The Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoah, believes strongly that the NPP stands a better chance at winning the 2024 election, given its management of the economy amid cu…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has urged the citizenry to work hard to consolidate the country’s democracy.
“The Constitution is a living document and must be nurtured to grow. The nurturing of a living constitution …
The Speaker of Somalia's Senate has been re-elected, a key step for country to be able to hold presidential elections.
Abdi Hashi Abdullahi was re-elected by the 54-seat upper house during a vote that took place in a highly secured comp…
The South African president has promised more help to rebuild communities devastated by the recent floods, but has warned of tougher measures to ensure relief funds are not lost to corruption.
Some 435 people died and more than 50 are s…
The number of anti-Semitic incidents around the world dramatically increased last year, a study by Tel Aviv University has found.
The report identifies the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia as among countries where t…
The Russian government has accused the UK of "provoking" Ukraine into attacking Russian territory.
Russia's defence ministry said it was ready to hit "decision-making centres" in Kyiv should such attacks occur.
Th…
A General Secretary hopeful of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Iddrisu Musah has called on delegates of the party to elect competent constituency executive members capable of uniting the party and offering solutions to challenges …
Former President John Mahama has encouraged the founder of the Perez Chapel International, Charles Agyinasare, to speak up on national issues.
He said Archbishop Agyinasare had been a voice that appealed to the moral conscience in the c…
Former Chief of Staff in President John Agyekum Kufuor's era, Kwadwo Mpiani has questioned Nana Akomea's proposal to join Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen to lead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to Election 2024.
"The proble…
Over 40 non-government organizations and networks are calling on donor nations meeting this week for an urgent and substantial step-up in funding and leadership to respond to a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the drought-stricken Hor…
A leading communications member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea says a Bawumia-Alan ticket is the sure way for the NPP to go into Election 2024.
He said it was clear that Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and th…
President Emmanuel Macron has announced he will be pulling French forces out of the West African nation of Mali, where they have been fighting Islamist militants since 2013.
There are 5,000 French troops in Mali and surroun…
A second Ebola patient has died in the Democratic Republic of Congo days after a fresh outbreak emerged in the city of Mbandaka, in Equateur province.
The World Health Organization said the second fatality was a female relative of the f…
Ugandan art was given special recognition at the Venice Biennale, as the prestigious exhibition opened this weekend in Italy.
Uganda was represented at Venice for the first time. Its pavilion shows the works of Acaye Kerunen, who collab…
Recent clashes between rivals in northern South Sudan “continue to undermine a permanent ceasefire”, according to monitors in the country.
Fighting has been witnessed in the last four months in the oil-producing states of Unity and Uppe…
The Nigerian authorities say they have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, described as a billionaire drug baron, while on board a plane at Lagos' main airport.
In a statement, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said investigati…
A Turkish court has sentenced an activist and philanthropist to life in prison in a case Turkey's international allies said was politically motivated.
Osman Kavala has already spent more than four years in prison without be…
A US judge has held former President Donald Trump in contempt for failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices.
Justice Arthur Engoron on Monday ordered Mr Trump pay a fine of $10,000 (£7,850) …
Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said it would be "useful" for Sweden and Finland to launch joint Nato membership bids.
But he said that no fixed date had been set for any potential application.
The co…
The Northern Regional Secretariat of the governing New Patriotic Party has excluded the Savelugu Constituency from the party’s upcoming constituency executive elections.
The election according to a memorandum from the Secretariat to all…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has stressed on the need for encouragement of intra-African trade and described Africa’s over-dependence on imported goods as ‘shameful’.
He stated that intra-African trade must be encouraged on the …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed condolences on behalf of Ghana to the government and people of Kenya on the death of the country’s former President, Mwai Kibaki.
Mwai Kibaki died on Thursday April 21 at age 90. The K…
Emmanuel Macron has done something no other French president has achieved before: winning re-election while still being in charge of his own government.
The centrist president's victory over Marine Le Pen may have been convi…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un made a defiant speech at a military parade on Monday night, vowing to ramp up the country's nuclear arsenal.
The parade, to mark the armed forces' founding anniversary, also displayed banned i…
Augustine Blay, the Secretary to the Vice President has charged the youth and TESCON to stand up fiercely to protect the gains of Nana Akuffo Addo’s led-government.
