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Thousands of youth join the Fix the Country demonstration in Tamale
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Thousands of youth join the Fix the Country demonstration in Tamale

Thousands of youth dressed in red apparel have demonstrated a new constitution and accountability from political leaders.The protest was part of the Tamale phase of the Fix the Country nationwide demonstration.The protesters held placards with various inscriptions to draw the attention of the government and lawmakers to revise the country’s 1992 Constitution to address social inequality and democratic accountability better.Some inscriptions on the placards read, “Arise Ghana Youth for a New Generation,” “Justice for Ahmed Suale,” “Repeal Article 71”, and “We are Tired of Being Voting Machines,” among others.The Fix, the Country conveners, and affiliate youth groups organized the demonstration, including Activista Ghana, Northern Regional Youth Network, and Progressive Forces of Northe...
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Adesua Foundation supports thousands of students in Asante-Akim North District
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Adesua Foundation supports thousands of students in Asante-Akim North District

Adesua Foundation, a Non-Governmental Organisation dedicated to the promotion of education in the Asante-Akim North District, has supplied educational materials to pupils of selected schools in the District. The items which included 3,500 exercise books, pens, mathematical sets and crayons were distributed to pupils in four basic schools at Ananekrom, Dukusen, Pataban and Majida. Over 2,000 pupils benefited from the exercise which sought to complement the efforts of parents in the provision of teaching and learning materials for their wards as school resumes after a long break. With the strong backing of Nana Akuoko Sarpong, Paramount Chief of Agogo Traditional area, the Foundation has been providing various interventions for pupils with the aim of raising standard of education i...
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Thousands yearn for peace with gospel singer Kobbysalm
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Thousands yearn for peace with gospel singer Kobbysalm

Thousands of fans and love ones joined urban gospel singer Kobbysalm for his maiden peace walk held last weekend in Accra. Fans of the artiste from all walks of life thronged the Jamestown area to seek for peace for the country ahead of the December 7 polls. The walk dubbed "In The Midst Of Comfort – ITMOC Peace Walk" saw Kobbysalm, his friends, family and fans took to the principal streets of Accra to preach peace to Ghanaians as the country embark on an election. They walk which was sponsored by Rush Energy Drink and Verna Mineral Water began in Jamestown through to the GNAT hall. Kobbysalm recently released his album titled "ITMOC" which boast of an impressive collection like “Jejeli” which features Okey Sokay and “Today Today,”. The album features artiste su...
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Thousands in China contract disease after leak at biopharmaceutical company
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Thousands in China contract disease after leak at biopharmaceutical company

More than 3000 people have contracted a bacterial disease after a leak at a biopharmaceutical company in the Chinese city of Lanzhou last year. Between July and August last year, the Zhongmu Lanzhou biological pharmaceutical company was developing vaccines for animals for the bacteria Brucella, which can cause the infectious disease Brucellosis when humans come into contact with it. However, the company used expired disinfectants and sanitisers meaning not all of the bacteria was eradicated from waste gas. This gas - which had bacteria caught up in it - then drifted downwind to a local veterinary research institute.   © Getty. The illness can have lasting effects. Now, more than a year later, the local health commission has confirmed that 21,847 people were test...
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Fire destroys wares worth thousands of cedis at Tarkwa
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Fire destroys wares worth thousands of cedis at Tarkwa

Fire has destroyed three stores around the Tarkwa Railway Station, destroying goods and properties worth thousands of Ghana cedis. The affected structures included a mobile phone shop, saloon, and a boutique. The blaze was alleged to have started in the early hours on Wednesday, August 5, 2020, from the boutique and spread to the others. Although the cause of the fire is yet to be established, some eyewitnesses attributed the fire outbreak to an electrical fault in the area where the fire started. In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), the Divisional Officer Grade III, Mr Alex Assiem, the Acting Municipal Officer of Ghana National Fire Service, Tarkwa, said his officers had a hard time putting off the fire as they had to struggle through the crowd to bring the situa...
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Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 100, injuring thousands
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Toll expected to rise in blast that shook Beirut, killing 100, injuring thousands

Lebanese rescue workers dug through rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 100 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officials expected to rise. Tuesday's blast at port warehouses storing highly explosive material was the most powerful in years in Beirut, already reeling from an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus infections. President Michel Aoun said that 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, used in fertilisers and bombs, had been stored for six years at the port without safety measures, and he said that was "unacceptable". He called for an emergency cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Officials did not say what caused the blaze that set off the blast. A security source and media said it was started by we...
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Thousands protest in Mali anti-government rally
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Thousands protest in Mali anti-government rally

Tens of thousands of people rallied in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday to demand the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, heeding the call of the country's newly resurgent opposition. The 75-year-old president is under pressure over failures to contain a jihadist insurgency that emerged in northern Mali in 2012 and spread to the fragile centre of the West African state. Thousands of soldiers and civilians have died, and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. But the sclerotic pace of political reforms, a flagging economy and a widely shared perception of government corruption have also fed anti-Keita sentiment.  On Friday, an imam led tens of thousands of protesters in a prayer in a central city square.  Protesters then sang the national ant...
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Thousands of African migrants stranded in transit due to spread of COVID 19
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Thousands of African migrants stranded in transit due to spread of COVID 19

Thousands of African migrants are stuck in transit - unable to reach their destination or to get back home because the coronavirus pandemic has caused the world to come to a standstill. Take two key exit points: the Horn of Africa route via the Gulf of Aden into the Middle East and the central Mediterranean route from Libya to Europe. On the Horn of Africa route, the UN agency, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has recorded a sharp fall in the numbers of migrant crossings. In April just 1,725 migrants arrived in Yemen from the Horn, compared to 7,223 in March, 9,624 in February and 11,101 in January of this year. Last year more than 138,000 people - an average of around 11,500 a month - crossed on boats to Yemen, the majority Ethiopians bound for Saudi Arabia...
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