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Oil prices may continue to rally past three and half year highs and all the way to $85 a barrel as soon as July, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning author and closely followed energy analyst Dan Yergin. Prices in the oil market have been steadily rising since last year, fueled by strong demand and output caps imposed by major producers aimed ...

  The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia graced the launch of PaySwitch Company Limited. In HE. Dr. Bawumia’s key note address, he lauded the Ghanaian own Fintech Company, PaySwitch, for their initiatives and effort to also contribute to the objectives of government to enhance the ease of doing business in the country using technology.   ...

A Ghanaian man is leading a campaign to bring The Gambia’s ex-ruler Yahya Jammeh to justice over the murder of 56 migrants who were mistaken for coup plotters, writes the BBC’s Alex Duval Smith. Martin Kyere leapt from the pick-up truck into the darkness. Bullets whistled around him as he ran for his life through the thick Gambian forest. He ...

At least one person was killed and 20 injured on Saturday in a stampede at Sierra Leone’s packed main stadium with tens of thousands gathered for the swearing in of the country’s new president Julius Maada Bio, police and the Red Cross said. Thousands had patiently queued up since morning to enter the stadium but then Bio’s supporters tried to ...

Egypt said it protested on Saturday to Moscow about an online poll by Russian state-owned channel RT on whether readers view a disputed border territory as Egyptian or Sudanese. The Egyptian foreign ministry said it contacted Russian authorities to express its “strong condemnation” of the poll, demanding “an urgent explanation for this unacceptable conduct”. The online vote focused on the ...

On May 19, 1978 French soldiers parachuted into the Democratic Republic of Congo town of Kolwezi to rescue hundreds of Europeans held by rebels who had already massacred several. The operation that followed freed the 2,000 hostages – mostly French and Belgians working for a state mining company – but not before more than 120 Europeans and many more locals ...

Zimbabwe’s ex-first lady Grace Mugabe has reportedly filed a court application to “force” a local company to hand over at least five hectares of “prime land” it donated to her in 2011. According to the state-owned Herald newspaper, through her lawyers, Grace petitioned the court to force the company to stick to its promise, saying the company donated the land ...

An Egyptian court has acquitted two police officers who were previously convicted and sentenced to five years over the killing of a detained lawyer. Sunday’s verdict by the Cairo Criminal Court overturned the earlier verdict against the officers, who were accused of beating lawyer Karim Hamdi to death in February 2015. Hamdi was detained on charges of belonging to the ...

Britain’s foreign secretary says that two British tourists being held hostage in the Democratic republic of Congo have been released two days after being kidnapped. Boris Johnson didn’t offer any further details in the statement released on Sunday, but paid tribute to the authorities from the African country and the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation “for their tireless help during ...

South Africa has promised another 5 billion rand ($400 million) capital injection to help its struggling state airline meet urgent financial obligations, the CEO of South African Airways (SAA) said on Thursday. SAA has not generated a profit since 2011 and has already received state guarantees totalling nearly 20 billion rand. It needs the money to help pay debts and ...