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First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has urged all Africans to help create and promote innovation in communities in a bid to solve real and difficult challenges facing the continent and its people. The First Lady made this call on Monday while addressing the Africa Innovation Foundation (AIF)’s 2017 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) taking place in Accra. The two-day programme is to celebrate the best of African innovation. In her address, the First Lady said that “often when we talk about creativity and innovation, we look at the more developed regions, but it is important to note that there are a…

The level of activity in the exploration of oil around Cape Three Points offshore the Western Region has slowed due to the ongoing maritime border dispute between Ghana and neighbours La Cote d’Ivoire, a Deputy Minister of Energy has admitted. Mohammed Amin Adam said government cannot pretend the dispute has not had any toll on exploratory activities. He said some major oil firms have either had to suspend further exploration or completely shied away from exploration due to the ongoing trial. The International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is expected to give judgement on the case in…

A baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity. It caused the blackout on Sunday morning by climbing into the power station and pulling at the lines. The baboon survived the “massive electric shock” that would have killed a human being, a power company spokesman said. A person would also have been prosecuted, Henry Kapata added. The baboon was rescued by a wildlife organisation and is now recovering but has “serious wounds”, he told the BBC. The power station is in the Zambian tourist city…

A baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity. It caused the blackout on Sunday morning by climbing into the power station and pulling at the lines. The baboon survived the “massive electric shock” that would have killed a human being, a power company spokesman said. A person would also have been prosecuted, Henry Kapata added. The baboon was rescued by a wildlife organisation and is now recovering but has “serious wounds”, he told the BBC. The power station is in the Zambian tourist city…

A baboon in Zambia has tampered with the cables at a power station in the south of the country leaving 50,000 people without electricity. It caused the blackout on Sunday morning by climbing into the power station and pulling at the lines. The baboon survived the “massive electric shock” that would have killed a human being, a power company spokesman said. A person would also have been prosecuted, Henry Kapata added. The baboon was rescued by a wildlife organisation and is now recovering but has “serious wounds”, he told the BBC. The power station is in the Zambian tourist city…

Black Stars midfielder Mubarak Wakaso has signed a three-year deal with Deportivo Alaves in a move that will see him return to the Spanish La Liga. Wakaso joins Alaves, who finished ninth in the league last season, from Greek giants Panathinaikos. The former Ashanti Gold player has featured previously for Villarreal, Elche, Espanyol, Las Palmas and Grenada in the Spanish La Liga. In Europe, he has featured for Rubin Kazan in Russia and Celtic in Scotland. He was part of the Black Stars squad that won Silver at the 2015 African Cup of Nations and the team that placed fourth…

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has reiterated that creating job opportunities for Ghanaian youth and women is a top priority for the Nana Akufo-Addo government. In line with this, government is collaborating with its development partners to create the enabling environment for the establishment and growth of business and civil society groups with a view to opening up job opportunities. Dr. Bawumia made these remarks when Mr. Darren Walker, the President of the Global Ford Foundation, USA, paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House. “The priority of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government is to build the most business-friendly…

Tanzanian police have detained a pastor after two worshippers drowned while being baptised in a river near Rombo in the north of the country. The two victims were overwhelmed by the current of the River Ungwasi, a police spokesman has told the BBC. It is not clear how the pastor and the other worshippers involved managed to survive, the BBC’s Odeo Sirari says. They are members of a local church, Shalom, which is part of the charismatic Christian movement. Baptism in a river rather than in church is seen as a way of re-enacting the baptism of Jesus in the…

A three-day workshop on securing community land rights has opened in Accra, Ghana. The workshop is expected to bring together land commissions from across the African continent to exchange lessons on securing local communities and indigenous people’s land rights through statutory land tenure and its subsequent operationalisation. It expected to allow representatives of a critical mass of African land commissions leading land reforms in order to agree on an agenda for securing and realising the customary tenure rights of local communities, women and indigenous people. Minister of Land and Natural Resources John-Peter Amewu in a speech read on his behalf…

There seems to be tension and anger creeping within judges and magistrates with some of them threatening to go on strike over long-standing salary arrears not yet paid them. In an exclusive interview with TV3, President of the Judges and Magistrates Association Justice Victor Ofoe on Monday said they were engaged in a closed-door meeting to press on the Chief Justice to engage government on their demands. Members of the Association threatened to embark on an industrial strike starting Tuesday. However, the meeting with the Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, had led to the suspension of that action. The President of…