Michael Botuo, a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has petitioned the leadership of the party to disallow government appointees from contesting sitting Members of Parliament (MP).
He explained that chief executive officers and ma…
Foreign powers have hailed the truce signed by the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan leaders to end the brutal war in the north of the country and open up the flow of aid to those at risk of famine, but questions remain over whether it…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has expressed worry about the delay in the work of an ad hoc committee set up to probe the revocation of licences of financial institutions by the Bank of Ghana in 2017.
He chided the committee f…
Former President John Mahama has urged leadership to help the youth address challenges through a united, peaceful and prosperous continent.
He cautioned that without helping them to overcome their challenges, unity, peace and prosperity…
The French parliament was brought to a halt after a far-right MP shouted "they should go back to Africa" as a black colleague talked about immigration.
Grégoire de Fournas, a member of National Rally (RN), said later his rem…
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his victory in Tuesday's general election.
Mr Lapid said he had called his rival to wish him luck and tell him he would ensure an orderly transition o…
Pilots at Kenya’s national airline, Kenya Airways, will go strike this Saturday, union officials have announced.
The action comes days after the expiry of a two-week’s strike notice issued by the pilots’ union, who are demanding that th…
President Félix Tshisekedi has instructed the army chief to establish recruitment centres across the country in response to Rwandan “aggression” - a reference to claims that Kigali is militarily supporting the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel…
A former Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, has urged African countries to enforce judgments given by continental bodies with judicial power to strengthen regional integration.
She said the enforcement gaps among African countries re…
A delegation of judges and judicial officers from Uganda are on a five-day working visit to the country to understudy Ghana’s judicial system and how it works.
The 13-member delegation is led by the Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda, Justi…
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused the Kremlin of resorting to "energy terrorism" as Russian troops make few gains on the battlefield.
Mr Zelensky said 4.5 million people were without power following Russian …
Donald Trump has dropped one of his strongest hints yet that he may run for the White House again.
The former US president told a crowd in Iowa, that he will "very, very, very probably do it again" in 2024.
Mr Tru…
A former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Francis Short, has advocated the curtailment of the excessive appointment powers of Presidents under the 1992 Constitution to enhance…
Former Minister of Finance, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has declared his readiness to contest the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearership when nominations open.
Dr Duffuor officially announced his intention Thursday afternoon [November…
Over one million people have been affected by flooding caused by torrential rains across South Sudan, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha), says.
Ocha said the ongoing flood response by its aid partners was …
Guinea's former President Alpha Condé could face corruption charges after the junta that overthrew him last year told prosecutors to begin legal proceedings, the AFP news agency reports.
More than 180 others could also be charged.
"Y…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has conferred with representatives of religious bodies and the national leadership of students to seek their inputs into resolving the current economic crisis facing the country.
“Our country is in …
The Minority in Parliament has urged the government to use the profit it has made from petroleum resources to cushion Ghanaians against the escalating cost of living.
According to the Minority, contrary to claims by the government that …
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has appealed to truckers protesting against Sunday's election results to clear the roads and protest elsewhere.
Supporters of the far-right president have erected hundreds of roadblocks acro…
It has been a confusing and nerve-wracking morning for people living in northern Japan.
At 07:50, air raid alarms went off across Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures and TV programmes were interrupted to tell people to take she…
A surprise deal has been reached in the Ethiopian civil war with both sides agreeing to halt their two-year conflict which led to thousands of deaths and warnings of a famine.
The African Union (AU) has called it a new "dawn…
One of the daughters of Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo has denied receiving a government contract of $25m (£22m) to paint murals in parts of the capital, Accra.
Gyankroma Akufo-Addo said such allegations were a "complete fabrication bein…
Some unlikely fighters are strengthening the Somali government's arsenal in its long war against al-Shabab, one of al-Qaeda's most successful affiliates - and which was behind a twin car bomb explosion in the capital, Mogadishu, last w…
Turkey's president has said a deal to free up grain exports from Ukraine will consider African countries struggling with supplies.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had discussed sending grain to A…
The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has revised the dates for filing of nominations, vetting of aspirants and hearing of appeals for the party’s upcoming national elections.
The new date fo…
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has admitted that the long delay in the construction of the Pwalugu Multipurpose dam project is as a result of financial constraints.
