Early last year, weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, a little known American trade association filed a petition with the U.S. Trade Representative.
That seven-page letter set Africa in the cross-hairs of the new administ…
Sweden has passed a new law saying that sex without consent is rape, even when there are no threats or force involved.
The new law, due to come into effect on 1 July, says a person must give clear consent, verbal or physical.
Prosecu…
The U.S. House of Representatives broke on Thursday for an 11-day recess with majority Republicans deadlocked over legislation to protect “Dreamer” immigrants from deportation while President Donald Trump insisted that Congress meet all hi…
Mr Paul Essien, Member of Parliament (MP) for Jomoro Constituency of the Western Region, is to receive an Environmental Excellence Award at this year's edition of the Ghana Environmental Excellence Awards.
A letter signed by the Chief E…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) on Tuesday encouraged the Muslims community to be steadfast during the holy month of Ramadan by developing self-control to gain a better understanding of Allah’s gifts and greater compassion towards the d…
The Volta Regional Minister, Mr. Yao Archibald and the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. John Peter Amewu, and five others have been dragged to the Ho High Court for contempt.
They are said to have flouted the orders of the c…
Saad al-Hariri was designated as Lebanon’s next prime minister on Thursday and said all parties agreed that a national unity government must be formed as quickly as possible due to economic risks at home and growing dangers in the region.
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US President Donald Trump has cancelled a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, blaming "tremendous anger and open hostility" from the North.
He said it was possible a meeting could still take place but warned North Korea against…
Mr Francis Oti Boateng, District Chief Executive for Asante Akim North, has urged persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the District to identify, develop and utilize their talents to make a meaningful living.
He said the Assembly was com…
French President Emmanuel Macron has backed the candidacy of Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo as the head of a group of French-speaking countries, International Organization of La Francophonie.
"The Rwandan foreign minister h…
Oh, Apino! He had exited the stage as all humankind would inevitably do. Yes, the Chinese are right in describing life as a sojourning guest, who cannot be stopped when the time arrives for the guest to leave. So our sojourning guest, Apin…
North Korea appears to have blown up tunnels at its only nuclear test site, in a move to reduce regional tensions.
Foreign reporters at the Punggye-ri site in the north-east said they had witnessed a huge blast. Pyongyang later said the…
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that he will be donating half of his salary to charity.
Mr Ramaphosa said the gesture was aimed at encouraging the wealthy to dedicate some of their pay to help build the nation.
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The Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at the Stanbic Bank Ghana, Mr Kwamina Asomaning, has objected to the idea to set a separate minimum capital requirement for local banks, describing the move as unsafe since it will set the prece…
A top presidential aide in Kenya has lashed out at the country's "entitled" millennials "who sit at home and expect jobs".
Walter Mong’are, a one-time comedian who now heads youth programmes in the Office of the President, was speaking …
Saudi Arabia has reportedly arrested three more women's rights activists in a crackdown launched just weeks before a ban on women driving will be lifted.
Human rights groups said at least 11 people, most of them women who had long campa…
The US state department has urged its staff in China to alert them to any abnormal hearing or vision issues after one employee reported mystery symptoms.
The person experienced "subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pr…
The office of ex-president John Dramani Mahama has challenged President Akufo-Addo to show what projects his administration has initiated 17 months into his administration.
President Mahama’s office says Nana Akufo-Addo is ‘rolling back…
The Dean of the School of Information and Communication Studies of the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Audrey Gadzekpo, has cautioned media personnel not to be complacent about the robust press freedom in the country.
This is beca…
Nigerian lawmakers have unanimously backed a bill which would see organisations who continue to sell products with codeine or tramadol fined up to 2m naira ($5,500; £4,100) or jailed for two years.
The bill also proposes fining individu…
A deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has a clear "potential to expand", the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. "We are on the epidemiological knife edge," Peter Salama, who is in charge of emergency response…
Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has been awarded the prestigious African Finance Minister of the year at the Annual African Development Bank (AfDB) Meeting in Busan, South Korea.
The award follows Ghana’s recent macroeconomic p…
Mr. Robert P. Jackson, the United States (US), has given high marks to Ghana good political and economic governance and said he found it refreshing the “positive changes” over the last two decades.
It has a strong democracy and making p…
Canada is rejecting more refugee claims from people who crossed its border illegally as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government seeks to dissuade, block and turn back thousands more, according to new data obtained by Reuters.
Forty p…
It looks like Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is in the mood to spar with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, an ally turned critic. Mr Buhari has often ignored Mr Obasanjo's recent criticism of his leadership.
Earlier this year, he…
A coalition of civil society groups is pushing fir the agency in charge of rail transport in South Africa to reintroduce a chaperone service for children and separate carriages for female passengers, GroundUp news site reports.
