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Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday accused the South African apartheid regime of murdering the country’s first president, Samora Machel. Guebuza was speaking in Maputo’s Independence Square, at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of Machel’s death in a plane crash at Mbuzini, just inside South Africa, on 19 October 1986. Guebua recalled that the plane crash followed “repeated public ...

Regardless of whether men grow up in a single parent household or not, moms typically lead child rearing efforts. The problem is that often, the way in which we raise our boys doesn’t always match up with what we and the rest of society expect of them as men. The term “mama’s boy” probably comes to mind. Clearly a man ...

by Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah. Why are many African women abroad now seriously looking for husbands or serious partners? Why are they single in the first place? What kind of men are they looking for? How do they feel being single? Etc. To understand and unlock these and other puzzling questions, Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu-Ansah, a lecturer and an investigative journalist in ...

The leader of the Cameroon People’s Party (CPP) says her group along with several opposition parties is demanding the Supreme Court annul the October 9 presidential election. Edith Kahbang Walla says the political parties are also calling for a complete overhaul of the electoral system, which she said is broken. “The reason for our common stance is that we saw ...

For the past one week, doctors in Ghana have been on a nationwide strike over a new spinal wage system designed for public sector workers. The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) called the strike after negotiations broke down at an emergency National Executive Council meeting between the GMA and Ghanaian authorities on October 7. It is instructing doctors not to return ...