The Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, Dr Antoinette Tsiboe-Darko, has said that nation-building is a shared responsibility and must not be left to only the political leadership.
She said leaders only provided direction to cha…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed optimism that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will make history in the 2024 general election by breaking the eight-year political rule cycle.
That, he said, could be achieved if the gove…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has stated that it has never been a party to any consultation or meeting in whatsoever form that agreed to make the Ghana Card the sole identification document for the upcoming limited vote…
Russian forces at Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine are employing "terror tactics" by using the site to launch rocket attacks on civilians, the BBC has been told.
"Every morning we wake up and see that they hav…
“What have you been eating Mr Kasujja?”
These are the first words I hear from President Yoweri Museveni, grinning as he walks towards me across the garden of the State House in Kampala.
I can’t say I’m surprised. The last time I met …
The Dormaa Central Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has introduced measures to ‘weed out’ disloyal members, to make the party stronger to be able to win the parliamentary seat in 2024.
Mr Dominic Adomah, the Consti…
The Appointments Committee of Parliament will hold hearings for the six nominees of the President to various positions two weeks before Parliament resumes from recess.
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, had nomi…
Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, has warned that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) can hand a windfall victory to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Election 2024 if Members of the Parliament (MPs) of the…
A think tank, Think Progress Ghana, has called for a full disclosure of the current state of the economy to attract the needed support for the revival of the economy.
Following the first phase of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) da…
Residents of a South African township near Johannesburg have set ablaze the homes of migrants they believe are illegally working in disused local mines.
There has been widespread anger after a large group of miners were accu…
The Senegalese government has signed a peace deal with rebels from the country's southern province of Casamance - which could bring about an end to a decades-long conflict.
The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) has pledg…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has been commended for his role in the fight against Hepatitis B disease through the Mumbies Foundation Ghana, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Winneba in the …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will on the commemoration of the International Day of the Youth, be conferred Star of the Youth of Ghana award, by the National Youth Authority (NYA).
The confirmation will be in recognition of the …
Rwanda says reports that UN Security Council experts have found "solid evidence" that the country is working with and supporting the M23 rebel group in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are false, unproven and a "tactic to distr…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on government to urgently scrap what it described as “obnoxious and counterproductive” taxes that are creating more hardships for Ghanaians.
These taxes, the NDC stated, were the 1.5 per…
More than 200 members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been disqualified from contesting the August 2022 Branch Executive elections of the party in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency of the Greater Accra Reg…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has appealed to Ghanaians to inculcate the spirit of patriotism and support the efforts of the government to revive the country’s economy following the devastating impact of the COVID-19 and the Russ…
A Kenyan court has ordered the country's electoral body to use a manual register to identify voters in next week's general election.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) had planned to rely solely on the electronic…
South African politician Mmusi Maimane has revealed he was robbed at gunpoint on Wednesday night at a bar in Cape Town.
The former leader of South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party said the moment "felt like a movie" an…
Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Requesens has been sentenced to eight years in jail, his lawyer says.
He was arrested three days after a drone carrying explosives blew up at a military parade attended by President Nico…
The Municipal Chief Executive for Yilo Krobo in the Eastern Region, Eric Tetteh says he will on Monday, August 8 petition the management and board of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) over the current impasse between E…
A former National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Harona Esseku, has died at the age of 88.
The NPP stalwart died on Wednesday, August 3, 2022.
Mr. Esseku was a Minister of Transport and Communications…
The Electoral Commission (EC's) decision to use the Ghana Card as the only source document for continuous voter registration can disenfranchise millions of qualified electorate, a former Chairman of the EC, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, has stated…
The General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God Church, Reverend Professor Paul Frimpong-Manso, has charged Christians not to allow political actors to divide their front in their resolve to support the building of the national cathedr…
The US has urged its citizens to be vigilant against possible anti-American violence abroad following the killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
His death could prompt al-Qaeda supporters or other linked terror groups…
The UK government says the people of South Sudan are frustrated with the slow implementation of the country's peace agreement and the lack of political will from leaders.
