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The Asantehene just wrapped what people are calling the most productive Bawku peace talks yet, and he's about to drop his findings with President Mahama any day. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II got Kusaasi and Mamprusi reps together at Manhyia Palace, and both sides apparently left feeling good enough that...

Ghana Communication Technology University just pushed out over 2,100 graduates, with most of them coming from the computing and IT programs. Vice-Chancellor Emmanuel Afoakwa talked up the school's expansion plans, which include an eight-story lecture complex dropping before the year ends and a...

Ghana's National Peace Council is basically drowning under a mountain of unresolved disputes while running on fumes, and Chairman Emmanuel Fianu went on TV3 to air out all the problems. The organization has 83 people on staff when they actually need 400 just for regional work, and close to 1,000...

The head of Adepa Teachers' Credit Union is telling members to stop treating loans like free money and actually save instead. Dorothy Adentwi-Hayford went off at their anniversary event about how people keep taking out loans without any plan to pay them back, which is tanking the whole system...

This Prempeh College grad named Tetteh Edward Jr just crushed WASSCE with a 6 aggregate for the second time in his academic career, and he's asking companies and donors to bankroll his medical school dreams. The kid already pulled the same score back at Baptist JHS in Ashanti Mampong, and he's...

After almost ten years stuck in legal purgatory, Gregory Afoko just walked out of an Accra courtroom because the system basically gave up on prosecuting him for the acid attack that killed NPP regional chairman Adams Mahama back in 2015. The judge pulled the plug after watching the trial get...

The widow of highlife legend Daddy Lumba is taking her fight to the appeals court after getting shut down at the High Court level. Akosua Serwaa wanted recognition as his sole legitimate wife, and her lawyer, William Kusi, says they're filing the paperwork to challenge the ruling that tossed her...

An NPP communications guy named Awal Mohammed went on JoyNews and basically flipped the script on why WASSCE results tanked this year. Math scores absolutely cratered, with only about half of the 461,000 test takers managing to pass, and that's the worst it's been in four years. English dropped...

St. Lucia Labour Party looks set to run the government again after early tallies showed them crushing the United Workers Party by roughly 8,000 votes while officials kept counting ballots. The preliminary numbers had SLP sitting at 27,156 against UWP's 19,009 across the 17-constituency race that...

Jamaica's murder count might drop below 700 cases for the first time in nearly four decades after Prime Minister Andrew Holness told everyone his government dropped over 90 billion dollars into security forces since taking power. The PM gave props to police and soldiers who stayed active during...

Trinidad's PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar went nuclear on the opposition after they started freaking out about American radar gear spinning at the Tobago airport. She straight-up accused the People's National Movement of taking drug cartel money and pushing anti-US talking points, while PNM's Tobago...

A bunch of international lenders just dropped a massive aid package worth $6.7 billion to help Jamaica bounce back from Hurricane Melissa's destruction. The coalition includes CAF, CDB, IDB Group, IMF, and World Bank, throwing in emergency cash, sovereign loans, grants, and private sector money...

Haiti just became ground zero for cocaine trafficking after cops grabbed over a thousand kilos near Île de la Tortue in their biggest bust since the 90s. The UN says armed gangs basically run the smuggling corridors between South America and the US while collecting tolls from boats and moving...

The Caribbean health alliance overseeing HIV programs is pushing back against major funding cuts threatening treatment access across the region. Dr. Wendy Telgt Emanuelson from PANCAP said financial shortfalls could wreck prevention programs and medicine availability, but Caribbean nations...

Jamaica lost Dorothy Pine-McLarty, the groundbreaking lawyer who ran the Electoral Commission and spent decades pushing democratic reforms forward. Prime Minister Andrew Holness dropped a tribute confirming her death and calling out her barrier-smashing career that made her the first female...

Common Man's Party guy Mubarak Munyagwa is threatening mass deportations of foreign business owners if he wins the presidency. The candidate told supporters in Hoima that overseas investors running small-scale operations need to get kicked out because they undercut Ugandan entrepreneurs who...

Farmers across Omoro district are watching their crops die after a freak dry spell hit when they needed rain the most. Betty Adong from Lakwana sub-county dropped two acres of maize expecting normal weather patterns, but continuous heat through the growing season tanked her yields compared to...

Northern Uganda communities are calling out the government for basically ignoring Nodding Syndrome while thousands of kids keep getting wrecked by this neurological disorder. Pader District alone recorded over 1,300 patients, with more than half dealing with severe cases that leave families...

Kassiano Wadri is pushing back against claims he ditched Bobi Wine by running independently for the Arua Central Division parliamentary seat. Wadri pointed out that People Power was just a pressure group back when he won in 2018, not an actual registered party. He joined ANT after it got...

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame yanked Gen James Kabarebe out of his cabinet spot and moved him into an advisory role right before heading to Washington to ink a peace deal with Congo's Tshisekedi. Kabarebe lost his Minister of State for Regional Cooperation gig and got shuffled to Senior Defence...