ACCRA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Wednesday's national election, defeating President John Mahama, electoral commissioner Charlotte Osei said on Friday.
ACCRA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's President John Mahama called opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo to concede defeat in Wednesday's national election, a senior aide to Akufo-Addo told Reuters on Friday.
ACCRA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The Bank of Ghana said the yield on its weekly 91-day bill rose to 17.2946 percent at an auction on Friday from 16.8603 percent at the last sale on Dec. 2.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Islamic State has lost senior figures in an unsuccessful seven-month battle to defend its coastal stronghold in Libya, but there are already signs it will try to fight back through sleeper cells and desert brigades.
YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Two schoolgirl suicide bombers killed 30 people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated attack on a crowded market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Madagali on Friday, an army spokesman said.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police have detained a British journalist working for The Times and are holding him at the country's main airport without charge, his lawyer said on Friday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - A recently emerged militant group called the Hasm Movement claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in Cairo on Friday that killed six policemen.
TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's parliament has voted against two articles in next year's budget imposing taxes on lawyers and pharmacists, in a blow to government efforts to cut the deficit and implement economic reforms.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges on Friday convicted Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders of insulting Moroccans and inciting discrimination against them, but levied no punishment against him.
GHANA'S PRESIDENT MAHAMA APPEALS FOR CALM, TELLS SUPPORTERS HE WILL "RESPECT THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE"
TARIME, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Neema Maro realised her father was secretly planning to get her circumcised in her village in northwestern Tanzania, she ran away.
MADRID (Reuters) - Dozens of sub-Saharan African migrants forced their way on Friday morning over a barbed-wire fence into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, which borders Morocco.
CAIRO (Reuters) - Six policemen were killed and three injured on Friday when a bomb exploded at a security checkpoint in Cairo, security sources said.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's President John Mahama said on Friday he aimed to "make the country proud" regardless of the final outcome of Wednesday's election, which two private radio stations said he had lost to opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo.
ACCRA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's President John Mahama said on Friday he aimed to "make the country proud" regardless of the final outcome of Wednesday's election, which two private radio stations said he had lost to opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo.
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has won the country's presidential election with an absolute majority over President John Mahama, the private radio stations Joy FM and Citi FM said on Friday.
ACCRA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Ghana's main opposition leader, Nana Akufo-Addo, has won the country's presidential election with an absolute majority over President John Mahama, the private radio stations Joy FM and Citi FM said on Friday.
ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As many as 3.5 million people in Africa were uprooted from their homes in 2015 due to conflict and natural disasters and left stranded in their own country, with many governments overlooking this growing problem, according to a report released on Friday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists examining the jawbone of a saber-toothed, mammal-like beast that prowled Tanzania 255 million years ago have come across a remarkable fossil rarity: one of the oldest-known tumors.
BANJUL (Reuters) - Seconds after the chairman of Gambia's electoral commission read out the poll results that ended President Yahya Jammeh's 22-year rule to reporters, a policeman left the building, cheering and clapping his hands in the air.
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