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Mahamudu Bawumia (left) of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and former president John Mahama (right)

African voters oust ruling parties in wave of political change

A surge of opposition victories swept across Africa in 2024, with Ghana’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) delivering the latest blow to establishment power as former President John Dramani Mahama secured an unprecedented landslide win against the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) on
December 11, 2024
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Robert Mugabe (93) Kick-Starts 2018 Presidential Campaign

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s factionalised party is set to embark on nationwide presidential campaigns for the aged Zimbabwean leader who will face the stiffest challenge to his decades-long stranglehold on power. Amid the divisions rattling the ruling party Zanu-PF, the nonagenarian leader,
April 13, 2017

Ghana seeks to develop next generation of young readers

Michael Sarpong Bruce They are young, live in deprived communities in the West African nation praised for its stable democracy, but they have poor reading and comprehension skills. An early grade reading assessment report released by the Ghana Education Service in 2014,
April 11, 2017