Denmark has confirmed that it is in talks with Rwanda about transferring asylum seekers there, following a similar move announced by the UK last week.
Denmark, which has introduced increasingly harsh immigration policies in the last dec…
The chairman of the African Union commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, held a phone conversation with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.
Mr Faki posted on Twitter that he "stressed the need to respect international law and …
At least 20 people have been killed and 50 others wounded in clashes in Ethiopia's Amhara region, officials have said.
Different sides have blamed each other for the violence.
Amhara officials say the Oromo Liberation (OLA) rebel gro…
A recent survey by Global Info Analytics shows that former President, John Dramani Mahama, remains the preferred presidential choice going into the 2024 general elections.
While 53 percent of Respondents wanted John Mah…
The Queen is celebrating her 96th birthday on Thursday in Sandringham.
Britain's longest-reigning monarch travelled by helicopter to her Norfolk estate, where she is being joined by family and friends.
She is tho…
Earlier today, President Putin ordered his commanders to call off an apparent plan to storm the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol - Ukraine’s last bastion of defence in the besieged port city.
Instead, he ordered troops to seal off the ar…
With about three months to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates conference to elect national executive, former Ghana’s High Commissioner to Canada, Ayikoi Otoo, has joined the race to become the national chairman of the party with a ple…
A member of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Jebir Kebir Moussa, has advised the party faithfuls to be disciplined and united to break the eight-year change of governance and political administration.
He charge…
A former Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa, has expressed concern about the over-concentration of everything in the country on politics, pointing out that the country could not only be developed thr…
The Duke Of Sussex has revealed the Queen was "on great form" during their recent meeting - as he describes making sure she is "protected".
Prince Harry dropped in to see his grandmother with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, …
Outrage has erupted over the death of a Sri Lankan man who was killed when police fired live bullets at protesters, also injuring 14 others.
Footage of police opening fire in the central town of Rambukkana has been widely sh…
At least five people have been killed and 19 others seriously injured in a blast in Taraba state in north-east Nigeria.
The explosion on Tuesday evening occurred at a bar in Iware, a busy commercial centre near the state capital, Jaling…
A passenger airplane skid off the runaway during landing at Uganda's Entebbe airport on Wednesday morning.
In a statement, RwandAir said the incident was "as a result of bad weather".
All passengers and flight crew disembarked safely…
South Sudan’s main opposition political party says it is dissatisfied with recent appointments to a unified armed forces command structure.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) says there were a number of “seri…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Afadzato South, Angela Oforiwaa Alorwu-Tay, has called on corporate bodies, churches and public-spirited individuals to make constant efforts to contribute to the welfare…
An aspiring National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ayikoi Otoo, has warned the rank and file of the party ahead of their constituency elections to desist from acts that will work against the party in Election 2024.
He e…
The African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), has revealed that both New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawmakers are all struggling to accept the reality of a hung Parliament.
That, it explaine…
A National Democratic Congress (NDC) activist seeking to become the First Regional Vice Chairman of the party in the Ashanti Region, Alhaji Nje Umar, has indicated that he is targeting to revitalise the branches to be battle ready for the …
A Nigerian military helicopter has crashed in the northern city of Kaduna.
Military sources say two pilots were on board the training aircraft when it came down on Tuesday evening.
The cause of the crash and the fate of the pilots ar…
Former prime minister Theresa May has criticised the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Mrs May told the Commons she did not support the policy due to her concerns over whether it met standards on "leg…
Boris Johnson has faced fury in the Commons after receiving a fine from the police for breaking lockdown laws.
Most Tory MPs rallied behind the PM as he repeatedly apologised for attending a birthday party in Downing Street …
Ukraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.
The US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank and air defence aid to Kyiv during a 90-minute video call on Tues…
The Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Yaw Buaben Asamoa says the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is unfazed by the recent report by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) that tips the oppositi…
The Dean of Business School of the University of Cape Coast, John Gasti, is sceptical about the governing New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) ability to break Ghana’s eight-year election cycle.
Dr. Gatsi on Eyewitness News said the party’s poor…
The Economist Intelligence Unit (ElU) has predicted that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win the 2024 general elections, but the party needs to revitalise its leadership to increase its prospects.
In a report, the…
Dozens of young Ethiopian men continue to gather at the Russian embassy in the capital, Addis Ababa, on Tuesday following rumours of soldiers being recruited to fight in the war in Ukraine.
