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Can Africa’s biggest economy swap its addiction to oil for the starchy tubers that millions line their bellies with each day? “It’s our biggest hope,” says Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Audu Ogbeh. The global slump in oil prices has hit the West African nation hard, where oil exports make up more than 70% of government revenues. Yam ...

Theresa May is set to meet key EU figures for talks on Brexit which could determine whether the UK is able to move on to negotiations about trade. The BBC understands the two sides have now reached broad agreement over the UK “divorce bill” and citizens’ rights. But Irish ministers said there was no breakthrough on the outstanding issue of ...

President of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has accused the African Union (AU), of turning its back against former Libyan leader, the late Muammar Gaddafi when he needed the support union the most. The North African country has been plunged into chaos nearly years after its leader; Muammar Gaddafi was killed in an operation carried out by the ...

A Ghanaian family is pleading with government to help bring back their son who went to Libya aged 16 years hoping to cross into Europe but is now in the hands of rebels. Issaka Abdul Mumin called from Libya in 2013 to tell his family of his adventure to find better living conditions across the Mediterranean sea. “We all didn’t ...

A three-year-old boy was among the 168 Ghanaian migrants who embarked on a perilous journey to North African country, Libya. The young boy was said to have embarked on the journey with his father who was determined to make a transit from the ‘war torn’ country to Italy for a better life. Chairman of the Ghana Community Association in Libya, ...

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has added his voice to other concerned people around the globe to condemn the alleged slave trade of black Africans in Libya. The former President said it was worrying that black Africans were being subjected to inhuman treatments in Libya, such as being sold as slaves by their own African Libyan brothers. It has come ...

THERESA May is set to get tough with the EU next week and reject their demands for her to commit to a final divorce bill figure and lump sum payment. The Daily Express has learnt that senior Government figures have privately briefed key Brexit groups that the Prime Minister will insist that they move on to trade talks before any ...

President Akufo-Addo has condemned the maltreatment and human-selling of African migrants currently ongoing in Libya. Pictures of slave markets and gross abuse of black Africans are awash on social media after CNN uncovered the fledging human trade in the North African country. The horrible images show some migrants being sold for $400 while others are tortured to death by individuals ...

Moscow – President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday announced a string of reforms aimed at boosting birth rates in Russia as the population continues its long-term decline following a period of improvement. “Today… Russia’s demographic situation is once again deteriorating,” Putin said at a meeting on child policy in Moscow. “This tendency was predictable and is linked to the consequences of ...

Philadelhphia – The father and grandmother of a 3-year-old girl who shot herself in the leg in Philadelphia have been charged. Authorities said on Monday that Barbara McGill and Terrance Williams have been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment. The 64-year-old grandmother also was charged with tampering with evidence because police say she attempted to ...