ModernGhana Newsletter - Issue #26

Former President John Dramani Mahama has taken a swipe at President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the closure of some radio stations in the country.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has denied sponsoring the conveners of the FixTheCountry movement.

Hundreds of agitated Public Sector Workers are hitting the streets of Accra today, August 18, 2021, to demonstrate to express displeasure to the government.

President Nana Akufo-Addo, has eulogised Prof. Albert Adu-Boahen at a ceremony to name a public square after him at Juaben in the Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region.

A new way of making money from politicians has come knocking on our doors.

Women have been marginalized in our society for years and that’s one reason for poverty in Africa.

On Monday 2nd August 2021, the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) directed its members to withdraw with immediate effect all teaching and related activities across the public universities in Ghana.

Many people, including politicians, have hidden talents they are yet to discover. I found one recently in the Vice-President, Mahamudu Bawumia.

Aliko was born into a wealthy and influential Muslim family in the Northern Nigerian swinging city of Kano on 10 April 1957.

Uganda’s constitutional court has scrapped a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing miniskirts in public, in a decision hailed by women’s rights campaigners on Tuesday.

Uganda said that it would be temporarily hosting some 2,000 Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban in order to honor a United States government request.

Rwanda announced Wednesday that a verdict due this week in a terrorism trial against Paul Rusesabagina, the Hotel Rwanda hero turned government critic, has been delayed.

The central Sahel’s three-border region, where 37 villagers were massacred by suspected jihadists on Monday, is a huge territory straddling the frontiers of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso that has long been troubled by land feuds, trafficking, desertification and fragile state presence.

After surviving the bloodshed when Egyptian security forces killed some 800 people in a sprawling Islamist protest camp in 2013, 12 Muslim Brotherhood members are on death row waiting to be hanged.