The Upper East Regional Youth Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Lambon, has charged all members of the party’s Tertiary Institutions Network (TEIN) to work assiduously to ensure the NDC win…
At least 53 people have been killed, according to survivors, in one of the deadliest airstrikes by the Myanmar military in the civil war.
They say that the dead include at least 15 women and a number of children. The BBC ca…
A Kuwaiti media outlet says it has created a virtual news presenter using artificial intelligence (AI).
"Fedha" made her debut on the Twitter account of Kuwait News, an affiliate of the Kuwait Times.
She appears a…
The authorities in two cities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region have introduced night-time curfews as anti-government protests continue to spread across the region.
Dessie and Debrebirhan cities followed another city, the historic Gondar, in …
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has delayed the launch of Kenya’s first earth observation satellite by 24 hours citing unfavourable weather conditions at the launch base in California.
The satellite named Nation-1, or Taifa-1 in Swahili, was…
South African opposition party the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has called on Indian police to arrest and prosecute the Dalai Lama for child abuse after a video of his inappropriate interaction with a boy went viral.
In the clip, the…
Dr Emmanuel Kojo Jones-Mensah, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary aspirant for the Keta Constituency of the Volta Region, has expressed optimism of becoming the next parliamentary candidate for the 2024 elections.
He sai…
Mr. Governs Kwame Agbodza, Member of Parliament for Adaklu on Easter Holy Saturday donated an amount of GHC 1,000 each to the 46 branches of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Adaklu Constituency.
It is to serve as seed money…
The Kenyan government has admitted that it is facing a cash crunch that has delayed payment of salaries for thousands of public workers.
It says it had to make tough decisions on whether to pay the salaries or service millions of dollar…
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned a former cabinet minister who was serving a five-year sentence after being convicted for abuse of office.
Uladi Mussa was sentenced in 2020 to six years in prison over corruption linked to …
A leaked Pentagon document seen by the BBC reveals a sensitive conversation between high-level South Korean officials on whether to sell weapons that could be used in Ukraine.
The intercept targeted two of President Yoon Suk…
Five people died when an employee opened fire at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, and livestreamed the attack on Instagram, police say.
The victims were aged between 40 and 64. Among nine others injured was a rookie police of…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has defended the Member of Parliament for Abetifi, Bryan Acheampong, over comments that the ruling NPP government will never hand over power to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the NPP, …
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that it is possible for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government to break the eight-year governance cycle in the 2024 elections.
He explained that comparatively, the NPP gover…
The New Patriotic Party says a statement made by the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, to the effect that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will never hand over power to the NDC was a direct response to thre…
Abdul-Razak Yakubu,a political strategist and development consultant, has declared his intention to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ayawaso Central Constituency parliamentary primaries in the Greater Accra Region to wrest…
Some concerned members of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) have petitioned Nana Akosua Sarpong-Kumankumah, Chairperson and leader of the party, over the decision to elect a flagbearer ahead of the grassroots mobilisation exerciseof…
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong is confident that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government will be able to conclude negotiations and seal a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between June and July this y…
China has sent warships, including an aircraft carrier, into the seas around Taiwan.
Beijing's latest show of military force followed a meeting on Wednesday in California between Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and US House …
Sudanese leaders have again postponed the signing of a final agreement to re-establish a civilian government as differences within military factions intensify.
Talks continued overnight with negotiations centred on a draft deal that was…
Efforts to regain the Hohoe Parliamentary Seat seem to dominate the plans of the Hohoe Constituency National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidates ahead of the upcoming primaries.
A five-member Vetting Committee led by Mada…
Professor Ephraim Nsoh Avea, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Aspirant for the Bongo constituency says he has more experience to lead the party to victory in both presidential and parliamentary elections come 2024.
He …
The third-placed candidate in Nigeria's presidential election, Peter Obi, says he is being pressured to leave the country.
He did not offer proof to back the claim but said it was part of government's attempt to "divert attention" from …
The foreign ministers of bitter Middle Eastern rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia have held official talks for the first time since 2016.
A video showed Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud being encourage…
Fifteen out of the 17 aspirants who filed to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primaries in the Western North Region have been cleared by the vetting committee.
