Officials and experts are sounding the alarm as Malawi shifts to top campaign gear with giant rallies for an unprecedented presidential re-run despite the coronavirus outbreak. The southern African country will hold elections in just under two months after the Constitutional Court overturned the results of last year’s controversial elections, which handed President Peter Mutharika […]
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested two Chinese nationals for allegedly offering a $250,000 bribe in local currency to one of its senior officials. Meng Wei Kun and Xu Koi were arrested on Tuesday inside in their office in the northern city of Sokoto as they gave the money […]
The agriculture agency will give $40 million to a fund launched by Idris Elba to help farmers in poor nations. The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to IFAD’s president ahead of the announcement. Since the coronavirus pandemic began to hit developing nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been finding ways to help rural […]
The European Union (EU) has blacklisted Ghana among several other countries for money laundering. Three other African countries have been blacklisted – Botswana, Mauritius and Zimbabwe. The EU said under the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD), the Commission has revised its list, taking into account developments at the international level since 2018 and that the “new list is now […]
Kenyan health officials are giving communities safer options to substitute traditions that require physical contact in the wake of coronavirus outbreak Instead of a traditional handshake between traders in northern Kenya’s animal markets to signify the completion of a trade deal, health officials are showing them how to use herders’ sticks or an elder’s stick. […]
The Emir of Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara State, Mohammed Ahmad Asha, is dead. He died while waiting for his result of COVID-19 test. The monarch’s death is coming less than 24-hours after the Emir of Rano, Dr. Tafida Abubakar Ila II, passed on Saturday, after a brief illness. His younger brother, the Dan Jekan Kaura Namoda, […]
Tanzania’s leading opposition party has called for a suspension of Parliament after three legislators died of unknown causes in the past 11 days. Freeman Mbowe, chairman of the opposition Chadema party, has repeatedly accused the government of covering up the true extent of the coronavirus pandemic and implied the MPs had died from COVID-19, the […]
Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg, who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87. As a member of the ANC’s military wing, he was convicted of armed resistance to white-minority rule and sentenced to four life terms in 1964. He was imprisoned for 22 years. Confirming the news of […]
The Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau, Nuno Gomes Nabiam has tested positive for COVID-19, according the country’s Ministry of Health. A BBC report sighted by BestNewsGH.com also reveals that the Country’s Interior Minister as well as two other Ministers have also contracted the Virus. BestNewsGH.com reports the Prime Minister as positing that several Members of […]
MPs in Uganda who allocated themselves a total of 10bn Ugandan shillings ($2.6m; £2m) to raise awareness about coronavirus have been ordered to hand back the money. Each MP was set to get the equivalent of $5,000, although some rejected the cash. Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni criticised the MPs and called their decision to allocate funding to […]
Residents of Ebonyi State in Nigeria have been thrown into a state of shock and mourning following the discovery of the bodies three biological sister floating in a river. BestNewsGH.com sources report that the bodies were discovered by some villagers who raised and alarm and called in the police, who took charge of the matter. […]
The Ivorian presidential candidate and former rebel leader, Guillaume Soro, has been convicted in absentia of embezzlement and sentenced to 20 years in jail. He was fined the equivalent of $7.4m (£6m) and barred from civic duties for five years. The trial was boycotted by Mr Soro’s lawyers who said the allegations against him were […]
