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Kenya president offers job to illegal gun makers

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has asked those making illegal guns to join a new firearm factory in the country. According to him, the majority of illegal arms recovered by the country’s security agencies had been manufactured locally. The president offered the makers of the weapons a “steady” job to “grow the economy and help keep […]

DR Congo hospital attack: ‘More troops needed’

At least 19 people have died in a series of clashes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Wednesday that 10 civilians were killed when a hospital was destroyed in the eastern village of Boga on Monday. Several other bodies were reportedly found after farmers were targeted […]

Sudan fuel prices double as all subsidies removed

Sudan has removed all subsidies for imported fuel, doubling the price of petrol and diesel. The price of petrol will rise from 150 Sudanese pounds ($0.35; £0.25) per litre to 290 pounds while diesel will now cost 285 pounds a litre from 125 pounds, according to the finance ministry. The statement said subsidies cost the […]

Donald Trump hails Buhari for Twitter ban

Former US president Donald Trump has praised Nigeria’s government for banning Twitter after it deleted President Muhammadu Buhari’s post for breaching its rules. “Who are they to dictate good and evil, if they themselves are evil?” Mr. Trump said in a statement urging other countries to ban Twitter and Facebook for not allowing “free and […]

Ghana’s greening project on course

Weeks after the promulgation of the Green Ghana programme yet to be launched nationally, the agenda is spreading like wildfire across the country. While launching the programme in Tema last week, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr. Henry Quartey said it was a wake-up call. The First Lady Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo in the programme launch […]

Second-hand underwear banned in Zambia

A non-profit organisation in Zambia has called for a ban on the importation and selling of second-hand underwear. The national co-ordinator of Zambia National Men’s Network for Gender and Development, Nelson Banda, said that the clothes, which are popular with men and women, were a health hazard. Despite being banned in 2017, officials never implemented […]

Domestic tourism drive will create one million jobs- Tourism Minister

Alan's withdrawal was expected- Awal Mohammed

The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, said the domestic tourism drive being pursued by government will create one million jobs for the sector. The Minister, therefore, called on stakeholders, especially the media and traditional leaders, to play a major role in empowering the citizenry to take full advantage of the […]

Parks and Gardens begins greening project

The Department of Parks and Gardens has begun a nationwide project to plant, nurture and sustain one million trees across the country in the next two years. The initiative Dubbed ‘Planting for Now and the Future’,  forms part of efforts by the department to encourage more tree planting to preserve and protect the environment. As […]

Nigeria Government orders prosecution of violators of Twitter ban

Nigeria will prosecute anyone found to have breached the country’s ban on the social media firm Twitter, a government spokesperson has told the BBC. The government announced on Friday it was suspending Twitter’s operations in the country. Mobile phone networks blocked access after being ordered to do so, but some users are getting around the […]

Kenya detains Ghanaian accused of romance fraud

The Kenyan authorities have arrested a Ghanaian national who is alleged to have fraudulently obtained $83,000 (£58,490) from a woman in a romance scam. The police’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said a female manager at Tala, a digital lender that issues small loans to Kenyans, met the Ghanaian called Victor Anane through an online […]