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Traditional leaders in Liberia are rejecting calls by the International Community to end the practice of Female Genital Mutilation, FGM in the country. Currently, there is no law that out rightly bans the practice in Liberia as a yearlong executive…
The United Nations has warned that two million women and girls could over the next decade, experience female genital mutilation due to the global pandemic. According to the organization, schools, which are supposed to serve as a safe haven and…
Economists and trade analysts have described the soon to be director general of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as a fair and principled woman who will turn the organization around. Okonjo-Iweala whose appointment is expected to be announced this…
The President of the African Union Commission has been re-elected for a four-year term. 60 year old Moussa Faki Mahamat will remain at post after he collected 51 votes out of 54 votes with 3 abstentions, during a closed meeting of…
Ghana’s Supreme Court will today hear legal arguments from parties involved in the 2020 Election Petition on whether the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) Jean Mensa will mount the witness box to testify or not. On Monday, the Petitioner…
Liberia Supreme Court has upheld a Lower Court’s guilty verdict against former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai and his two deputies for stealing pension benefits belonging to personnel of the armed forces of Liberia. In March 2020, the former officials were…
The UN Security Council Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict has strongly condemned all violations and abuses committed against children by all parties to the conflict in Mali. The group in a statement Monday urged all parties concerned to…
Nigeria is set to begin work on a $2bn rail line to Niger according to a tweet posted Friday by the federal transportation minister, Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi said President Muhammadu Buhari would perform the groundbreaking ceremony for the line. He…
The discovery of the UK strain of the coronavirus in the Gambia is worrying school administrators. This is because the country lacks the means to implement a comprehensive distance learning program for its students should the cases increase thereby resulting…
An Abuja-based Centre for the Study of Economies of Africa (CSEA) has reported that a research it conducted had revealed that 28,876 deaths related to tobacco smoking are recorded annually in Nigeria. Marco Castradori, a research associate with the CSEA,…
The United States Embassy in Ghana has announced the postponement of some scheduled visa appointments. This follows the upsurge in the country’s COVID-19 cases. In a public notice on Twitter, on Monday, the US embassy said the ongoing pandemic and…
In Côte d'Ivoire, the opposition and the government are moving towards a reconciliation after an initial dialogue started by President Allassane Ouattara came to an end in November. The Ivorian Prime Minister on Monday paid a visit to the Secretary…
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