The country was able to finalize and launch its National Climate Change Policy and Response Strategy
In March 2018 we connected with the Executive Director of Liberia’s Environmental Protection Agency – Mr. Nathaniel Blama – to discuss …
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launch joint voucher programme to support communities affected by Cyclone Idai
The voucher programme will run from August to October and will bene…
A suspected Nigerian "kidnap kingpin", who escaped in a shootout between the army and police, has been rearrested.
Police say Hamisu Bala Wadume was tracked down after a “massive manhunt” to a hideout the northern state of Kano.
Two …
US President Donald Trump has cancelled a state visit to Denmark after the nation's prime minister said Greenland was not for sale to the US.
The president was scheduled to visit on 2 September, at the invitation of Denmark's Queen Marg…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has disclosed to the Chairperson and Members of the Council of State that, on Monday, August 19, 2019, he gave his assent to Minerals and Mining (Amendment) Act, 2019.
The Act has amended the Min…
Military police say they have "neutralised" a man who held dozens of passengers hostage for more than three hours on a commuter bus in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
In a tweet, police said all hostages had been freed after a sni…
Thousands of people in Ghana who deposited their money in some bank accounts are worried they'll never get it back, after 23 savings and loans companies had their licences removed in a crackdown by the country's central bank.
It says th…
A course about Brexit, the UK's plan to leave the European Union, is to be offered as an option by the University of Botswana's history department.
The course, called Modern Britain, will "study the crisis" as it happens, a notice share…
Dams supplying the South African city of Cape Town are now 81% full, a year after a chronic water shortage almost forced officials to cut the supply off entirely.
At this time last year the level was just 53%, News24 reports.
Residen…
Kenyans on Twitter are not happy about an order for all bars and entertainment venues to be shut down in Machakos county during the national census taking place next Saturday and Sunday.
The governor of Machokos, in eastern Kenya, issue…
The fate of Italy's coalition is set to be decided after weeks of hostility between ruling parties the nationalist League and Five Star.
Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, called for a snap election earlier this month, saying differe…
The Kadjebi District Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has intensified public education on the need for the citizenry to acquire the Ghana Card during the mass registration.
Speaking at one of such programme…
Mr Benjamin Komla Kpodo, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho Central, has said the constituency had made giant strides in infrastructural development and could become the first "smart constituency" und…
Mr Daniel Akwasi Appiah, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman for Amenfi Central, Western Region, says the NDC is ready to maintain the seat due to the developmental projects it had embarked on in the area.
In an interview wi…
The National Youth Wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has asked Ghanaians to disregard former President John Mahama’s statement that he had no intention to cancel the implementation of the free Senior High School (SHS).
Mr Mahama i…
Government has secured a Danish facility of over GHC62 million to build seven bridges in the North, under a project dubbed "Northern Bridges Project".
The bridges would be constructed in Doninga in Builsa South, Kulungugu in Bawku Munic…
With just 10 weeks to go until the 31 October Brexit deadline, Brits are becoming increasingly concerned about the potential decline in their passport power. As millions return from their visa-free summer holidays abroad, and the more than…
Nigeria, with her huge population continues to experience an untold effect of drug use especially among youth
“I have been injecting drugs for a long time and we share syringes,” says Ali who lives in the suburb of the Federal Capital T…
The vote taken on the future of wild African elephants by members of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) this past weekend is a step in the right direction, but leaves a lot of questi…
Sixty-ninth session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa
The 69th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa opened today in Brazzaville, with Congolese President Denis Sassou-…
They have paid special tribute to women humanitarians in Nigeria and brought their voices to the world
Marking the tenth anniversary of World Humanitarian Day, aid workers in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, as well as in the capital Abu…
The United States Government (USG) remains the largest single donor to the humanitarian response in Central African Republic (CAR)
The United States Government (USG) will provide just over 186 million USD in funding for the humanitarian…
Zimbabwe's former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko is being treated as a fugitive after fleeing from anti-corruption officials.
Mr Mphoko was due at a police station to make a statement on allegations being levelled against him but dro…
Countries at risk of Ebola will receive extra UK aid support to help stop the deadly disease from spreading, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma announced today
Since the epidemic began last August, the UK has been a major d…
The US has tested a medium-range cruise missile weeks after pulling out of a key treaty with Russia that banned such nuclear-capable weapons.
The Pentagon said it successfully launched the missile off the coast of California on Sunday.
