The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Ashaiman, Albert Boakye Okyere, has stated that “Operation Clean your Frontage” is apolitical and meant to ensure the health of the citizenry.
He explained that the programme was to ensure both h…
Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu in the Volta Region, has lamented over the increasing loss of moral values in political engagements.
He decried that it was surprising people did not practice moral values …
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has issued a warning to diplomats against interreference in the forthcoming elections.
The warning was made during an Iftar dinner with diplomats on Thursday at the president's residence in the capital…
The leader of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested for alleged drug smuggling and money laundering in the US.
Premier Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami by US agents posing as cocaine traffickers from a Mexican drug cartel…
Mr Gregory Baba Gbandi, a government appointee and the headmaster of Karachi Nchumuru Senior High School has been elected as the new Presiding Member of the Nkwanta North District Assembly.
He polled 17 votes to beat Mr Isaac Kiladini, …
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma would do anything the wealthy Indian-born Gupta family wanted him to do from early in his first term, corruption investigators have concluded.
The commission investigating allegations of widesp…
The Chief of Abirem and President of Birim North Association of Chiefs, Obrempong Kwesi Amoh Kyeretwie I, has cautioned his fellow traditional authorities against interfering in politics since it undermines attempts to achieve progress, gr…
Irregular migrant arrivals to Europe from West and Central Africa increased in 2021 for the first time since the 2015 refugee crisis, according to the 2021 edition of the A Region on the Move report produced by the International Organizati…
National flags still adorn the streets of Antigua's capital days after the Earl and Countess of Wessex departed the island on their Platinum Jubilee Caribbean tour.
People here pride themselves on the welcome offered to visi…
He may have been out of power for over a year, but legal issues related to his time in office still present some risk to former President Donald Trump.
The most serious cases include two criminal investigations: one into pos…
Senior officials from Europe and the US have said that international financial support for Sudan, including debt relief, can only follow the establishment of a credible civilian government.
Diplomats from France, Germany, Norway, the UK…
A US family caused a bomb scare at Israel's main international airport after presenting an unexploded artillery shell at a security check.
They had picked up the ordnance on a visit to the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, sit…
Kenyans have braved the early morning chill after a night of heavy rains to attend the memorial service for the late President Mwai Kibaki.
They began streaming into the venue at dawn and there were long queues as people lined up to ent…
Mosques and churches were reportedly set ablaze by mobs in multiple places in northern and southern Ethiopia on Thursday.
Violence erupted after at least 20 Muslims were killed and hundreds more injured while attending a funeral of a lo…
Ukraine has launched a hunt for 10 Russian soldiers accused of war crimes in Bucha - the town outside of the capital Kyiv where civilians were tortured, raped and murdered.
The Ministry of Defence - which shared pictures of …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he will work to forge broad national consensus on the direct popular election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCE’S), to deepen democracy and accountability.
In a na…
Former United Nations (UN) Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has condemned countries whose citizens celebrated military takeovers on the African continent.
He expla…
Africa is experiencing an upsurge in Covid-19 cases, largely driven by a doubling of infections in South Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Cases and deaths on the continent have increased, after a decline during …
A court in Rwanda has sentenced a Muslim cleric to five years in prison for killing a pig in a mosque.
Three witnesses told the court that they saw the imam, Sadate Musengimana, beating the pig with a piece of wood, killing it on the sp…
Queen Elizabeth has eulogised Kenya's former President Mwai Kibaki as a "great statesman" who had "a lifelong record of service to the Kenyan people".
Mr Kibaki died last Thursday aged 90 and his funeral service is ongoing at a stadium …
An ex-general in the Afghan army says he and many other former soldiers and politicians are preparing to launch a new war against the Taliban.
Lt Gen Sami Sadat said that eight months of Taliban rule has convinced many Afgha…
Rockets hit Kyiv during the UN Secretary General's visit to the city, in which he criticised his own organisation's Security Council.
Antonio Guterres said the council had failed to prevent or end the war in Ukraine.
…
30 years after Ghana decided to adopt the democratic system of government, President Nana Akufo-Addo says it’s been the country’s best decision so far.
On April 28, 1992, the country went to the polls to vote for democra…
There were mixed developments at election centres when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) began its constituency elections across the country yesterday.
While the elections were generally peaceful in many of the constituencies, others experi…
Police in South Korea have arrested two people suspected of leaking military secrets to a person believed to be a North Korean agent.
