Identified hotspots across the country were relatively peaceful during the 2016 polls due to the establishment of National and Regional Early Warning and Response Groups (NEEWARGs/REEWARGs) by the National Peace Council (NPC).
A resear…
Mr Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of Forum for National Equity has suggested to government to establish a National Infrastructure Plan that will commit Politicians to strictly adhere to the development agenda of the country.
The Plan, he…
Mr Abdul-Kudus Husein, Communication Officer of the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC), has urged government to commit to fighting corruption in the country.
He urged government to resource anti-corruption bodies and law enforcemen…
A report on preventing electoral violence in selected hotspots in Ghana during the 2016 election have been launched in Cape Coast with a call on Ghanaians not to allow partisan lenses to influence their sense of judgment.
The report, m…
Koster lies in the same region as the South Africa's rich platinum mines but nothing about this town speaks of the wealth surrounding it.
"Our lives have gotten worse over the years and it seems like no-one cares," says George Ndlovu, a…
Indian police have arrested a training instructor in the southern state of Tamil Nadu after a 19-year-old college student died in a safety exercise.
Police said N Logeshwari died after she was forced to jump off a building into a safety…
South Africa has officially launched MeerKAT, the largest and most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, with a display of the clearest radio image of a super massive black hole yet taken.
The telescope is made up of 64 a…
The Liberian government has failed to give an undertaking that it will create a war crimes court to prosecute those who allegedly committed atrocities during the country’s two armed conflicts spanning more than 14 years.
This week in Ge…
The Wa Central Constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is demanding the removal from office of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Alhaji Issahaku Tahiru Moomin, accusing him of polarizing the party.
They said his actions and ina…
A teacher in Senegal has been given a five-year prison sentence and another has been fined $32,000 (£24,300) for selling exam papers.
French, English, history and geography baccalaureate tests had to be scrapped last year after the ques…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he expected the creation of Oti Region out of the Volta Region to foster the spirit of unity that existed between the north and south of the Region."I see the development of the Oti as an oppo…
Twelve people have been injured after an explosion at a chemical factory near Cairo's airport, Egypt's state news agency MENA says.
They have been hospitalised, but the severity of their injuries is not yet known.
An army spokesman s…
South Africa on Friday launched a set of limited edition bank notes and gold coins to mark the 100th anniversary on July 18 of the birth of Nelson Mandela.
The South African Reserve Bank said the notes depict Mandela’s life including hi…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that it bears no fears as to who takes over from Charlotte Osei as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC).
The Commission currently has no chairperson and even deputies fo…
Tributes have been pouring in for the late Joseph Henry Mensah, an economist and astute politician, who died on Thursday morning at the 37 Military Hospital, in Accra, at the ripe age of 89.
A stalwart of the governing New Patriotic Par…
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, has expressed upset with the increasing monetization of the political parties.
He warned that if care was not taken “very soon many institutions” of gove…
A US-UK trade deal "will absolutely be possible", Donald Trump has said, hours after he told The Sun Theresa May's Brexit plan could kill an agreement.
Speaking after talks at Chequers, Mr Trump said the US-UK relationship is "the highe…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has opened the country's first metro-rail service in the capital Abuja - some eight years after the project was initiated.
“The completion of this very important project is a dream come true,” Mr Buh…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP), has decided to fly all of its flags at half mast following the death of Joseph Henry Mensah at age 89 on Thursday.
J.H. Mensah, a founding member of the NPP, died on Thursday morning at the 37 Military Hos…
South Sudan's parliament has voted to extend President Salva Kiir's term in office until 2021 as elections this year have been postponed because of conflict.
Mr Kiir has been in power since South Sudan's independence in 2011 and electio…
