The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has expressed optimism that the economy will rebound from its challenges.
Addressing parishioners of the Our Lady of Mercy (OLAM) Catholic Church in Tema Community One to climax the 70th annivers…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has given assurance that the government is on the path to rescue the ailing economy to bring relief to the suffering Ghanaians.
It admitted that the economy was in difficulty but appealed to the citizenry…
The Director of Electoral Services at the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Serebour Quaicoe, has indicated that the Commission relaxed the laws for the 17 political parties whose licences have been revoked, hoping that they would grow to mee…
The FBI is "concerned" by reports that secret "police stations" linked to China have been set up across the US.
A September report issued by the NGO Safeguard Defenders revealed the presence of these stations around the wor…
The United Nations is urging the Nigerian government to prevent future attacks on aid workers in the country.
This comes after an aid worker from the charity Médecins du Monde was killed after being shot by soldier at a military base in…
The Nigerian authorities say that 133 million people in the country are living in poverty - that is more than six out of every 10 Nigerians.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has come up with the figure by looking at what is known…
One day after retaking a majority in the US House of Representatives, Republicans have said they will investigate the president's family as a "top priority".
The lawmakers said the inquiry would focus on overseas business de…
Nii Armah Ashitey, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Chairman Aspirant, is confident of becoming the new national chairman of the party after the national executives elections slated for December 17, 2022.
He attributed h…
Tunisian police have fired tear gas at protestors trying to reach the island of Djerba where an international summit is to be held this weekend.
The clashes happened in the town of Zarzis which is linked to Djerba by a long bridge.
T…
Three Nkrumaist political parties have kick-started talks to join forces to wrest power from the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2024 general election.
They are the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Progressive People’s Party…
France has suspended development assistance to Mali after finalising its move to end its 10-year military presence in the country, a foreign ministry source told the AFP news agency.
French media quoted the foreign affairs ministry as s…
Traditional Councils and connected stakeholders have been urged to fast track gazette of chiefs to spur growth in order to enhance the population of the Councils to enable them function effectively and efficiently.
Their essence was i…
Campaigning is due to end on Friday for the country's presidential and legislative elections.
More than 300,000 voters have been registered to take part in the Sunday elections.
Opposition leaders Andrés Esono Ondo and Buenaventura M…
The US has determined that Saudi Arabia's de facto leader - Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman - has immunity from a lawsuit filed by murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi's fiancé.
Mr Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi critic, was mu…
Officials from several West African coastal states have been meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to discuss how to tackle the spillover of Islamist violence from the Sahel region.
Ghana's National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah…
Some aggrieved aspirants and members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Atiwa West Constituency of the Eastern Region, have called on the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the party to stick by its decision to annul t…
Albert Tetteh-Entsie, a chartered tax accountant, has called for the empowerment of the youth to enhance sustainable growth and development and make them independent towards nation building.
He explained that the youth were future lead…
The Minority in Parliament has asked government to release all National Health Insurance Levy (NHIL) accrued to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) without delay.
The caucus claimed that failure of the Ministry of Finance to rele…
Myanmar's military has freed a number of opposition figures, as well as a former UK ambassador, a Japanese filmmaker and an Australian adviser to the country's ousted civilian leader.
The military said some 6,000 pardons wer…
The Egyptian president of the UN climate conference, Sameh Shoukry, has told delegates that time is not on their side if a deal is to be concluded before the scheduled close of the conference on Friday.
There have been warnings that neg…
South African police have arrested an Israeli fugitive, who they describe as Israel's most-wanted gang leader.
He was picked up in a suburb of Johannesburg together with seven others during an early morning house raid, according to a po…
Serbia is introducing visas for Tunisian and Burundian citizens, responding to EU criticism that the country is a backdoor into the bloc for migrants.
Turks and Indians are expected to join them shortly.
In October, the EU Commission…
The World Food Programme (WFP) says the first food aid trucks to enter Ethiopia's northern Tigray region since the signing of a peace deal earlier this month are rolling into the region.
"Critical food assistance will now be delivered t…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has given assurance that the government is on the path to rescue the ailing economy to bring relief to the suffering masses.
It admitted that the Ghanaian economy was in a difficulty but urged Ghanaians in …
The Jasikan District has emerged as the overall best among the Municipal and Districts in the Oti region on the 2021 District League Table (DTL) with a score of 70.45 and placed 62nd nationwide.
