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The Head Pastor and Founder of the Glorious Way Chapel in Accra, Ghana, Rev. Isaac Owusu Bempah has surfaced again declaring that the 32 prophesies he proclaimed on the 31st night of 2015 would all come to pass. According to the fourth prophecy, the nation will experience a number of fire outbreaks. This could be tied to the several fire outbreaks in January with most of them occurring in the Ashanti Region. His fifth prophecy noted that the Ashantis would be in mourning cloth. It is not clear if that has anything to do with the death of the chief…

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The Minister of Power, Dr Kwabena Donkor, should not be given the chance to voluntarily resign but should be fired, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom has suggested. The two-time presidential candidate said if he were President John Dramani Mahama, Dr Donkor should have been fired long time ago. “We shouldn’t wait for him to resign. He should have been fired long time ago,” Dr Nduom stated on TV3’s New Day on Wednesday, December 23. The business magnate acknowledged the expertise of the Minister as regards energy and power issues but was concerned his utterances on assumption of duty gave him away.…

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Minister of Power Dr Kwabena Donkor has maintained that his undertaking to end the nationwide loadshedding by year end still holds. He, however, pointed out that routine outages as a result of overload or repairs to power transformers may result in what Ghanaians have come to know as dumsor. Therefore, he adds, that he has struggled for the past weeks to explain to Ghanaians the difference between loadshedding, which he promised to end, and dumsor. Speaking on Accra-based Joy FM on Boxing Day, Dr Donkor, who is also Member of Parliament for Pru East Constituency in the Brong Ahafo…

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Despite the institutionalization of National Sanitation Day in an effort to reduce unsanitary conditions that breed diseases and flooding, some parts Kumasi have been engulfed by filth. Areas like Akwatia line, Asafo market, Kwadaso, Atonsu are the hardest hit. Garbage are scattered along the streets and major drains in these areas, despite monthly clean up exercise in the last year.The WAEC area and Aboabo in Kumasi are no different. Plastic bags and rubbers have filled almost every available corner and gutter.Waste bins are absent on the streets of these areas; a situation that has significantly contributed to indiscriminate dumping. The…

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Burkina Faso’s interim President Michel Kafando has been freed and is in good health, the new junta leaders say. However, Prime Minister Isaac Zida, who was also detained when the presidential guard stormed a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, remains under house arrest. The African Union has suspended Burkina Faso and threatened sanctions unless the junta releases all interim political figures from detention. The US and France have also condemned the coup in the former French colony. The coup leaders have agreed to the “principle of dialogue”, as two West African leaders arrived in the country to mediate in the crisis.…

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A Rwandan soldier serving as a peacekeeper in the Central African Republic (CAR) has shot dead four colleagues before killing himself, the Rwandan Defence Ministry has said. Eight others were wounded in the attack, a statement said.A Rwandan military spokesman called the incident “deplorable”.Those dead served under the UN’s mission in CAR, deployed to support the country’s fragile transitional government.The country descended into sectarian violence in 2013 when the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebels seized power, prompting reprisals from Christian militia.An investigation was under way into the incident, which took place in the CAR’s capital Bangui, said Brig-Gen Joseph Nzabamwita.”We suspect…

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