The international community should help create a "safe passage" to enable the millions of tons of grain stuck in Ukraine to leave the country, its deputy PM has said.
Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine…
Iran's president has promised to take revenge after a colonel in the powerful Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead in Tehran on Sunday.
Two gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at Sayad Khodai as he sat in a car …
A court in Ukraine has jailed a Russian tank commander for life for killing a civilian at the first war crimes trial since the invasion.
Captured soldier Sgt Vadim Shishimarin was convicted of killing Oleksandr Shelipov, 62,…
Senegalese President Macky Sall says he will travel to Russia and Ukraine soon in his capacity as the current chairman of the African Union.
Mr Sall said on Sunday that he had received the mandate of other AU heads of state to make the …
The United Nations force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has condemned attacks against it by M23 rebels and urged them to “immediately cease hostilities”.
In a statement on Twitter, the UN acknowledged "the courage and determina…
Authorities in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region say they have arrested more than 4,500 individuals including a former army commander.
The arrests are said to be part of "an operation to enforce law and order," announced last week.
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Mr Charles Taleog Ndanbon, an aspiring Regional Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East Region has appealed to delegates to vote for him to win the position and bring victory to the party in 2024.
“I am appealing to…
Mr Abubakari Yakubu, the newly-appointed Sunyani East Constituency Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party ((NPP) says no political propaganda can derail the Party’s sterling achievements and stop it from winning the Election 20…
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, in a live video address to the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 in Davos-Klosters, told participants how he wakes up every day to read the numbers of his people killed in the war in the la…
Police in Nigeria are investigating the beheading of a local MP in the south-eastern state of Anambra barely a week after gunmen kidnapped him along with an aide.
The discovery of Okechukwu Okoye's mutilated body over the weekend has sp…
Russian forces in eastern Ukraine are intensifying attacks on a key city as they seek to seize the Donbas region.
Severodonetsk, the largest city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, has come under intense artillery…
US President Joe Biden has warned China is "flirting with danger" over Taiwan, and vowed to intervene militarily to protect the island if it is attacked.
Speaking in Japan, he appeared to contradict long-standing US policy i…
The National Democratic Congress’ suspended Constituency Chairman for Amasaman, Winfred Kofi Zoryiku is calling on the leadership of the party to conduct a thorough investigation into an accusation levelled against him that he printed and …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has encouraged young Ghanaians to venture into the study of science and technology because societies that are succeeding in the world are those that have placed emphasis on the teaching and learning of…
Parliament must place premium on the passage of the Gender Equality Law, otherwise known as Affirmative Action Bill, into law.
According to Abantu for Development, a non-governmental organisation, the delay in passing the bill, which wa…
The Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of the Kumasi Catholic Archdiocese, the Most Rev. Dr Peter K. Sarpong, has said the country cannot progress with the kind of politics being practised.
He said if leaders would agree to serve rather t…
The government has stepped up its terror alert with a call on the citizenry to be highly observant and report suspicious persons and activities to the security agencies and people in authority.
Even though the security agencies are on h…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged beneficiaries of the free senior high school (SHS) policy to concentrate on their studies and come out to be globally competitive citizens.
He advised them to leave the debate about its im…
Modern "smart" farm machinery is vulnerable to malicious hackers, leaving global supply chains exposed to risk, experts are warning.
It is feared hackers could exploit flaws in agricultural hardware used to plant and harvest…
Food rations for refugees and displaced people are being cut by up to half in parts of the Sahel due to a massive funding shortfall with millions set to go hungry as prices rise and climate shocks hit yields, U.N. agencies said on Friday.
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U.N. Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit China next week, the foreign ministry said on Friday, making the first such visit since 2005and prompting fears among Western rights groups that it will be seen as an endorsement of Chin…
Sri Lanka has defaulted on a multi-million pound foreign debt payment, deepening the nation's worst economic crisis since it gained independence in 1948.
The new prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, is appealing for foreign…
Five million people have been internally displaced in Ethiopia, the highest number of such people registered in a single country, according to a report.
The annual report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) also cites …
A Kenyan MP who is accused of forging his academic papers did not sit his final year exams at the secondary school he claims to have attended, an ex-teacher has told a court.
The MP, Oscar Sudi, had said that he sat the exams at Highway…
The National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Constituency Chairman for Amasaman, Winfred Kofi Zoryiku, has been suspended from the party.
Winfred Kofi Zoryiku is facing this punitive measure over accusations that he printed, …
A landmark criminal trial in Argentina has found the state guilty of the massacre of more than 400 indigenous people nearly a century ago.
