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 …
Eight people have been killed when a storm lashed the South African city of Cape Town following months of drought.
Among the dead is a family of four killed in a fire started by lightning, while thousands have been left homeless, offici…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will hold this year’s national annual delegates’ conference from August 25 to 27 in Cape Coast in the Central Region.
The party has also set June 26 and July 26 as the deadlines for its constituency and re…
Parliament has formed a Committee of Parliament Assurances to ensure the implementation of important statements made and decisions taken on the floor of Parliament.
The decision to form the committee was taken by the Parliamentary Servi…
Madam Sun Baohong, the Chinese Ambassador, on Tuesday donated items, including desktop computers, printers, UPS and a cheque for 10,000 Ghana cedis, to the office of the Attorney General.
The donation is to support the Attorney General’…
Parliament's Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has called on the government to end a seeming political discrimination that has apparently occasioned recent dismissal of workers from state institutions.
He said it was improper that “genuin…
Fired FBI director James Comey told Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he did not want to be left alone with the president, US media report.
It is one of a slew of allegations relating to Donald Trump and an investigation into alleged …
Twin attacks on the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum in the capital, Tehran, have killed at least 12 people and injured many more.
The assault on the parliament building appears to be over, after earlier reports of …
Maverick politician and Member of Parliament for Assin Central in the Central Region, Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has been nominated for a global dignity award, to be presented to him in New York on August 4, 2017 at the United Nations (UN) …
Maverick politician and Member of Parliament for Assin Central in the Central Region, Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has been nominated for a global dignity award, to be presented to him in New York on August 4, 2017 at the United Nations (UN) …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she planned to offer voters in Europe's biggest economy tax relief in the next legislative period, rather than introduce any increases.
"In the next legislature period we do not want any t…
The Leader and Founder of the All People’s Congress (APR), Mr Hassan Ayariga, has asked President Akufo-Addo to concentrate his efforts first on strengthening security at home.
“Instead of travelling outside the country, the President a…
A former Trade and Industry Minister in the former president Mahama led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Ekow Spio-Garbrah says the founder of his party, former President Rawlings has his own right to express his views ab…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings on Sunday delivered a speech at the commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the June 4, 1979, uprising in Wa.
In the speech the leader of the June 4, 1979, uprising decried the spate of corruption t…
Emmanuel Macron's party is set to win the biggest parliamentary majority for a French president since Charles de Gaulle's 1968 landslide, a survey of voter intentions for the coming legislative elections showed on Tuesday.
Such a majori…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday leaders he met on a Middle East trip had warned him that Qatar was funding "radical ideology" after he had demanded they take action to stop financing militant groups.
The comments on Twitter …
The rulling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has planned to hold its 2017 annual delegates conference at Cape Coast in the Central Region from 25th to 27th August, 2017.
In a press statement issued and signed by acting General Secretary, Mr Jo…
South Africa's elite police unit opened an inquiry on Monday after thousands of emails relating to alleged fraud in awarding government contracts were leaked, adding to a graft scandal that has deepened splits in the ruling African Nationa…
On Monday 5 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, the UAE, and the internationally recognised Yemeni government severed their diplomatic relations with Qatar, accusing Doha of supporting terrorism.
In addition, the states announced t…
US President Donald Trump has again lashed out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan over his assurances to Londoners following Saturday's terror attack.
He accused Mr Khan of offering a "pathetic excuse" for saying there was no reason for people …
Member of the Council of State Sam Okudzeto says the size of Ghana’s parliament is ‘too big’.
He said keeping 275 Members of Parliament (MPs) in parliament is a democratic bill too high for the taxpayer.
Mr. Okudzeto condemned the pr…
The Assembly Member for Donkoyianu/Obra Wogum Electoral Area in the Effutu Municipality in the Central Region, Mr Nathaniel Papa Akyeampong, has advised assembly members against acting in a manner that would bring the name of the position …
The acting Ashanti Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr. Arthur Wilson, has rallied Ghanaians to be patriotic and accept to live up to their civic responsibilities.
They should put the national int…
Anxious Egyptians began flooding their community in Qatar with calls at dawn on Monday after learning that Cairo had cut ties with the wealthy Gulf state where they have made their home.
