President Ramaphosa says the only way to get him out of office is through a voteImage caption: President Ramaphosa says the only way to get him out of office is through a vote
South African police have said that the planned opposition p…
Several cities in north east Brazil are suffering from serious unrest caused by marauding criminal gangs.
For the third night, gang members set buses ablaze and carried out gun attacks on buildings in urban areas in Rio Gra…
Concerned residents of Teshie in the Ledzokuku municipality of the Greater Accra Region have pledged their support for the current Member of Parliament (MP), Benjamin Ayiku, if he shows interest in contesting for the Parliamentary seat in …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bunkpurugu Constituency in the North East Region, Dr Abed Bandim has urged women to overcome obstacles in their political career.
He conceded that venturing into political career was a difficult terrai…
Malawi, Madagascar and Mozambique are reeling from the effects of Tropical Cyclone Freddy.
More than 400 people have been killed and thousands of homes destroyed.
Freddy has been one of the longest-lived storms e…
Russia has threatened to destroy any fighter jets given to Ukraine by its allies, after two countries promised planes.
Slovakia became the second Nato country to pledge Kyiv some MiG-29 aircraft on Friday, a day after Poland…
The flagbearer hopeful of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, has asked party delegates to elect competent and winnable candidates in the party’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary primaries on May 13, 2023.
Acco…
Former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Afriyie Akoto, is confident that he will win the flag bearer’s slot of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and expressed optimism that the delegates of the partywill vote massively for him to lead the …
Ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in dire need of humanitarian assistance – twice as many as in 2020 – largely due to spiralling conflict, while nearly 4 million children are at risk in neighbouring countries as host…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a visit to Niger by meeting former jihadists who have been rehabilitated through a vocational training programme backed by US funding.
Mr Blinken called it a model for the region, which has…
The death toll from Tropical Storm Freddy in Malawi has jumped from 225 to 326, Reuters news agency quotes the country's disaster management agency as saying.
Most people have died in mudslides and floods caused by the storm that first …
Police in Paris have clashed with protesters after the French government decided to force through pension reforms without a vote in parliament.
Crowds converged on Place de la Concorde in response to raising the retirement a…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is putting measures in place to collate the results of the December 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections by midnight of the election day.
He, …
China's President Xi Jinping will travel to Moscow next week to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials say.
The Kremlin said they would discuss a "comprehensive partnership and strategic co-operation".
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Countries that "mistreated Ukraine" will be held to account after the war ends, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has warned.
In a BBC interview he said the choice every nation made following Russia's full-scale invas…
The Akrofuom District in the Ashanti Region has celebrated its 5th anniversary with a call on the district to remain focused on promoting sustainable agriculture, enhancing inclusive and equitable quality education, promoting gender equali…
The Member of Parliament for the Ashaiman constituency, Eric Henry Norgbey has expressed satisfaction over the visit by the Defence and Interior Committee to the Ashaiman community to ascertain events that led to the killi…
THE Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior yesterday paid a working visit to Ashaiman.
The visit follows the death of a 21-year-old soldier, Sherif Imoro, who was allegedly killed on Saturday, March 4.
The Chairman of…
Aid workers in Ituri province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo say thousands of displaced people have been arriving in the town of Beni.
They are fleeing a series of attacks by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) Islamist rebe…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting Niger on Wednesday on the second leg of his brief tour of African nations.
He is expected to announce more US support for Niger's fight against a jihadist insurgency that has forced milli…
Nigeria will hold its first census in 17 years in May instead of the end of March, the information minister announced on Wednesday, citing delayed gubernatorial elections.
The elections for new governors was pushed by a week to 18 March…
US authorities have charged a Chinese property tycoon based in New York with orchestrating a billion-dollar fraud.
Guo Wengui and one of his business partners, Kin Ming Je, are accused of wire fraud, securities fraud, bank f…
The use of Chinese-owned social media app TikTok on phones and other devices issued to government ministers and civil servants has been banned.
Cabinet Office Minister Oliver Dowden told MPs the app would be banned on secur…
Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, a contender for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer, says he is an affable and open-hearted person despite being known to be confident, passionate, and having strong views on many subjects.
