There is no intelligence that Vladimir Putin is unstable or in bad health, the director of the CIA has said.
There has been increasing unconfirmed media speculation that Mr Putin, who turns 70 this year, may be suffering fro…
A year-and-a-half after he was appointed as Italy's unelected head of a unity government, Mario Draghi has resigned as prime minister.
He told President Sergio Mattarella he was standing down after three parties in his gover…
The John Evans Atta Mills Memorial Heritage (JEAMMH) yesterday[July 19, 2022] announced activities to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the demise of the late President on July 24, 2012.
Aside from a statement to be made on the floor …
The Dean of the School of Law at the University of Ghana, Professor Raymond A. Atuguba, has stressed the need for stakeholders to ensure Ghana does not descend into chaos in the run-up to and after the 2024 general election.
According t…
Russia's military focus in Ukraine is no longer "only" the east of the country, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
In an interview with Russian state media, he implied Moscow's strategy had changed after the West supp…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has given the country’s education and labour ministers two weeks to end the prolonged lecturer’s strike.
The country’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) asked its members to skip work on 14…
South Africa’s acting public protector has announced it will issue a subpoena for President Cyril Ramaphosa to answer questions about the robbery at his game farm in 2020, in which $4m (£3.3m) is alleged to have been stolen.
Mr Ramaphos…
This was Vladimir Putin on Syria, after talks with the leaders of Turkey and Iran. Note his language in Tehran.
"The Syrian crisis can only be resolved by political and diplomatic means… by strictly adhering to the basic pri…
The famous Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has thrown her support behind the Labour Party's presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ahead of the country's February 2023 elections.
The acclaimed writer announced the endorsement on Tu…
The newly-elected National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has reacted to vote-buying allegation at the just-ended National Delegates Conference of the party.
Salam Mustapha debunked an assertion that winning election…
The United Kingdom (UK) Chapter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged the newly elected national leadership of the party to foster unity among members now that the elections were over.
According to the chapter, this would help crea…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), National Chairman Hopeful, Nii Armah Ashietey, has observed that party grassroots needs to be empowered at the branch level in order to have constant, efficient and effective communication between th…
The daughter of Ghana’s first President, Samia Nkrumah, has commended the government for the moves to upgrade the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum to a standard that befits the stature of her father, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
“I appreciate the fact that…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that it is prepared to take over power from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in 2024.
It noted that the party was still planning for its internal elections as part of preparations for the 2…
London's fire service had its busiest day since World War Two dealing with several blazes in record-breaking temperatures on Tuesday, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said.
The capital was one of 15 areas around the UK to declare…
Nigeria's state-run oil corporation has formally become a commercial company.
The new entity, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, was unveiled by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in the capital Abuja.
The govern…
The Democratic Republic of Congo says it will auction rights to drill for oil in areas that include a rainforest which environmentalists say needs protecting.
The Hydrocarbons Minister Didier Budimbu announced that 27 blocks would be au…
Tory MPs are to vote for the last time to decide which two leadership candidates should go through to the run-off vote among party members.
Only Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, and Liz Truss remain in the race after Kemi Badeno…
Sri Lankan MPs have elected prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as the country's new president, despite his unpopularity with the public.
Mr Wickremesinghe faces the task of leading the country out of its economic collapse a…
Nana Dubin, the Special Assistant to Sarah Adwoa Safo, Dome Kwabenya Member of Parliament, has denied suggestions that the embattled lawmaker snubbed the Houses’ Privileges Committee.
The Committee resorted to media publications of its …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Parliament is disappointed at Dome Kwabenya Member of Parliament, Sarah Adwoa Safo for accusing the caucus of political witch hunting.
Adwoa Safo was billed to face Parliament’s Privileges C…
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that in spite of major strides Ghana has made in its globally-acclaimed digitalisation drive, there are still some Ghanaians who refuse to accept Ghana's success.
Speaking at the launch …
The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo has reiterated her commitment to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration in the face of what she describes as a "political witc…
Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, is in the US for a series of high-level meetings and an address to Congress.
Her visit comes four months after her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, made a virtual speech to Congres…
An inaugural environmental conference on the management of protected and conserved places across Africa has opened in the Rwandan capital, Kigali.
