France has banned domestic short-haul flights where train alternatives exist, in a bid to cut carbon emissions.
The law came into force two years after lawmakers had voted to end routes where the same journey could be made b…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate, Ernest Yaw Annim has won the Kumawu by-election with over 70 per cent of the valid votes cast.
The votes collated by the Electoral Commission (EC) and declared Wednesday night has E…
A Medical practitioner and National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary aspirant for Garu in the Upper East Region, Dr Thomas Anaba, has pledged to make agriculture a top priority by modernising it to make it attractive to the youth in…
The Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Yaa Pokua Baiden, has urged the Western Regional Women’s Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to maintain unity to ‘break the eight.’
She said …
The Kumawu by-election was largely peaceful with no major incident as the security measures put in place yielded the desired results.
There was a heavy police presence within the constituency and the 75 polling stations where voting …
Nigeria’s outgoing president has opened a 1.6km (one-mile) bridge crossing the Niger River in the south-east of the country.
Muhammadu Buhari attended the inauguration ceremony virtually, via Zoom, where it was agreed it would be named …
The driver of a truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been arrested.
They have been charged with various offences including reckless driving.
A Secret Service official …
Brazil has declared a six-month animal health emergency after several cases of avian flu were found in wild birds.
Seven cases have been reported in Espirito Santo state, with another discovered in Rio de Janeiro state.
…
The National Democratic Congress Chapter in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (NDC-UK & Ireland Chapter) led by its workaholic Chairman, Alhaji Alhassan Mbalba has on behalf of the membership and the leadership send its congra…
Irate South Africans chased away a mayor on Monday, blaming him for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in Gauteng, the country's most populous province.
Tshwane City Mayor Cilliers Brink was expected to joi…
The authorities in Liberia say they've lost all trace of four suspected drug dealers linked to a $100m (£80m) cocaine shipment, after a trial jury unexpectedly acquitted them.
Last year, with assistance from the US and Brazil, Liberian …
National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates in Sege Constituency have voted for a change in the NDC’s 2023 primaries confirming Daniel Keshi Bessey as the next parliamentary candidate for the NDC in the (Sege) Constituency.
The win fo…
Sudan's latest ceasefire now appears to be holding despite early breaches of the deal.
It's the first truce to have been formally agreed and signed by both sides, but there were reports of airstrikes and clashes in the capital Khartoum …
The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Stephen Ayesu Ntim, has called for unity across all levels of the party, from the electoral area to the national level.
Mr Ntim in a meeting with party faithful at Kuma…
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, James Klutse Avedzi, has expressed the committee's intention to petition the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development and the Administrator of the Dis…
The electorate have been urged to vote for more women in the upcoming 2023 District Level Elections (DLE) to strengthen the country's democracy.
The DLE is held a year to the general elections. The Electoral Commission is yet to come ou…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has pledged to support embattled James Gyakye Quayson to reclaim the Assin North parliamentary seat anytime a by-election is held.
“The full weight of the party, including the Minority Caucus in …
The simple matter of a parliamentary by-election for a seat largely considered a safe one for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has become a complex issue as four candidates appear on the ballot sheet for today’s poll in Kumawu.
Th…
An armed group has crossed from Ukraine into Russia's Belgorod region and clashes there have injured a number of people, Russian authorities say.
Local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Russian forces were searching for "sabo…
US President Joe Biden and top Republican Kevin McCarthy have called their latest talks on the debt ceiling productive but no deal has yet been reached.
"I believe we can get a deal done," House Speaker McCarthy told reporte…
The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the government of trying to collapse secondary education in the Upper West Region by failing to supply Senior High Schools in the area with food.
The party is alleging t…
The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s Buffer Stock Company, Alhaji Hanan Abdul-Wahab, has declared his intention to contest the Pusiga constituency parliamentary seat in the Upper East Region on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)…
Ghana’s major political parties, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have pledged to play their respective roles in ensuring peace during and after the Kumawu by-election scheduled …
The Gambia's only female mayor has been re-elected to her post, in elections that saw President Adama Barrow's ruling party perform badly.
Rohey Malick Lowe - a member of the opposition United Demcratic Party (UDP) - won Saturday's mayo…
A special UN Security Council meeting is under way focusing on the war in Sudan that has seen more than a million people displaced over the last five weeks.
