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Government has announced a closed season for the month of August, during which no fishing activity will be permitted in Ghana’s marine waters – with the tuna fleet excepted. The directive, which affects all other fleets including artisanal fisheries, is in

Two French football supporters have died as violence erupted across the country following Les Bleus ’ World Cup triumph. Some of the worst scenes were in central Paris, where the Champs Élysées remained closed in the early hours of Monday following

Tunisia’s World Cup coach Nabil Maaloul has left his job in order to take charge of Qatari league champions Al Duhail. Maaloul, who turns 56 later this month, takes over from Djamel Belmadi, who quit and is widely expected to be

France won the Fifa World Cup for the second time by overcoming Croatia’s bold challenge in a thrilling final in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. Didier Deschamps’ side repeated the success on home soil at France ’98 by a margin that hardly looked

Nigeria’s armed forces have released 183 children who were being held on suspicion of having ties to militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The 175 boys and eight girls – whose ages ranged from eight to 18 years – were freed in