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The International Criminal Court (ICC), prosecutor Ms. Fatou Bensouda, has warned that the violence experienced in Côte d'Ivoire during the first pre- and post-election crisis of 2010 must not be repeated. In a statement on Wednesday, the ICC prosecutor expressed…
A new research shows Ghana recorded 200,000 abortions in 2017, out of which 71 per cent were illegal. It says the country also records an estimated 767,200 unintended pregnancies each year. The figure represents 53 per cent of total pregnancies.…
The Nigerian authorities’ must end their attempts to cover up the Lekki Toll Gate massacre, Amnesty International said, as it released a new timeline investigating the atrocity one week later. The timeline collates photographs and video footage to confirm that…
A Mauritanian suspected jihadist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to shooting dead five people in an attack in the Malian capital Bamako in 2015. Fawaz Ould Ahmed also admitted to planning two other attacks in the country that year that targeted…
It’s been five years since the Gambia like several other African countries placed a ban on single use plastics. The ban became necessary after complaints of widespread pollution. But as Veronic Njie reports from Banjul, the enforcement of the ban…
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s nominee for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has emerged winner of the competitive race. Dr. Okonjo- Iweala polled 104 votes from 164 member countries to defeat South Korea’s Minister of Trade…
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Liberia’s electoral commission has announced the arrival of a technical team from the Economic Community of West African States—ECOWAS to help clean-up the voter’s roll. The cleaning of the Country’s Voters Roll has been a major demand from the opposition…
A total of 35 Short Term Observers (OCTs) from several countries are deployed throughout Ivorian territory as part of the presidential election. Valdiodio Ndiaye, Resident Director of Joint International Election Observation Mission (MIOE), in a statement on Wednesday said the…
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