The US state department has urged China to release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, expressing deep concerns over her deteriorating health.
She was given a four-year jail term over her reporting of the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan when the …
The government of South Sudan says more than one million people have been affected by flash flooding this year.
Disaster Management Minister Peter Mayen Majongdit announced this while receiving food aid from Egypt.
He said the donate…
The UN has warned that Ethiopia is at a risk of descending into a widening civil war if the fighting in the northern region of Tigray does not stop.
The head of the UN’s political and peace-building affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, said no ai…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has urged political party leaders to help sustain the prevailing peace and cohesion by engaging in issue-based conversations rather than insults and name-calling.
It noted that the prev…
Dr Kwame Asah-Asante, Senior Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, has observed that digitalising the economy will help curb corruption, encourage accountability, transparency, enhance good governance and rule of law.
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Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) have been tasked to enact and enforce the Assemblies by-laws by prioritising security and guarantee the welfare of their residents.
Section 181 of the Local Government Act 936, 2016 empowe…
The Kaneshie District Court yesterday adjourned to November 16, the case involving Francis Xavier Sosu, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina.
This was after the police received a letter from Parliament indicating the MP had travelle…
Ghana is in a state of despair, former President John Dramani Mahama has said.
According to Mr Mahama, he discovered the hopelessness after touring the country to thank Ghanaians for their votes in the 2020 election.
In a television …
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has cautioned the citizenry to guard against complacency but team up to nip violent extremism in the bud.
It said though the country had been widely acclaimed as peaceful, she could not…
An aspirant for the position of National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Stephen Ntim, has expressed gratitude to the grassroots of the party for their support in his bid to become the national chairman.
Mr Ntim sai…
For 12 years Didier Ndabahariye has been ferrying passengers around the streets of Kigali - one of the thousands of motorbike taxi drivers, known locally as a motos.
Recently, he switched his usual ride for getting around Rwanda's capit…
Ethiopia has restricted a number of social media outlets including Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp and Instagram amid reports of a school examination paper leak.
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1457735903984685060
BBC staff in the …
Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has asked each citizen to take responsibility for the country’s development rather than always demanding it from the politicians.
He said he had hundreds of messages on his phone from people asking hi…
The Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, has criticised the Catholic Bishops Conference for a lack of clarity in its concerns about the Akufo-Addo administration’s handling of the public purs…
Barack Obama has called on young people to "stay angry" in the fight against climate change at the COP26 summit.
The former US president urged them to apply political pressure to make a change, but warned they would need to accept compr…
Poland has warned of a possible "armed" escalation on its border with Belarus, fearing its neighbour may try to provoke an incident with hundreds of migrants seeking to cross into the EU.
Extra troops have been deployed after desperate …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo left Ghana on Monday for Praia, Cape Verde, to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the West African nation’s President-elect, Jose Maria Neves.
The President is attending the ceremony in his capacit…
Members of the Adaklu District Assembly in the Volta Region last Friday rejected Mr Bright Kwame Nyatsikor, the new District Chief Executive (DCE) nominee for the area.
Mr Nyatsikor, who is the Volta Regional Public Relations Officer of…
The UK's trade deal with the EU could collapse in a row over Northern Ireland, says a senior Irish minister.
The UK is thought to be preparing to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney hi…
Restrictions on entering the US have been loosened.
Fully vaccinated travellers - from more than 30 countries including the UK - can visit for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
What are the new US rules?
Vaccinated peo…
Sudan's military commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemeti, has supported General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's move to take over power.
Hemeti, who was the deputy leader in the now-dissolved Sovereign Council, said Gen Burhan "came t…
This is a country which is starting to feel the very real fear of hunger.
The weather is turning from early autumn warmth to a sharp chill. Several areas are reporting drought, which adds to the sense of growing catastrophe.
At Maida…
UN aid chief Martin Griffiths and the African Union’s envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, visited the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia on Sunday to discuss humanitarian access and a possible ceasefire in the year-long confli…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has received the mortal remains of the late Mrs. Eudora Quartey-Koranteng, Ghana’s Ambassador to Italy at the Kotoka International Airport.
The Fo…
The UN Security Council is meeting on Monday to discuss the conflict in northern Ethiopia, even as rebels claim to be advancing towards the capital, Addis Ababa.
