement over the weekend. “We…