Presidential candidate aspirant, Joe Ghartey, is calling on delegates of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to elect a presidential candidate who possesses both experience and trustworthiness in order to secure victory in the 2024 general elect…
Mr. Samuel Nartey George, a campaigner for the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021, has revealed the significant personal costs he has faced due to his advocacy, even before the bill has been passed…
Authorities in Iran have executed three men sentenced to death in connection with the nationwide anti-government protests last year, the judiciary says.
The three were convicted over their alleged involvement in a shooting a…
An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive in West Africa by al-Qaeda militants for more than seven years has been released.
Dr Kenneth Elliott is safe and well and has been reunited with his family, Australia's foreign …
Medical services at teaching hospitals across Nigeria have been disrupted by a five-day strike by resident doctors who are demanding a salary increase of 200%.
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors said it acted because the gover…
Four people have been arrested in Tunisia in connection with an attack outside a synagogue during an annual Jewish pilgrimage.
It happened a week ago on the historic island of Djerba. Six people died in total.
The gunman was a police…
The Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) has set December 15, 2023, to elect the party’s flag bearer for the 2024 general election.
This is in accordance with the constitution of the party which states that when the party is in opposition i…
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has declared its support for one of the independent candidates in the Kumawu Constituency by-election in the Ashanti Region, Kwaku Duah.
The party has, therefore, urged all eligible voters and party …
The Electoral Commission (EC) has assured all stakeholders in the upcoming Kumawu by-election in the Ashanti Region that the electoral management body is adequately prepared to conduct the elections as mandated.
In an interview with the…
Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso has dissolved the opposition-controlled parliament amid an impeachment trial.
He had been accused of turning a blind eye to alleged embezzlement and was facing an imminent vote that could…
The head of Kenya’s standards regulator and 26 other government officials have been suspended over the release of 1,000 tonnes of expired sugar into the market.
A statement by the head of public service, Felix Koskei, said 20,000 bags o…
The runner-up in the February presidential elections in Nigeria has criticised US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s call to President-elect Bola Tinubu as “demoralising”.
Atiku Abubakar said the call was an “acknowledgement of a fraud…
Mr Maxwell Kwame Lukutor, the newly elected National Democratic Congress (NDC) South Tongu parliamentary candidate, has assured the constituents of massive developmental projects when voted into Parliament in the 2024 general election.
…
Dr Kwabena Duffour, a presidential aspirant in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential and parliamentary primaries, who pulled out of the May 13 race, has congratulated former President John Dramani Mahama for his landslide vic…
Mr Nelson Kofi Djabab, parliamentary candidate (PC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Krachi East Constituency has advised members of the NDC to remain focused and united.
He told party loyalists that the most important thin…
A failed parliamentary aspirant in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) primaries in the Asawase constituency has denied being sponsored by the party’s hierarchy to aid in an alleged grand scheme to unseat the incumbent Member of Par…
Shock and horror might have been Serbians' first reaction to two mass shootings in as many days earlier this month. But outrage swiftly followed.
Tens of thousands of people attended two protests in the capital, Belgrade, w…
Ukraine's capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month.
Kyiv's authorities said it seemed all incoming missiles had been destroyed, but debris falling from the air caused some damage in…
The first runner-up in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primaries held on May 13 in the Ketu North constituency, John Adanu Zewu, has announced his intention to comply with the directive of the National Executive Co…
The Minority in Parliament has strongly criticized the Supreme Court‘s decision to nullify the 2020 parliamentary election results in the Assin North constituency.
According to the Minority, the decision is perplexing and a blow to demo…
Kenyan President William Ruto has once again called out the two warring Sudanese generals, urging them to stop the fighting that has entered its second month.
Intense battles in the capital Khartoum and its sister cities of Bahri and Om…
The agreement signed between warring parties in Sudan last week to protect civilians has “failed to silence the guns”, Patrick Youssef, regional director for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has told the BBC’s Focus on …
A Chinese comedy troupe has been slapped with a 14.7m yuan ($2.1m; £1.7m) penalty over a joke about the military that invoked a slogan from President Xi Jinping.
The quip, which likened the behaviour of a comedian's dogs to …
President Joe Biden and Republican leaders have expressed cautious optimism that a deal to raise the US debt ceiling is within reach, following emergency talks at the White House.
