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Former Arsenal midfielder Thomas Partey has been granted conditional bail following his appearance at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault. The allegations, involving three women, relate to incidents reported between 2021 and 2022 during his time at Arsenal. The 32-year-old Ghanaian international, who left […]

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 Sunday. Mahama defeated Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia by an extraordinary 1.6 million votes, […]

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, faces a strong coalition of opposition parties in the polls set for 2018. […]

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, disclosed that most pupils in Ghana are performing poorly in reading and numeracy. […]