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By Margaret Besheer U.N. humanitarian officials said Wednesday that nearly a year into Sudan’s civil war, almost 18 million people are facing crisis levels of food insecurity — and tens of thousands of children are at particular risk of death from malnutrition. “Areas with active conflict are recording the most highly food-insecure populations,” Maurizio Martina, deputy director general of the Food ...

By: Nutifafa BequineGhana clinched her tenth gold medal in the ongoing African Games 2023 in Accra through Rose Yeboah on Tuesday, 19th March, 2024.The high Jumper won Gold for jumping as high as 1.94m and bettering her height record from Rabat, Morocco in in the year 2019 where she won her first gold medal with a jump of 1.84m.The athletic ...

By:NEWS WIRES Louisiana’s strict abortion ban is having spillover effects across women’s health care in the US state, leading doctors to turn away patients for routine prenatal visits and perform unnecessary Cesarean sections, according to a report released Tuesday. Conservative Louisiana, in the Deep South, joined a dozen other states in implementing a near-total ban on abortion after the US Supreme Court ...

By: Nutifafa Bequine/Christian SowadaThe Black Satellites and Black Princesses of Ghana dispatched Senegal in their respective semi final matches to book slots at the finals of men’s and women’s football at the ongoing African Games 2023 in Accra. Black Princesses – Ghana The Satellites on Thursday, 19th March, 2023, at Accra sports stadium beat Senegal with an 84th minute goal ...

By: Nutifafa BequineThe hockey tournament kicked start on Sunday at Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium, Accra in the ongoing African games.The Ghana’s women contingent have secured 2 wins out of 2 in the pool fixtures with match result of 4-1 against Kenya in the day 1 event and also secure a 1-0 victory against their West African rivals, Nigeria in the ...

By: Nutifafa BequineBenjamin Azamati is into the final of the men’s 100metres after running 10.41s. He once again slowed down getting to the end of the race and still finished 2nd. His target in the final is to win gold and clock 10.00s or less to qualify for the Olympic Games to be held in Paris later this year.Benjamin’s fellow ...

By Will Grant,BBC News, Cap-Haitien, Haiti “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in the street – the victims of the latest ...

By: Nutifafa BequineThe hockey tournament kicked start Sunday, 17th March, 2024, at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium in the ongoing African games.In the men’s category, the host beat their West African rivals, Nigeria with a late goal.The men’s category has only three countries competing and all the teams are guaranteed a medal.Ghana winning their opener means they will settle for ...

By Florence Phiri in Lilongwe & Tamasin Ford in London,BBC Africa Eye BBC Africa Eye investigates how a WhatsApp group helped save more than 50 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions. Warning: Some people may find details in this story distressing. A 32-year-old woman breaks down in tears as she relives the abuse she experienced when, ...

By: Nutifafa BequineThe Black Satellites are hoping to secure a semi final spot tonight, as they take on their West Africa counterpart, Benin in group B’s last match at the University of Ghana Sports Stadium.The Satellites have renewed their hope in the second group match fixture as they beat Gambia 3-1 to seat at the top of the group with ...