Ensuring a peaceful and credible poll is a civic responsibility that every patriotic citizen is expected to play.
Bishop Dr Fred Agogo, Commander, International Church Call, said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at AkimOd…
Osabarima Danso Abiam Ofori, Chief of Nkronso, has said chiefs are frontline agents of good governance hence the need to involve them in all development efforts.
He said it is the duty of traditional ruler to show interest in social am…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged African leaders to assume responsibility for the transformation of their economies, and depart from the mindset of aid, dependency and charity.
“If we, Africans, are to transform our sta…
The Yendi office of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has ended its 2017 Citizenship Week Celebration after covering 35 Primary and 25 Junior High Schools in the Yendi Municipality of Northern Region.
Their target of 6,8…
Former Vice-President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has urged Ghanaians to demand answers and ensure that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government fulfils all the promises that it made prior to the last general election.
Addressing a r…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighboring states as a violation of Islamic values and tantamount to a "death penalty" against Doha in a crisis reverberating through the Middle East and beyond.
Erdo…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets Chairman of the African Union Alpha Conde upon his arrival at the Chancellery on June 12, 2017 in Berlin, Germany
Angela Merkel welcomes African Union commission chief Alpha Conde at the summit
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Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila says his coalition can no longer go on with the Eurosceptic Finns party, after it elected an anti-immigration hardliner as leader.
Jussi Halla-aho has been convicted of hate speech for anti-Islamic and…
Singapore says it has detained a woman intending to travel to Syria to marry a fighter from the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Child care worker Syaikhah Izzah Zahrah Al Ansari, 22, was held under the Internal Security Act…
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi is reported to have been freed from jail in Libya after six years. So what next for the son of Col Muammar Gaddafi, who once appeared poised to succeed his father as leader of the North African country?
Is Saif al-…
From shipwrecks to terror attacks to an air disaster involving Paris Hilton, it seems that almost nothing is off-limits for the prank shows that have become a staple of North African TV during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
A rec…
A US appeals court has upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump's revised "travel ban" on people from six mainly Muslim nations.
Ruling on a case brought by the state of Hawaii, the appeal judges found that the executive order …
Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin erred in asserting that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost the 2016 elections due to its over-reliance on the state-owned media, the Executive Director of the Centre for Media Analy…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has extolled the virtues of the retired Chief Justice, Justice Georgina Theodora Wood.
He indicated that it was not for nothing …
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has stated that unity in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) can only work if there is a commitment to truthfulness, integrity and sincerity.
“I am beginning to hear about unity, unity, unity. It’…
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has assured the people of northern Ghana that the government’s 'One-village, one-dam’ programme will commence after the current rainy season.
He explained that it was not prudent to construct dams in t…
The Akatsi North Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Volta Region, has marked the Party’s 25th anniversary with a durbar. They also honoured 196 polling agents for the 2016 general election at Ave-Dakpa.
The ag…
The Zongo Development Fund (ZoDF) established by the government is not meant for private parochial interest such as paying individual hospital bills, footing bills for naming and marriage ceremonies and offering tips.
Alhaji Boniface Ab…
Mr Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Odododiodoo, has called on Ga indigenes to hold their hands in brotherly love to rebuild Accra.
He said: “I want to urge all of us that in this time the elections are over…
Melania Trump and son Barron have moved into the White House - five months after her husband Donald took office.
Mrs Trump and her son, 11, had stayed in New York to finish the school year.
The decision was seen as unusual by some, a…
The centrist party of French President Emmanuel Macron looks on course to win a landslide victory following the first round of parliamentary elections.
Projections show La République en Marche (Republic on the Move) and its MoDem ally s…
Parliamentarians from both sides of the House has praised the retiring Chief Justice (CJ), Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood for her immerse contribution to the country’s justice delivery system.
According to them, Mrs Wood’s enviable success…
The BBC News website's Africa desk team have been keeping an eye on 10 candidates in the UK elections who are of African heritage.
They were all MPs in the previous parliament and have all won their seats again:
Helen Grant who has a…
In the latest of our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir criticises the Sudanese government's failure to get to grips with a cholera outbreak.
After 10 months, Sudan's Ministry of Health finally confirmed that the…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has taken to popular social media platform, Facebook, to defend both his name and that of his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, and virtually taunting his critics.