The Qom and Moqoit communities had been protesting inhumane living and working condit…
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discusses a bill to provide $28 million in emergency funds to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help it respond to a nationwide shortage of infant formula and strengthen supervision of the ind…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni says talks with Kenyan presidential candidate, Raila Odinga, touched on issues concerning the two neighbouring countries after they met at State House Entebbe last evening.
Mr Odinga, considered one of…
The UK Home Office says legal challenges against its plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda have not delayed the scheme.
But British media outlets quote campaigners as saying they received notice on Wednesday evening that the Rwanda…
The former leader of the People’s National Convention (PNC) Dr. Edward Mahama, has debunked claims by the party’s 2020 Flagbearer David Apasera, that he is refusing to meet with the leadership of the party to help find solu…
A total of 31 aspirants have been vetted and cleared to contest the Northern Regional New Patriotic Party (NPP) executive positions.
As at close of vetting last Wednesday, no aspirant was disqualified from contesting the upcoming electi…
Alhaji Mogtar Bagaya, the Upper East Regional Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has revealed that 325 delegates will vote to determine the fate of aspirants, seeking the mandate of 10 regional executive slots for the …
The Group of Seven's financial leaders are expected to unveil billions of dollars in new aid to Ukraine on Friday and promise enough money to keep the country's devastated economy afloat as long as it fights against Russia's invasion.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he advised his arts and culture minister to cancel a $1.4m (£1m) flag monument project following public outrage.
Mr Ramaphosa told a business leaders’ forum on Thursday that Nathi Mthethwa ca…
Gabon has called on developed nations to pay for the upkeep of the central African country's mangroves and forests that are helping to absorb the world's excess carbon.
Gabon's Minister for Forests, Seas and Environment, Lee White, said…
Across Australia household budgets are being tightly squeezed, with the cost of living soaring to an eye-watering 21 year high.
Rising prices will be a pivotal concern for voters as they head to the polls on Saturday.
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The Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has described as “premature”, the decision by some NDC MPs to go to court over the passage of the Electronic Transfer Act, 2022 (Act 1075).
The Minority …
An aspiring Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ashanti Region, Robert Asare-Bediako, has pledged to unite all party members in ensuring that the party’s ‘Breaking the Eight’ agenda sees the light of day.…
At least five people died in violent clashes in a suburb of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Wednesday.
Fighting broke out in Dei Dei, a hub where building materials are sold, after a woman who was identified as a trader, was crushed to dea…
Africa's top health body says it is concerned about the growing number of monkeypox cases in the UK, Spain, Portugal, Canada and the US.
"Several outbreaks" of monkeypox have been reported and contained during the Covid-19 pandemic, say…
Sweden and Finland have the "full, total and complete backing" of the US in their decision to apply for Nato membership, President Joe Biden says.
Both countries submitted their applications to be part of the Western defence…
The contest for the Ashanti Regional chairmanship of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is gaining momentum with the vetting of the five aspiring candidates.
Although there are other positions at stake in the upcoming regional delegates conf…
New Patriotic Party national chairman hopeful, Stephen Asamoah Boateng has toured a number of constituencies in the Ashanti Region, meeting constituency executives and promising to lead a united party for victory in Election 2024.
Asabe…
Indigenous leaders met Prince Charles in Canada and asked for an apology from the Queen over the "assimilation and genocide" of indigenous schoolchildren.
RoseAnne Archibald, Assembly of First Nations national chief, said th…
A South African ministry is reviewing a decision to erect a massive flag monument at Freedom Park in the capital, Pretoria.
Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Thursday said the review follows public outcry over the proj…
Sri Lanka has defaulted on its debt for the first time in its history as the country struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years.
It comes after a 30 day grace period to repay $78m (£63m) of unpaid debt i…
Rwanda’s prime minister says the first batch of asylum seekers from the UK “will arrive soon” and that everything is ready to host them.
Edouard Ngirente told journalists on Wednesday evening that the pilot scheme was well-informed and …
The Greater Accra chapter of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it has not lost sight of the internal political tensions simmering in the Dome Kwabenya Constituency.
Regional Chairman of the party, Divine Otoo Agorhom, believe…
The Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin has urged Members of Parliament to reach out to one another from either side of the aisle as they return to work next week.
He says good and enduring relationships are the only way to …
Maxwell Kofi Jumah, a former Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive, has proposed the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) in the country but not on partisan basis.
He said currently, the president nom…
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