Egyptians seeking to escape economic crisis at ho…
Britain's election campaign resumed in earnest on Monday with Prime Minister Theresa May's opinion poll lead narrowing and the focus firmly on her security record after an attack by marauding jihadis killed seven people in the heart of Lon…
China has complained to Zambia after 31 of its nationals were arrested at the weekend for alleged illegal mining practices.
A senior Chinese foreign ministry official is quoted as saying that the Zambian authorities have failed to provi…
West African regional group Ecowas has in principle approved Morocco's membership application despite the country being in North Africa.
But Ecowas leaders meeting in Liberia said the implications of its membership still needed to be co…
Mr Clement Dandori, the Kasena Nankana West District Chief Executive, has said he would place emphasis on the development of agriculture, health and education during his term of office.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an inte…
Muslims have been urged to let the discipline and virtues they exhibit during the Ramadan fasting period permeate their lives.
The Minority Leader in Parliament, Alhaji Haruna Iddrisu, who stated this, said the fasting period provided M…
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is urging the government to tread cautiously and hasten slowly in its attempt to create new administrative regions.
According to the think tank, broader consultation and civic education needed to …
Finnish police officers may face prosecution for posting racist comments about migrants in a secret Facebook group.
The comments were revealed by Long Play, a Finnish investigative news site. The National Police Board has passed the mat…
A bomb planted in a police station killed at least one policeman in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayu on Monday, and militant Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility.
"A policeman died and several others were injured afte…
The ex-wife of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London to face torture charges.
Agnes Reeves Taylor, 51, is suspected of ordering and carrying out torture between 1989 and 1991, …
A number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region.
They say Qatar backs militant groups including so-called Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda, which Qa…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has chided the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for “abandoning the principles of the June 4 Revolution”, insisting that it was a major contributor to their electoral defeat at the 2016 general polls.…
A security analyst, Mr Emmanuel Sowatey, has charged politicians not to vilify or run down the police or their work.
He said although the police had some history of unprofessionalism, in seeking their short to long-term interests, polit…
Former President Jerry John Rawlings has said if the National Democratic Congress (NDC) does not end the blame game between the “horses” and the “jockeys” in the party vis-à-vis their loss in the 2016 elections, then they both must give wa…
President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbè is the new chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
He takes over from Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The Togolese leader became the new ECOWAS President on Sunda…
The family of former US President Barack Obama has purchased the home they had been renting in Washington DC.
The nine-bedroom, 8.5-bathroom stone mansion in the upmarket Kalorama neighbourhood was sold for $8.1m (£6.2m), property recor…
A Survey Findings by the Institution of Economic Affairs (IEA) has called on government to strengthen the security agencies in its effort to fight crime in promote safety. It said government should expedite actions on appointing the indep…
Mr Kodzo Hamenya Keglo, the Spokesperson for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Action Movement, has emphasised the group’s commitment towards propelling the vision of the party for victory in 2020.
Mr Keglo blamed the defeat of the…
Benin is hiring scores of extra park rangers and bringing in conservation scientists to rehabilitate a part of West Africa's largest wildlife reserve, which contains big cats and thousands of elephants that have largely died out elsewhere …
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday the United States remains committed to its Asia-Pacific allies, as he arrived in Singapore for the region's premier security forum.
Mattis, who is making his second visit to the region si…
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has ordered a new investigation into the disappearance of ivory from government strong rooms.
About 1.3 tonnes (2,866 lbs) of ivory vanished from the country's Wildlife Authority in November 2014.
M…
The Accra High Court on Friday restrained the Election Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) from re-opening nominations for the association’s upcoming national elections.
It followed the filing of a suit by four candidat…
A member of the Yilo Krobo Municipal Assembly, Mr Joseph Minimade, has appealed to the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to consider nominating another candidate as Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the area.
According to Mr Min…
Algeria has agreed to allow 41 Syrian refugees stranded on its frontier with Morocco to stay in the country as a humanitarian gesture, the foreign ministry said.
Earlier this week the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR urged Morocco an…
A teenage girl has been charged with murder after allegedly hacking an Uber driver to death with a stolen machete and knife in suburban Chicago.
Eliza Wasni, 16, appeared in court on Wednesday, the day after Grant Nelson was found in a …
Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe has begun a series of rallies across the country in a bid to win the support of young people ahead of elections next year.
A huge crowd has gathered for the rally in a stadium at Marondera,…
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