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Source: Reuters Cocoa farmers in the world’s No.2 producer Ghana are hoarding beans in anticipation of higher prices, industry sources told Reuters, potentially squeezing supplies to a global cocoa market looking to recover from last season’s disastrous harvests. While the scale of the up-country bean stocking was not clear, a dozen farmers, buyers and officials from state regulator Cocobod confirmed ...

Source: Abubakar Ibrahim Former Attorney General Martin Amidu has voiced strong criticism of the Ghana Bar Association’s (GBA) unequivocal endorsement of the Chief Justice’s court closures in Bolgatanga. In a recent article, he described the GBA’s support as “dangerous for our Constitution, democracy, and the rule of law.” He cautioned that unqualified loyalty to the Chief Justice’s administrative decisions risks ...

Source: Ernest K. Arhinful The Ministry of Education has officially released the 2024/25 placement results for students entering Senior High Schools and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions. This release allows thousands of students to check their school placements and secure admission for the upcoming academic year. According to a statement by the Ministry, of the 563,339 results ...

Source: Abubakar Ibrahim, The Ghana Police Service and the Ghana Armed Forces have assured the public of their commitment to restoring peace and stability in Bawku, its surrounding areas, and along the Bolgatanga-Walewale-Tamale highway. In a press release issued on Sunday, the security agencies stated that joint Police and Military teams have been deployed across these areas to manage the ...

Jaroslav Lukiv Egypt has been certified malaria-free by the World Health Organization (WHO) – an achievement hailed by the UN public health agency as “truly historic”. “Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Egyptian authorities launched their first efforts to stamp out ...

Katie Razzall Yulia Navalnaya intends to be president of Russia, she tells me. She looks me straight in the eye. No hesitation or wavering. This, like so many of the decisions she made with her husband, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is unambiguous. Navalnaya knows she faces arrest if she returns home while President Putin is still in power. His ...

Laura Gozzi EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the bloc could “draw lessons” from the contested Italian policy of processing migrants offshore in Albania ahead of an EU summit focusing on migration. She made the remarks in a letter to member states ahead of the meeting in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, where she said the European ...

Source: Myjoyonline.com The Electoral Commission (EC) will start its online exhibition of the provisional voters’ register, beginning today, Tuesday, October 15, 2024, and running until Saturday, October 19, 2024. In a statement, the EC encouraged voters to verify their details through the shortcode *711*51#, free of charge. This exercise is part of the Commission’s efforts to clean the voters’ register ...

Source: Abubakar Ibrahim The menace of illegal mining, known as galamsey, has pushed Ghana into a state of what MP Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings has called “chemical warfare on an unprecedented scale.” The Klottey Korle legislator, in a LinkedIn post, expressed her deep concerns over the impact of galamsey on Ghana’s natural resources, public health, and governance. “I am haunted by ...

Celestine Karoney BBC Sport Africa Former world under-20 athletics champion Kipyegon Bett has died aged 26 in Bomet, Kenya, following a short illness. The 800m specialist won his junior world title in 2016 and then took bronze at the senior World Championships in London the following year. However, his career was halted in 2018 when he was handed a four-year ...