President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has said he is looking forward to retiring and handing over power after 23 years in office.
Speaking at a joint press briefing with his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Mr …
Senegal's president has told the nation he is "open to dialogue" in a televised address, weeks after a prominent rival who's on trial accused him of using a "strategy of terror" to drive out political opponents.
President Macky Sall mad…
A Taliban order has barred Afghan women from working for the United Nations, the organisation has said.
The UN said the Taliban had informed them verbally but there had not yet been written communication of the move.
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The leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) are of the view that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have designed a grand strategy to misinform Ghanaians on the country’s economic challenges in order to incite …
One of the three National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer hopefuls, Kojo Bonsu, has launched a donor support fund ahead of the May 13 primaries to build financial muscle for the 2024 campaign.
The digital donation platform is on…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the claim by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the government has over borrowed since assuming office in 2017 cannot be true.
According to the NPP, it is a false claim de…
India has reacted sharply to China's attempts to rename places in the north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh and said it "outright rejects" the move.
The state has been and will always be an "integral and inalienable part…
The US military says a senior leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) who was responsible for planning attacks in Europe has been killed in a strike in Syria.
Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri died in an undisclosed loca…
A Kenyan family on Sunday handed over a passport belonging to South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, which got lost in a 1993 plane crash.
The travel document had been kept by the family - along with those belonging to other passengers who…
Kenya is preparing to launch its first-ever earth observation satellite in what is being described as a landmark achievement in the country’s space exploration efforts.
Nation-1 or Taifa-1 in Swahili, is scheduled to be launched next we…
Mr Ernest Kobeah, one of the aspirants in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) May 13, Presidential Primaries has declared his support for former President John Dramani Mahama.
This was disclosed by the former President in a statement…
Aid agency, Médecins Sans Frontières, says far more humanitarian assistance is urgently needed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
MSF says about a million people have been forced to flee their homes in North Kivu province …
An aspiring Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has promised party executives that under his leadership, he will ensure all party workers are well paid, and also institute a pension scheme …
A former TEIN Ashanti regional students coordinator at the University of Development Studies, Wa campus, Samuel Adjei, is just a breath away from picking the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) ticket at the Manso Nkwanta constit…
Mr Alfred Asiedu Adjei, Presiding Member of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly has appealed to the National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) to work around the clock to reverse the current trend in dissolution of Assemblies.
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The Chief Executive Officer of the John Kufuor Foundation, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, has cautioned that the “winner takes all” attitude and politics of exclusion have heightened unhealthy rivalry among political parties.
He expl…
The State of Qatar has renewed its keenness to contribute to everything that would lead to realizing the aspirations of the Libyan people, supporting the political process, reaching a national consensus to ensure peace, stability and devel…
Persistent floods in southern Unity continue to have a devastating impact on not only people but also their livestock, which further exacerbates the situation of their owners. As cattle have been dying in large numbers, veterinary peacekee…
At least one person has been killed and about 30 injured - some seriously - after a passenger train derailed in the western Netherlands.
Emergency services say the overnight crash happened after the train transporting about…
Former US President Donald Trump is due to appear in a New York City courthouse on Tuesday.
This will be the moment when the criminal charges against him - the first against a US president - will be made public.
M…
The Chinese balloon that flew over the US earlier this year managed to gather intelligence from military bases for days before it was shot down, US media report.
The balloon was able to transmit data to Beijing in real time…
Former US President Donald Trump has been consulting lawyers at Trump Tower in New York City as he prepares to face history-making criminal charges.
He has been under investigation over hush money paid just before the 2016 e…
The Member of Parliament for Nanton, Mohammed Hardi Tuferi, has explained that he was speeding towards Parliament last Friday night when his vehicle was involved in an accident.
In a dramatic turn of events, the New Patriotic Party (…
The French Minister of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, has spoken out about the ongoing debate surrounding the rights of the LGBTQI+ community in Africa.
Ms. Zacharopo…
Charges have been dropped against four Kenyan opposition MPs a day after the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, suspended protests and agreed to hold talks with President William Ruto.
The four were arrested a fortnight ago for unlawful a…
An Ivorian technology entrepreneur and smartphone designer has won the World Literacy Award 2023.
The award "recognizes individuals and organizations annually for their outstanding endeavours that promote literacy learning," according t…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has settled on November 4, 2023 to hold a presidential primary to elect a flagbearer for the 2024 general elections Graphic Online has gathered from sources within the party.
