The executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI), Alison Bethel McKenzie, delivered a wide-ranging report on press freedom in the world to the institute's world congress in Cape Town on Sunday. Excerpts from the report relating to the state of press freedom in Africa:

Cape Town -A New York high school student whose family immigrated to the United States from Ghana has been accepted to all eight Ivy League schools in the U.S, according to CNN.

Monrovia -Opposition politician Nana Akufo-Addo, who narrowly lost Ghana's last election to President John Dramani Mahama, has announced that he will be seeking his party's nomination for the 2016 presidential race.