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Junta leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya said they would not surrender deposed President Alpha Conde. Regional leaders have put pressure and sanctions on the junta members. After a meeting with regional leaders Friday, Guinean junta leader Col. Mamady Doumbouya dismissed the idea of letting deposed President Alpha Conde leave the country. …

Information reaching Ghanaontheglobe.com indicate that soldiers have taken over the teaching job in Guinea after the coup d’etat by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya which saw the end of President Alpha Condé government. The Guinean soldiers were deployed to schools to teach after teachers abandoned pupils leading to an halt in academic …

  Afghan universities will be segregated by gender, and a new dress code will be introduced, the Taliban has said. Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani indicated women would be allowed to study, but not alongside men. He also announced a review of the subjects students would be taught. Women …

France plans to offer contraceptives for women up to the age of 25 to assist young women with the financial costs of protection against pregnancy. This is to begin next year, the French Health Minister Olivier Véran said on Thursday Sept 9,2021. The initiative was as a response of the …

Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea’s capital have said in a short broadcast on state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in the West African state. Unverified videos shared on social media on Sunday apparently showed President Alpha Conde being surrounded by soldiers. His whereabouts …

Kathy Hochul makes history as the first woman to serve as Governor of New York after the now-former Governor, Andrew Cuomo resigned amid a number of scandals during his administration. The 65-year-old Democrat and former member of Congress from Western New York, replaces Cuomo as she was sworn in as …

The Covid-19 vaccine known as Pfizer-BioNTech is the first vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The vaccine will now be marketed with a new brand name, Comirnaty ( koe-mir’-na-tee) for the prevention of Covid-19 disease in people aged 12 years and older. The vaccine had initially …

The Changing of the Guard ceremony has taken place at Buckingham Palace for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The traditional ceremony which has been taking place since 1656, came to a standstill about 18 months ago to avoid drawing crowds during the lockdown. However, members …

President Joe Biden is pledging to Americans still trapped in Afghanistan: “We will get you home.” Biden also said Friday the United States is committed to evacuating all Afghans who assisted the war effort — a potentially vast expansion of the administration’s commitments on the airlift so far, given the …

  More than 30 women are suing the company which owns the streaming site Pornhub, alleging exploitation over the use of explicit videos of them. The women say the videos were uploaded to Pornhub without their consent and have lodged a civil suit in California. The California lawsuit accuses Mindgeek …