Elsewhere in Afghanistan, the Taliban has issued a statement saying it has finally broken the resistance at Kandahar airport and that thousands of Afghan special forces have surrendered to them.
The troops had been surrounded by Taliban…
The Tanzanian government on Wednesday suspended a local newspaper for running what it called a false story saying that President Samia Suluhu Hassan would not vie for office in 2025, the first newspaper suspension in Hassan's tenure.
Th…
The partial closure of one of China's biggest cargo ports due to coronavirus has raised fresh concerns about the impact on global trade.
Services were shut on Wednesday at a terminal at Ningbo-Zhoushan port after a worker was infected w…
Population shifts revealed by the 2020 Census herald changes to come in US politics as the country becomes more diverse, experts say. The number of Americans who identify as white has fallen below 60% for the first time and population grow…
The Internal Audit Agency, at the Office of Government Machinery on Thursday awarded the Tema Metropolitan Assembly as the ''best head of covered entity that supports internal Audit Unit" MMDA/RCC Category.
The citation of the award, wh…
Afghanistan is "heading towards civil war" as the UK prepares to withdraw its citizens, allies and troops, the defence secretary has said.
Ben Wallace told BBC Breakfast that it was likely that poverty and terrorism would increase in th…
Kenya's oxygen production firm Hewatele is doubling production this year to keep up with surging demand from hospitals that are treating critically ill COVID-19 patients, the company said.
Demand for the commodity has more than doubled …
North Korean state television has aired its first coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games - two days after the closing ceremony.
According to local news reports, Korean Central Television aired 70 minutes of a women's football match between…
A militia commander who had been leading the fight against the Taliban has been detained by the militants after they seized the city of Herat, local officials say.
Mohammad Ismail Khan, nicknamed the Lion of Herat, is one of Afghanistan…
Mr Dan Botwe, Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development has said a decentralised system of local government based on the Constitution remained the vision and quest of the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo.
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A huge search and rescue operation is under way in northern Turkey after flash floods along the Black Sea coast killed at least 27 people.
Kastamonu province is the worst-hit area, accounting for 25 of the deaths. Two others died in Sin…
Sudan will not decide before next week at the earliest whether to hand over former President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face charges of atrocities in the Darfur conflict, the ICC chief prosecutor said on Thursday…
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been released from a South Korean prison and is now on parole.
He served 207 days in jail - just over half the sentence he received after being convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January.
The case …
Germany's interior minister has said his country must act quickly to help Afghans who work for its military.
"Whether charter flights or issuing visas after arrival in Germany, I support all measures that enable our local support staff …
Mr Godfred Dame, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice has eulogised the late Justice Samuel Marful-Sau describing him as an excellent Common Law judge with immense intellectual strength.
According to him Justice Marful-Sau posses…
Prosecutors in Libya have issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, over suspected ties to Russian mercenaries.
A BBC World Service investigation has revealed links between th…
Vote counting is under way in Zambia, where millions of people cast their ballots in closely contested general and presidential elections.
Large queues formed outside many polling stations, suggesting turnout has been high.
President…
Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche has been sentenced to eight months in prison for his reporting on protests, his newspaper Liberte said.
M Kareche was handed a one-year-term, with four months suspended. He has already been in prison si…
The British and Russian ambassadors to Iran have angered the country by recreating a World War Two image of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, when Iran was under Allied occupation.
The Russian embassy posted a photo of the two diplom…
The UN has urged Afghanistan's neighbours to keep their borders open as the number of civilians fleeing the Taliban onslaught swells.
Thousands of those internally displaced have been arriving in Kabul, seeing the capital as their last …
Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, says President Akufo-Addo has failed to impress with regard to his fight against corruption in the country.
He says Nana Akufo-Addo would have to do more to demonstrate his willingness and commit…
Nana Ansah Adu-Baah II, the Paramount Chief of Yamfo Traditional Area in the Tano North Municipality of Ahafo Region has appealed to Ghanaians to support the government for Ghana’s speedy socio-economic progress.
Nana Adu-Baah II urged …
The Chairman of the Awarding Board for the Project Management (PM) Awards, Rev Moses Tetteh, has called for an independent body that would monitor and evaluate projects in the country.
This is to help curb the wastage in the public se…
Youth and Sports Minister, Mustapha Ussif has urged Ghana’s youth to continue to actively engage in nation-building constructively as they have an important role to play in its development.