The UN envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, warned of a growing ethnic dimension to …
A Belarusian opposition activist arrested after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in the capital Minsk has been pardoned, state media reported.
Roman Protasevich was hauled off his flight and arrested on charges of incit…
The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group has vowed to transfer control of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut to the Russian army by 1 June.
Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed to have captured Bakhmut on Saturday, but Ky…
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 20 people following Saturday's opposition protests in the capital Kinshasa.
In its assessment of the demonstration, the Congolese National Police (PNC) said the 20 …
The Liberian electoral commission says it has begun investigating cases of underage voter registration and duplication of voter register, which violate the country’s electoral law.
The National Elections Commission (Nec) said it uncover…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is commissioning a $19bn (£15bn) single-train oil refinery - the largest of its kind in the world and built by Africa’s richest person, billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote.
The government hopes the…
Nigerian doctors in public hospitals have resumed work after suspending their five-day nationwide strike to demand, among others, a salary increase of 200%.
This follows a "review of the commitments made by the federal government" in th…
Mr Foster Adase-Adjei, the ActionAid Ghana Programmes Officer for Volta and Oti regions, has urged women and persons with disability to develop keen interest in the 2023 District Assembly and Unit Committee elections and participate in the…
Mr Pingrenoma Zagre, the outgoing Ambassador of Burkina Faso to Ghana and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, has paid a farewell call on Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Accra.
A st…
Greece's conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won national elections, hailing his party's big victory as a "political earthquake".
His centre-right New Democracy party were heading for almost 41% of the vote, …
A defiant Volodymyr Zelensky has insisted Bakhmut "is not occupied" by Russia after a Moscow-backed mercenary group had claimed control.
Ukraine's president was speaking during a scene-stealing visit to Hiroshima, Japan, for…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is encouraging voters in the Kumawu constituency to vote massively for the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary candidate in the by-election on Tuesday.
The two main political parties, NPP and Nation…
Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has stated that his outfit will address the numerous challenges confronting the ordinary Ghanaian.
John Mahama says a tour across the country ahead of the par…
Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency has seized a 30kg consignment of methamphetamine valued at $1.2m (£960,000) that was to be shipped to the UK through the main airport in Lagos.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in a statem…
An outbreak of cholera has killed at least 10 people in South Africa's most populous province of Gauteng, health authorities have said.
At least 95 people have since last Monday visited hospitals showing cholera symptoms in Hammanskraal…
If the G7 were a dinner party, the host would be rummaging in the garage for the extendable table, hunting through boxes for extra placemats and cutlery.
This year's host, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, has invited ei…
Protesters held banners saying "you are not welcome" at Tbilisi airport in Georgia, as the first direct flight for almost four years arrived from Russia.
Scuffles broke out as police barred them from standing outside the air…
Zimbabwe has released about a fifth of all prisoners under a presidential amnesty order meant to decongest the country’s overcrowded jails.
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) said more than 4,000 inmates - mostly men -…
Mr John Kwabla Adanu, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary primaries aspirant for Ketu North in the just-ended elections, has urged leadership of the party to look at the party’s constitution and future guidelines for electio…
In the early hours of Friday morning joint security services say they rescued two people who were abducted during an attack on a US convoy in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Tuesday.
They are thought to be physically unha…
Sudan’s army chief Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has sacked his deputy and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti.
Both Gen Burhan and Hemedti have served as chairman and deputy …
The UK government is stepping up sanctions on Russia, by banning diamond imports.
It also said more than 60% of President Putin's war chest - about £275bn - has been "immobilised" .
What are sanctions?
Sanc…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it is ready for a bye-election following the ruling of the Supreme Court directing Parliament to expunge the records of Mr James Gyakye Quayson, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North.
A st…
Volodymyr Zelensky is planning to join the G7 summit in Japan, reports say, in a bid to secure strengthened support ahead of a planned counter-offensive in the Ukraine war.
The Ukrainian president is expected to arrive in Hi…
At least 145 people are now known to have been killed in Myanmar (Burma) by a powerful cyclone, the country's military rulers have said.
They say most of the victims of Cyclone Mocha that made landfall last Sunday were from …
South African Deputy President Paul Mashatile has said the government was hoping its emergency procurement programmes would bring an end to the energy crisis in the country.
State-owned power company Eskom’s board has approved three eme…
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