The open session in New York will discuss the humanitarian crisis, where n…
Samuel Aboagye, the Election 2020 National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate for Obuasi East Constituency in the Ashanti Region, has called for unity among the leadership and members to enhance the chances of the party in t…
The various Municipal and District Assemblies in the Bono East Region will from January 2022, apply Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) as a tool for revenue mobilisation and communication, among the delivery of other governmen…
An Italian court has sentenced 70 members of the powerful mafia group, the 'Ndrangheta, in the first stage of the biggest mafia trial in decades.
Defendants faced charges including attempted murder and extortion.
Over the next two ye…
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has said he escaped unhurt after a drone attack on his home inside Baghdad's high-security Green Zone.
A drone laden with explosives struck the building, injuring six of his bodyguards in an appar…
The US has reopened its borders to double-jabbed foreign visitors, ending a 20-month entry ban.
The ban was imposed by former President Donald Trump due to Covid-19.
It has affected non-US citizens from over 30 countries, including t…
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has said that gay practices cannot be condoned because the country is a Christian nation.
President Hichilema said the country can only "realign sound democratic values with other countries", local …
Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has declared three days of national mourning after a fuel tanker explosion on Friday killed more than 100 people.
Mr Maada Bio said the country must learn from the incident, adding that those in…
Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has indicated that the refusal of Speaker, Alban Bagbin, to release the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, to the Police is in the right direction.
According to …
The National Youth Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye (Nana B), has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, over their responses to the government’s agenda to use digitalizati…
The Member of Parliament for Madina Francis-Xavier Sosu is expected to appear before a court in Accra later today, Monday, to answer to criminal charges leveled against him by the Ghana Police Service.
The Ghana Police Service last week…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has imposed sanctions against individuals and groups who have been identified as obstructing the move by the bloc to restore democratic rule to Mali.
The sanctions, which include tr…
The Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS has appointed Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas as a Special Envoy to Guinea to strengthen dialogue with the authority towards the successful and short transitional process.
The decision wa…
Norway's central bank said on Thursday it plans to raise its key policy interest rate next month, continuing a campaign of monetary tightening that started in September.
Norges Bank's monetary policy committee kept the rate on hold at 0…
Portugal will head to the polls on Jan. 30 for a snap election called by the country's president on Thursday, a week after parliament threw out the minority Socialist government's 2022 budget bill, ending six years of relative political st…
The Minority in Parliament has accused the Majority Caucus of deliberately ignoring the facts surrounding the attempted arrest of the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, and the Speaker’s handling of same.
The Majority…
The African Center for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), is worried about what it says is a dangerous precedent being set by Parliament over the attempted arrest of the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu.
The refusal of p…
The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin, has admitted a private member’s motion from three Members of the Minority Caucus for an inquiry into the expenditure made by the government since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Th…
Talks between Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and the leaders of an Oct. 25 military coup are making progress, a source close to Hamdok said on Thursday as the United States and United Nations pressed for a solution.
A second sou…
India's national capital, Delhi, woke up to grey skies as air quality dipped to hazardous levels following the festival of Diwali.
Despite a ban, people across the city burst firecrackers late into Thursday night, worsening pollution le…
Work is due to begin on Botswana's second privately-owned coal mine in the first quarter of next year, the CEO of Maatla Resources told Reuters, despite calls to abandon coal.
At the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, the southern Afr…
The citizenry has been challenged to reaffirm commitment and dedication of working in collaboration to empower them to stand for national peace and security.
In order to achieve national peace and security, the citizenry must learn to c…
Professor Kwesi Aning,the Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), has advised against the use of force to supervise elections at the local level.
Pr…
Rescuers searching the rubble of a high rise building that collapsed while under construction in the Nigerian city of Lagos, have found the body of the project's owner.
Friends confirmed the identity of Olufemi Osibona after his remains…
Somalia has declared AU envoy Simon Mulongo a persona non grata, and ordered him to leave the country within seven days.
Mr Mulongo is the Deputy Special Representative of the African Union (AU) for Somalia.
He is accused of engaging…
Niger has declared two days of national mourning from Friday, after at least 69 people were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents.
The attack happened in the country's south-west, near the border with Mali.
Victims inc…