The Comptroller General of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS), Kwame AsuahTakyi, has stressed that his outfit will continue to implement strategic and joint initiatives with partners to enhance regular migration.
He was speaking in Acc…
The American space agency is counting down to the lift-off of its giant new Moon rocket - the Space Launch System.
SLS is the most powerful vehicle ever developed by Nasa, and will be the foundation of its Artemis project wh…
Hundreds of people are stranded across the river in the Manoor valley of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a flash flood hit the region on Friday, destroying at least 10 bridges and dozens of buildings.
"We need s…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has tagged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the worst performing government in Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
Speaking at the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Lawyers Conference held over the weeken…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appointed new officers into deputy national executive positions and directors of the party.
At an event today, Friday, August 26, 2022, former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute…
Fighting has continued to be reported in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region - bordering Tigray - after a five-month humanitarian truce was shattered last week.
Tigrayan forces took the Amhara town of Kobo on Saturday after pushing southw…
Kenyans are voting in some areas where polls had been postponed because of mix-ups in ballot papers.
Polling stations have already opened and no incidents have been reported so far.
People in Mombasa county in the coast region and Ka…
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that inspite of the ongoing global economic crisis, which has had a devastating effect on the Ghanaian economy in the past two and half years, the NPP government has chalked many remarkabl…
Niger has deployed rainmaking technology aimed at alleviating the effects of drought in the country, weather authorities said Thursday.
The desert country has faced a food crisis for years because of extended dry spells.
The head of …
A new Records Management Manual to help deepen probity, transparency and accountability and help transform local governance in the country has been developed by the Local Government Service.
It was developed with the support of the Japa…
African states are increasingly acquiring Turkish drones to fight armed groups after they proved to be effective in various conflicts around the world, writes analyst Paul Melly.
As Ukraine stepped up its initial fightback a…
After a decade of scepticism over free trade deals, India has been signing a bevy of new agreements with a number of countries to reduce trade barriers, eliminate tariffs and gain preferential access to global markets.
Earli…
The authorities in Zimbabwe have been urged to investigate the brutal assault of four independent journalists on Thursday.
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) said the group was attacked after they filmed a convoy of g…
Millions of people have been affected by floods in Pakistan, hundreds have been killed, and the government has declared a national emergency.
On Friday, the National Disaster Management Authority said more than 900 people ha…
Angola's governing MPLA party looks set to extend its almost 50-year-long stint in power, holding off a challenge from its former civil war enemy, Unita.
With more than 97% of the votes in Wednesday's election counted, the M…
Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, the Director of Elections for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has questioned the increasing nature of partisanship among student politics in contemporary Ghana.
He advised student leaders to refrain from su…
Some civil society activists in Tamale in the Northern Region, have observed that sections and provisions in the Declaration of Assets and Liabilities as contained in the current draft Conduct of Public Officers Bill will not strengthen th…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appointed new people into deputy national executive positions in the party and directors.
Former Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Richard Ahiagbah is now the Director of Communications to re…
The People’s National Convention (PNC), has denied being party to the Coalition of National Youth Organisers, the group which Wednesday declared support for the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to use the Ghana Card as the sole id…
Nato is assessing the impact of a data breach of classified military documents being sold by a hacker group online.
The data includes blueprints of weapons being used by Nato allies in the Ukraine conflict.
Crimin…
Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia say the federal government has conducted fresh air strikes in the region’s capital, Mekelle.
Tigrai Television - affiliated with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) - has showed images of a d…
Germany has signed an agreement to transfer ownership of 512 Benin Bronzes, hailed as the largest return of cultural artefacts looted from the continent in the 19th Century.
The agreement was signed between the Foundation of Prussian Cu…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is asking the people of Yapei-Kusawgu in the Savannah Region to reconsider their voting pattern in the 2024 election.
The Savannah Region constituency is a National Democratic Congress stronghold an…
For the second time in the Ashanti Region this year, a Member of Parliament (MP) on a duty tour, has been chased out by constituents.
This latest one happened in the Atwima Nwabiagya South constituency, where the MP, Emmanuel Agyei Anhw…
Uganda has put 21 districts that neighbour the Democratic Republic of Congo on high alert with intensified surveillance at border points after a 46-year-old woman died of Ebola in North Kivu province last week.
The health ministry said …
The authorities in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray have denied a UN allegation that its forces stole fuel from a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse.