The grou…
Mrs Angela Dwamena-Aboagye, Executive Director of the Ark Foundation, has called for the promulgation of a law to compel the Electoral Commission to demand Affirmative Action (AA) measures from Political Parties before their registration.
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A Catholic archbishop in Australia convicted of concealing child sexual abuse will step down from his position.
Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, South Australia, was found guilty of covering up the crimes of a paedophile pries…
A former Georgia lawmaker and author has taken a major step towards becoming the first ever African-American female governor of a US state.
Stacey Abrams won the Democratic Party primary on Tuesday, telling voters that trying to "conver…
We are but dust and vapour, yet we leave footprints in the sand of time by the measure of our contribution towards humanity.
Growing up in Bantama, Kumasi, Appiah-Menka was a household name.
In fact, we knew and called him then, as d…
Mr Albert Maladam, Constituency National Democratic Congress Chairman at the Amenfi West has stated that if Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin is elected as Flagbearer of the Party, Rawlings would be part of their campaign team.
“It is no…
The US-made F-35 stealth fighter has seen its first ever combat action, flying in an operation for the Israeli air force.
The air force chief showed an image of jets over Beirut, Lebanon, and said the planes had "already attacked twice …
The secrets of how malaria became a human-killer have been revealed by a genetic study.
The work, led by researchers from Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, compared seven types of malaria - tracing the parasite's family tree.
T…
US President Donald Trump and South Korea's Moon Jae-in are due to hold talks in Washington, amid uncertainty over a planned US-North Korea summit.
Last week the North said it may cancel the summit if the US insists on it giving up nucl…
Police in South Africa's city of Ekurhuleni in the northern Gauteng province have uncovered a stash of cash in a house after an early morning raid, IOL news site reports.
Another local site tweeted pictures of the find:
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Twenty-five African migrants have been rescued off the coast of Brazil after 35 days at sea, officials and local media say.
The migrants, all men from Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal, were travelling on a boat with two Brazilians, the navy …
Guinea's President Alpha Condé has appointed Ibrahima Kassory Fofana as the country's new prime minister amid heightened political tensions.Mr Fofana, an economist, replaces Mamady Youla, who resigned last week along with his government.
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A total of 32 members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) aspiring for various executive positions in the Asante-Akim South Constituency have been vetted at Juaso.
A three-member committee led by the Regional Chairman …
The National House of Chiefs (NHC) has confirmed and acknowledged Ga Mantse, King Tackie Adama Latse II as the substantive Paramount Chief. In a letter, dated April 9, 2018 to the Greater Accra Region House of Chiefs, which was signed by …
Women Organisers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western Region have praised Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin as an indispensable asset of the party that deserves respect and support.
At a meeting in Tarkwa o…
Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament and a leading contender for the 2020 flagbearership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) keeps attracting votes of confidence among party executives day by day.
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"I don't think I will be able to see you again. Sorry. Please raise our children well."
Lini Puthussery, a 28-year-old nurse, wrote this note to her husband as she succumbed to the deadly Nipah virus on Monday in India's southern state …
An Australian court has found a Catholic archbishop guilty of concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s.
Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, becomes the most senior Catholic in the world to be charged and convicted of the offenc…
US-based law professor, Kwaku Asare thinks that former President John Mahama should not attempt to run for office again.
According to him, Mr Mahama has already served the country in various capacities, including as a Member of Parlla…
A shootout in Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, is over after seven hours.
Our reporter Simon Gongo says he has seen two dead bodies.
The city’s chief prosecutor is now inspecting the house in an eastern suburb of the capital.
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Isaac “The Royal Storm” Dogboe, World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Super Bantamweight champion has expressed appreciation to the chiefs and people of the Anlo state.
Dogboe and his team offered thanksgiving to God for his victory against J…
Zimbabwe's former leader Robert Mugabe has been summoned to attend a parliamentary committee hearing on Wednesday, news agency Reuters reports.
Mr Mugabe, who was ousted in November after 28 years as president, is being asked to expand …
Congo has begun Ebola vaccinations of medical staff in the northwest city of Mbandaka, a Reuters witness said, the first in the Central African country to help stem an outbreak believed to have killed 25 people since early April.
The Wo…
People in Hawaii are facing fresh warnings over toxic fumes produced when molten rock flows into the ocean, as the state continues to battle eruptions from the Kilauea volcano.
Officials say two lava flows have reached the Pacific, crea…
More than 20 people are believed to have died and thousands have been affected after tropical cyclone Sagar landed in the Horn of Africa over the weekend.
Heavy rains have caused flooding across the region, with pictures showing people …
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