Eleven miners trapped underground after an explosion at a Chinese mine have said they are grateful for nutritional liquids and medicine delivered via a long thin communication tunnel, but would really like some pork sausages.
The miners…
An oil industry whistleblower who has been stuck in Croatia since his arrest six months ago is accused of attempted extortion, the Monaco authorities say.
Jonathan Taylor, from Southampton, who lifted the lid on bribery at his old emplo…
Nigeria’s minister of health has said that the country has requested 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the African Union (AU) which has secured millions of doses on behalf of African countries.
It’s not clear which of the Covid-19 …
An American woman looks set to be deported from Bali after her Twitter thread promoting the island as a cheap and LGBT-friendly option for foreigners during the pandemic went viral.
Kristen Gray sparked backlash for her lack of cultural…
Polling stations in Uganda have opened for the voters to elect city mayors and district chairpersons.
Local media are reporting low voter turnout in the local government council elections compared to last week's presidential and parliam…
Zimbabwe's Foreign Affairs Minister, Sibusiso Moyo, has died.
The minister succumbed to Covid-19 at a local hospital, according to a government statement.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa eulogised Mr Moyo as a "devoted public servant an…
Mr Daryl Bosu, the Deputy National Director of A Rocha Ghana on Tuesday said Ghana has not done enough to protect its biodiversity in the last ten years leading to a significant loss of biocultural assets.
Mr Bosu, speaking in a telepho…
Both the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have pulled equal slots on the Appointment and Business Committees of Parliament.
Each has 13 members on the Appointment Committee and 10 m…
The Government of Switzerland says it will prioritise and promote issues of peace, security and human rights as strategic foreign policy in the Sub-Saharan Africa over the next four years (2021-2024).
It has also identified the issues o…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been urged to take into consideration gender, regional and cultural diversity in the appointments of ministers and other leaders in his second tenure in office.
The Rural Initiatives for Self-Em…
The Trobu Patriotic Movement, a pressure group of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Tuesday called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider Mr Moses Anim, Member of Parliament (MP) for Trobu, for a ministerial appointment.
Mr…
Some residents of Sefwi-Waiwso, the Western North Regional capital have appealed to President Akufo -Addo to consider Dr Kwaku Afriyie, Member of Parliament for Sefwi-Waiwso constituency in his next cabinet.
In an interview with the Gha…
The Supreme Court has set out five issues for determination in the 2020 presidential election petition filed by the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama.
A determination of the five is…
There's an uproar on South African social media after it emerged that the man dubbed "Dr Death", Wouter Basson, has been treating patients years after being convicted of unprofessional conduct by the country's health council.
He was con…
China has committed genocide in its repression of the Uighurs and other mainly Muslim peoples, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday.
President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has said he agr…
Joe Biden is to be sworn in as US president, taking the helm of a nation wracked by political division, economic anguish and an unrelenting pandemic.
Alongside him, Kamala Harris will make history when she is sworn in as the nation's fi…
The Anglican Church in Uganda has suspended its former Archbishop, Stanley Ntagali, from conducting priestly duties or representing the church until further notice over adultery.
Mr Ntagali retired last year in March after 43 years in p…
In the final hours of his presidency, Donald Trump has pardoned 73 people, including his former adviser Steve Bannon, who is facing fraud charges.
Another 70 people had sentences commuted, ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration at noon (17:0…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in Parliament on Tuesday has called on the government to make copies of the handing over notes of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the immediate past NPP Administration to the Parliament…
The Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 election, John Dramani Mahama, has filed a new motion at the Supreme Court asking the Electoral Commission (EC) to furnish him with all 275 original copies of…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has trimmed down the number of ministries in his second administration from 36 to 29.
Consequently, the number of ministers, deputy ministers and regional ministers to be appointed will not exceed 8…
Taiwan on Tuesday cancelled a major festival during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday as the island reported four locally transmitted cases of COVID-19, the biggest daily rise in local infections in nearly 11 months.
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Ugandans are celebrating the resumption of internet services after a shutdown was imposed ahead of last week's election.
However, social media platforms remain blocked and are only accessible using Virtual Private Networks (VPN).
Pre…
Rwanda has imposed a 15-day lock down on its capital, Kigali, as the country battles a second wave of coronavirus cases that has resulted in "unprecedented deaths and transmission rates".