Speaking at the opening of International Youth…
The Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Stephen Jalulah, has rejected claims by the Minority in Parliament that the ministry failed to follow due process in the award of the Accra – Tema Motorway expansion contract.
The deputy min…
The Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Mr Dan Botwe, has stated that a decentralised system of local government based on the Constitution remains the vision and quest of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Ak…
The Ethiopian military and its allies are responsible for widespread sexual violence against women in Tigray, using rape as a strategy of war, Amnesty International says.
The scale of violations during the nine-month conflict in the nor…
The list of instructions for voters in Zambia's general election includes a ban on women having painted nails.
Our correspondent in Lusaka, Nomsa Maseko, has tweeted a list of Do's and Don'ts that includes the words: "No painted nails (…
Anti-migrant protesters have attacked houses, shops and cars owned by Syrians in Turkey's capital after tensions flared over the alleged killing of a local teenager.
The violence erupted on Wednesday night following reports that a Syria…
Two members of an Islamist militant group in Burkina Faso have been convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, in the first trial of its kind in the country.
The men were members of Ansar ul Islam, a group formed by popular Islamic …
The firing of rockets at Israel by Palestinians in Gaza during the conflict in May amounted to war crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
The attacks "flagrantly violated" the laws of war, the campaign group said following an invest…
At least 52 people have died in Niger floods with 34 being injured and thousands losing their homes, the authorities say.
This includes five who died between Tuesday and Wednesday after heavy rains in the capital Niamey, causing signifi…
The office of South Sudan’s First Vice-President, Riek Machar, says he has received calls from the generals who defected last week from the military wing of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
Gen Johnson Olo…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, singled out for praise two illustrious sons of Bono Region for their sterling contributions towards the advancement of his government.
He said his government acknowledged and appreciate…
Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated that the calls for the resignation of the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta over the botched Sputnik Vaccine Supply deal were baseless and needless.
He said …
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said that that the country's borders will remain closed until at least the end of the year.
She said an elimination strategy was the best way to keep Covid-19 out and the economy open.
Th…
The Australian capital Canberra is going into a snap one-week lockdown after recording its first case of Covid-19 in more than a year.
It will come into effect at 17:00 local time on Thursday (07:00 GMT).
The lockdown was called for …
The Taliban have taken the strategically important city of Ghazni, the 10th provincial capital to fall to the militants in less than a week.
Afghan security forces arrested Ghazni's governor and his deputy after they fled the city.
G…
Voting began in Zambia’s general elections early on Thursday morning, with long queues reported in some polling stations.
President Edgar Lungu, who faces a stiff challenge from opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, was among the first …
Nigeria's Information Minister Lai Mohammed has given the strongest indication yet that the government’s ban on Twitter will be lifted soon.
The minister told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday that talks with the social med…
Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has sacked the energy minister and his chief of staff who are facing corruption charges.
The two and one other official - Enock Chihana, a partner in the governing Tonse Alliance - were arrested on Mo…
The Minority in Parliament is demanding an immediate abrogation of the $570 million Tema Motorway expansion contract awarded to the Portuguese company, Mota-Engil.
It said the contract, which is of an international nature, was awarded b…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has broken his silence on the public backlash against the embattled health minister, Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu.
There are calls for President Akufo-Addo to crack the whip on Mr Agyeman-Manu who confesse…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed a former Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Samuel Kofi Dzamesi as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bui Power Authority (BPA).
Confirmation of his appointment was contai…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has proposed that the Electoral Commission be split into two as part of an ongoing electoral reform proposal by the party.
According to the party, one of the two bodies of the proposed E…
At least 25 Algerian soldiers and 17 civilians have been killed in wildfires to the east of the capital Algiers, the country's prime minister has said.
Several more soldiers were injured fighting the fires, in the forested Kabylie regio…
Last September, Vipul Shah spent 11 days in critical care battling Covid-19 in a hospital in Mumbai.
Mr Shah, who had no previous history of diabetes, was administered steroids which are used to treat the coronavirus infection.
Stero…
All civil servants in Guinea will now be required to prove that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19 before they are allowed to access their work stations.
The new directions follow a special cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
Preside…
Twenty-four members of the same family have died after consuming a suspected poisoned meal in north-western Nigeria.
The incident happened in Danzanke village - a remote community in the north-west Sokoto state.
The state's health co…
Zambia is expected to hold tightly contested presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday, with many voters - especially the youth - worried about the economic turmoil that has hit the copper-rich nation.
The governing Patriotic…