In the wake of a school shooting in Texas that left 19 children and two adults dead, President Biden has asked: "When are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?"
The National Rifle Association (NRA) is the most powerful orga…
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu says she has in some circumstances handled the country’s top office better than other male presidents before her.
The Tanzanian president said she faced challenges of mistrust during her first days in o…
North Korea fired three ballistic missiles early on Wednesday morning, South Korea's military has said.
Authorities in Seoul said the missiles were fired in the space of less than an hour from the Sunan area in Pyongyang.
…
Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki says developments in Ukraine are a continuation of a long-term Western strategy to contain Russia, and that Ukraine and its people are "victims".
He made the remarks while addressing the nation on Erit…
A new date has been set for the return of a tooth that was all that remained from the Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba.
DR Congo officials will receive what is believed to be Mr Lumumba's only remains - a tooth - from Belgium…
The Volta Region is experiencing transformations in political party affiliations, with a doubling of votes for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Makafui Woanyah, the regional chairman of the party, has said.
He said the region, which …
A total of 30 aspirants have been successfully vetted to vie for the Regional Executives position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Central Region.
The figure, including six females, are contesting 10 vacant positions in the reg…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called on Members of Parliament (MPs) to eschew excessive partisanship as the House reconvenes for the Second Meeting of the Second Session of Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Re…
Donald Trump's grip on the Republican party suffered a slip after his handpicked candidate for Georgia governor was trounced at the polls.
Mr Trump recruited David Perdue, an ex-senator, to challenge incumbent Brian Kemp in …
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has became the first Gulf state to record a case of monkeypox.
The Czech Republic and Slovenia also reported their first cases on Tuesday, joining 18 other countries to detect the virus outside…
The outgoing Somali president has for the first time publicly spoken about the presence of Somali troops in Eritrea.
While handing over office to the incoming president, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo said he had officially given the files c…
Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been re-elected as the World Health Organization’s (WHO) head for a second five-year term.
The result of the secret vote was a formality since he was the only candidate.
Opening the 75th Worl…
The National Appeals Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is set to hear petitions resulting from the disqualifications of some aspirants from the party’s regional executive elections.
The party in a statement says the National Ap…
All eyes will be on the chairmanship position on Friday, May 27, 2022, as the Northern Regional branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) goes to the polls to elect new regional executives.
The incumbent Regional Chairman, Mohammed Adam B…
Pressure group, Occupy Ghana has commended the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor for the action so far on the Achimota Forest, aimed at helping to unravel the truth in relation to the de-classification of some por…
Four candidates in the upcoming elections to elect new executives to run the affairs of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, have petitioned the national executive body of the party to postpone the elections sched…
The nominee for the position of Municipal Chief Executive for Juaben in the Ashanti, surrounded with a controversy after he obtained just six votes out of 26 in the first round of voting, and was seen in a video, allegedly demanding a refu…
There was a worrying rise in executions in 2021 as Covid-19 restrictions were eased, Amnesty International says, with spikes seen in Iran and Saudi Arabia.
A report by the human rights group says at least 579 executions were…
The UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan last year was a "disaster" and a "betrayal" that will damage the nation's interests for years, an inquiry by MPs has found.
The Foreign Affairs Committee said there had been "systemic fai…
Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum has hailed military co-operation with Germany as a blueprint for other countries, following a meeting in the capital, Niamey, with the visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Mr Bazoum welcomed Germany's…
Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum has hailed military co-operation with Germany as a blueprint for other countries, following a meeting in the capital, Niamey, with the visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Mr Bazoum welcomed Germany's…
A South African official who approved permanent residence status to a controversial Malawian pastor Shepherd Bushiri has been dismissed.
The sacking came after a disciplinary process that took nearly a year.
Ronney Marhule was found …
Dr. Kingsley Nyarko, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, has underlined the need to strengthen the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to enhance the party’s quest to break the eight-year rule cyc…
Boris Johnson is facing fresh questions after photos showing the prime minister drinking at an event during a Covid lockdown were published.
The pictures, released by ITV News, are believed to show the prime minister at a le…
The Gabonese government has banned an opposition march against the French military presence in the country.
A letter by the interior minister to the leader of opposition Gabonese Patriotic Front justified the ban, noting the defence agr…
Six persons have been cleared to contest the chairmanship of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region scheduled for Saturday, May 28, 2022.