The committee, headed by Alhaji Mohammed Cole Yo…
Mr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Minority Leader of Parliament and two other incumbent Members of Parliament (MPs) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) are going unopposed in the Party’s Parliamentary primaries in the Central Region.
…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has urged Member States of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to work together towards achieving the ECOWAS vision of a prosperou…
Two South African football club officials are being held as collateral in Libya for an unpaid US$37 000 bill.
Exactly 16 days after their club Marumo Gallants played Al Akhdar in the CAF Confederation Cup, team manager, Rufus Matsena, a…
Torgbiga Addo VIII, Paramount Chief of the Klikor Traditional Area has marked 40 years of reign as overlord of the area, with a call on all indigenes of Klikor to unite for the development of the area.
This was at a colourful durbar to …
Some residents of Sandema in the Builsa North Municipality of the Upper East Region, have threatened to boycott the 2024 Presidential and Parliamentary elections if the Chuchuliga-Sandema-Wiaga-Weisi road is not constructed.
The 62-kilo…
Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being treated for a type of chronic leukaemia, hospital doctors in Milan have confirmed.
He was rushed to intensive care on Wednesday with breathing problems and doctors sai…
Namibia has lifted a ban on importation and in-transit movement of live birds and poultry products from Ireland.
This is after the European country was declared free from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
The southern African…
French leader Emmanuel Macron has urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to help stop Russia's war in Ukraine.
"I know I can count on you to bring Russia to its senses, and bring everyone back to the negotiating table," he…
Zambia's mining sector, a significant contributor to the country's economy, has made history after appointing its first female CEO to head one of the biggest mining operations there.
Mfikeyi Makayi will head up the copper unit in Zambia…
Nigeria's former president Olusegun Obasanjo has written to court officials in the UK, asking for justice to be tempered with mercy when Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice are sentenced for organ trafficking.
Senator …
Mr Sammy Awuku, the Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), has expressed his support for Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to be the flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 election.
In an in…
Robert F Kennedy Jr has filed election paperwork to run for US president in 2024 as a Democrat.
The 69-year-old is the son of assassinated Senator Robert F Kennedy and nephew of President John F Kennedy.
The envi…
As Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen meet Xi Jinping, they will be sending a message of unity - even as China seeks to exploit potential cracks in Europe's alliances.
The French president and the head of the European …
The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Frimpong Koduah, says the economic situation the country is faced with would have been worse under a National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
The country has…
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has urged Dr Peter Appiahene and Hajia Salima Ahmed Tijani to resign from their positions on the board of Ghana's Electoral Commission.
The appointments of Dr Appiahene and Hajia Ti…
The newly established interim administration in Ethiopia's war-ravaged Tigray region has appointed a 27-member cabinet to steer a political transition in the area, local media report.
It comes after the federal government and the Tigray…
The South African government has decided to revoke a national state of disaster that it declared in February to address the electricity crisis.
The state of disaster meant it could use emergency procurement procedures with fewer bureauc…
As so often in the past, the latest scenes of violence at Jerusalem's most important holy site for Muslims and Jews are igniting widespread anger.
In one social media video, heavily armed Israeli police apparently use a rifl…
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has made fresh demands that risk rocking the bipartisan talks opened by President William Ruto on Sunday.
The two were rivals in last year's presidential election and have agreed to hold talks on t…
Nigeria's Senate has approved the China Development Bank as the new financier for a rail project, which is set to cost close to a billion dollars.
Another Chinese lender had been due to fund the line between Kaduna and Kano - the larges…
Political parties in Liberia on Tuesday signed a peace accord to prevent violence ahead of October presidential and legislative elections.
President George Weah said the accord signed by 26 political parties shows the country's commitme…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has warned its opposition counterpart, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to be honest in its assessments of Ghana’s economic situation.
The NPP is of the view that notwithstanding its excelle…
Mr Charles Akowuah, the Bono Regional Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has advised parliamentary aspirants to do decent campaigning because bad messages would be counter-productive to the cause of the Party…
All the parliamentary aspirants seeking to contest the upcoming parliamentary primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Upper West Region have been cleared by a vetting committee of the party.
Although the vetting proce…
At least 10 secondary school students have been abducted in Kaduna state in north-west Nigeria.
They were seized on Monday from a government school in Awon.
Kaduna is one of several states where armed gangs have frequently carried ou…
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