Author: Krobea

Up to 10 million people in Iran are living with disabilities, campaigners say, but the culture surrounding the issue is largely one of shame, writes BBC Near East Women’s Affairs journalist Feranak Amidi. One area which is particularly taboo in the socially conservative country is sex, and more so the sexual needs of disabled women. Here, 41-year-old Mitra Farazandeh, who lives with disabilities in a small village in northern Iran, describes her own experience – and frustrations. I am a woman. I am a woman with 75% physical disability. Yes, I have experienced love. I always say that a person…

West Ham won for the first time under David Moyes as Marko Arnautovic’s first goal for the club proved enough to beat a disjointed Chelsea at London Stadium. The Hammers scored the only goal after just six minutes when Arnautovic curled a deft strike into the bottom corner after exchanging passes with Manuel Lanzini on the edge of the area. Chelsea responded well before the break but were repelled by an organised West Ham defence and two solid saves from Adrian, retaining his spot in place of the dropped Joe Hart. Both sides became increasingly ragged in the second half…

Ghana’s president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is one of just three African heads of state named in the list of 100 Most Influential Africans of 2017. The list has been published by the New African Magazine at the end of every year since 2012. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Guinea’s Alpha Conde, who is also the Chairperson of the African Union, are the other presidents to have made the list. Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo also made the list in the Politics and Public Service category “for how he served as a safe pair of hands during President [Muhammadu] Buhari’s enforced…

Zimbabwe’s central bank has ordered that the bank accounts of two top allies of ousted President Robert Mugabe be frozen, the state-owned Herald newspaper reports. In a directive sent to the country’s financial institutions, it ordered them to “identity and freeze” all accounts run by former government ministers Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere. The two were influential members of a faction within the ruling Zanu-PF party which backed former First Lady Grace Mugabe’s campaign to succeed her husband. The whereabouts of the two have been unclear since last month’s military takeover, which forced Mr Mugabe, 93, to resign after 37…

“Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do for them; for this is the law and the prophets.”― Matthew 7:12 [World English Bible] Back in high school, we had one notorious senior who was the pain in the butt of every first year student. This bully would come to school without a chop box yet only few weeks into the term, would have one full of all the goodies in his dormitory. Well, force was his language. Those who didn’t understand this language ended up bruised by his tattered belt. He always had his…

Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Paris on Saturday to bid farewell to the French rock star Johnny Hallyday, who died this week at the age of 74. His coffin will be driven in a cortege down the Champs-Elysees followed by a ceremony, where President Emmanuel Macron will pay tribute to the singer. Hallyday’s band will also perform instrumental versions of his songs. The French icon died on Wednesday after a battle with lung cancer. A religious ceremony, which will take place at the Madeleine church in Paris, is expected to be watched by…

A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to take frantic steps to arrest the Cedi as it has depreciated against the dollar in the first year of the current government, the former claims. Abraham Amaliba, a member of NDC’s legal committee, says Dr Bawumia’s claims in the first 100 days of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration that the Cedi is under arrest no longer holds due to the state of the country’s economy. Dr Bawumia in a townhall meeting organized by Multimedia Group to mark NPP’s 100 days in office took…

Pope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord’s Prayer to be changed. The current wording that says “lead us not into temptation” is not a good translation because God does not lead humans to sin, he says. His suggestion is to use “do not let us fall into temptation” instead, he told Italian TV on Wednesday night. The Lord’s Prayer is the best-known prayer in Christianity. The pontiff said France’s Roman Catholic Church was now using the new wording “do not let us fall into temptation” as an alternative, and something similar should…

Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says he will be reflecting on 79 years of his existence on earth as he marks his birthday. Mr Kufuor was born on December 8, 1938. Speaking on 3FM’s morning show, Sunrise, hosted by Winston Amoah from Monday to Friday, the former first gentleman said he will be taking stock of his life. He said he will welcome family, friends and well-wishers to his home just to mark the day. “It is not a party as such,” he clarified. He said he will just look back at what God has done for him. “[And] I…

The 22 students of the Atlantic Hall of the University of Cape Coast rusticated in May for a student brawl during their hall week celebration have been reinstated. A Cape Coast High Court on Friday ruled in favour of the 22 students. They are to be given GH¢10,000 each as costs. The brawl on campus involving students of Commonwealth Hall from the University of Ghana – nicknamed Vandals – and Unity Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology – nicknamed Conti. It left three students seriously injured. READ: UCC rusticates 22 students for campus riot Before Friday’s…