Members of the female Caucus of the ECOWAS Parliament (ECOFEPA) on Thursday paid a courtesy call on First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo in Accra to discuss issues relating to women’s empowerment and representation in national development ac…
Guinean authorities have relaxed Covid-19 measures, including ending a night curfew and suspending a requirement for prior authorisation to transport bodies outside the capital, Conakry.
"The curfew is lifted; advance requests for autho…
Benin lawmakers have voted to legalise abortion in the country, expanding on the restricted circumstances where the practice was already allowed.
Women can now end their pregnancy within the first three months in cases where it could "a…
President Akufo-Addo has challenged Africa’s youth to take mental, physical and economic lead roles in positioning Africa as the giant of the future.
In a speech read on his behalf by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia at the Youth…
President Akufo-Addo has commended the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey for his performance so far.
He said initially, Mr Quartey did not like the idea to serve as a Regional Minister.
President Akufo-Addo who was sp…
President Akufo-Addo says he is not a "clearing agent" of people accused of corruption in his government.
According to him, he only announces findings of institutions mandated to investigate corruption or corrupt practices.
He said …
President Joe Biden said the US would defend Taiwan if China attacked, in an apparent departure from a long-held US foreign policy position.
But a White House spokesman later told some US media outlets that his remarks did not signify a…
The Queen spent Wednesday night in hospital for preliminary medical checks and is now back at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace has said.
The 95-year-old monarch returned from the private hospital in central London at lunchtime on Thurs…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to ensure a fair process to elect a new successor to lead the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the 2024 elections.
He said the party needed a transparent and a leveled ground to el…
The United Nations says more than 700,000 people have been displaced by the worst floods to hit South Sudan in decades.
At least 40 people have died across the country as heavy rains and flash floods destroy livestock, farmlands and hom…
Victims of the Nigerian security forces' crackdown on anti-police brutality protestors have yet to get justice one year on from nationwide demonstrations, according to international human rights groups.
In separate statements Amnesty In…
Turkey has signed several agreements with Nigeria that will see its volume of trade increase to over $1bn (£723m) in a major push to ramp up commercial and economic co-operation with Africa’s most populous nation.
President Recep Tayyip…
Barbados has elected its first ever president as it prepares to become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth as head of state.
Dame Sandra Mason, 72, is set to be sworn in on 30 November, which will mark the country's 55th anniversary of…
A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change.
The leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play…
A total of 71 statistical officers attached to the Local Government Service (LGS) have been trained in Ho.
Drawn from the Greater Accra, Volta and the Oti Regions, the officers, among who were new recruits, sharpened data handling …
The Rwandan President Paul Kagame is one of the high profile personalities attending the 2021 YouthConnekt Africa Summit in Accra from Wednesday to Friday, October 20 to 22.
President Kagame, since his assumption of office in 2,000, has…
Prosecutors have filed an appeal against the sentence of Paul Rusesabagina, the man portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood movie about the Rwandan genocide.
Rusesabagina, 67, was sentenced to 25 years in jail last month after being found gu…
The Eswatini government has directed the country's main telecoms operator, MTN, to shut down social media giant Facebook, reports say.
The move is in a bid to curb pro-democracy protests that have been going on for months amid calls for…
Former US President Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a new social media network, called TRUTH Social.
He said the platform would "stand up to the tyranny of big tech", accusing them of silencing opposing voices in the US.
S…
South Korea has launched its first homegrown rocket, stepping up the country's ambitions in space.
The Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle II, known as Nuri, took off from Goheung, about 500km (310 miles) south of Seoul.
President Moon J…
The Covid pandemic will "go on for a year longer than it needs to" because poorer countries are not getting the vaccines they need, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.
Dr Bruce Aylward, senior leader at the WHO, said it meant the …
The Head of the Department of Media Studies at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), Dr Ebo Afful, has called for the active involvement of the media in the formulation of government policies to ensure the successful implementation of t…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged party executives and supporters to volunteer to man the polling stations and collation centres to ensure the right things are done to secure the victory for the party in the next elections.
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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused the EU of blackmail in a heated debate with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen over the rule of law.
The clash in the European Parliament follows a top Polish court ruling…
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met indigenous leaders two weeks after he took a seaside holiday on a day meant to honour residential schools survivors and victims.
