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The University of Cape Coast Governing Council officially ended Johnson Nyarko Boampong's time as Vice Chancellor after deciding his two-year extension violated constitutional rules about mandatory retirement at age sixty. The council met and looked at a court case that got dropped, plus...

Firefighters knocked down a blaze that ripped through a two-story building in Ashaiman after getting called out to Nii Amui Street. The crew from Ashaiman Fire Station showed up first, but the flames were bad enough that backup teams from Tema Motorway and Tema Metro had to jump in. By the time...

The Knights of St. John International and their Ladies' Auxiliary are backing the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference and Christian Council after those groups defended mission schools keeping their religious character. The organization said schools need to stay Christian because young people...

Bono Regional Minister Joseph Addae Akwaboa just set up a six-member sports committee to get athletic programs moving in the area. Takyi Arhin, a football administrator, got tapped to run the group that has to follow rules from the 2016 Sports Act and handle talent scouting while coordinating...

Eagle Eye International is calling out President John Dramani Mahama for killing off contracts that keep basic services running in Ghana. The group pointed to three major shutdowns that messed things up for regular people, and they said the terminations happened without backup plans or...

Ghana's government is giving everyone the day off to celebrate Farmers' Day, and Interior Minister Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka made it official that the holiday falls on the first Friday in December, like it does every year. The whole point is to recognize people who grow food and catch fish...

Islamic scholar Abdul-Muhsin Baafi is calling out the Attorney General for staying quiet while Wesley Girls' Senior High School keeps blocking Muslim students from doing their religious stuff. He said the AG office should be stepping up because the school's rules look like they violate...

DAMAK Sanitation Health Watch and the International Direct Project from Switzerland gave out awards to people who made the Ashanti Region way cleaner. Hon. Owusu King from Tafo Nhyiaeso took home the top prize for running sanitation programs that actually worked, and Alhaji Ibrahim Wahab Tikuma...

OTEC School of Journalism and Communication Studies in Kumasi handed out diplomas to 45 students while bringing in 76 new ones for their two-year program. Principal Matthew Donkor told the graduates to keep learning and stay ethical when they hit the media world, saying the country needs...

An eight-year-old kid named Elijah Carbah drowned after falling into an abandoned manhole filled with water at Blue Rose Estate in Budumburam. The Ghana National Fire Service showed up about fourteen minutes after getting the call, but by then, another teenager who fell in had already been...

Ghana's government agencies are getting told to run their contracts past the Attorney General's office before signing anything because judgment debts keep piling up from sketchy agreement clauses. Nancynetta Twumasi Asiamah, a Principal State Attorney, said at a meeting in Accra that some deals...

Commissioner Hellen Seku from the National Patriotism Corps told 915 students at Nyakasura School in Fort Portal that they need to get serious about loving their country and fixing their attitudes. She said young Ugandans should read books beyond what school makes them study, and they need to...

A masked dude with a gun snatched a six-year-old kid and grabbed cash from a doctor's house in Njeru Municipality after ambushing the family late at night. The attacker waited for Dr. Ndiwalana Mbuga Moses to pull into his driveway, then forced him and his watchman, Byaruhanga Michael, plus the...

KCCA grabbed the league lead after beating Mbarara City at Rwamanja Stadium in Kamwenge. Coach Brian Ssenyondo got back from the U-17 World Cup stuff and watched Herbert Achayi nail a header off Joel Sserunjogi's corner to open the scoring. Mbarara's Muhammad Kanyike linked up with Gaddafi...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni hit up Kiruhura District, pushing locals to ditch traditional cattle methods and switch to zero-grazing systems that could stack thousands of animals on land currently holding just 130 heads. The president dropped examples of farmers crushing it on tiny plots...

Uganda's top military guy, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, sat down with Belgium's ambassador Hugues Chantry at the Special Forces headquarters in Entebbe to talk about ramping up security ties. Kainerugaba briefed the Belgian crew on Uganda's military moves across the region, from fighting ADF militants...

Ugandan military dropped artillery on a couple of ADF camps in eastern Congo and claims they wrecked the hideouts while taking out militants. The strikes went down in Mambasa territory near Babunga and below the Epulu River as part of the joint Operation Shujaa mission with Congolese forces...

Namibia's Electoral Commission told losing candidates to accept voter decisions after the regional council and local authority races wrapped up. Chairperson Elsie Nghikembua said unsuccessful politicians need to respect what people chose and keep helping build the country instead of sulking...

Senegal's prime minister and a former Nigerian leader both reckon the military takeover in Guinea-Bissau was basically theater. Ousmane Sonko and Goodluck Jonathan claim President Umaro Embaló staged his own removal with army help to dodge election results he might have lost, but neither guy...

Swapo grabbed eight council spots in Windhoek, which beats the five they had before the latest voting went down. The Independent Patriots for Change dropped from four seats to three, while Affirmative Repositioning and the Landless People's Movement each kept one position after holding two...