Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.
Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video address Mr Zelensky said tha…
Nominations for constituency executive positions of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) open today [Tuesday, April 19, 2022] and end tomorrow.
The positions to be contested from April 28 to May 2, 2022 are the Constituency Chairperson, the fi…
A governance expert, Professor Baffour Agyemang-Duah, has urged Parliament to address the issue of absenteeism in the House.
He said the referral of three Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Privileges Committee for their absence in the …
Russia says more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the besieged port of Mariupol, but Ukraine denies this.
The city's Deputy Mayor, Serhiy Orlov, told the BBC that Ukrainian troops there were still fighting.
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Cletus Avoka, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Zebilla East in the Upper East Region, has shoot down the Minority Chief Whip’s decision to file a motion for a reversal of the three MPs to the Privileges Committee of Parliament.
He obse…
Pakistan's new government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in internal discussions on whether to roll back fuel and power subsidies that have blown a hole in public finances amid a stuttering economy, officials said.
Former premi…
The Presiding Member (PM) for Ga Central Municipal Assembly, Mr George Adu Darko has been re-elected for a second term.
The poll held on Thursday had 21 out of 22 assembly members voting in favour of the incumbent.
In a brief remark …
New Zealand's top court has ruled that a man can be extradited to China to face a murder charge, in what activists have called a "deeply disturbing precedent".
Kyung Yup Kim, a New Zealand permanent resident, is accused of m…
Police in Vietnam on Thursday arrested Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung on suspicion of bribery, the Ministry of Public Security said.
Dung, 58, is accused of taking bribes and police have searched his house, the ministry …
The British Home Secretary is in Rwanda to sign a deal that will offshore some of the UK's asylum processing to the African country.
Single men who pay smugglers to get them into Britain on small boats will be sent to Rwanda to have the…
The family of the late Emily Akuffo, the wife of a former Head of State, Lieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Wednesday informed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the death of the former First Lady.
She passed away…
The government has launched the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) Project, a social behaviourial change communications campaign, to address flooding in the Odaw Basin.
It is also intended to improve drainage and…
Some of Somalia's newly elected members of parliament are set to be sworn in on Thursday in the capital, Mogadishu, following parliamentary elections that took months.
They will be sworn in at a venue inside the main airport area - one …
The aspiring Assin South Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Effah Nkyi, has underscored bridging the gap between the government and the grassroots will propel the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to retain power in 2025.
H…
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's closest allies warned NATO on Thursday that if Sweden and Finland joined the U.S.-led military alliance then Russia would deploy nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles in an exclave in the heart o…
Ukraine's fightback against Russian aggression is not just in the battlefield - but in the legal field too.
Across this shattered country, testimony is being gathered and evidence collated for a goal that may only come long …
The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central Constituency, Mahama Ayariga, says the Supreme Court should have ruled to allow the embattled Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, to continue discharging his duties as a substantive MP until a f…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will conduct its constituency elections between April 28 and May 2.
The elections were initially scheduled for April 22-24, this year but the National Executive Committee reviewed the dates at its meeting l…
The Bono regional branch of the Convention People's Party (CPP) is boiling over the withdrawal of GH¢3,900.00 from the party's account by the regional secretary and treasurer.
While the Regional Chairman, Mr Salifu Ali Dayinday, says th…
At least 12 journalists have been arrested outside the main prison in Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway state of Somaliland, as they reported on riots taking place inside.
Several of them were live on air when the security forces came …
The Nigerian army says it has arrested 12 people in the south-west of the country for pretending to be soldiers.
The officer in charge of the regional army division, Maj Gen Umar Thama Musa, said the suspects were detained in Lagos and …
Some asylum seekers who arrive in the UK on small boats across the Channel will be given a one-way ticket to Rwanda, under new government plans.
Home Secretary Priti Patel is in the African nation to agree a £120m trial invo…
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin says her country will decide whether to apply to join Nato "within weeks".
She said she saw no reason to delay the decision, at a joint news conference alongside Sweden's prime minister.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue the invasion of Ukraine until his country's "noble" aims are fulfilled.
In a rare public appearance, he said peace talks had reached a dead end and insisted the invasion…
Ukraine says it has arrested fugitive pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, seen as President Vladimir Putin's closest ally in the country.
Ukraine's security service SBU posted a photo purportedly showing Mr Medvedchuk …
Three Europeans were among a group of suspected jihadists detained during a military operation in the central town of Diabaly over the weekend, the Malian army says.