“Watching my fat…
Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang and General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Fifi Kwetey over the weekend joined members of the Tema Central branch of the NDC to inaugurate an office building for the constitue…
Mr. Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, Member of Parliament for Tema West Constituency has endorsed Mr. Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen former Minister of Trade for the contest of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer slot.
“Mr. Alan John Kwadwo…
Ghana is committed to collaborating with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to fight intolerance and promote peaceful co-existence in societies, the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has assured.
In the view of th…
THE National Commission for Civil Education (NCCE) has collated 17 proposals for reforms in the 1992 Constitution.
The proposals, which are from members of the public, include constitutional provisions on decentralisation and local g…
The US Secretary of State has highlighted the importance of implementing in full the peace agreement between the federal government and Tigrayan forces during lengthy talks with the Ethiopian prime minister.
Antony Blinken said there ha…
North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) just hours before the leaders of South Korea and Japan were due to meet for landmark talks.
Both Japanese and South Korean officials confirmed the long-range mis…
The devastation caused by a tropical storm that ripped through Malawi, killing 225 people is a "national tragedy", the president has said.
Lazarus Chakwera promised to intensify search and rescue operations, as he attended …
Two and a half tonnes of uranium have gone missing from a site in Libya, the UN's nuclear watchdog has said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sounded the alarm after a visit by its inspectors to the undisclosed …
Ukraine has drawn a line in the dirt, and that line is Bakhmut. It is a city that few say matters strategically, but that tens of thousands have died fighting over. It began more than seven months ago, and is the longest battle of the …
Branch and Constituency Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) across the country are making bold declarations of their endorsement of John Dramani Mahama as the 2024 Presidential Candidate of the party.
Mr. Mahama, wh…
AN aspiring flag bearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has vowed to transform the party into a formidable political force that would lead the country’s transformation agenda.
For that reason, D…
Asawase MP, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, has taken legal action against 11 National Democratic Congress (NDC) branch executives in his constituency for spreading defamatory comments about him.
The remarks were circulated through various…
Taiwan is in danger of losing one of its few formal allies, Honduras, as the Central American nation seeks official relations with China.
Honduran President Xiomara Castro said the pivot aims to expand foreign engagements.
…
A Romanian court has rejected the latest application for bail by Andrew Tate.
The controversial British social media influencer and his brother Tristan have been detained since December.
They are being investigate…
Two of four journalists who were detained in January after a video appearing to show South Sudan president wetting his trousers at a public function have been released.
The Union of Journalists of South Sudan (UJOSS) said in a statement…
Nigeria's election commission has promised to hand over immediately to the opposition all material linked to last month's disputed presidential poll.
The chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, said it had nothing to hide.
The op…
Former President John Dramani Mahama will today, Tuesday, March, 14, join executives and activists of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Duayaw Nkwanta to begin a one-day campaign tour of the Ahafo Region.
He will visit all six c…
The Ga Mantse, King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, has stated that the Ga State will decide the selection of the next president in Election 2024.
He bemoaned that even though, political parties had a social contract with the Ga Dangbes to ens…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has assured the members and followers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of victory in the 2024 Election and urged them to work hard for its realisation.
He encouraged delegates to elect parli…
Thirty-one people, comprising 30 males and a female, have picked nomination forms to contest the upcoming National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary primaries in the Upper West Region.
Out of the number, 23 were new entrants while…
More than 200 people are now confirmed dead in Malawi after Tropical Storm Freddy ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month.
Huge amounts of brown water have cascaded through neighbourhoods, sweeping away…
Pakistan's main opposition leader Imran Khan says the authorities are acting outside the law in their attempt to arrest him.
"They should all be subject to the law of the land," he told the BBC.
Police have clashe…
The US has accused Russia of reckless behaviour after an American drone crashed into the Black Sea following an encounter with Russian fighter jets.
Before the collision, Russian jets are said to have dumped fuel into the pa…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on all stakeholders to support the Electoral Commission (EC) and all agencies in using the Ghana Card not only for the continuous voters’ registration exercise but for all national activities.
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A group of 23 female students from three different tertiary institutions in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in Accra have made a donation of GH¢1,850 to John Dumelo's political campaign for his second bid to Parliament.
The studen…
US ambassador to Kenya has held a meeting with the LGBT community in the country to show support amid hardening attitudes against the group.
"The US proudly advances efforts to protect LGBTQI+ persons from discrimination and violence an…