President Salva Kiir and his former arch rival, Riek Machar, now …
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has admonished the electorate to stop voting for the ‘highest bidder’ politician as that amounts to auctioning the country’s elections.
“The current worrying trend of p…
A Reverend Minister and Entrepreneur, Richmond Owusu Frimpong, has declared his intention to contest as an independent candidate for the 2024 presidential election.
He explained that he was running as an independent candidate because po…
The National Chairman of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu, has advocated an amendment of the 1992 Constitution to separate the Office of the Attorney General (AG) from the Ministry of Justice to ensure the government …
The Greater Accra Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has temporarily put on hold branch elections in nine constituencies in the region.
The constituencies are Ablekuma South, Krowor, La-Dadeko…
For Taiwan this trip by Nancy Pelosi is about support, but also legitimacy.
Taiwan needs America's support, military and otherwise. But it craves legitimacy. It craves recognition that this is not some "renegade province" a…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has called for the spokesman of the UN peacekeeping force in the country to leave as soon as possible.
The foreign ministry accused Mathias Gillmann of making "indelicate and inopportune statements".
…
The US embassy in Kenya has warned American citizens against travel to the lakeside city of Kisumu ahead of next week’s general election.
In a security alert, the embassy says election-related demonstrations may occur in the western cit…
Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of state institutions must be restrained from contesting siting Members of Parliament (MPs) of New Patriotic Party (NPP) to avoid the repeat of abysmal performance of the party in the 2020 parliamentary elec…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Education has promised to make a strong case for the removal of import duties on raw materials for the local printing industry.
It is the conviction of the committee that the removal of the duties w…
The Wenchi Municipal Assembly is implementing four key local economic development (LED) programmes to benefi t 300 farmers and create more than 3,000 direct and indirect jobs for the unemployed youth in the area.
The LED programmes are …
The first grain ship to depart Ukraine since Russia invaded has arrived at Turkey's Bosphorus strait.
The Razoni, which is carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn, will be inspected on Wednesday morning before continuing its journey …
The danger with escalation is that it is hard to pull back.
Now that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has managed to visit Taiwan - the highest-ranking American official to do so in 25 years - won't others want to do the same i…
Some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to do a ministerial reshuffle to help inject what they describe as fresh energy in the administration.
In late June 2022, speculation w…
The US representative to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has said that her planned visit to the continent later this week is to get first-hand information on the impact of the global food crisis and how to partner with the region to addre…
Special envoys from the European Union and US have travelled to the northern Ethiopian city of Mekelle, capital of the embattled Tigray region, as part of international efforts to see a peaceful resolution to a 21-month-old civil war.
P…
Ireland's president, Michael D Higgins, is facing pressure to clarify his stance on a letter his wife wrote to a newspaper criticising an editorial on the war in Ukraine.
Sabina Coyne Higgins wrote to The Irish Times last we…
The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned.
"We have been extraordinarily lucky so far," Antonio Guterres said.
Amid rising …
A Texas man who joined the US Capitol riot armed with a holstered pistol and threatened his own children to keep quiet about his role has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Guy Reffitt, 49, was found guilty i…
Amnesty International has called for calm following violent protests which left four people dead in Tembisa, a South African township east of Johannesburg.
Thousands of residents took to the streets on Monday, protesting over the lack o…
Charity group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Monday announced its withdrawal from two towns in Cameroon's English-speaking South-West region.
It said the decision follows the arrest of four members of its local team and the suspensio…
The Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to hold talks with the UN mission in the country, Monusco, on the withdrawal of peacekeepers that will “meet the demand of the people”, government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya has said.
The an…
The People’s National Convention (PNC) has outlined a series of activities to commemorate its 30th anniversary.
To be celebrated on the theme: ‘Celebrating 30 years; Heal, Inspire and Revive the Nkrumah, Liman, Egala and Mahama Traditio…
The African Center for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), has urged the leadership of Parliament to tread cautiously in deciding the fate of the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dome-Kwabenya Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Sarah Adowa …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central Constituency in the Central Region, Kennedy Agyapong, has criticised politicians who allow the electorate to hold them to ransom for fear of losing an election.
“Politicians fear elector…
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