Kim Jong-un is set to become the first North Korean leader to cross into South Korean territory since the end of the Korean War in 1953, as final details are put in place for the summit.
South Korea said President Moon Jae-in would pers…
The Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development, Mr Dan Botwe, has asked Ghanaians to disabuse their minds of rumours making the rounds that the government was sponsoring people to demand for the separation of some regions in the …
Moroccan schoolgirl Meriem was just 16 when her family pressured her to marry a man she had never met 20 years her senior. Young brides are best, the family said and she looked forward to dressing up for the wedding.
They marri…
Mr Thomas Kusi Boafo, the Chief Executive Officer, Public Sector Reforms has stressed the need for public servants and well-meaning Ghanaians to focus on national development rather than personal and selfish gains.
“There is the need f…
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said that his country's decades long quarrel with the UK is over, reports the Herald newsaper.
For years, former President Robert Mugabe railed against Britain and its political leaders as the…
The southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh recorded 36,749 lightning strikes in just a 13-hour period on Tuesday, officials say.
The number is unusually high and the result of "extreme weather patterns", according to the state disaster…
Mr Divine Otoo Agorhom, the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has led the Regional party executives and followers to clean up the Trade Fair Centre after last Saturday’s delegate conference.
The exercise …
Without an office to work in, South Sudan's Gok State governor Madhang Majok Meen has been forced carry out official duties under a tree.
"We are all operating under the trees - the governor and the ministers," the state's Information M…
The Western Regional Elections Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have expressed gratitude to all members of the Party for contributing towards the peaceful conduct and outcome of the polls.
"The cooperation of all and sundry ma…
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he may have failed in efforts to persuade Donald Trump to stick to an international nuclear deal with Iran.
"My view is... that he will get rid of this deal on his own, for domestic reasons," Mr…
More than 160 children have been rescued from a "baby factory" and two unregistered orphanages in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, an official has said.
Some of the babies and children had been sexually abused, Agboola Dabiri added.
It is…
The Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Daniel Bugri Naabu, now Abdul-Fatawu Bugri Naabu was Thursday morning involved in an accident on the Damango-Fufulso road.
He was travelling from Bole through Damongo …
Mr Saanbanye Basilide Kangberee, a 70-year-old retired English Lecturer of a Saudi Arabian-based University, has been voted as the new Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Upper West Region.
Mr Kangberee swept…
A group of Tema East Constituency executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have stated that the public imputation of dishonestly receiving double salaries on Mr Alban Bagbin will end up a leap to nowhere.
“The cantankerous …
Nigeria has ambitious plans to turn the vast north-eastern Sambisa forest - a hideout for militant Islamists - into a tourist centre, its army chief Lt Gen Tukur Buratai has said.
He said that the military would work with the country's …
The Caucus for Democratic Governance (CDG), says investigation of double salary allegations should not be limited to Ministers of State who served from 2013 to 2016.
“Reliable sources show that there were many of such double payments du…
An aide to Nigeria's controversial senator Dino Melaye has denied that the lawmaker jumped from a police vehicle in the capital, Abuja, to escape, saying he was pushed.
Mr Melaye was being taken to court in the southern city of Lokoja w…
Four mass graves have been unearthed in Rwanda, which are believed to date from the 1994 genocide.
The sites were found in the Gasabo district, outside the capital Kigali, and about 200 bodies have been exhumed.
Around 3,000 people f…
The Northern Regional Delegates’ conference of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to elect new regional officers to steer the affairs of the party for the next four years is scheduled to come off on Saturday, April 28, 2018 at the Aliu Mahama S…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has questioned the legitimacy of efforts by the US and its European allies to change a nuclear deal with his country.
The US and French leaders announced on Tuesday that they were working on a "new deal"…
Danish inventor Peter Madsen has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his submarine.
Madsen had planned to kill Ms Wall, 30, either by suffocating her or cutting her throat…
The Akwatia Consistency branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of taking credit for projects mostly initiated by the previous NDC government.
Addressing a news conference at Akwatia to…
Alhaji Yusif Abdulai, an aspiring Constituency Organiser for the Tema East branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has promised to bring vibrancy to the party if elected in the forthcoming branch elections.
He has also promised…
Mr Anthony Namoo, a legal practitioner, polled 124 votes to unseat the incumbent Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in the Upper East Region, Mr Mohammed Murtala Ibrahim in a surprisingly contested Regional Executive election.
T…
Flamboyant Nigerian senator Dino Melaye is back in police custody after he attempted to escape by jumping out of a police vehicle in the capital, Abuja, while being taken to court in the southern city of Lokoja, the Vanguard news site repo…
A self-styled Indian spiritual guru who claims millions of followers worldwide has been given a life sentence for raping a 16-year-old girl.