His decision to skip formal events on the first National Day f…
The top US envoy to Afghanistan is stepping down from his role less than two months after American forces withdrew from the country.
Zalmay Khalilzad led the US dialogue with the Taliban, but months of diplomatic talks failed to prevent…
Liberia’s President George Weah has honoured an 18-year-old motorcycle taxi rider who found and returned $50,000 (£36,000) to a businesswoman who had lost the cash in the north-eastern Nimba region.
President Weah met Emmanuel Tolue at …
An organisation supporting Somalis living in the UK says its members have been receiving death threats since the killing of British MP Sir David Amess.
Sir David was stabbed multiple times during a regular Friday meeting with his Southe…
President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed Government's commitment to revamp the cash-strapped Ameen Sangari Industry under the One District One Factory (1D1F) to stimulate economic activities in Cape Coast.
The factory is the Regio…
South African and US law enforcement agencies have arrested at least six members of the Nigerian Black Axe mafia syndicate in Cape Town, TimesLive news website reports.
The group, believed to be behind hundreds of thousands of “romance …
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says government is working tirelessly to get the defunct Komenda Sugar Factory operational by the first quarter of 2022.
He said despite the poor planning into the operationalization of the fact…
Dr. Kingsley Nyarko, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, has stated that with effective support from the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), nothing can stop the Party from breaking the eight.
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The Convention People's Party(CPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Jomoro in the December 2020 election Mr.Patrick Ekye-Keesie has extended his warmest felicitations to the first female MCE for Jomoro, Madam Louisa Iris Arde.
According to …
The National Dean of Presiding Members, Mr Joseph Korto, has revealed that the smooth approvals given to President Akufo-Addo's nominees for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Greater Accra Region was the result …
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister has tasked newly sworn-in Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) to be proactive in successfully implementing government's policies and programmes in their local assemblies to impact…
Mr John Dramani Mahama, the 2020 flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hinted that the party will do everything possible to make the 2024 general elections transparent, fair, and clean.
He said, "the party would not …
Mr George Kwadwo Ayisi, Director of Communications, National Disaster Management Organiasation (NADMO) Ghana, has said the Organisation is taking steps to help minimize the effects of floods on citizens.
He said perennial flooding had b…
The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and on behalf of the American people, launched on October 15 a new $3.4 million, three-year project to address the growing problems of ill…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the families of victims killed in an attack on a village market in the north-western state of Sokoto.
The Sokoto state government said 43 people died in the Sunday evening attack aft…
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he is concerned about reports on the use of excessive force against student protesters in Eswatini.
Students have been staging demonstrations in schools in recent weeks across the small sou…
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has formed a "crisis cell" to resolve what he has called the country's "most dangerous" political crisis since the 2019 military coup, state news agency Suna reported.
Mr Hamdok announced the commi…
Tributes are being paid to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has died of Covid-19 complications aged 84.
The former top military officer died on Monday morning, his family said. He was fully vaccinated.
Powell became the…
Iraq has detained the Islamic State militant who masterminded a suicide bombing in Baghdad in 2016 that killed 300 people, its prime minister says.
Ghazwan al-Zawbaee was captured in an "intelligence operation outside the country", Must…
North Korea has fired a suspected submarine-launched ballistic missile into waters off the coast of Japan, South Korea's military has said.
Pyongyang unveiled the missile in January, describing it as "the world's most powerful weapon".
…
Former Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko says he stands a better chance of leading the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to Election 2024 as a flagbearer.
He is of the conviction that NPP delegates will buy into his vision and give him the …
Former President John Dramani Mahama has re-stated his opposition to plans to re-introduce the Agyapa deal.
According to him, the Agyapa deal will be bad for the youth because it will invariably mean “mortgaging the future of the youth”…
The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Sammy Gyamfi wants President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately reduce fuel prices in the country.
He said the government can do this …
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the decision taken by his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama, to build the Komenda Sugar factory, without first establishing a sugarcane plantation, betrays every principle of construction.
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is hopeful Ghana will build back much more strongly as the country seeks to overcome the shocks left in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I acknowledge that life is still not as easy as it should …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will from Monday, 18th October 2021, begin a two-day tour of the Central Region, as part of his annual working visits to the sixteen (16) Regions of the country.
President Akufo-Addo’s itinerary wi…