Chris Hughton, the head coach of the Black Stars, has defended his decision to drop skipper Andre Dede Ayew from the starting line-up in Ghana’s recent match against Angola. Ayew, 33, was not named in the 21-man squad for the game and watched the entire game from the substitutes bench with Arsenal star Thomas Partey […]
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Akufo-Addo’s swearing-in: 13 African Presidents confirm attendance
Thirteen African Heads of State including the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, President of Liberia, George Weah and the President of Cote d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara have confirmed that they will be in attendance at the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Vice President-elect Mahamudu Bawumia on Thursday, 7th January 2021. This […]
Video: Polygamist with 42 wives and 281 children laid to rest
Before he was laid to rest Sunday, the Angolan man known as Pai Grande, or Big Dad, drew a crowd of at least 1,000 people – including most, if not all, of his 156 surviving children and 250 grandchildren – to pay their respects. Mourners for Francisco Tchikuteny Sabalo embraced, wept, sang and stood shoulder to shoulder, despite […]
Chad to repay a debt of $100m to Angola with 75, 000 cows
Angola has agreed to be paid 75,000 in cows for a $100 million debt it is owed by Chad. The livestock will be given to the oil-rich country over 10 years for a debt that Chad contracted in 2017. The BBC reported that the first installment of more than a thousand cows was transported by ship to […]
Life after power: the bitter exile of Angola’s ex-president Dos Santos
Attacked from all sides by his successor, the former Angolan head of state José Eduardo dos Santos has had a hard time living through the fall of his family empire. But his heirs did not admit defeat so readily. It’s mid-June in Barcelona. On the sofa in the living room, José Eduardo dos Santos plays […]
Ghana and Angola opens new chapter for deepened co-operation
When President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo set foot on the tarmac of the Luanda Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in the Angolan capital on August 8, 2019, it was soon to be recorded as the deepening of another strategic diplomatic ties and the opening of a new chapter for mutually beneficial co-operation between the two […]
President arrives in Angola for historic 2-day state visit
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday arrived in the Angolan capital, Luanda, to begin a two-day official visit to that country. The visit, the first by a sitting Ghanaian president, was at the behest of the Angolan President, Joao Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço. The visit is expected to, among other things, strengthen further the longstanding […]