Speaking at the launch of the Northern Development Authority’s f…
The Chief Policy Analyst at the Ghana Institute of Public Policy Options Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby has lashed out at the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) for doing little or nothing in fighting for petroleum users in the wake of cons…
The decision by Nigeria’s Borno State to shut down its camps for people displaced by the Boko Haram conflict has pushed over 200,000 people into deeper suffering and destitution; Borno State is harming hundreds of thousands of displaced pe…
With some young religious voters literally jumping for joy, the stand-out story of Israel's latest election was the big surge in popularity of the far-right.
"Things will be better now. When he's the public security minister…
North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) but it failed mid-flight, says the South Korean military.
The ICBM launch, the North's seventh this year, sparked an alert in Japan - but fell short, landing…
US President Joe Biden has accused his predecessor Donald Trump and his supporters of undermining democracy, ahead of next week's midterm elections.
"Make no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us," Mr Biden, a De…
The Minority in Parliament has alleged that government is making super normal profit from the Russia-Ukraine war and not the case that the war is having a negative impact on the Ghanaian economy.
The Minority Spokesperson on Energy and…
The Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance and Leasing Company Limited, Mr Kenneth Thompson, has dramatically begged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to take decisive actions and save the economy from total collapse.…
The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has temporarily suspended his campaign activities in the run-up to the party’s national conference, following the death of his mother.
Ofosu Ampofo’s m…
A court in Paris has sentenced a former Liberian rebel commander to life in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity during Liberia's civil war.
Kunti Kamara was a senior officer in the Ulimo armed militia, which oversaw a reign o…
The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces have agreed on a permanent cessation of hostilities to end the war in the northern Tigrayan region.
The announcement was made by African Union chief mediator Olusegun Obasanjo following talks…
Denmark's centre-left has secured the most votes in a general election widely seen as a confidence vote in the country's leader.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's "red bloc" of parties has secured the required 90 seats to f…
Gender-based violence and femicide cases continue to rise in South Africa as “violent" men in the country are targeting children and elderly women, the country's President Cyril Ramaphosa, said.
“We have in recent times seen a spate of …
Kenya is deploying the first contingent of a regional peacekeeping force to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
President William Ruto will on Wednesday morning preside over a flagging-off ceremony in Nairobi for the Kenya Defence For…
Human Rights Watch is warning that more than 200,000 people in north-east Nigeria who have been displaced by an Islamist insurgency are struggling to meet their basic needs for food and shelter.
The rights group said the problem was exa…
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the brink of a dramatic comeback, after partial results showed he was on course to win a majority in parliament with the far right's help.
With 86% of votes from the gen…
The Minority in Parliament says government will announce a haircut on some investments within the next 14 days as part of its debt restructuring measures.
President Akufo-Addo in his economic recovery speech on Sunda…
A total of 77 aspirants have been cleared to contest in the elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Bono and Upper West Regions.
In the Bono region, 37 persons filed to contest for the 15 regional executive positions …
The Tamale Metropolitan Assembly (TaMA) has succeeded in electing a Presiding Member (PM) after three unsuccessful attempts in March this year.
The PM-elect, Abubakari Issah, is the Assemblyman for the Bilpela Electoral Area.
He poll…
Conditions at an overcrowded migrant centre in Kent were akin to living in a prison or a zoo, a recent resident has told the BBC.
Ahmed - not his real name - said people at the Manston processing centre were treated like "a…
Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has broken the silence he had maintained since being defeated in Sunday's presidential election.
He thanked voters who had cast their ballots for him but did not acknowledge def…
North and South Korea have fired a number of missiles into waters near each other's coasts in a marked escalation of hostilities.
The North launched its most missiles in a single day - at least 23 - including one that lande…
The Director of Elections for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, has picked forms to contest the position of General Secretary of the NDC in the upcoming National Elections.
Mr Ankrah is one of thre…
The Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has criticised the President for failing to accept responsibility for the “sorry and wrenched” state of the Ghanaian when he delivered his address on the state of the economy last Sunday.
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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has initiated moves in Parliament to halt the move by the Electoral Commission (EC) to use the National Identification Card (Ghana Card) as the only evidence of citizenship for the compilation of a ne…
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