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Mahamudu Bawumia is hoping to take the New Patriotic Party to an unprecedented third term in office.  By Nipah Dennis AFP

A year from election, Ghana's economy set to dominate campaign

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After he won last month the nomination as Ghana's ruling party presidential candidate in the 2024 election, Vice Preside ...

Nov 29, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Award-winning journalist Mariam Ouedraogo finds it impossible to forget the heartbreaking stories she has covered about ...

Nov 28, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Sierra Leonean authorities were treating clashes that killed 21 people in the capital Freetown at the weekend as a faile ...

Nov 28, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Extreme weather events in countries vulnerable to climate change drove more than 27 million children into hunger last ye ...

Nov 27, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Clashes that shook Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Sunday left 13 dead in the ranks of the army loyal to the governme ...

Nov 23, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Tunisian film star Hend Sabri has resigned as World Food Programme goodwill ambassador in protest at what she called the ...

Nov 21, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Climate talks often revolve around reducing the most dangerous greenhouse gas CO2. But other powerful heat-trapping e ...

Nov 21, 2023 | Africa: Africa

The presence of United Nations peacekeepers, whose shortcomings can frustrate local populations, is not a magic wand f ...

Nov 20, 2023 | Africa: Africa

The latest negotiations toward a global plastic treaty concluded late Sunday with disagreement about how the pact should ...

Nov 16, 2023 | Africa: Africa

As a filmmaker and head of Ghana's film agency, Juliet Yaa Asantewa Asante said she always had the same sense when atten ...

Nov 16, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Elements of the Ethiopian State security forces have unlawfully arrested, detained and physically assaulted two membe ...

Nov 16, 2023 | Africa: Africa

More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 been forced out of their homes in the Horn of Af ...

Nov 15, 2023 | Africa: Africa

The UN warned Wednesday that the number of sand and dust storms are increasing dramatically with Central Asia most hit ...

Nov 15, 2023 | Africa: Africa

Nearly five times more people will likely die due to extreme heat in the coming decades, an international team of expert ...