But the embassy’s spokeswoman, Maria Chernukhi…
South Africa’s power company, Eskom, has expanded its planned nationwide electricity outage on Monday after further breakdowns in its generating plants.
The state utility firm said it was implementing stage four load shedding, or schedu…
An Egyptian TikTok star has been sentenced to three years in prison after a court convicted her of human trafficking at retrial.
Haneen Hossam, who is in her early 20s, was accused of exploiting girls for money through video…
A number of Kenyan teachers say corporal punishment should be allowed in classrooms again, so that they can be tougher on pupils who misbehave.
Kenya outlawed corporal punishment in schools in 2001. The Children's Act protects children …
Two bomb blasts at a boys' school in the Afghan capital Kabul have killed at least six people and wounded more than 20, officials say.
The blasts happened at the Abdul Rahim Shahid high school in the Shia-dominated west of t…
Russia has moved most of the focus of its war to eastern Ukraine, after pulling back its forces from near the capital Kyiv. Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky says the battle for the area known as Donbas has begun and a very large par…
Okyere Baafi, the Member of Parliament (MP) for New Juaben South in the Eastern Region, has appealed to the church to accept the Electronic transaction Levy (e-levy) to enable the government mobilise revenue for progress, growth and develo…
The Running Mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Election 2020, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, has donated quantities of provisions and assorted items worth several thousands of Ghana Cedis to Muslims in the Central Regi…
Mali has received another batch of military equipment from Russia after the European Union suspended its military training programme with the Sahel nation.
Mali's armed forces chief, Maj Gen Oumar Diarra, received two combat helicopters…
Libya’s National Oil Corporation says that a wave of protests affecting the energy sector are likely to get worse.
At least four separate groups have stopped production at oil fields and energy facilities across the country.
The prot…
Two soldiers have shot dead 15 people in separate attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The victims were almost all civilians.
This comes after six people were wounded when soldiers threw a grenade into a crowd whi…
A federal judge in Florida has struck down the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other forms of public transit, calling it unlawful.
US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the national public heal…
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.
Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video address Mr Zelensky said tha…
Nominations for constituency executive positions of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) open today [Tuesday, April 19, 2022] and end tomorrow.
The positions to be contested from April 28 to May 2, 2022 are the Constituency Chairperson, the fi…
A governance expert, Professor Baffour Agyemang-Duah, has urged Parliament to address the issue of absenteeism in the House.
He said the referral of three Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Privileges Committee for their absence in the …
Russia says more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the besieged port of Mariupol, but Ukraine denies this.
The city's Deputy Mayor, Serhiy Orlov, told the BBC that Ukrainian troops there were still fighting.
…
Cletus Avoka, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Zebilla East in the Upper East Region, has shoot down the Minority Chief Whip’s decision to file a motion for a reversal of the three MPs to the Privileges Committee of Parliament.
He obse…
Pakistan's new government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is in internal discussions on whether to roll back fuel and power subsidies that have blown a hole in public finances amid a stuttering economy, officials said.
Former premi…
The Presiding Member (PM) for Ga Central Municipal Assembly, Mr George Adu Darko has been re-elected for a second term.
The poll held on Thursday had 21 out of 22 assembly members voting in favour of the incumbent.
In a brief remark …
New Zealand's top court has ruled that a man can be extradited to China to face a murder charge, in what activists have called a "deeply disturbing precedent".
Kyung Yup Kim, a New Zealand permanent resident, is accused of m…
Police in Vietnam on Thursday arrested Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung on suspicion of bribery, the Ministry of Public Security said.
Dung, 58, is accused of taking bribes and police have searched his house, the ministry …
The British Home Secretary is in Rwanda to sign a deal that will offshore some of the UK's asylum processing to the African country.
Single men who pay smugglers to get them into Britain on small boats will be sent to Rwanda to have the…
The family of the late Emily Akuffo, the wife of a former Head of State, Lieutenant General Frederick William Kwasi Akuffo, Wednesday informed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the death of the former First Lady.
She passed away…
The government has launched the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GARID) Project, a social behaviourial change communications campaign, to address flooding in the Odaw Basin.
It is also intended to improve drainage and…
Some of Somalia's newly elected members of parliament are set to be sworn in on Thursday in the capital, Mogadishu, following parliamentary elections that took months.
They will be sworn in at a venue inside the main airport area - one …
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