This is the capital's second lockdown since the …
The Ministry of Aviation (MoA) and Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) are leaving nothing to chance in their effort to ensure that the country’s airports are safe and secure in the midst of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
It i…
The President’s representative at the Information Ministry, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has indicated that President Akufo-Addo’s record government size will reduce when he constitutes his new administration.
Speaking on the Point Blank segmen…
South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has urged fellow ciizens not to fear being vaccinated against Covid-19 as the country prepares to carry out mass vaccination.
Archbishop Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace…
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged the US to make major reforms to its immigration policy as thousands of migrants were blocked by police in neighbouring Guatemala.
Mr Lopez Obrador said he was hopeful that Presiden…
US President-elect Joe Biden has moved to dismiss a new White House decree on Covid travel rules, as Donald Trump enters his final full day in office.
In one of his last orders, Mr Trump had tried to end travel bans for visitors from mu…
Ugandan soldiers on Monday blocked the US ambassador from visiting the home of opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine, a pop star whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, in the capital, Kampala.
Bobi Wine finished second in last week…
Uganda's government spokesman, Ofwono Opondo, has accused the US of trying to "subvert elections", Reuters news agency reports.
US ambassador to Uganda Natalie Brown was on Monday stopped from visiting opposition leader, Robert Kyagulan…
A former Chief Justice, Ms Sophia Akuffo, has expressed displeasure with the allegation by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka that a Supreme Court Judge offered to bribe a National Democratic Congress (NDC)…
The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 election, former President John Dramani Mahama, has filed two legal processes at the Supreme Court seeking 30 answers from the Electoral Commission (EC) on th…
U.S. officials who have engaged in “nasty behaviour” over Chinese-claimed Taiwan will face sanctions, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Washington lifted curbs on exchanges between U.S. and Taiwanese officials.
Sino-U.S. ti…
President-elect Joe Biden will not officially make his move to the White House until inauguration day - a political parade of sorts, when the Democrat and his Vice-President Kamala Harris take the oath of office.
From Covid-19 protocols…
The internet shutdown in Uganda that had entered its fifth day on Monday has ended.
Social media is however still blocked and only accessible through VPN, the BBC's Patience Atuhaire says.
The internet was shut down on Wednesday nigh…
The US State Department has called for "independent, credible, impartial, and thorough investigations" into "many credible reports" of irregularities in Uganda's general election last week.
Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni was re-electe…
Small groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.
Protests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, M…
Australia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.
The comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country…
Parliamentary has constituted a 20-member Committee of Selection, to oversee the nomination of members to the 11 Standing Committees of the House.
The Committee, pursuant to Standing Order 152, would also see to the composition of the …
The independent presidential candidate in the 2020 elections, Mr Alfred Asiedu Walker, has called on the youth to stand up and fight against any form of corruption in the county.
He said corruption was one of the main hindrances to the …
Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine says his life is being threatened following Thursday's election which saw Yoweri Museveni win a sixth elected term.
The singer-turned-politician told the BBC that he rejected the…
The United States and several European governments have demanded the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny from Russian detention.
Mr Navalny, 44, was detained soon after his flight from Germany landed in Moscow on Sunday.
He w…
Schools in Malawi will close for at least 15 days from Monday under new restrictions to combat a surge in coronavirus cases.
In a televised address, President Lazarus Chakwera also announced a night-time curfew from 21:00 local time.
…
A nurse has received Brazil's first vaccine dose after health regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.
Regulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distribu…
Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin says it was a majority vote that propelled him into the position of the Speaker of the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
In his maiden address to the 275 member House …
A group of US-bound Central American migrants has been met with truncheons and tear gas in Guatemala, where security forces blocked their path.
Thousands of people were intercepted on a road near the border with Honduras on Sunday. The …
The Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) caucus in Parliament, Mr Haruna Iddrisu,has called for major reviews of the current Standing Orders of the House.
He said the country had never experienced a Parliament with equal num…
The spokesperson of Uganda's opposition party, National Unity Platform (NUP), says offices where agents were gathering material for an election petition were raided by military officers.
Joel Ssenyonyi told the BBC's Newsday that the pa…
Mr Leo Nelson Adzidogah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Akatsi South, has appealed to the party to investigate the issues raised against him by some Constituency Executives of the party in the Municipality.
Some three Constituen…
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