19-Jan-2019 to 12:41

APA-Accra (Ghana) — Thousands of Ghanaian mourners on Friday thronged the funeral and burial ceremony of the slain investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein Suale in Accra.

19-Jan-2019 to 12:32

APA-Monrovia (Liberia) — Liberia President George Manneh Weah has expressed his government’s desire and determination to equip and transform the Liberia National Fire Service (LNFS) to meet international standard.

19-Jan-2019 to 04:23

APA-N’Djamena (Chad) — Chadian police colonel Ahmat Senoussi Ochi, who was prosecuted for kidnapping, torture and deliberate personal injury was sentenced on Friday to ten years in prison and plus a CFAF500,000 fine.

19-Jan-2019 to 03:53

APA-Accra (Ghana) — Ghana Ports and Habours Authority (GPHA) is offering a ¢50,000 (US$10,000) bounty to anyone who provides accurate information that would lead to the arrest of the killers of its Public Affairs Manager Mrs. Josephine Tanor Asante.

18-Jan-2019 to 13:15

APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) — An estimated 36 million of a total population of 41 million children under the age of 18 in Ethiopia are multi-dimensionally poor, meaning they are deprived of basic goods and services in at least three dimensions, says a new report released Friday by the Central Statistical Agency and UNICEF.

17-Jan-2019 to 14:10

APA-Dakar (Senegal) — Ahmed Bachir Kounta, a former journalist at Senegalese Television Broadcasting (RTS) and member of the Kounta religious family, died Thursday morning at the age of 82, APA learned from media sources.

17-Jan-2019 to 11:34

APA-Mbabane (eSwatini) — All business stands to be grounded in eSwatini, after about 30 000 civil servants endorsed another mass protest action in 11 days.