Dakar – A desert warfare specialist, Chad’s Hissene Habre seized power in 1982 and quickly embraced the role of ruthless dictator, with brutal atrocities the hallmark of his eight-year reign of terror. Often dressed in combat fatigues that complemented his “desert fighter” nickname, Habre fled to Senegal after he was ousted by current Chadian President Idriss Deby in 1990. Habre ...

Nairobi- Kenya’s opposition lined up Thursday behind a single candidate, veteran political leader Raila Odinga, strengthening their challenge to the government in August’s polls. Former prime minister Odinga, 72, was named presidential candidate by senior leaders of the National Super Alliance (NASA) at a large rally in the capital Nairobi. Odinga will, for the second consecutive time, challenge President Uhuru ...

Origin8, Ghana’s only true Integrated Marketing Communications Company, has been named the official event organizer for the maiden Aerospace and Aviation Exhibition for Africa to be organized from 24 to 26, October 2017. Origin8 shall represent the Organizing Committee of the African Airshow and conduct the necessary negotiations and correspondence from now to the end of the show in October. ...

Vatican City – Pope Francis is brushing off security concerns to forge ahead on Friday with a two-day trip to Egypt aimed at presenting a united Christian-Muslim front that repudiates violence committed in God’s name. Three weeks after Islamic militants staged twin Palm Sunday church attacks, Francis is expected to land in Cairo in the early afternoon for a series ...

Dakar – Souleymane Guengueng was barely able to walk or see when the prison doors swung open and he and hundreds of others were released in Chad in 1990 after dictator Hissene Habre fled. He then began collecting accounts of torture. A quarter-century later, those accounts helped convict and uphold a life sentence for Habre in a landmark trial that ...

Former member of Praye music group, Eugene Baah, known in music circles as Choirmaster, has joined a new group called Africa Connection in Australia. “I have joined a fresh group called Africa Connection in Australia, “one from Kenya, Sierra Leone and the other one from South Africa. We have recorded two songs which will be released soon,” he disclosed. Speaking ...

New York – The UN Security Council on Thursday postponed voting on a draft resolution on the Western Sahara conflict amid signs the Polisario Front independence movement was preparing a pullback from a tense zone of the contested territory, a council diplomat has said. The US-drafted text included a strong appeal to the Polisario Front to immediately withdraw from the ...

National service personnel in the country have joined the campaign against illegal small-scale mining (galamsey) to protect the country’s water bodies.The service personnel thronged the principal streets of Koforidua in a procession with anti-galamsey placards as part of their Seventh National Terminal Congress on Friday, 28 April. Mr Akufo-Addo’s government, led by Lands and Natural Resources Minister John Peter Amewu, ...

Elders and the stool father of the Dorfor Paramountcy in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region have given an 11-day ultimatum to the chief of Podoe, Togbe Adela Titriku Ananze, to cease holding himself out as the paramount chief of Dorfor. They also want him to hand over all stool properties and documents in his possession to the ...

Financial institutions operating in the country have with immediate effect stopped charging 17.5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on all financial services. The decision is in pursuant to the Value Added Tax Amendment Law (Act948, 2007). Banks such as Access Bank, Ecobank, Unibank, CAL, UMB Bank and Zenith Bank, among others, have sent text messages to their customers announcing the ...