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BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE EMBATTLED Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1 has been remanded into police custody after he appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra on Friday morning. He is to reappear in court on July 26, 2019. The court granted the order after the police requested for two weeks to enable them complete investigations into allegations against NAM 1, as he is popularly known. NAM 1, who appeared in court briefly were quickly whisked away by the police after the court ruling. Police says the court process is in pursuance of the cases that have been filed against NAM 1 by some disgruntled Menzgold customers. About GH¢200 million of depositors cash is believed to be held up at the collapsed gold dealership...

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Alpha Conde, President of the Republic of Guinea received his Liberian counterpart – President George Manneh Weah of the Republic of Liberia with his entourage in the Guinean capital Conakry on Thursday 11th July, 2019 at the Gbessia International Airport. President Weah was accompanied to his hotel by President Conde to commence official business issues. In his visit, Weah will participate in several functions including a visit to the Container Port to hold a close discussion with President Alpha Conde and high ranking officials of the Guinean government and members of the Diplomatic Corps, at the Palace of Sekhou Tourey  and attend a formal decoration ceremony in the Presidential Palace Banquet Hall. The...

  BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE FOOD Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) has wined a Supreme Court case in which one of the defendants sought to challenge a High Court ruling on the court’s jurisdiction to hear a petition brought before it by FSG and three others. In a decision which did not take long to conclude, the highest court of the land ruled that the Human Rights High Court did have proper jurisdiction that it applied in ruling on the case brought before it by the four plaintiff parties. In a released to the media, the Communication Director of FSG, Edwin Kweku Andoh Baffour said, the Supreme Court empaneled five distinguished legal luminaries but wondered why the plaintiffs had not sought to appeal the High Court’s decision which they disagreed with,...

By Moses Ben- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Banjul, The Gambia- Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Mali’s capital BAMAKO demanding an end to attacks and massacre in the North and central part of the country where an increase in ethnic violence has escalated over the period. According to police reports the demonstration attracts more than three thousand participants attending the peaceful rally in the capital Bamako displaying placards calling for peace in Mali’s volatile region of the North. However, ethnic tension have taken a central stage since the emergence of armed factions in the country in 2015 from among the two main rival groups of Fulani herds men and the Dogon farmers both of whom have already formed their own self defense or groups to fortify themselves from...