Addressing delegates, Rwanda’s Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente said it was high time that…
The head of the Islamist Ennahda party in Tunisia, Rached Ghannouchi, has arrived in court for questioning by the counter-terrorism prosecutor.
He's being investigated over allegations of corruption and money laundering connected to a c…
The worst drought in four decades is raging through the Horn of Africa.
The World Food Programme says up to 20 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are at risk of starvation by the end of the year.
Somalia is bearing the bru…
A political marketing analyst and lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Kobby Mensah, says he is hopeful Stephen Ayesu Ntim will perform as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) chairman.
He said the new chairman is someone who knows the pa…
The Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has announced its decision to suspend all activities on various campuses following an injunction that barred 291 members from casting their vote in the 2022 Nati…
Mr Thomas Appiah-Kubi, Asante Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, has urged communities in the area to form neighbourhood watch committees to help combat criminal activities.
He said the upsurge of armed robbery and other criminal activi…
The National Peace Council (NPC) has admonished the citizenry against heightened activities of terrorism and violent extremism coupled with the political instability in neighbouring countries which can spillover into the country to threate…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has called for room to be made for Ghanaians who are yet to be served and enrolled on to the Ghana Card until full and total coverage is achieved in the roll out of the card.
This, he said, would ena…
Mali’s military ruler has said he is open to dialogue to resolve the issue of the 49 Ivorian soldiers who were arrested at the airport in Bamako earlier this month.
Col Assimi Goïta said he was willing, in a spirit of good relations bet…
Police in Mozambique have arrested and charged 98 people for "acts of disorder and vandalism" in the capital of Maputo and the suburb of Matola.
They were reportedly protesting against the high cost of living.
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has given an assurance that the proposed Suame Interchange project will begin in September, 2022.
According to him, Parliament would meet Tuesday to d…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Iran on Tuesday in just his second foreign trip since he launched the invasion of Ukraine in February.
Mr Putin will meet Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Turkish Pres…
Western Europe faces more sweltering temperatures on Tuesday as a ferocious heatwave heads north.
In France and the UK extreme heat warnings were issued while northern Spain recorded temperatures of 43C (109F) on Monday.
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Former Member of Parliament for Tema East, Daniel Nii Kwartei Titus Glover says he already has a strategy for winning Election 2024 for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) but he cannot work under the new National Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye.
…
The General Secretary of the All People’s Congress (APC), Mordecai Thiom Biano, has expressed disquiet about the worsening economic conditions in the country and the consistent free fall of the cedi against major trading curre…
The Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON), the student wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has suspended all its campus activities following the disenfranchisement of its members during the recently held national delegates …
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has renewed his call for early elections after a stunning by-election upset saw his party take control of a crucial provincial assembly.
His PTI party won 15 of 20 seats up for grab…
Western France is facing a "heat apocalypse", experts have warned, as extreme temperatures continue to hit much of Europe.
Temperatures could reach record levels in 15 regions of the southwest, with firefighters battling wil…
Sudan has reopened a key border crossing with Ethiopia that it closed last month after accusing Ethiopia of executing seven of its soldiers.
A statement by the technical committee of Sudan’s Defence and Security Council said the decisio…
The new General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Justin Kodua Frimpong has said it was painful that members of the Tertiary Education Confederacy of the NPP (TESCON) were unable to cast their ballot at last Saturday’s elections …
The Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Dr Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko, has appealed to communicators and every member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to take responsibility to communicate effectively the achievements of the governme…
Joseph Osei- Owusu, the Chairman of the Privileges Committee of Parliament, has maintained that it is a constitutional imperative for the seat of the Dome-Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region to be declared vacant once the Mem…
A British parliamentary committee has criticised the government's asylum policy, saying there was no evidence that sending migrants to Rwanda would deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats.
The British government insists th…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has charged Members of Parliament in the Minority Group to keep a keen eye on the activities of the Executive arm of government.
Delivering a speech at a closing ceremony of a ret…
Vice President and Aspiring Flagbearer for the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has congratulated the New Patriotic Party’s new national executives.
The new executives were elected at the party’s just-ended nat…
After 20 years of disappointments, heartbreaks and, as he himself put it, “wandering in the political wilderness”, Stephen Ayesu Ntim has finally been elected the National Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He clinched a …
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