Sentences with phrase «african country»

The U.N. Security Council decided on Wednesday to reduce the number of U.N. peacekeepers in Ivory Coast, citing considerable progress in stabilizing the West African country where a civil war erupted five years ago.

Mr Mahama who lost the 2016 presidential election in his home country Ghana is heading the Commonwealth Observer Mission in the East African country which held elections on 8 August.

Though Nigeria would be the third West African country to issue Sukuk after Senegal and Cote d' Voire, Osun State had rolled out USD62 million Sukuk in 2013.

Sir Mark Thatcher today pleaded guilty to being part of a coup to oust president Teodore Obiang from the west African country of Equatorial Guinea.

This plan envisions Ghana as the first African country to become a developed country between 2020 and 2029 and a newly industrialised country between 2030 and 2039.

This excludes fellow Group of 24 member and Sub-Saharan African country South Africa, which is a newly industrialised country.

In a statement to Today News Africa in Washington DC, the organizers of the protest said Mr. Buhari, a retired Nigerian Army General, is responsible for the death of thousands of Igbo activists who have been demanding independence from the oil - rich but dilapidated West African country.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for inspiring young entrepreneurs during his surprise visit to the west African country this week, his office said.

In separate remarks, while receiving the Letter of Credence from the High Commissioner of the Republic of Botswana, Mr Pule Mphothwe, President Buhari commended the Southern African country for its consistent support to Nigeria in the international fora.

Having led the West African country of Ghana for only 16 months after a campaign that rode on the promise of protecting the public purse for the sake of the ordinary citizen, this news in the real estate market of London send many a tongue wagging dejavu.

Fotso, already sentenced to 25 years behind bars in a separate graft case, «took the rap for life,» said a source close to the Special Criminal Tribunal, set up in the central African country to try major corruption cases.

«Ghana was recognised in the whole community and celebrated as the first sub saharan African country to have independence but by the 1970s and 1980s; the country fell to the bottom of the pit... Our economy was struggling, there was no light,... to make matters worse there was no food...»

Ghana was the first African country to win the FIFA Under - 17 World Cup, and the first African country to win the FIFA Under - 20 World Cup.

The Government of Ghana has allayed the fears of Ghanaians following the arrival of two ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates in the West African country.

In a statement titled: «In Support of Our Brothers In Libya, Rawlings said it was sad that blacks were sold even in an African country.

But The Herald's information is that, Matthew Opoku - Prempeh, is on an official trip to an African country.

Mr Jackson also said the Trump administration would not paint every African country with the same brush.

About 127 Ghanaian immigrants in Libya returned home in November last year following reports that they were being maltreated in the North African country.

The President, who described the hard - earned victory as «very sweet, soothing and a 57th Independence Anniversary gift to the nation,» applauded the nation's senior men's football team for the feat of making Nigeria the first African country to qualify for Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament, with a match left to play.

It has been speculated that the former campaign manager was refused entry into the east African country because he is an honorary chairman of DUA, which is an umbrella body of centre - right parties in Africa.

The country's president only granted the teacher a pardon after Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi travelled to the African country to secure her release.

The Italian premier is visiting Ghana to explore trade and investment opportunities in the West African country.

Nigerians are clamoring for Ghana's president John Mahama to assist their leader Muhammadu Buhari to fix challenges bedeviling the populous West African country.

Related Article: Minority to quiz Foreign Minister over Libyan slave situation The North African country has for years been the gateway for Africans who are trying to get to Europe by sea.

The West African country Ghana can not only boast of high charges just to sit by the president on occasions but also one of the priciest presidential jets on the African continent.

Our latest invite is from further afield, Malawi, a fellow African country to the north of us.

However there are reports that kids in at least one African country are still playing on the mud pitches that a retired high profile ex-pro played on as a kid.

A 73rd minute goal from Alex Iwobi ensured that the Super Eagles became the first African country to qualify for the 2018 World Cup and would be at their record sixth appearance.

Instead, they pulled out of a trip to Nigeria, using the political situation in the African country as a pretext for withdrawing from a fixture which they plainly no longer wanted to fulfil.

Kenya is a country more associated with long - distance running than football, but the East African country has produced a few handy footballers in recent years, most notably the midfield siblings McDonald Mariga and Victor Wanyama.

Midd - East and some African country viewers can watch the match live on beIN Sports.

Senegal are back at the World Cup for a second time, after becoming only the second African country to reach the quarter - finals when Japan and South Korea co-hosted in 2002.

A FIFA task force arrived in Morocco on Monday to inspect a World Cup bid that obscures one potential impediment to hosting the 2026 showpiece: Homosexuality is a criminal offense in the north African country.

'' It's the Iwobi's effect, in the past players of African heritage rather play odd games for England than full time international career with an African country» Frank told Owngoalnigeria, com

hijacking the post to post Nigerians things, yes they have qualified but how can an African country go in a world up competition your guess is as good as mine, I will rate Iwobi the day he scores 15 season goals for us until then he's still a wannabe

I walked to my uncles house an hour and a half away every weekend to watch my team play and win or lose it was worth it because for 90 mins I screamed my little heart out for my team as if somehow they could hear me through the television set all the way from a little African country called Namibia that I know they would never have heard off but that didn't matter to me... not one bit!

The breakthrough star was born in the African country, but moved to the United Kingdom at the age of four, and has grown up as a Londoner.

The continental football governing body revealed that the authorities in the west African country rejected a delegation from Caf to attend the funeral of the two deceased team officials in Lome.

This is according to the Sun, who say that the player's celebration, which can be seen below, was used as a tribute to people who are suffering from slavery in the African country of Libya.

It is, for instance, so easy to superciliously dismiss a «garden party» given by the president of an African country as a gag, as proof of backwardness and hopeless unsophistication.

The latest partnership we have created is with the small East African country of Uganda, which has a total population that is similar to London.

Through a rice research and development project, women who recently fought in the civil war of the east African country of Burundi are getting unprecedented access to farm land and training to produce rice and are building better livelihoods for themselves, their families, and communities.

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Since the Belgians first started planting coffee in Burundi in the 1960's, producers have used this landlocked African country only to produce commodity coffee.

The company «taxes» itself 50 cents per pound of coffee it purchases, which it then uses to help offset the costs of two schools in the African country.

Extreme weather conditions in the East African country of Uganda continuously threatening its coffee industry.

Nigeria, the most populous black African country, has had a particularly sad history of press repression, particularly under the former military junta headed by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, whose infamous Decree Number 4 against criticism of the government was the pretext for a number of detentions of journalists, some of whom died under mysterious circumstances.

Henry Makiwa, from the Christian charity World Vision UK told Premier that staff were in touch with a representative in the East African country and he asked that people pray for the nation.

Muslims in Nigeria have launched a «deliberate economic terrorism and land - grabbing strategy» against Christians, according to Christian leaders in the West African country.

A British Christian national being held hostage in Nigeria has been killed, while three others have returned safely home after the west African country's authorities...