Author: Krobea

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has won a seventh term in office in polls marred by low turnout and voter intimidation. Mr Biya, at 85 sub-Saharan Africa’s oldest leader, took 71.3% of the vote, according to official results. Opposition calls for a re-run of the presidential election were rejected by the Constitutional Council last week. Riot police were deployed on Sunday to the major cities of Yaoundé and Douala in case of opposition protests. Cameroon’s two English-speaking provinces have been hit by more than a year of violent protests and attacks by separatist rebels which have left hundreds dead. Two…

There is “relative calm” at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), 3news.com’s correspondents have reported. A joint police-cum-military deployment on campus has seen the student agitation controlled. Students on Monday declared a boycott of lectures preceded by a violent protest march. Property were vandalized as students marched to petition the school’s authorities. In their trail to the administration block, the protesting students set property ablaze while they pelted stones at the any image of security on campus. Windows and windscreens of cars at the administration block were smashed. The KNUST Public Relations Officer, Kwame Yeboah, suspects non-students may…

South African 800m world champion Caster Semenya has been listed among 10 female athletes nominated for this year’s Athlete of the Year. The winner will be named at the IAAF Athletics Awards 2018 to be held in Monaco on Tuesday, December 4. Semenya took the IAAF to the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) after it the sport-governing body released its rules on testoterone. The list of nominees was by an international panel of athletics experts from all six continental areas of the International Athletics Associations Federation (IAAF). The list is expected to be pruned down to five after Monday,…

The University Relations Officer (URO) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kwame Yeboah, has expressed suspicion that some outsiders joined Monday’s protest by students. According to him, the level of damage done to property cannot be carried out by level-headed students of the University. Property yet to be quantified were vandalized by protesting students, who claim the school’s security has not been fair to them over the past week. They claim some of them were brutalized last week during an unprovoked gathering. Motorbikes and bicycles at the main security post of KNUST were set ablaze by…

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have clashed with security on campus during a march to protest claimed brutality unleashed on them last week. The protest march, which began peacefully at Peace Junction on Monday, has degenerated into chaos as the students fly stones at vehicles of security personnel, deployed to ensure peace. They have set property at the KNUST Security Secretariat ablaze, 3news.com’s Kwame Baffoe Agyekum reported on Monday. Security personnel had to run for their lives as the irate students appeared unstoppable, our correspondent said. The protesting students have left in their trail…

Policy think tank IMANI-Africa is calling on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to give a “verbal assurance” for an investigation into the $178 million Kelni-GVG deal with government. It said “it will be shocking if the President proceeds to launch the Common Monitoring Platform”. There are reports President Akufo-Addo will launch the platform on Monday and IMANI says given its extensive exposé on the deal, the president should tread with caution by not following the lead of his ministers and “turn a blind eye”. “His is a government that promised to respect the rule of law and the sanctity of…

Students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are marching Monday morning from the Peace Junction to demonstrate against recent happenings in the school. Ahead of the march, the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) asked all students to boycott lectures. The march will see the presentation of a petition to authorities. A misunderstanding between students and the school’s security last week resulted in the arrest of some 11 students. One person is said to have been injured and receiving treatment at the hospital. The students accused the police of using tasers on them. Others said they were deliberately…

Saudi Arabia says that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, blaming a “rogue operation” for a killing that has sparked an international outcry. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Fox News the act was a “tremendous mistake” and denied the powerful crown prince had ordered the killing. He was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. The Saudis, under intense pressure to explain the journalist’s whereabouts, have offered conflicting accounts. They initially said he had left the building unharmed but on Friday admitted for the first time he was dead, saying that he was killed in a fight.…

Ghana’s Black Queens will begin their host-and-win campaign at the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations in Group A. Ghana will play Algeria on the opening day of the tournament on Saturday, November 17 while Mali engage Cameroon. The four countries were on Sunday drawn in Group A, to play at the Accra Sports Stadium. Ten-time champions Nigeria were seeded in Group B. The Super Falcons will begin the defence of their title a day after the opening day as they play the Banyana Banyana of South Africa. The two teams together with Zambia’s She-polopolo and Kenya’s Harambee Starlets, who…

The Director of the United Nations University Institute of Natural Resources (UNU-INRA), Dr. Fatima Denton, has called on governments of Africa to invest in Geographic Information System (GIS) including other geospatial technologies and be fully committed to building capacity of officials and different stakeholders in order to help detect and insulate countries from potential natural disasters. She averred that the GIS technology is a very powerful tool that is capable of processing data, which if harnessed effectively can go a long way to positively impact the management of natural resources including mitigating the harmful effects of climate change. “Some of…