Boris Johnson is facing calls from senior Tories to resign after he admitted attending a drinks party during lockdown.
The prime minister apologised for the way he handled the event in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 a…
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says government may sometimes be forced to make some ‘unpalatable’ decisions, in the interest of Ghanaians.
He bemoaned that the posture on what revenue mobilization measure is …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Sissala East, Mr Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, has built an office in Tumu to keep in touch with the constituents.
The construction of the office, which began in the early part of 20…
The Canadian province of Quebec will charge a health tax to residents who are not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Quebec, which has seen the highest number of Covid-related deaths in Canada, is currently struggling with a surge…
A court in Saudi Arabia has for the first time ordered that a man convicted of sexual harassment be named and shamed in public, local media report.
Yasser al-Arawi was found guilty by the Criminal Court in Medina of harassin…
The trial of Zimbabwean journalist Jeffery Moyo, who is charged with smuggling two of his colleagues into the country in May, is expected to begin in Bulawayo city.
Media groups say he was wrongly accused and should not face trial.
M…
The authorities in Burkina Faso have announced the arrest of eight soldiers who are accused of plotting a coup.
Among those arrested is Colonel Mohamed Emmanuel Zoungrana - a well-known former army commander who has reportedly been crit…
The World Health Organization has warned that half of Europe will have caught the Omicron Covid variant within the next six to eight weeks.
Dr Hans Kluge said a "west-to-east tidal wave" of Omicron was sweeping across the r…
The US State Department has warned Somali leaders against further delays to the indirect parliamentary elections and threatened to impose targeted sanctions, including visa restrictions.
The US asked the Somali leaders to adhere to the …
The former Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Nii Armah Ashitey has debunked rumours purporting that he is dead.
Nii Ashitey was mistaken for the former Greater Ac…
The Minority in Parliament is questioning the propriety of the relationship between Second Deputy Speaker, Andrew Asiamah Amoako and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus.
The independent Member of Parliament for the Fome…
A decade after civil conflict erupted in Mali, hopes for an early resolution to insurgency and strife have not materialized, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the country, El-Ghassim Wane, told the Security Council on…
Two people died and eight others are missing after a truck plunged into River Nile in Egypt.
The accident happened outside the capital Cairo when the truck was on board an unlicensed ferry.
Rescue operations have continued at the riv…
The UN is calling on the Tunisian authorities to either release or properly charge the country’s former justice minister.
Noureddine Bhiri has been detained after being taken away from his home on 31 December for suspected terrorism off…
Leading EU figures have paid tributes to European Parliament President David Sassoli, who has died at the age of 65.
The Italian former journalist and centre-left politician had been seriously ill for more than two weeks an…
North Korea says it has conducted another hypersonic missile test, under the watch of its leader Kim Jong-un.
State media said the missile fired on Tuesday had successfully made a turn before hitting its target in the sea so…
Conservative and opposition MPs are demanding answers from Boris Johnson over whether he attended a drinks event in the No 10 garden during lockdown.
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said that if he was there, and he lie…
A group of 46 individuals sympathetic to the #FixTheCountry Movement have petitioned the President for the removal of the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensa, and her two deputies; Dr Bossman Eric Asare and Samuel Tettey, over the…
The political space for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region is getting hot in the lead up to the party’s internal election.
It follows what some party members described as selective implementation of the party’s campaig…
Nigeria's first census in more than 15 years is due to be held in May, the head of the country's National Population Commission has said.
Nasir Isa Kwarra said digital technology would help to ensure that the nationwide survey was relia…
Pope Francis on Monday warned against attempts to cancel culture, decrying "one-track thinking" he said attempts to deny or rewrite history according to today's standards.
Francis made his comments in an address to diplomats, the main t…
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. State Department on Monday advised against travel to neighboring Canada because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases as the Omicron variant spreads.
The CDC elevated its…
Ukraine is ready to take the necessary decisions to end the war in its eastern Donbass region at a new summit of the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.
"It is time to…
The public prosecutor in Uganda has withdrawn a case against opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine.
The politician had been accused of giving false details about his age while registering for a diploma at Make…
Kenya has suspended all inbound and transit passenger flights from the United Arabs Emirates, for seven days.
