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Cyclone Idai has triggered a “massive disaster” in southern Africa affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the UN has said. The region has been hit by widespread flooding and devastation affecting Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi called it “a humanitarian disaster of great proportion”. He said more than 1,000 people may have been killed after the cyclone hit the country last week. Cyclone Idai made landfall near the port city of Beira in Sofala province on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph). “This is shaping up to be one of…

3FM’s Community Connect has discovered an early childhood development centre, Genesis Academy, operating on the open beach, opposite the Fire Service Training School in Accra. The area, which used to house an abattoir, is popularly known as ‘Bone dey’. It is not certain if the nursery school is authorized to train kids but the Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Gilbert Ankrah, says “the AMA will investigate to take the necessary action”. According to a deep-throat source who lives near the school, Genesis Academy has been active for nearly two months with a population of about 30 pupils, aged…

On Saturday, 16 March 2019, the Embassy of Israel climaxed its weeklong cultural dance festival, dubbed Israel-Ghana Dance Bridges with a stunning performance titled ‘YE SI GESHER’ to wit, we built a Bridge. This choreographic piece was the result of intense master class collaboration between Israeli Choreographer Oded Ronen, the Dance Students of the University of Ghana, the National Dance Company, the Great African Heritage Ensemble and the Ghana Dance Ensemble. It explored the myriad of movement systems that were developed to highlight the purpose for building bridges to bring Ghana and Israel together. The piece also highlighted individual struggles…

Ghana and Guinea are set to begin discussions for bilateral cooperation in bauxite industry development, similar to the trade cooperation between Ghana and Ivory Coast in the Cocoa sector. This was made known by Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, after a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Guinea, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, on the sidelines of the 14th  CII-Exim Bank Conclave on India-Africa Partnership Project in New Delhi, India. In a brief interview with the media after the meeting, Vice President Bawumia indicated: “You know what we are trying to do in the extractives sector as far as bauxite…

Local media reports in Cameroon say the head coach of a top football club has been seized in Bamenda by unknown kidnappers. Emmanuel Ndoumbe Bosso is beloved of fans of Yong Sports Academy, having led the Bamenda-based team to victory in 2013’s Cameroon Cup. The city is in the restive Anglophone region where separatists have been leading an increasingly violent campaign to break away from the French-speaking majority. #Bamenda #Insecurity Emmanuel Ndoumbe Bosso, coach of the Young Sports Academy football club has been abducted by unidentified men. The coach was seized earlier this 19th March 2019 in Bamenda as he…

Now that’s a speedy delivery. A Texas woman may have set a record of some kind after she gave birth to six babies in just nine minutes. Thelma Chiaka gave birth Friday to four boys and two girls between 4:50 and 4:59 a.m., according to a press release from the Woman’s Hospital of Texas where she delivered. The babies’ weights ranged from 1 pound, 12 ounces, to 2 pounds, 14 ounces. All the children are in stable condition and will continue to receive care in the hospital’s advanced neonatal intensive care unit. The odds of giving birth to sextuplets are estimated at…

Now that’s a speedy delivery. A Texas woman may have set a record of some kind after she gave birth to six babies in just nine minutes. Thelma Chiaka gave birth Friday to four boys and two girls between 4:50 and 4:59 a.m., according to a press release from the Woman’s Hospital of Texas where she delivered. The babies’ weights ranged from 1 pound, 12 ounces, to 2 pounds, 14 ounces. All the children are in stable condition and will continue to receive care in the hospital’s advanced neonatal intensive care unit. The odds of giving birth to sextuplets are estimated at…

Police in the Northern Region have confirmed the arrest of two more persons in the latest clashes at Chereponi that has left two people dead and caused others to flee the area for fear of reprisal in the longstanding ethnic conflict The new arrest was made Monday by a combined military-police team in the area and brings to eight the total number of suspects arrested so far following the last weekend incident between the Chorkosis and Konkombas. Six single-barrel guns as well as a locally manufactured gun were retrieved in the swoop. According to the police, displaced children and women…

Did I just see some creeping creatures on the floor? And hey; on the walls too? Yes, I did, my sight isn’t that bad after all. An army of ants, creeping from four different directions on the walls. These types I know don’t bite, but the sight of them is not one too fancy to behold. But participants looked on unperturbed, creeping slowly; the very naughty ones had gone down from the wall to the floor with some virtually searching for God knows what in my hand bag. I had left it on the floor for just five seconds. ”I…