But House of Representatives Speaker Kevin M…
Gunmen in south-eastern Nigeria have attacked a US convoy, killing four people, local police say.
They say two of the victims of Tuesday's attack in the Anambra state were US consulate employees, while the other two were pol…
The United Nations is urgently seeking some $3bn (£2.4bn) to fund humanitarian operations in Sudan.
It's expecting more than a million people to flee the country as fighting rages between the army and rival militia forces.
The UN's h…
Leadership of the National Democratic Congress in the Ashanti Region has rejected claims that the party tried to kick out its Member of Parliament for Asawase, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak.
The former Minority Chief Whip had accused the par…
The leadership and delegates of National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been commended for exhibiting high sense of political maturity in the just-ended presidential and parliamentary primaries of the Party.
Mr Mensah, a former organise…
Mr John Dramani Mahama, newly elected Flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress for the 2024 elections has said he has the experience and the vision to reset the country and return her to the path of prosperity.
He said he was read…
Ghana has signed an agreement establishing a Joint Commission for Cooperation with Guinea-Bissau.
The pact is to serve as the legal framework for addressing the trade and investment ambitions of the two countries.
The agreement was rea…
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption.
However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail.
…
Albanian authorities have confirmed that most of its citizens forcibly sent back home from the UK this year were convicted of crimes there. The BBC has spoken to those men sent home, and learnt that some prisoners were offered £1,500 t…
The incumbent Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, Sam Nartey George, says he will never forget the lies his contender, Michael Tetteh Kwetey spewed about him during the National Democratic Congress’ just-ended parliam…
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) women’s group rooting for Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to be elected flag bearer of the party has been launched.
Known as Women Delegates for Bawumia it is made up of women in the party from all the 27…
The Upper East Regional Communications Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Ayimbisa Ayamga, has stated that based on the outcome of the primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the party is battle ready to s…
Malian Prime Minister Choguel Maïga has rejected a UN report that accused the army and foreign forces of killing at least 500 civilians in the central village of Moura in March last year.
Mr Maïga said the report sought to tarnish the r…
Six African leaders are to travel to Russia and Ukraine in a bid to find an end to the conflict, South Africa's president has announced.
Cyril Ramaphosa said he had held separate phone calls over the weekend with his Russian and Ukraini…
The number of executions recorded globally in 2022 was the highest in five years, as several Middle Eastern states ramped up their use of the death penalty, Amnesty International says.
A total of 883 people are known to have…
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been targeted by further Russian air attacks, described by one official as "exceptional in density".
Ukraine said all 18 missiles were shot down and footage showed air defences destroying targ…
There have been fierce clashes between the Sudanese army and the rival Rapid Support Forces in the capital Khartoum and neighbouring cities of Omdurman and Bahri, across the River Nile.
The military has continued to carry out air strike…
The African Development Bank says the outcome of Zimbabwe's upcoming presidential election and the issue of compensating white farmers are key factors in efforts to restructure its crippling debt.
The bank head, Akinwumi Adesina, is dir…
A Tunisian court has sentenced opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi to a year in prison.
The Ennahda party leader, who is a fierce critic of President Kais Saied, has been detained since last month after being arrested for allegedly plot…
Dr Mark Kurt Nawaane, the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for Nabdam in the Upper East Region, says he is determined to enhance socio-economic growth and improve health and education in the constituency.
He said even though his part…
Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, one of the presidential candidate hopefuls of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), will begin a tour of the Greater Accra Region tomorrow.
The Economist cum corporate executive will engage delegates in the region and sh…
Mr John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has declared that if he emerges victorious in the 2024 elections, his appointed ministers and officials will no longer receive ex-gratia payments.
In his …
A former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, who withdrew from the just-ended flagbearship of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has debunked claims that he plans to resign from the NDC and form another party.
“I have becom…
There could only be one place for Thailand's youngest and most progressive party to celebrate its astonishing success in the election.
Move Forward and its supporters held their victory rally next to the art deco edifice kn…
A long-awaited report has strongly criticised the FBI's handling of its investigation into alleged ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
In a 306-page report, special counsel John Durham said the agency's inquiry …
The newly elected flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama says he will meet all the incumbent Members of Parliament who lost their slots in the party’s just ended Parliamentary …
The flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has reiterated his resolve to restore stability and inclusive growth to the economy when given the nod in the 2024 general election.
Given his ex…
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