Rawlings says for all those tryin…
Mr Wilson Arthur, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Wassa East, has pledged to support chiefs in their effort to enhance the development of the area.In this regard, he called on the chiefs to take ownership of their communities and pl…
EU nations must step up their military co-operation as they cannot simply rely on the US to defend them, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says.
"Our deference to Nato can no longer be used as a convenient alibi to argue again…
Japan's parliament has passed a one-off bill to allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate, the first emperor to do so in 200 years.
The 83-year-old said last year that his age and health were making it hard for him to fulfil his official duties…
A Deputy Minister for Finance, Mr Kwaku Kwarteng, thinks that it was needles for the minority members of parliament to have invited the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta to the House over the $2.25 bond issue.
To him, the minority …
THE District Chief Executive (DCE) for Atwima Nwabiagya, Mr Michael Awuku Amoah, has stated that he is committed to implementing the 2016 Manifesto of his party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), for rapid development in his district.
He s…
Islamic State (IS) threatened attacks in Saudi Arabia after the militant group claimed responsibility for assaults in Tehran that killed at least 17 people, Site Intelligence monitoring group reported on Friday.
Suicide bombers and gunm…
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would form a government backed by a small Northern Irish party after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority in an election days before launching talks on Britain's EU departure.
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The leader of Spain's Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, has called an independence referendum for 1 October, in defiance of the Madrid government.
The question will be: "Do you want Catalonia to be an independent state in the form of…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed the retiring Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood unto the Council of State.
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Ocquaye announced the appointment on the floor of th…
A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Upper Denkyira West Constituency in the Central Region, Mr Ben Ayeh, has expressed unhappiness over people describing indigenes from Denkyira and its environs as ‘wicked people’ following the lynching…
Mr Osei Bonsu, the Asunafo South District Chief Executive, says the district urgently needs a reconciliation committee for peace to prevail in the area.
He said partisan politics has brought division among the people and it would requir…
The UN has received reports that 231 Iraqi civilians have been killed by so-called Islamic State while attempting to flee Mosul over the past two weeks.
At least 204 are believed to have been shot dead by militants during clashes with I…
Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab says it has carried out a major assault on a military base in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.
Its fighters killed 61 government troops and seized 16 vehicles in the dawn raid, the grou…
A proposal by an Australian Islamic group to allow "safe spaces" for young Muslims to discuss "inflammatory" issues has sparked a row.
The Islamic Council of Victoria (ICV) said such forums enabled young people's opinions to be "respect…
Residents of Adentan in Accra have been urged to actively participate in activities of the Adentan Municipal Assembly (AdMA) to facilitate the accelerated development of the area.
‘’We cannot wait on the government; we need to start som…
The acting Ashanti Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr. Arthur Wilson, has called for increased support to enable it efficiently perform its constitutional mandate.
The present situation, where th…
The Tema Traditional Council (TTC) has openly expressed support for Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La, new Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive, and called on all residents to help him stir the affairs of Ghana’s pre-eminent maritime and industrial …
The man who attacked a French policeman outside Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Tuesday has been identified as a 40-year-old Algerian journalist and PhD student.
The man, named by French media as Farid Ikken, was shot by another police…
Bald men in Mozambique could be targets of ritual attacks, police have warned, after the recent killing of five men for their body parts.
Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred.
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A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Tema West, Madam Irene Naa Torshie Addo, has been nominated as the administrator of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF).
Madam Torshie Addo’s appointment was announced by the Speaker of Parl…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has accused his party of not being ‘tolerant’.
According to Mr Agyapong, if the party was tolerant enough, it would have taken some of his…
The Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described as reasonable a suggestion by former President Jerry John Rawlings for the party to elect new leaders ahead of the 2020 general election.
“To the exte…
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu visited China in 2015 to strengthen ties between the two countries.
Thirty-one Chinese nationals, held for illegal mining in Zambia, have been deported.
China said Zambia had provided insufficient evide…
Mr Trump has reportedly never heard of South Sudan's president
US Senator Christopher Coons has revealed details of a conversation he had with South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, the Washington correspondent of the UK-based Guardian new…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), a social democratic party, will be 25 years on Saturday, June 10, 2017.
Twenty-five years in one’s life could be described as youthful, but in politics, the party has come a long way and as …
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