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A second person has died of Ebola on the Democratic Republic of Congo’s border with Rwanda, raising fears the deadly illness could spread. The artisanal miner died on Wednesday morning in the city of Goma, home to two million people, authorities said. More than 1,600 people have died of Ebola in DR Congo since the outbreak began in August 2018 but those have been in more remote areas. The World Health Organization called it a global health emergency last week. It is the highest level of alarm the WHO can sound and has only been used four times previously -…

Broadway director and producer Hal Prince has died at the age of 91, his publicist has confirmed. Prince made a significant contribution to Broadway musicals in the US and won 21 Tony Awards in his lifetime. His family said there would be no funeral, but rather a ceremony celebrating his life this autumn. Prince, who died in Reykjavik, Iceland, directed productions of Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera. He started his career as a co-producer on several musicals, including West Side Story in 1957, before he began to produce on his own. His solo credits as…

Ghana has served notice agencies that executed ‘fraudulent documents’ for the Power Distribution Services (PDS) used as guarantee for the ECG concession will be made to answer for their actions or inactions if the claim of fraud is established. The ‘Demand Guarantee’ was a key prerequisite under the concession to secure the assets of ECG that were leased to PDS on March 1 this year for a 20-year period. But the Qatar-based insurer and reinsurer, AL Koot, in whose name the guarantee was issued, has declared the document null and void on the basis that the officer who executed it…

A Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Secondary and Basic Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has been invited by the Kenyan Government to give a keynote address at its 3rd National Conference on Curriculum Reforms to be held in Nairobi on August 16. The conference which is under the theme, “Expanding Inclusion: Reaching Every Child Through Education Reforms” will be attended by 2,500 delegates from across the country to deliberate on the gains made in recent educational reforms. The Kenyan Government has rolled out a new Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) in early childhood education which focuses on acquisition of…

Following the suspension of the Electricity Company of Ghana Concession agreement on July 30 by the Government of Ghana, only five months into the takeover by Power Distribution Services, 3news.com catalogs the sequence of events leading to the suspension. Below are bullet points summarizing the issues: August 5, 2014 – President John Dramani Mahama signed the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) agreement with United States  government through Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) A grant of US$498.2 million was allocated to undertake infrastructural and inefficiencies in the power sector: the first tranche of US$350 million of the amount released in 2016 was…

Following the suspension of the Electricity Company of Ghana Concession agreement on July 30 by the Government of Ghana, only five months into the takeover by Power Distribution Services, 3news.com catalogs the sequence of events leading to the suspension. Below are bullet points summarizing the issues: August 5, 2014 – President John Dramani Mahama signed the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) agreement with United States  government through Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) A grant of US$498.2 million was allocated to undertake infrastructural and inefficiencies in the power sector: the first tranche of US$350 million of the amount released in 2016 was…

The Minister of Energy, Peter Amewu fears cancellation of the concession agreement with Power Distribution Services Ghana (PDS) could come with some consequential loss. In an exclusive interview with TV3 on Wednesday, the minister said Ghana may not be able to access part of the second Millennium Challenge Corporation Compact dubbed Ghana Power Compact. “The danger is the second tranche of the facility [under the Millennium Challenge Compact]; that of course is what we all need to see whether it will be threatened as a result of the discovery of the finding,” he remarked. Ghana is expected to receive the…

Energy Minister, Peter Amewu has confirmed to TV3 that some documents presented by Power Distribution Services for the ECG concession agreement were fraudulently done. Government on Tuesday, July 30, 2019 suspended the agreement that handed over the management and operations of ECG to PDS effective March 1, 2019. 3news.com was earlier informed by reliable sources close to the deal that the officer who executed the Demand Guarantees (Lease Payment Security and BSA Payment Security) submitted by PDS was not authorized. The commercial insurer and reinsurer, Al Koot, has since written to the government of Ghana that the agreement is null and…

Some drivers in the newly created Ahafo Region have kicked against any increment in fuel prices. Presenting the 2019 midyear budget review in Parliament on Monday, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta announced an increase in Energy Sector Levies Act (ESLA) which affects petroleum products. “Government proposes to increase the Energy Sector Levies by GHp 20 per litre for petrol and diesel and GHp 8 per kg for LPG, so as to increase the inflows to enable Government issue additional bonds to pay down our energy sector debt obligations. Based on current indicative prices for petrol and diesel this translates to GHp…

A toddler in Chongqing, China has survived a six-storey fall after he was caught by passers-by holding out a large blanket. State broadcaster CCTV reported that he had no injuries. Watch the video below