The DTL since its inception in 2014, has …
An aspiring General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Fiavi Kwetey has issued a stern warning to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the 2024 polls.
The former Propaganda Secretary of NDC,…
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he had "no doubts" that Ukraine was not to blame for the missile strike that killed two people in Poland on Tuesday.
Mr Zelensky said he had received assurances from his top commanders t…
Republicans have secured the 218 seats needed for a majority in the lower chamber of Congress a week after the midterm elections, the BBC's US partner CBS News projects.
While the party's margin in the House of Representativ…
The Western Regional Minister, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah says President Akufo-Addo should not relent in sacking him if he finds out he is involved in illegal mining popularly known as galamsey.
Various government offi…
The committee of Parliament probing allegations in a censure motion against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, is expected to resume sittings today, Thursday with an appearance by the Public Interest Accountability Commi…
Kenya's President William Ruto has condemned comments from a lawmaker that the country should scrap its two-term presidential limit, describing it as "selfish".
"Do not spend your time pushing for selfish and self-serving legislation li…
A prominent political opponent of Tunisia's president says he has been stopped from leaving the country.
Fadel Abdelkefi has publicly accused President Kais Saied of acting like a king and not improving governance or the economy.
The…
When Vladimir Putin sent up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine on 24 February, he thought he could sweep into the capital Kyiv in a matter of days and depose the government.
Russian forces quickly captured big stretches of ter…
"Brazil is back on the world stage," Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told cheering crowds at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt.
"The Amazon has huge meaning for the world. We have to prove that a stand…
Parliament in Sierra Leone has unanimously approved legislation that will ensure that one in three of its members, and a third of all local councillors, are women.
The bill will now go to President Julius Bio to be signed into law.
D…
The Tufuhene of Gomoa Ojobi in the Central Region, Nana Kow Entsie IV, has appealed to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to provide tractors at subsidised cost for farmers to purchase and go into large scale farming to feed the nation…
A group of South Africans have started a petition against plans by the department of basic education to introduce unisex or gender-neutral toilets in schools.
The petition has been signed by over 60,000 people so far.
"Toilets are pr…
There has been no official reaction from Mali to reports that neighbouring Ivory Coast will begin a “gradual withdrawal” of its troops serving in the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (Minusma).
The Ivorian authorities have yet to publicl…
Samson Anyenini, a Private Legal Practitioner, has explained that the president’s absence from the country does not automatically bar him from performing his presidential functions.
“Even if such a decision is to be taken by the acting…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has insisted that its decision to make the Ghana Card the sole document for the registration of voters remains unchanged.
It explained that officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) had so fa…
The Chief Executive for Ningo-Prampram District Assembly, Al-Latif Amanor has appealed to the government through the Ministry of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development to consider upgrading the district into a municipal…
A former Minister of Transport, Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey, has stated that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) needs an astute General Secretary to steer its affairs to win the 2024 elections.
According to the former Ketu So…
US President Joe Biden has said it is "unlikely" that a missile that killed two people in Poland on Tuesday was fired from Russia.
Russia has denied it was to blame for the missile that landed in Przewodow, on the Ukrainian …
Former US President Donald Trump has launched his third bid for the White House, declaring: "America's comeback starts right now."
At his Florida estate, he said: "We have to save our country."
Mr Trump's announce…
The Electoral Commission has urged stakeholders, particularly the political parties, to support its proposal to close the 2024 polls at 3 p.m. instead of 5 p.m.
A Deputy Chairman of the Commission, Dr Eric Bossman Asare, said the propos…
The Parliamentary Ad-hoc Committee probing the allegations against the Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta in a vote of censure motion tabled by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu has started its public hearing.
Mr Ofori-Atta and Harun…
Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North and Board Chairman of the Ghana Gas Company has pledged to help explore opportunities to provide jobs for the people of the Volta Region.
He said he was in consultations …
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told the country's parliament that he intends to "implement honestly" the ceasefire agreement signed between the federal government and Tigrayan leaders.
Mr Abiy added that now was not the time t…
A group of 14 opposition supporters in Zimbabwe have been released on bail after five months in jail.
A high court judge ruled that they were no longer a danger to their community and unlikely to interfere with witnesses.
In June, th…
Israel has called the US Department of Justice's decision to investigate the killing of Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Aqla a "mistake".
Outgoing Defence Minister Benny Gantz said he had told US representatives th…
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