WFP head David Beasley said it had happened on Wednesday, the day fighting broke…
A US judge has ordered investigators to release a redacted version of court papers that convinced him to authorise a search of Donald Trump's estate.
The public version of the affidavit, a document that includes the evidence…
Europe faced the prospect of a radiation disaster on Thursday when a Russian-occupied nuclear plant was disconnected from Ukraine's power grid, President Volodomyr Zelensky has said.
It was only due to back-up electricity ki…
The Deputy Ranking Member on the Education Committee of Parliament, Dr Clement Apaak, has filed a question in Parliament for a probe into the $1.2 million World Bank-funded Ghana Accelerated Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP) COVID-19 Inter…
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has disagreed with the assertion that the region has been recording violent crimes more than all other regions in Ghana.
A media-based monitoring group, Foundation for Security Developme…
The ECOWAS Commission Leadership led by H. E Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, on Thursday 25th August 2022, welcomed the management of ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria on a working …
At a Kumasi Traditional Council meeting today, the managers of Kumasi based, Oyerepa FM/TV, were asked to temporarily suspend operations and apologise to the Manhyia Palace, for allowing the founder of the United Progressive Party (UPP), A…
The Coalition of National Youth Organisers has stated that the decision by the Electoral Commission (EC) to use the Ghana Card as the sole document for qualified persons for the impending continuous registration of voters was the best choi…
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Algeria on Thursday hoping to repair fractured relations with a nation whose oil and gas reserves have new strategic significance because of Europe's looming energy crisis.
His vis…
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said Tigrayan forces in northern Ethiopia have looted a million litres of fuel from its warehouses in Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, that was meant to be used to deliver aid.
Tigrayan forces have not re…
The US has hailed Deborah Samuel, a Christian second-year student killed in the northern Nigerian city of Sokoto in May for alleged blasphemy.
A mob of classmates beat her to death after accusing her of insulting Islam in a voice note s…
A record seven female governors are about to be sworn in on Thursday in Kenya following the recent elections in which a total of 45 regional governors were elected.
The vote has ushered in new wave of female leaders - previously there w…
Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has announced his decision to seek re-election during the party’s upcoming National Delegates Congress.
He touted that the party had become more att…
President Akufo-Addo’s Executive Secretary, Nana Bediatuo Asante, is demanding an apology and retraction of alleged defamatory comments on illegal mining made against him by United Progressive Party founder, Akwasi Addai Odike.
A letter…
President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo believes the New Patriotic Party will win more parliamentary seats in the Savannah Region in the upcoming elections in 2024.
Speaking at a local radio station as part of his two-day working tour of…
Japan's police chief has said he will resign over the killing of former prime minister Shinzo Abe.
Itaru Nakamura, head of the national police agency, said he wanted to take responsibility for the July 8 shooting.
…
South Korea has again recorded the world's lowest fertility rate with the number sinking to a new low.
The rate in the country first dropped lower than one child per woman in 2018.
But on Wednesday, figures releas…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ho Central, Benjamin Komla Kpodo, has supported the construction of a six-unit classroom block for the Tanyigbe-Anyigbe MA Junior High School in the Ho Municipality.
T…
Government has been urged to take steps to amend Ghana’s Local Government Act 1993, Act 462 (7) to prevent partisanship during elections of assembly members to the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs).
A lecturer at t…
The Tigrayan authorities have responded to the statements from the Ethiopian federal government alleging that a plane carrying weapons for Tigray had been attacked.
In one version of the story, the defence ministry said that the plane h…
The Kenyan authorities are in talks with their Nigerian and Ethiopian counterparts to repatriate tens of millions of dollars belonging to national carrier Kenya Airways. The money is stuck in those countries owing to a foreign currency sho…
Amidst deteriorating levels of malnutrition and Ethiopia’s worst drought in 40 years, 17 million people are being targeted for humanitarian assistance, the UN spokesperson said on Wednesday.
“Ethiopia is facing a very difficult…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned an Integrated Recycling and Compost Plant (IRECoP) in Damongo, the Savannah Regional capital.
The $20-million plant is expected to employ technology to recycle organic, plastic and …
Democratic voters have picked congressman Charlie Crist to take on Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in the midterm elections.
Mr Crist beat the state's agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried, in the last big election da…
Japan should consider building new nuclear power plants, prime minister Fumio Kushida said on Wednesday.
This could be a controversial policy shift after the nation suspended many of its nuclear plants in the wake of the 201…
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