The chief executive of a cryptocurrency exchange and an army officer divulged login detail…
Millions of Indians are experiencing a brutal heatwave that is throwing lives and livelihoods out of gear - and there is no relief in sight.
"Temperatures are rising rapidly in the country, and rising much earlier than usual," P…
The White House has proposed giving the government greater power to seize and sell the assets of Russian oligarchs, and transfer their proceeds to Ukraine.
The legislative proposal, released on Thursday morning, will be pres…
There are reports that fighting has resumed in the city of Geneina in the Sudanese region of Darfur where at least 200 people died over the weekend.
Following a lull in the fighting on Tuesday the sound of heavy gunfire can once again b…
Algeria has threatened to cut off its gas supply to Spain if any of it ends up in another country that is not specified in the contract.
It said supplying the gas to a third destination would be a breach of contract between Algeria's st…
Ghana's opposition Convention People’s Party (CPP) has announced plans to rebury the country's founding leader Kwame Nkrumah in November.
The independence-era ruling party says Mr Nkrumah wasn't given a fitting burial by the state follo…
The Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoah, has urged Ghanaians to desist from changing governments after every 8 years as has been the case under the fourth republic, say…
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), has launched the Professor Mike Oquaye Centre for Constitutional Studies to help broaden the understanding and application of constitutionalism at all levels of governance in the country.
Through…
An aspiring Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Bolgatanga East in the Upper East Region, Mr Asumbekere Karim Anagbila, has said he will not entertain factionalism if elected.
That, he explained, would keep the pa…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of a looming food crisis that may spark social unrest in sub-Saharan Africa.
The fund has revised its growth projection for the continent downwards to 3.8% from the initial 4.5%.
In it…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has worsened the food security crisis in many African countries, Human Rights Watch said today. Many countries in East, West, Middle, and Southern Africa rely on Russia and Ukraine for a significant percentage …
Photos have been released of 62 people allegedly being held hostage in Nigeria after a brazen attack by gunmen on a high-speed train last month.
It is not clear when the pictures, which surfaced on social media on Tuesday sh…
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has met Chad's leader Mahamat Idriss Déby in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Saudi Arabia's official news agency SPA said that the two leaders had discussed cooperation in a multitude of fields.…
The Central African Republic (CAR) has adopted the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as legal tender.
It's the second country to do so after El Salvador.
Members of parliament unanimously approved the move and President Faustin Archange Touader…
Russian forces must be pushed out of "the whole of Ukraine", the Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said.
In a keynote speech in London, Ms Truss said victory for Ukraine was now a "strategic imperative" for the West.
…
Any country trying to intervene in the Ukraine war will face a "lightning-fast" response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.
"We have all the tools no-one can boast of... we will use them if necessary", he said, in…
The Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) has chastised its leader and Chairperson, Akosua Frimpomaa Sarpong Kumankumah whom they accuse of fueling chaos and discord in the party.
The CPP chairperson on Monday reported five natio…
When he proposed a consensus-building this week for a Bawumia-Alan ticket to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to Election 2024, Nana Akomea made it clear his reason was to help prevent an internal acrimonious campaign that the NPP may no…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will, from today up to May 2, 2022, hold its annual delegates conference to elect executives in 250 of its constituency branches.
The conferences in the remaining 25 constituencies are on hold due to petiti…
More than 10 million children are among those facing severe drought in the Horn of Africa.
The UN's children's body, Unicef, estimates that this figure is three million higher than it was just two months ago.
They say that unless mor…
Nigeria's presidential aspirant, Adamu Garba, wants the country's name to be changed to "the Nigritian Federation” or simply Nigritia.
He says the name change will be part of the reforms he will pursue if he wins elections.
Nigerian …
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has found former leader Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption, the latest verdict in a series of secret trials.
Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since February 2021 when a military cou…
Major roads have been closed in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, ahead of elections for the speaker of the parliament's lower house.
Journalists have been barred from accessing the venue of the polls to be held in a heavily fortified air f…
A new report has warned that a scheme set up to ensure mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo does not fuel conflict is being abused to launder tainted minerals.
Global Witness says companies - including Apple, Tesla and Intel - are…
The "era of Russian fossil fuel in Europe" is coming to an end, the European Commission president warned - hours after Moscow cut off gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria.
Ursula von der Leyen said it showed Russia's "unreliab…
Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, former President John Mahama’s Election 2020 Running Mate, has reiterated the assertion that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) did not scrap the teacher trainee allowance rather replaced it with lo…
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