Asaram Bapu was convicted of the 2013 attack on the girl, a devotee at his ashram in Jodhpur, b…
US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have suggested there could be a new agreement on Iran's nuclear programme.
After talks in the US, Mr Trump, who is sceptical of an accord that was struck in 2015, spok…
The Minority Caucus in Parliament has challenged Information Minister Mustapha Abdul-Hamid to provide proof of his claims that the erstwhile Mahama administration spent a whopping GH?3 billion on the Office of Government Machinery in 2016.…
The Israeli government said on Tuesday it had abandoned a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally after failing to find a willing country to take in the migrants.
The government had been working for mo…
Two dams in Kenya are close to overflowing because of heavy rains, threatening the lives of thousands of people, the Red Cross has told the BBC.
Abbas Gullet, the head of the Kenya Red Cross, advised people in east and central regions t…
Three Mexican film students kidnapped last month in the western Jalisco state were later killed and their bodies dissolved in acid, local officials say.
They say the male students, all in their 20s, were killed by the Jalisco New Genera…
There has been a decrease in riots at a Kenyan prison after an experiment in so-called mindfulness, the assistant commissioner in charge of Naivasha prison has told the BBC.
Matthew Mutisya told our colleague Mercy Juma that the the pri…
A van driver accused of killing 10 people in Toronto posted to Facebook minutes before the attack to praise killer Elliot Rodger and refer to the misogynistic "incel" Reddit group.
Alek Minassian, 25, was charged on Tuesday with 10 coun…
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Kingsford Alban Sumana Bagbin has slammed the government for creating bad blood between itself and the parties involved in the double salary saga.
He stated that the government has not been honest wi…
The Western Regional Elections Committee of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has applauded members of the party for the peaceful and successful delegates’ conference to pick new regional officers.
The Chairperson, Hajia Saudatu Saeed, sai…
A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and a presidential hopeful, Professor Joshua Alabi has stated that the NDC party did not have a compelling message during the 2016 elections.
He explained that the numerous prai…
A senior Iranian official said on Tuesday that Tehran might quit a treaty designed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons if U.S. President Donald Trump scraps the nuclear accord Iran signed with world powers in 2015.
Trump has said that…
French billionaire Vincent Bolloré has been detained for questioning by anti-corruption police near Paris.
Officers in Nanterre are asking him about suspected corruption in Africa, reports say. It comes days after he stepped down as cha…
Former US President George H W Bush is in a hospital intensive care unit with an infection, a week after the death of his wife, Barbara.
In a statement, a family spokesman said he had contracted an infection that spread to his blood, bu…
The United Arab Emirates is to give $50m (£36m) to help rebuild a landmark mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul blown up by Islamic State militants.
The UN's cultural agency said a five-year project would restore and reconstruct faithfully…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday said Ghana fully supported the ongoing diplomatic process being employed to restore relations between the two Koreas.
He said the Republic of Korea and North Korea were at a critical turn …
More than 90,000 Nigerian Muslims reportedly went on the pilgrimage last year
Saudi authorities are threatening to bar Nigerians from attending this year's pilgrimage to Mecca over fears they could spread Lassa fever, Nigeria's National…
Mr Clement Ababio, an aspiring Communications Officer for the Tema East branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has appealed to the ruling New Patriotic Party to step up its game.
He said many Ghanaians were expectant because o…
Britain must permanently return all artifacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept them on loan, an Ethiopian government official said.
The call comes after the museum, one of London’s …
Many living in the diaspora use remittance services like Western Union to send money
Africa was the most expensive region to send money to last year, the World Bank says.
It costs an average of 9% to send $200 (£143) to sub-Saha…
Canadian police are questioning a man suspected of driving a rented van into pedestrians in northern Toronto on Monday, killing 10 and injuring 15.
Alek Minassian, 25, was not previously known to authorities, police said, adding that th…
The Information Minister, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid thinks that the number of staffers at the Presidency should not be a matter of concern but a commitment to protect the public purse should be the issue.
According to him, in 2017 for ins…
Members of Parliament have been recalled to consider "some urgent parliamentary business."
A statement dated April 23, 2018 and signed by the Speaker of Parliament Prof. Aaron Michael Ocquaye said the MPs are to report on Thursday April…
Mr Divine Otoo Agorhom, Chairman of COB-A Group of Companies, was on Saturday elected the Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) after beating his main contender Mr Alfred Boye with seven votes.
Of the total va…
Internal Party issues have delayed processes of the Brong-Ahafo Regional Delegates’ Congress of the New Patriotic Party ((NPP) underway at the Catholic Pastoral Centre in Sunyani.
As at the time of filing this report, the more than 600 …
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