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  Ghanadailies.com have confirmed a statement from Commonwealth Hall of the University of Ghana known as Vandals are demanding justice to their fellow students whose videos was shared on social media which went viral. The video which shows a young man who was held in one of the Rooms in Mensah Sabbah Hall threatened with cutlass, beaten and his hair ...

The South Africa Football Association (Safa) has pledged its ‘unqualified’ support for Morocco’s bid to host the 2026 World Cup. Morocco is up against a joint bid from Canada/Mexico/United States and is aiming to become the second African country to host the World Cup after South Africa in 2010. “It is an old myth that Africa doesn’t have the capacity ...

Rwanda’s weightlifting coach at the Commonwealth Games has been missing since Tuesday after excusing himself to use the toilet, Rwandan chef de mission Nzabaterura Eugene has told The Australian. According to BBC, “He [Jean Paul Nsengiyumva] was at Carrara Stadium with an athlete for the competition there and before the end of the competition the coach went to the toilet ...

South Sudan’s rebels said on Sunday they had released seven aid workers detained for nearly three weeks in the country’s Central Equatoria region on accusations of spying for the government. Rebel spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel told Reuters the workers were released to a U.N. delegation near the border with Uganda and Ugandan police witnessed the handover. South Sudan has been ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, the White House said on Sunday. The meeting comes weeks after Rex Tillerson, then U.S. secretary of state, visited Nigeria and other African countries in March only to be fired after his return to Washington. Tillerson’s trip was part of attempts to ...

The government of Cameroon will accept dialogue as part of measures to end the Anglophone crisis, Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji is reported to have said. He however stresses that the sole condition to the dialogue being that it will be held with persons who are advancing the unity of Cameroon as a nation. His view effectively means that the ...

A court in the self-declared republic of Somaliland has sentenced a young poet to three years in jail. Nacima Qorane was found guilty of bringing the state into contempt by advocating for Somaliland to reunite with Somalia. Pressure groups in Somaliland said Ms Qorane’s basic human rights have been violated. Somaliland self-declared independence in 1991, but is not recognised internationally. ...

At least 240 people have been killed after a military plane crashed in Algeria, media reports say quoting civil defence officials. At least 25 members of Polisario Front, supported by Algeria and seeking independence from Morocco for Western Sahara, are said to be among the dead. The incident happened shortly after the plane took off from Boufarik military airport near ...

VLADIMIR Putin’s envoy has vowed Russia will retaliate if Donald Trump orders a US missile strike on Syria as the ambassador issued a chilling warning that US launch sites will be bombed. Russia’s ambassador to Lebanon said any US missiles fired at Syria would be shot down and the launch sites targeted. Alexander Zasypkin, in the comments broadcast on Tuesday ...

A top aide to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has warned Nigerians living in London to be careful and to show restraint, following killings in the city. The killing of black people, especially those of Nigerian origin in London, was “worrisome and disturbing”, said Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the senior special assistant to Mr Buhari on foreign affairs and the diaspora. A total ...