The Kremlin on Friday denounced a resolution proposed by two U.S. congressmen to end recognition of President Vladimir Putin when his current term ends in 2024 as an unacceptable and aggressive demonstration of official U.S. meddling in Ru…
Special envoys from the African Union and the US have returned to Ethiopia in a bid to revive talks for a ceasefire and find ways to end the year-long conflict.
Both the US' Jeffrey Feltman and Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU’s special repres…
Days after Austria imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated, it has announced a full national Covid-19 lockdown starting on Monday.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said it would last a maximum of 20 days and there would be a legal requi…
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, has maintained that, an NDC government will not have scrapped toll levy rather broaden the tax net for more revenue to accelerate socioeconomic development.
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Deputy Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Isaac Adongo, has taken a swipe at the government following the introduction of new taxes and revision of fees as announced in the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy.
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The Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, has stressed the need for Parliament to rely on credible data to perform its oversight responsibility functions for the benefit of the citizenry.
He said the use of credible da…
The District Chief Executive (DCE) nominee for Akatsi North, Mr Paul Agbesi Ayrah, has for the second time failed to gain the nod as the district head.
Mr Ayrah's second confirmation bid saw 11 out of 18 members of the assembly vote ‘ye…
Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, says the Speaker’s directive to the Roads and Highways Minister to reverse the cessation of the collection road tolls is an error.
He insists the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, does not ha…
The Roads and Highways Ministry has clarified that the recent directive by the sector minister for the cessation of the collection of tolls on public roads was not to set aside the laws for toll collection.
According to the Ministry, th…
Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has dismissed Commerce Minister Capitoline Niyonizigiye.
She has been accused of "undermining government's aspirations and orientations...and for tarnishing the image of Burundi".
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The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential palace in Abuja on Thursday.
He is visiting Nigeria as part of his tour of Africa which began in Kenya earlier in the week.
Mr Blink…
The UN says six of its staff have been released in Ethiopia, leaving five in detention.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said one dependant was also being detained.
The UN employees were among 16 detained earlier this month.
No r…
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, official data shows.
A report by Brazil's space research agency (Inpe) found that deforestation increased by 22% in a year.
Brazil was among a nu…
Indian PM Narendra Modi has announced the repeal of three controversial farm laws after a year of protests.
Thousands of farmers had camped at Delhi's borders since last November and dozens died from heat, cold and Covid.
Farmers say…
President Akufo-Addo has said that everyone should be concerned about governance infractions as when they arise, they exact enormous costs that affect the entire society.
“The cost of poor governance can be enormous,” he stressed in rem…
The US has removed Nigeria from the list of religious violators, ahead of the visit by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the country.
The US government last year placed Nigeria on its special watch list of states that had engaged…
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen lauded military cooperation with Washington on Thursday as she commissioned the first combat wing of F-16 fighters upgraded with U.S. help to bolster the island's defences during rising tensions between Taipei…
West African military chiefs on Wednesday began a three-day summit in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to discuss the escalating jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region.
The senior officers from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowa…
In a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants, Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely starting as early as the 2022 fiscal year, a justice ministry official said on Thursday.
Und…
Two men convicted of the murder in 1965 of the US civil rights leader Malcolm X are to have their convictions quashed.
Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam did not get the justice they deserved, the Manhattan District Attorney said.
Prosec…
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has tasked Members of Parliament (MPs) to realise themselves as the hope of the citizenry and work to lift their spirits to contribute meaningfully to nation building.
He observed that the spirits of…
Inusah Fuseini, the former Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, has waded into the raging stand-off between the Police Service and Parliament.
The issue is connected with a dogged stance by the Police to prosecute Francis-Xavier Sos…
Thousands of Nigerian railway workers have begun a three-day strike to push the government to improve their welfare.
The strike is likely to disrupt services in some of the busy stations, including the railway line that links the northe…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called for a review of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
He said “I will be very strict, come next year, 2022,to make sure that we change the nature and character of our po…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Ga Central Municipal Assembly (GCMA), Mr Mohammed Bashiru, has began a consultative forum with residents in the municipality.
It forms part of his agenda to meet different groups in the various…
An Independent Presidential Candidate in the 2020 elections, Mr Alfred Kwame Asiedu Walker, has rallied his national executive and supporters for an electoral showdown with the country’s two main political parties.