The upcoming NPP regional elections in the Upper East Region promises to be very c…
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, denounced Russian aggression and its use of "hunger and grain to wield power", in a special address at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022.
"Global cooperation is t…
Thousands of photographs from the heart of China’s highly secretive system of mass incarceration in Xinjiang, as well as a shoot-to-kill policy for those who try to escape, are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers…
The new leader is handed a ceremonial symbol by his predecessorImage caption: The new leader is handed a ceremonial symbol by his predecessor
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the newly elected president of Somalia, has assumed office a week after…
Anas Aremeyaw Anas wears a mask to protect his identityImage caption: Anas Aremeyaw Anas wears a mask to protect his identity
Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has launched "Wajsic" - the Whistleblowers and Journalist…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he no longer recognises the leader of neighbouring Greece and will refuse to meet him at a planned summit.
Mr Erdogan accused Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of seeki…
The world is "navigating a dark hour in our shared history" with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, US President Joe Biden told key Asian allies.
The war has now become a "global issue" underscoring the importance of defending in…
The Bono Regional NPP Election Committee has disqualified two out of the 29 applicants who filed to contest in the upcoming regional elections.
According to the Elections Committee, 23 men and 3 women are contesting for …
Ghana and Mozambique have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and called for an immediate end to the hostilities that are having a debilitating impact on economies around the globe, especially Africa.
“We both condemn the Russian …
The international community should help create a "safe passage" to enable the millions of tons of grain stuck in Ukraine to leave the country, its deputy PM has said.
Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine…
Iran's president has promised to take revenge after a colonel in the powerful Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in Tehran on Sunday.
Two gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at Sayad Khodai as he sat in a car …
A court in Ukraine has jailed a Russian tank commander for life for killing a civilian at the first war crimes trial since the invasion.
Captured soldier Sgt Vadim Shishimarin was convicted of killing Oleksandr Shelipov, 62,…
Senegalese President Macky Sall says he will travel to Russia and Ukraine soon in his capacity as the current chairman of the African Union.
Mr Sall said on Sunday that he had received the mandate of other AU heads of state to make the …
The United Nations force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned attacks against it by M23 rebels and urged them to “immediately cease hostilities”.
In a statement on Twitter, the UN acknowledged "the courage and determina…
Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region say they have arrested more than 4,500 individuals including a former army commander.
The arrests are said to be part of "an operation to enforce law and order," announced last week.
T…
Mr Charles Taleog Ndanbon, an aspiring Regional Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region has appealed to delegates to vote for him to win the position and bring victory to the party in 2024.
“I am appealing to…
Mr Abubakari Yakubu, the newly-appointed Sunyani East Constituency Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party ((NPP) says no political propaganda can derail the Party’s sterling achievements and stop it from winning the Election 20…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, in a live video address to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, told participants how he wakes up every day to read the numbers of his people killed in the war in the la…
Police in Nigeria are investigating the beheading of a local MP in the south-eastern state of Anambra barely a week after gunmen kidnapped him along with an aide.
The discovery of Okechukwu Okoye's mutilated body over the weekend has sp…
Russian forces in eastern Ukraine are intensifying attacks on a key city as they seek to seize the Donbas region.
Severodonetsk, the largest city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, has come under intense artillery…
US President Joe Biden has warned China is "flirting with danger" over Taiwan, and vowed to intervene militarily to protect the island if it is attacked.
Speaking in Japan, he appeared to contradict long-standing US policy i…
The National Democratic Congress’ suspended Constituency Chairman for Amasaman, Winfred Kofi Zoryiku is calling on the leadership of the party to conduct a thorough investigation into an accusation levelled against him that he printed and …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has encouraged young Ghanaians to venture into the study of science and technology because societies that are succeeding in the world are those that have placed emphasis on the teaching and learning of…
Parliament must place premium on the passage of the Gender Equality Law, otherwise known as Affirmative Action Bill, into law.
According to Abantu for Development, a non-governmental organisation, the delay in passing the bill, which wa…
The Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of the Kumasi Catholic Archdiocese, the Most Rev. Dr Peter K. Sarpong, has said the country cannot progress with the kind of politics being practised.
He said if leaders would agree to serve rather t…