Before then the party will hold…
A French government minister has sparked outrage after she posed for the cover of Playboy magazine.
Marlene Schiappa, the minister for the social economy, was fully clothed for the shoot. It will appear on the cover of the A…
Malaysia's parliament has voted to remove the country's mandatory death penalty, potentially sparing more than 1,300 prisoners on death row.
The country has had a moratorium on executions since 2018.
But lawmakers…
The UN human rights office says it's still "extremely worried about the impact" of the UK's government plans to send some migrants to Rwanda if they arrive in the UK through illegal routes.
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has insiste…
Finland will become the 31st member of Nato on Tuesday, the Western military alliance's secretary general has announced.
The application was prompted by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, with which Finland shares a long bo…
East African bloc, Igad, has praised Kenyan President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga for agreeing to hold talks aimed at ending two weeks of protests about the cost of living and electoral reforms.
On Sunday, Odinga sai…
Madam Emelia Agyefraa, Treasurer of the Greater Accra Presiding Members Association has called for mutual respect between Presiding Members and other Assembly members and theelectorate they work with.
“So respect for each other is very …
Uganda's Anglican archbishop is stuck with prizes meant for women who wed when still virgins, state-owned New Vision website quotes him as saying.
Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu said the initiative focused on women as men's virginit…
Greater Accra Association of Presiding Members have called for a constitutional amendment that will help to bridge the gap between times that Assemblies are dissolved and when new Members are re-elected.
This, the members believe would …
Concerned Madina NDC Members seeking Justice and Democratic Culture for NDC’s Victory in Madina against Selfish Interest, has expressed their displeasure and strongest reservations on the abnormal and very dangerous undemocratic behavior o…
Parliament has directed the Electoral Commission (EC) to hold on with its plans to use the Ghana Card as the sole document for registration onto the voters register for the upcoming polls.
This comes after officials of the EC, the NIA, …
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has declared the Kumawu Parliamentary seat vacant following the passing of the late Philip Basoah on March 28, 2023.
The 54-year-old late Kumawu MP died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital after he …
Local officials in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo say a landslide killed at least 19 people on Sunday morning.
An official in the village of Bulwa in North Kivu province said the death toll was likely to rise.
He said s…
South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, re-elected John Steenhuisen as its leader on Sunday, as it campaigns to unseat the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in next year's national elections.
Mr Steenhuisen g…
Rwanda's ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi), on Sunday elected its first woman vice-chairperson as President Paul Kagame retained the chairmanship position.
Consolee Uwimana was elected by 1,945 votes - about 93% …
Finnish conservative leader Petteri Orpo has won a nail-biting three-way election race, defeating Prime Minister Sanna Marin's centre left.
"We got the biggest mandate," said the leader of the National Coalition Party, after…
The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he has raised a Russian flag over Bakhmut's city hall in Ukraine.
In a night-time video, Yevgeny Prigozhin said Bakhmut was now Russian "in a legal sense".
However…
Former US president Donald Trump is "gearing up for a battle" ahead of his scheduled court hearing on Tuesday, his lawyer has said.
Mr Trump is expected to fly to New York City from his Mar-a-Lago home on Monday to face char…
Parliament has rejected the Electoral Commission’s (EC’s) use of the Ghana Card as the sole source of identification to register people onto the voters register.
The House unanimously recommended to the EC to include the guarantor syste…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has submitted to Parliament the Annual Report on the staffing position of the Office of the President for the period January 1 to December 31, last year.
It said during the reporting period, there w…
Parliament has approved three major tax bills targeted at bolstering the sustainable generation of domestic revenue for the country.
The bills are the Excise Duty and Excise Tax Stamp (Amendment) Bill, 2022, the Income Tax (Amendment) (…
The Chairman of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Professor Ato Essuman, has called for reforms in the country’s secondary education policy to give young people the opportunity to acquire skills to become national assets for de…
The owners of a Danish ship that was seized by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea last Saturday say the hijackers have now abandoned the vessel, taking some of the 16 crew members with them.
Others have been rescued from the Monjasa Reformer…
Former US President Donald Trump is being charged with a crime in relation to a payment he made to a porn star.
The man who spent four years in the White House is now days away from being fingerprinted, given a mugshot photo…
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