The suspension is effective from Monday this week.
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), says this was done to reciprocate…
The Omanhene of Agogo Traditional Area, Nana Kwame Akuoku Sarpong, has expressed gratitude and appreciation to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the construction of an ultra-modern sports complex (astro turf) in Agogo Zongo.
N…
The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter.
Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman to write and perform a po…
North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile, less than a week after it launched what it claimed was a hypersonic missile.
South Korea said it detected the launch at 07:27 local time on Tuesday (22:27 GMT on Monday).…
European Parliament President David Sassoli has died at the age of 65, his spokesman says.
The Italian former journalist and centre-left politician had been seriously ill for more than two weeks and cancelled all official ac…
A group, calling itself ‘NPP YOUTH FOR VICTORY 2024’, is urging the National Executive Council (NEC) of the party to investigate the suspension of two members of the Northern Regional Communication Team.
The action was taken against th…
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired the state security minister Owen Ncube.
In a press statement, the president’s office said Mr Ncube had been removed “with immediate effect for conduct inappropriate for a minister of gov…
US President Joe Biden has raised concerns about civilian deaths caused by recent air strikes in Ethiopia during a call with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
This follows reports that more than 50 displaced people were killed in an air strike…
The Bono Regional Minister, Ms Justina Owusu Banahene, has called for the investment potential of the region to be harnessed to speed up its development.
In line with that, she announced plans by the Bono Regional Coordinating Council (…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Mr Francis Xavier Sosu, has marked his one year in office by rewarding teachers in the constituency.
Fourteen teachers were presented with deep freezers and re…
The people of Akpo near Huhunya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region now have an electricity-powered mechanised water system after many years of deprivation.
The facility, which cost GH¢38,844, was constructed by the Kof…
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has established an Ambulance Service Fund for members of his constituency.
This followed a cash donation he made to the management of the North Tongu Office of the National A…
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church, Ghana, Rt Rev. Dr Lt Col. Bliss D.K Agbeko (retd), has bemoaned the worrying trend of needless politicking and propaganda in all facets of the nation.
He…
The First Deputy Majority Leader, Mr Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has called on Ghanaians to join hands to protect the country’s democracy.
He said it was prudent for the citizens to perform their civic responsibilities while politicians wo…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Wa West, Mr Peter Lanchene Toobu, has stressed the need for consensus building among Members of Parliament (MPs) in executing the business of the House.
“This hung Parliame…
The United Nations said on Saturday it would invite Sudanese military leaders, political parties and other groups to take part in discussions aimed at ending a crisis unleashed by a coup in October.
U.N. mediation in the weeks after the…
A woman whose parents fled a brutal military dictatorship has been appointed Wales' new children's commissioner.
Rocio Cifuentes arrived in the country as a one-year-old with her parents - political refugees from Chile.
…
Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake.
Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the country.
Video circulating online shows the mome…
Five people have been killed and 15 others seriously injured after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunderstorms and lightning left a trail of destruction in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province.
The dead are victims of lightnin…
Congolese media are reporting that journalist and academic Samuel Sirasi, who had gone missing last week, has been found alive but unwell.
Members of DR Congo National Press Union want the authorities to grant him protection and find th…
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has called on Ghanaians to take keen interest in the constitutional provisions on their rights and stand up for them.
It tasked Ghanaians to religiously read the 1992 Con…
The Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) is asking metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to use part of their common fund to establish public libraries.
It is also appealing to Members of Parliament (MPs) to consider building librar…
Schools in Uganda have fully reopened this morning, almost two years after the coronavirus pandemic started.
This has been one of the world's longest closures since the virus forced governments to close learning institutions back in Mar…
Aid agencies have suspended operations in a zone of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region where dozens of people were reportedly killed in an air strike, the UN says.
"The ongoing threats of drone strikes" left them little choice but to hal…
Buckingham Palace has unveiled the full line-up of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.
Street parties, a concert with some of the world's "biggest entertainment stars" and a chance to see the Queen's…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) last Friday lost one of its leading members, Mr Ishmael Ashitey, and described his death as a great loss.
Mr Ashitey, who was also a former Greater Accra Regional Minister and former Regional Chairman of th…