Police have dispersed supporters of the main opposition group in Eswatini holding an anti-monarchy protests in the country's largest city of Manzini, privately-owned Swazi News has reported.
The newspaper tweeted a video of protesters r…
The US and Germany will stand together against Russian aggression, President Joe Biden said as he welcomed outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington.
Mr Biden said he had voiced concern to Mrs Merkel over a Russia-to-Germany gas p…
Armed South African police officers are protecting deliveries of food and supplies to supermarkets after days of widespread looting and violence.
Riots were sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.
An estimated $1bn (£7…
As unrest spreads in South Africa following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, some social media users have been sharing misleading videos and pictures.
The current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has urged South Africans to "refra…
The United Nations refugee agency has warned the situation in camps housing Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is rapidly deteriorating.
The UNHCR says conditions have worsened over the past two days as fighting has …
Senegal's Covid committee has advised against travel during the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday as virus cases in the country increase.
The country has in recent days recorded the highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic.
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Almost every night, a handful of young men slip across the well-guarded border, swimming across a fast-flowing brown river and trudging into Sudan to escape what they say is a sudden upsurge in ethnic violence in the far western corner of …
At least 93 people have died and hundreds more are unaccounted for in Germany after some of the worst flooding in decades.
Record rainfall in north-western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, devastating the region.
German Cha…
The Finance Committee of Parliament has tabled a request for the waiver of $13.1 million tax and duties for the purchase of vehicles for the official use of Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Council of State from 2021 to 2024.
The wai…
The Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh, says the current 1992 constitution is not-fit-for purpose.
In comparison with the country’s second constitution developed in 1…
South Africa’s government is to increase its deployment of defence forces to 25,000, 10 times more than originally proposed, to curb widespread looting and violence in the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
The authorities also urg…
Tanzania is set to receive 300,000 Covid-19 vaccines from the UN-backed Covax scheme.
Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima said healthcare workers and all those on the frontline of the war against coronavirus would be first to be jabbed.
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The authorities in Ethiopia's Amhara region say they will go on the offensive against forces from neighbouring Tigray.
The Tigrayan rebels have recaptured much of Tigray in recent weeks, with federal forces and their allies withdrawing …
The United States says it is concerned by the worsening human rights situation in Egypt.
A State Department spokesman, Ned Price, referred to the detention and harassment of NGO leaders, academics and journalists.
"The United States …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will on Saturday, July 24, commemorate the ninth anniversary of the demise of Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the third President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
A wreath-laying ceremony will be …
A man's chilling confession to killing at least 10 children has topped Kenyan newspaper headlines.
Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, was arrested on Wednesday after investigations into the recent killings of two children.
The children's bod…
Australia, one of the world's biggest fossil fuel exporters, has strongly criticised the European Union's proposal to enact a carbon border tax.
The measure was confirmed yesterday in the EU's sweeping new climate plan.
Such a tax wo…
Rights group Amnesty International has condemned what it called the complicity of European states in horrific abuses suffered by migrants intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to Libya.
A report by the group suggests that conditions …
The Rwandan government has announced a 10-day lockdown in the capital Kigali and eight districts amid a rising number of Covid cases and deaths.
People have been ordered not to leave their homes from this Saturday to 26 July to try to h…
Cuba says it will allow travellers arriving in the country to bring in food, medicine and other essentials without paying import duties.
The announcement was made following the biggest anti-government protests on the Communist-run islan…
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has encouraged young people in the country to be resolute in their demand for improved living conditions and their constitutional rights.
The Party said the youth was the foundation of national develo…
Mr Salisu Bamba, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejura, has announced his decision to withdraw from seeking re-nomination.
The MCE said the decision was borne out of his resolve to let peace prevail in the Municipality.
It was al…
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in collaboration with the Advertising Association of Ghana, has held a training workshop for members of the Technical Committee on Outdoor Advertising (TCOA) of the various Metropolitan…
Mr Ernest Henry Norgbey, MP for Ashaiman Constituency, has threatened to lead a protest against the bad state of roads in the area.
"If after some time the roads do not see any improvement, we'll see if the roads could be turned into fa…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, on Wednesday afternoon directed the Privileges Committee of Parliament to look into motion of contempt against Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, MP for Assin Central, for allegedly threatening a journalist…
A video of a junior minister in Liberia splashing expensive champagne on a luxury vehicle that he had reportedly bought for his wife as a birthday gift has sparked anger, especially among young supporters of the governing Congress for Demo…
Some seventeen people have died after a hotel collapse in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou.