A statement from the armed forces gave no further details.
Mali has…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has formed a unified armed forces command structure that integrates opposition commanders into the armed forces.
It follows last week's deal between President Kiir's and opposition groups on the sharin…
The Nigerian president has condemned a series of raids on villages in the central Plateau state, in which more than 150 people were killed.
Muhammadu Buhari described the Sunday attacks as terrorist and offered his condolences to the fa…
The incumbent Presiding Member for Asene-Manso-Akroso District Assembly in the Eastern Region, Enoch Ofori Aiden, last Friday, received an overwhelming endorsement from the assembly members.
Mr Aiden polled 31 out of the 33 valid votes …
An aspiring New Patriotic Party (NPP) constituency women’s organiser for Asunafo North in the Ahafo Region, Mary Asare, has promised to re-energise the women’s wing to entice more women into the party.
She said the women’s wing of the N…
The Supreme Court has ordered the NDC Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, to stop holding himself as an MP until the determination of a suit challenging the constitutionality of his election.
In a 5-2 majority de…
At least 25 people have died so far in landslides and floods in the Philippines after Tropical Storm Megi swept the nation.
On Tuesday, rescue crews were still battling to retrieve people stranded on the eastern and southern coa…
At least 45 people in South Africa have been killed in floods caused by days of heavy rain, the authorities say.
It happened in the coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal, where many people are still missing and emergency service…
United Nations (UN) agencies are warning that millions of people in Somalia could face a famine, with children the most at risk.
Currently 1.4 million children face "acute malnutrition through the end of this year," agencies said.
So…
New York City police have named "a person of interest" after a morning rush-hour shooting at a subway station that left more than 20 people injured.
Police said they were looking for Frank R James, 62, in connection with the…
There are growing signs Russia could be on the brink of fully capturing Mariupol, the besieged southern port city which has suffered a devastating, six-week assault.
Officially, Ukraine's armed forces say they are sustainin…
The Supreme Court will today decide whether or not to stop James Gyakye Quayson from holding himself as the Member of Parliament for Assin North.
A seven-member panel of the court will rule on an injunction application seeking to restra…
Speakers at a stakeholder engagement on the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill and Armed Forces (Amendment) Bill, 2022 have unanimously endorsed the need for Ghana to abolish the death penalty from the statute books, to help preserve the s…
The soldiers who saved her stayed in her house for a few days. She says they would point their gun at her and ask her to give them her husband's belongings.
"When they left, I found drugs and Viagra. They would get high and …
French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen said she broadly supports sanctions against Russia, except when it comes to oil and gas supplies.
The far-right politician will battle Emmanuel Macron for the presidency in a run-off…
The US and Britain say they are looking into reports that chemical weapons have been used by Russian forces attacking the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.
Ukraine's Azov regiment said three soldiers were injured by "a poisonous s…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reached out to the African Union (AU) for support against Russia's aggression and requested to address the continental organisation.
Mr Zelensky called Senegalese President Macky Sall on Monday…
Ethiopia has allowed Boeing 737 Max airplanes back to its airspace, the aviation regulator has said, three years after one of its national carrier jets crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa.
All 149 passengers and eight crew m…
The Botswana health ministry says it has detected a new lineage of the Covid-19 Omicron variant.
The infected are currently being monitored to establish more information on the potential impact of the disease and its severity.
The ne…
A former convict who was recently appointed as mayor of a South African municipality has pledged to give up his salary and other trappings of the office.
In his inauguration speech, Gayton McKenzie of the Patriotic Alliance (PA) party s…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Dr Kingsley Nyarko, has appealed to Ghanaians to accept the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) to help grow the country’s economy.
He said the E-Levy would be a game-chan…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Akyem Oda, Mr Alexander Akwasi Acquah, has disbursed GH¢151,200 to the 18 electoral areas in his constituency to finance development projects of their choice.
Each electoral ar…
The Chief Director of the Upper East Regional Coordinating Council, Abubakari Innusah, has advised staff of Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) to desist from undermining government policies and programmes.
“What is expected of you…
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi has announced a major gas deal with Algeria, which promises to reduce his country's heavy reliance on Russian imports.
Under the deal from this autumn, increased gas supplies will be sent through the …
The European Union says it is stopping its military training missions in Mali but will keep a presence in the Sahel region where jihadist attacks have been spreading in recent years.
The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said mi…