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The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in Wa has dolled out an amount of GHS60, 070.67 to eight undeserving officers. This is according to the 2015 Auditor General’s report being scrutinized by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC). The eight whose

The death toll from Wednesday’s landslide in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to rise above 400, officials say. Most of the dead are from a fishing community on Lake Albert. Officials say the figure is based on the number

Two persons were burnt beyond recognition at Kikam in the Ellembelle district of the Western region in a motor crash which resulted in a gas explosion Wednesday evening. According to an eyewitness, Egya Eti, a mini urban bus and a taxi

Nearly half of the 400 people known to have died in a mudslide and flooding on the outskirts of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown have already been buried, health officials say. The government had said mass burials would be postponed until

The European Union’s election observer mission in Kenya is calling on the government to promptly publish all results forms of the disputed August 8 vote. Opposition candidate Raila Odinga has claimed that the election was rigged in favor of President Uhuru

The President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu has announced that testing for HIV is now compulsory in that country. According to Mr. Lungu, testing, counselling and treatment for HIV which used to be voluntary, are now a must for every citizen as

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga says he will mount a legal challenge to the result of last week’s presidential election, which he claims was rigged. Mr Odinga, who was defeated by incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta, has accused the electoral authorities of fraud

Three female suicide bombers have carried out an attack that has killed at least 27 people in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say. Dozens were injured when the women blew themselves up outside a refugee camp near Maiduguri in Borno state – a