After 36 hours of search operations, rescue workers found 23 people buried in the rubble - six of whom were found alive.
A preliminary inve…
Some social media users have been sharing misleading videos and pictures depicting the violence in South Africa in recent days, clearly not connected to the current unrest.
One such video which has been widely shared falsely claims prot…
The African Union Commission has condemned the violence in South Africa that has left 72 people dead.
Protests against the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma morphed into looting and destruction of property in some provinces.
"Th…
Four Iranian intelligence officials have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist critical of Iran, US prosecutors say.
The indictment did not name the target, but Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American author and a…
Lithuania has voted in favour of strict new migration laws amid an influx of arrivals from Belarus.
Politicians backed the controversial legislation on Tuesday, allowing the mass detention of migrants and limiting their right to appeal.…
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says he is encouraged by the support received from colleague Members of Parliament with regard to the private member’s motion he filed jointly with the Okaikoi…
The Socialist Forum of Ghana (SFG) is considering transition into a “Movement”-The Socialist Movement of Ghana.
This is due to its increased membership and scope of operations, leaders of the Forum announced at a press conference on Tue…
The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Caucus in Parliament on Tuesday said it was wrong for First Ladies in Ghana to be paid salaries, a recommendation contained in the Ntiamoa-Baidu Emoluments Committee report.
Per the recomm…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has thanked the people of the Upper West Region for their support for him and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2020 general elections which enabled him and the Party to secure a second term in off…
South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was temporarily barred from tweeting on his official account for violating Twitter guidelines, local media report.
Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, a member of parliament a…
Angolan health authorities have said malaria cases in the country are on the decline, Lusa agency reported.
Public Health Minister Franco Mufinda said the government had distributed test kits and drugs across the country to combat the e…
Ethiopia has described as "unhelpful" the intervention of the United Nations in the long-running dispute over its controversial Nile River mega-dam.
The county's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement that it was "regrettable to w…
One man has died in Cuba and more than 140 have been arrested or reported as missing during rare demonstrations against its Communist government.
Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, 36, died in a suburb of Havana on Monday during a clash between p…
The death toll in South Africa has risen to 72 as violence continues across the country following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.
Crowds looting and setting alight shopping centres clashed with police in several cities on Tu…
The battle over voting rights in the US is a drama that's playing out in the Congress and state legislatures across the country.
In Philadelphia on Tuesday, Joe Biden gave a fiery speech, warning that American democracy is facing its gr…
The North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and the MP for Okaikwei Central, Patrick Boamah, have moved a private members’ motion urging Parliament to reject the $28 million loan to finance the purchase of cars for legislators.
Accordi…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the Ejura-Sekyedumase Assembly in the Ashanti Region, Mohammed Salisu Bamba, has withdrawn his application for reappointment to the position.
This was contained in a letter addressed to the MMDCEs …
First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has returned to the state, an amount of GH¢899,097.84 (Eight Hundred and Ninety Nine Thousand and Ninety Seven cedis, Eighty Four pesewas), being the full refund of allowances paid her since 7th January, …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has apologised to the Overlord of the Waala Traditional Area, Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, and to the people of Wa for the brutalities meted out to some residents by some soldiers early on this July.
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The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the Government to immediately set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe the bribery allegations levelled against Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah.
It said the allegations if not t…
Venezuelan agents have arrested a key opposition figure on charges of terrorism and treason.
Freddy Guevara was in his car when he was detained on a highway in the capital Caracas.
The left-wing government accuses him of having ties …
Democratic politicians in Texas have left their state en masse in an effort to prevent Republicans there from passing a law to tighten voting rules.
The move will temporarily paralyse the state's House of Representatives, which requires…
Former South African President Jacob Zuma lost a court bid on Friday to overturn his arrest for contempt of court, days after turning himself in for a 15-month jail term in a case that has tested the post-Apartheid nation's rule of law.
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Ethiopia and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal following three days of talks, Ethiopia's state-linked broadcaster Fana reports.
The Ethiopian Defence Force's finance division signed the deal, which it said will boost "long-…