Ghana on Thursday said it would dissolve the country's football association after explosive revelations of bribe-taking by referees and kickbacks to top officials that have shocked the football-mad nation. Information minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid said the government had decided to take immediate steps to have the GFA (Ghana Football Associatio ...
Suspected jihadists wielding knives and machetes killed five people in a Mozambique region that has been rocked by attacks blamed on radical Islamists, police said Thursday. Cabo Delgado, a northern province expected to become the centre of a natural gas industry after several promising discoveries, has seen a string of assaults on security forc ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that it has pulled 71 of its international staffers from Yemen over rising security threats. While the Yemen delegation has received numerous threats in the past, we cannot now accept additional risk less than two months after a gunman killed a staff member, the organisation said in a ...
It 39;s not easy for Africans to obtain a visa to visit Germany. A DW data analysis reveals that one in five applications is rejected, far more than for other parts of the world. Grace Boateng (not her real name) hadn 39;t imagined it would be so difficult. Three years ago, the 26-year-old Ghanaian submitted her first application for a ...
Five pro-democracy campaigners held without trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo since December were to go before a prosecutor Thursday, their lawyer said as human rights groups pressed their case. The five activists from the Filimbi movement -- Carbone Beni, Mino Bopomi, Cedric Kalonji, Grace Tshunza and Palmer Kabeya -- were transferred ...
The Ghana Football Association (GFA) on Thursday pledged to tackle corruption after an explosive undercover investigation alleged referees took bribes and the head of the governing body received kickbacks. A long-awaited documentary was unveiled in Accra on Wednesday night, little more than a week before the start of the World Cup finals. It ...
An explosive documentary has rocked Ghana's football association, showing executives including the organisation's head allegedly proposing bribes worth millions of euros. Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi was caught suggesting lucrative deals to undercover journalists posing as investors in the film Number 12 , which was sh ...
South Africa's first black Test rugby captain, Siyamthanda 'Siya' Kolisi, had a tough childhood much like the millions of poor black children in the coastal Eastern Cape province. And his astonishing rise to the top will inspire millions of young aspiring players for years to come, rugby analysts say. Born to teenage parents, Siya was the eld ...
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