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Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson, Ms Jean Mensah has described suggestions linking violence to the successful conduct of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election last Thursday as frivolous.

Cameroonian authorities should immediately investigate an attack on Paul Chouta, a reporter for the privately owned news website Cameroon Web, and ensure that those who assaulted him are swiftly brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Friday.

Washington has slapped a visa sanction on Ghana for what it describes as Accra’s failure to accept its nationals who are awaiting deportation from the United States.

The African Union has finalized preparations to unveil a commemorative statue of late emperor Haile Selassie in Addis Ababa, a spokesman of the Ethiopian government said on Friday.