…
Progress at Last for Kingdom of Eswatini’s Energy Mix Dream (By: Koketso Lediga, Managing Director & Lead Consultant, Infra-Afrika Advisory, Sandton)
The request for qualification comes delayed given that Eswatini has publicized its int…
Professor Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's longest-serving Finance Minister is tipped to become the running mate to former President John Dramani Mahama for Election 2020, Graphic Online has gathered.
It has been gathered that Prof Botchwey's na…
U.S. Embassy, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and iCog Labs Celebrate Youth Winners of SolveIT! 2019
The winners of this year’s competition were Melkamu Taddese and Memberu Zeleke, who won 100,000 birr for their joint pro…
Discussants on building inclusive business concept in Ghana have called for an effective partnership between the government and the private sector to increase investment, grow private businesses and reduce poverty in the country.
They…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has issued a fiat that the party will not allow delegates in the upcoming primary to enter the polling booth with phones.
The General Secretary of the party, Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia, who disclos…
The government says it is scaling up preparations for a no-deal Brexit on 31 October.
A week after taking office, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged an extra £2.1bn specifically to prepare for leaving the EU without a deal.
Prior t…
Prince Andrew is appalled by sex abuse claims about his ex-friend Jeffrey Epstein, Buckingham Palace has said.
It comes after the Mail on Sunday published footage that claimed to show the Duke of York inside the financier's Manhattan ma…
A crisis has erupted between Iran and Western countries - in particular the UK and US - after a series of incidents in and around the Gulf, a strategically important waterway in the Middle East. Both sides are blaming the other and there a…
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli and President of the National House of Chiefs, on Friday played host to the British and Australian High Commissioners to Ghana in his private residence in Ho.
The honour was in appreciation of the…
The former president is being detained in a cage within the courtroom
Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir admitted to receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, an investigator has told a court in the capital, Khartoum.
The…
Alhaji Labaran Yakubu Barry, a New Patriotic Party(NPP) parliamentary candidate aspirant, Ashaiman, has pledged to remove hardship from the people of Ashaiman when elected as the next Member of Parliament.
Alhaji Barry, who contested i…
The media has been tasked to drive an agenda of peace towards the 2020 general election by developing organisational policies to ensure that only right information is put in the public domain.
The National Network Co-ordinator for the…
Mr Kofi Akpaloo, the Founder and Leader of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), has declared the Party's intention to legalise and regulate the commercial production and export of marijuana or "wee" if it wins the 2020 election.
Regardless…
Burundi has not fulfilled the requirements to join the Southern African Development Community (Sadc).
The country applied to join the regional body in 2017, but its request was put on hold pending an investigation.
A Sadc team was se…
A detective has told a court in Sudan that former President Omar al-Bashir admitted to receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia.
Mr Bashir appeared in court on Monday to face corruption charges, which his lawyers say are baseless…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reopened nominations in the Ashaiman Constituency for prospective aspirants to contest the forth coming parliamentary primaries following the sudden death of the main contender who was …
Outspoken Liberian opposition politician Abraham Darius Dillion, who has become the newest member of the senate after defeating the candidate of President George Weah in a crucial by-election last month, has announced that he has taken a s…
Greenland on Friday dismissed the notion that it might be up for sale after reports that U.S. President Donald Trump had privately discussed with his advisers the idea of buying the world’s biggest island.
“We are open for business, but…
The Zimbabwean authorities reintroduced the Zimbabwean dollar as the country's sole legal tender in June.
Zimbabwe has not had its own independent currency for a decade, relying instead on the US dollar and a local money system pegged t…
Two parliamentary aspirants, have appealed to the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to involve grassroots of the party if the campaign for victory in 2020 will be successful.
They intimated that although the NDC los…
A number of seamen have been kidnapped after an attack on their vessel off the coast of Cameroon in West Africa’s piracy-plagued Gulf of Guinea, a source in the Cameroonian army and a source at the major port of Douala said on Friday.
I…
Police in the Nigerian city of Jos are investigating the circumstances of how a 15-year-old boy staged his own kidnap and demanded a ransom from his father for his release.
"It was expertly done," police spokesman Terna Tyopev told the …
OPEC delivered a downbeat oil market outlook for the rest of 2019 on Friday as economic growth slows and highlighted challenges in 2020 as rivals pump more, building a case to keep up an OPEC-led pact to curb supply.
In a monthly report…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has now settled on December 17, this year for the referendum on the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs).
Earlier, the EC had fixed December 10, 2019, for the referendu…
Uganda has denied allegations it hacked into the encrypted communications of musician-turned-MP Bobi Wine.
The Wall Street Journal alleges Ugandan officials worked with technicians from telecoms company Huawei to infiltrate the politici…