He asked them to “fig…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated the National Planning Committee (NPC) and sub-committees for the party's 2021 Annual Delegates Conference, which is scheduled to take place in Kumasi from December 18 to December 20, 2021.
T…
Doctors in Sudan say 14 people have been shot dead by security forces as thousands took to the streets to protest against the recent military takeover.
Activists had called for mass demonstrations to mark the day when a civilian was sup…
Kenyans online have welcomed the signing of a new law that prevents secret lovers from inheriting wealth in the event of their partner's death.
The bill, sponsored by MP Peter Kaluma, only allows children sired by the deceased to get a …
Burkina Faso's President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has admitted to problems that “must be corrected in the fight against terrorism” after an attack that killed 53 people.
The suspected jihadist attack on Sunday, in which 49 soldiers an…
More than 100,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses over a year-long period during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is the highest yearly death toll from drugs ever recorded in the US.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Preve…
Germany is in the grip of a "dramatic" fourth Covid wave, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said on the eve of a crisis meeting with regional leaders.
Daily infections hit a new German record of 52,826 on Wednesday as European governments re…
A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian western province of British Columbia after a major storm cut road and rail links in the region.
The Canadian Armed Forces are being deployed to help thousands of stranded residents …
The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum has generated GH¢1.88 million between January 2017 and September this year.
The revenue accrued from the visits of 176,589 Ghanaians and 92,937 non-Ghanaians to the facility.
The Minister…
Francis-Xavier Sosu, the Member of Parliament for Madina Constituency, has sued the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare.
In a motion on notice, the Madina Legislator is praying for the enforcement of his fundamen…
Members of the Minority in Parliament say the government failed to demonstrate it has solutions to the most pressing problems affecting the economy - unsustainable debt, hardships, high cost of living, fiscal indiscipline, unemployment, ar…
Australia's prime minister said on Wednesday more than 60 areas of technology were critical to the national interest and promised millions of dollars in funding to keep strategic rivals from controlling industries from cyber security to m…
Polish security forces fired water cannon at rock-throwing migrants on the border with Belarus on Tuesday, and NATO reiterated its support for Warsaw in a crisis that has left thousands stranded on the frontier in icy temperatures.
Vide…
The United States and Japan announced on Wednesday a new trade partnership to boost cooperation on labor, environment and digital trade issues, with an emphasis on "third country concerns," a reference to China's state-driven economic poli…
South Africa has declared four days of national mourning following the death on Thursday of the last white president FW de Klerk.
The national mourning starts on Wednesday evening to Sunday evening and "the national flag will be flown a…
The US State Department has warned American citizens in Ethiopia that it will not be able to evacuate them if the security situation worsens suddenly.
A senior US official urged American citizens to leave Ethiopia immediately, saying th…
Hundreds of protesters held demonstrations in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou on Tuesday demanding the resignation of President Roch Kabore.
The protesters accuse the president of failing to rein in militants in the north and east wh…
The Member of Parliament North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has extended his commiserations to the family of former Transport Minister, Dzifa Attivor.
Mr. Ablakwa in a Twitter post said the late Dzifa Attivor was passionate about nat…
Former President John Mahama, has assured that when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) returns to power in 2025, he will stop the phenomenon of abandoning projects started by previous administrations.
“When I return to power in 2025…
A pastor of the Church of Pentecost in the Wa West District, Reverend Alfred Assih, has
appealed to the youth not to use violence to express their grievances but direct them to the appropriate authorities.
He asked them to take viole…
Forum for Equity, a human rights non-governmental organisation,has called for critical thinking from the leadership of all spheres of endeavour to fix youth unemployment.
“Youth unemployment has become a time bomb tied around the neck o…
The Chairman of the Council of State, Nana Otuo Siriboe II, has stressed the need to keep Members of Parliament (MPs) who have distinguished themselves in the house as part of measures to address the high rate of attrition in Parliament.
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The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has deployed a new contingent of Police officers to serve under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM).
A team of 113 newly deployed personnel, from the Formed Police Unit (FPU), arrived in Mogadish…
Cars are on fire after a bomb explosion near the Parliament building in Kampala, Uganda, on November 16, 2021
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The explosions in Uganda killed three civilians, as well as three suicide bombersImage caption: The explosion…
The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, is in Kenya for talks later on Wednesday with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The talks involve regional security issues including the conflict in Ethiopia, combating Islamist terrorism in Somalia, …