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Kumasi Asante Kotoko midfielder Fabio Gama dos Santos with his family has jetted off to Brazil as the porcupine warriors break camp. The Brazilian midfielder joined Asante Kotoko as free agent for the start of the GPL 2020/21 season. Gama’s first season with Asante Kotoko was amazing. Arguably, Gama is the reason Kokoto placed second on league log. The midfielder involved himself in 10 goals for Kotoko in the just ended league, scoring 4 goals with 6 assists in 28 appearances Despite the Brazilian’s great performances, Asante Kotoko ended the 2020/21 season trophyless, loosing the league title to bitter rival…

Ghana premier league giants, Kumasi Asante Kotoko has written to congratulate newly promoted Division one side Real Tamale United. Kotoko, the runner up of the GPL 2020/21 season in a released has expressed their happiness for the Tamale based side for returning to the Ghana’s topflight. Real Tamale United were relegated to the lower Division league in 2011 and are now back to compete in the Premier league after finishing first in Zone one of the National Division one league. Read kotoko’s congratulatory message to Real Tamale United

Karela United captain Godfred Agyemang Yeboah choose team-mate Diewisie Taylor as his best player for the 2020/21 Ghana Premier League season. The season saw amazing performances by some players like Augustine Boakye of WAFA, Fabio Gama dos Santos of Asante Kotoko fame, Salifu Ibrahim of Hearts of Oak and many others, but Godfred believe Diewisie was far better. “There were great performances by other players but Taylor was exceptional”. He told Atinka TV “Taylor don’t only score, he assists and draw back to support midfielders”. “He is a such a player any team would wish to have him, I think…

Head Coach of Asante Kotoko, Mariano Barreto angrily has called for investigations to be conducted on their defeat to Elmina Sharks in their final fixture of the season. The ‘Kum Apem’ side wrapped up their 2020/21 campaign with a loss to the Fearsome Sharks by a loan goal, netted by Alhaji Mustapha to edge his side to survive relegation. Mariano Barreto wasn’t spotted at the bench in the last game due to suspension so had to watch from the stands and has made wild allegations on some of the fans afterwards. The Portuguese tactician, also, suspects something fishy in that…

West African Football Academy SC defender Konadu Yiadom is currently in Accra to finalize a sensational switch to Hearts of Oak in the ongoing transfer window. The Ghana U23 guardsman is believed to have agreed personal terms with the one-time CAF Champions League title holders over the possible switch. Hearts of Oak are currently busy on the transfer market for strategic signings including the 21-year-old centre-back to bolster their squad list for their next season’s campaign. The defender managed to score three goal in his 32 game outings for West African Football Academy SC in the just ended 2020/21 Ghana…

With drought causing a new hunger crisis, previous gains in women’s empowerment are at risk of being lost if funding is not urgently increased and prioritized for local, women-led initiatives. As Somalia commemorates 10 years since the last devastating famine in 2011, a new CARE survey of over 2,000 people in the country finds that women and girls still remain amongst those most affected by the current hunger crisis, and there is a risk of all the gains attained in previous years being lost if funding is not urgently increased and prioritized for local, women-led organizations. The CARE survey –…

The fund will initially give priority to countries in the Sahel, to help meet rising humanitarian needs across the region. In 2021, a record 29 million people in six countries – Burkina Faso, northern Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, and north-east Nigeria – are in need of humanitarian assistance. The Regionally hosted Pooled Fund will support the humanitarian response in countries by prioritizing urgent needs whilst promoting regional coordination and synergies to face the interrelated challenges of the Sahel. The fund expands the types of funding available, to help ensure that humanitarian partners can effectively deliver assistance in the most under…

Norway on Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the worst massacre in its modern history, as church bells toll for the 77 people murdered by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik. The Scandinavian nation had been mostly spared from extremist violence until July 22, 2011, when Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo that killed eight people before going on a shooting spree at a summer camp for left-wing youths on the island of Utoya. “I was 16 years old and I couldn’t decide which funerals to go to because there were so many,” said Astrid Eide Hoem, a survivor who has…

Anglo-Australian mining firm BHP said Thursday it had reached a deal to provide Tesla with supplies of nickel — a metal vital in producing high-powered batteries for electric cars. Under the agreement, the innovative carmaker will lock in supplies from a mine in Western Australia, one of the world’s largest sources. Most nickel today is used in the production of stainless steel. But demand for the metal is projected to explode over the next decade, as electric vehicles become more common. Mercurial Tesla CEO Elon Musk has previously voiced concern about future nickel shortages — which could put a brake…

The controversial pipeline has long been opposed by Washington, but Chancellor Angela Merkel had made its completion a key policy goal before she leaves office in September. The US and Germany have struck a compromise over the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, according to a joint statement released by both nations on Wednesday. The pact comes days after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s last official visit to Washington prior to leaving office this September. Officials had talked up the chances of an accord during the visit, and during Joe Biden’s tour of Europe in June. What is the US-Germany compromise on Nord Stream…