Hundreds of young Cubans spontaneously gathered on Saturday to pay homage to the former President and leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro at his old alma mater in Havana. Students converged on the steps of the University of Havana, carrying photos and posters of Fidel, and flowers for the beloved Comandante, who passed away […]
International bodies have urged candidates in Ghana’s December presidential elections to agree to sign the accord for peace, a statement from the United Nations Ghana office said Saturday. Officials of the UN, Commonwealth and the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) have been in Ghana since Tuesday for the signing of the peace accord […]
Dr Emmanuel Kojo Tenkorang, Western Regional Director of Health Services, said the surveillance systems and response mechanisms in Ghana are able to detect any outbreak. He said healthcare workers had also been trained and put on the alert for the dengue virus as was done for the Ebola virus in 2014. “If you remember what […]
Head of Gender and Disability at the EC, Abigail Nutakor said that the Commission had procured enough tactile ballot jacket for all polling stations to enable those with visual impairment to cast their vote. She described the tactile ballot jacket as a cardboard folder with raised dots arranged numerically to represent the positions of each […]
The interest of Ghana’s central bank in introducing the Chinese Renminbi(RMB) as a trading currency has increased with the decision by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to include it in its basket of Special Drawing Rights (SDR). Governor of the Bank of Ghana Abdul-Nashiru Issahaku said here on Monday to a question by Xinhua during […]
Togo will create a digital infrastructure company (SIN) to hold its strategic telecommunication assets in the West African Regional Communication Infrastructure Program (WARCIP), according to official release that reached Xinhua on Friday. WARCIP was launched by the World Bank to enable countries to increase geographical coverage of bandwidth network and reduce the costs of communication […]
The 15.6 million U.S. dollars infrastructure, inaugurated by Mozambican minister of Public Works and Housing Carlos Bonete on Monday, is part of the Maputo by-pass or a circular road project. “We are aware that this infrastructure will contribute to local development, particularly in agriculture and livestock, thus contributing to people’s well being. Moreover, the bridge […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that history and people will remember Fidel Castro, calling the Cuban revolutionary leader “a great figure of our times.” Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks in a message of condolences to Raul Castro, first secretary of the Central Committee […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s request for a vote recount is “scam.” “This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused,” Trump said in a […]
South Korean people opened a new chapter with peaceful, festival-like protest rally against President Park Geun-hye, with protesters demanding the scandal-hit president’s resignation more strongly but holding demonstrations in a more exciting manner. People attend a rally demanding President Park Geun-hye to step down in central Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 26, 2016. (Xinhua/Yao Qilin) Every […]
A government staff showing the app [Photo: thepaper.cn] The government in Linjiang, east China’s Zhejiang Province, has been using an app to track the attendance of public servants. Local government employees are now required to sign in via the app when arriving at work and to update their locations while on business trips. Government workers […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday night to thank him for sending firefighting teams and trucks to help Israel put out fires. A statement released by the PM’s Office said that Netanyahu “appreciates the fact that Jews and Arabs have opened their homes for victims of the blazes.” The […]
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