He said the youth and TESCON must trumpet the positive impact of the go…
A former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has called on politicians and the general public to guard against majority dictatorial tendencies and politicisation of state institutions in…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has affirmed that its 2022 constituency annual delegates conference will take place as scheduled from April 28 to May 2, 2022.
A statement signed by the General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu said the aff…
A member of the Russian private-security firm Wagner was captured earlier this month in central Mali, al-Qaeda's Sahel branch Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) says.
The group did not provide any video evidence of its claim and…
A trial has begun in Germany of a Gambian man accused of being part of a death squad that assassinated opponents of the West African country's former president, Yahya Jammeh.
The defendant, Bai Lowe, is accused of crimes against humanit…
Slovenia's populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa has suffered a heavy defeat in parliamentary elections by a left-leaning party formed only in January.
Mr Jansa's Slovenian Democratic party took about 24% of the vote, compare…
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has said he hopes Russian losses in Ukraine will deter its leadership from repeating its actions elsewhere.
He added that Ukraine can still win the war if given the right support, and prais…
Togo's parliament has passed a resolution asking the government to make a formal bid for membership of the Commonwealth, a group of mainly former British colonies.
The country is already a member of the Economic Organisation of West Afr…
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has held talks with Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni in his first visit to the northern neighbour after tensions in 2019 led to border closures for three years.
A statement from State House Entebbe said …
The World Health Organization says it has identified more 100 people who came into contact with a new case of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
It says they are being closely monitored for symptoms and vaccinations wi…
Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana (UG), has warned aspiring flagbearers of the various political parties against complacency ahead of the 2024 general elections.
According to Prof. Gyampo, aspirant…
Two political stalwarts have thrown their weight behind the call for the state to fund political parties to build a sustainable and vibrant democracy in Ghana.
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asi…
The election of autocratic leaders is threatening fledgling democratic states, especially in Africa.
This was the view shared by speakers at a dialogue on factors contributing to the erosion of democracy in Africa and Europe.
Accordi…
A former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Dr Kwabena Opuni Frimpong, has advised state institutions not to allow themselves to be influenced and politicised by politicians in the country.
He said due to their …
A staff of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Owusu Sekyere, has been disqualified from contesting the chairmanship position of the Manyhia South constituency of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
This followed a petition filed by the …
African leaders are congratulating French President Emmanuel Macron on his re-election after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen.
Mr Macron is the first sitting French president in 20 years to be re-elected.
Senegal's Presi…
The military in Mali says it has restored control at three bases in central Mali after they were simultaneously attacked by jihadists.
Six soldiers died and 11 enemy fighters were killed, according to a statement.
There has also been…
Emmanuel Macron has won five more years as France's president after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen, who nevertheless secured the far right's highest share of the vote yet.
He won by 58.55% to 41.45%, a greater…
The Chinese capital Beijing has kicked off mass testing for millions of residents after a spike in Covid cases.
The Chaoyang district reported 26 cases over the weekend - the highest number so far in Beijing's latest surge.…
With Mariupol almost under full Russian control after weeks of bombardment, those who have escaped the southern Ukrainian city share chilling accounts of being held in cramped, unclean, processing camps before being evacuated.
…
The Winner-Takes-All (WTA) system of politics is one in which all the candidates who do not emerge victorious in an election receive no authorised role in the politico-legal system of the country, irrespective of the number of votes they o…
A former Director of Communications for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea is not surprised by the EIU report predicting the opposition National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) victory over the NPP in the 2024 …
Waving or wearing Israeli flags, hundreds of right-wing nationalist marchers shouted angrily by the wall of Jerusalem's Old City as Israeli police blocked them from heading to the main gate to the Muslim Quarter.
As we waite…
East African heads of state have agreed to deploy a joint military force to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to deal with the armed groups operating in that region.
At a summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Thursday, the region…
Some Kenyans online are remembering former President Mwai Kibaki as the best president Kenya has ever had, while others are discussing the post-election that followed his second-term win in 2007.
Kenya has only had four presidents since…
Singapore will remove most remaining COVID-19 restrictions from April 26 and ease its entry requirements for travellers, its health ministry said on Friday, in response to a decline in new daily infections.
The measures include removing…
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