Ghana Opposition Slams 20-12 months Unlawful Mining Sentence
Ghana’s opposition New Patriotic Celebration (NPP) has condemned the conviction of its Ashanti regional chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly generally known as “Chairman Wontumi”, after he was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment with arduous labour for unlawful mining offences. Boasiako has been convicted of granting mineral rights with out approval and facilitating unlicensed mining by way of his firm, Akonta Mining. He’s the primary senior Ghanaian politician to be convicted for the reason that authorities’s crackdown on unlawful mining started in 2017. The NPP has stated the decision is politically motivated and it’ll enchantment. Environmental campaigners have hailed the conviction as a significant step in holding highly effective folks accountable for unlawful mining, which has triggered widespread environmental harm throughout Ghana.
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Nigerian Officers Arrested Over Alleged Extortion of Anti-Graft Chief
4 Nigerian law enforcement officials are going through disciplinary motion after allegedly organising an unlawful checkpoint in Abuja to extort cash from motorists, together with the pinnacle of the nation’s anti-corruption company. Unbiased Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee chairman Musa Aliyu alleged that the officers stopped him and compelled him to withdraw $38 from an ATM after threatening to take him to court docket over a supposed visitors offence. Following Aliyu’s grievance, police launched an operation that led to the officers’ arrest. The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Sanusi, stated that the alleged abuse of energy won’t be tolerated, and officers who commit legal acts could have no place within the police service.
Senegal Backs Macky Sall’s UN Chief Bid
President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, has endorsed former President Macky Sall’s bid to change into the following secretary-general of the United Nations. It’s a main turnaround within the relations between the 2 leaders. The endorsement follows a gathering between Faye and Sall and comes regardless of years of political tensions after Sall’s controversial presidency and the 2024 election that introduced Faye to energy. Faye has instructed his authorities to rally help for Sall’s bid as “Senegal’s candidacy within the service of Africa.” The choice has drawn criticism from opposition figures, civil society teams and victims’ households, who argue Sall’s report of alleged political repression makes him unsuitable for the UN’s high publish.
DR Congo Battles Quickest-Rising Ebola Outbreak
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is battling its fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on report, with 2,423 confirmed instances, 967 deaths and 469 recoveries reported as of 19 July. The outbreak, pushed by the Bundibugyo virus variant, has unfold throughout 5 japanese provinces, with Ituri accounting for greater than 90% of infections and 80% of deaths. The World Well being Group (WHO) warned that ongoing insecurity, inhabitants displacement and the absence of an permitted vaccine or remedy are hampering efforts to include the illness. In some areas, together with Kisangani, speedy response actions have helped cease additional unfold. Early detection, contact tracing and neighborhood engagement stay central to the response.
144 Migrants Useless or Lacking Off Mauritania Coast
The UN refugee company (UNHCR) has stated that no less than 144 migrants are useless or lacking after a sequence of maritime tragedies off the coast of Mauritania. Most of the migrants, together with refugees, had spent 25 days stranded at sea after departing from The Gambia headed for Spain’s Canary Islands. Rescue efforts culminated in an operation on 18 July the place groups discovered 38 survivors and 143 useless or lacking. Among the many survivors that day have been two kids who misplaced their complete households at sea. UNHCR stated the tragedy highlights the pressing want for safer authorized migration pathways. It urged international locations to contemplate “significant and faster entry to authorized pathways by way of increased resettlement quotas, elevated labour alternatives and schooling pathways as options to the damaging sea crossings.”
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Africa Now World’s Starvation Hotspot, UN Warns
A brand new United Nations report has discovered that world starvation declined for the third consecutive yr in 2025. However Africa has change into the epicentre of the world’s meals disaster and the continent now has the biggest variety of hungry folks worldwide. The State of Meals Safety and Vitamin within the World 2026 report estimates that 645 million folks globally went hungry final yr. Two-thirds of Africans couldn’t afford a nutritious diet and greater than half suffered average or extreme meals insecurity. The worldwide variety of hungry folks decreased by virtually 14 million in contrast with 2024 and by 43 million since 2022. The UN warned that progress stays fragile and much too sluggish to attain the Sustainable Improvement Aim of ending starvation by 2030. The UN warned that battle, local weather shocks and declining humanitarian funding proceed to threaten progress. The group urged governments to spend money on resilient meals techniques and make nutritious diets extra inexpensive.
