Brazil's environment minister has quit ahead of a criminal investigation into claims he obstructed a police inquiry into illegal logging in the Amazon.
Ricardo Salles is accused of vouching for the legal origin of a vast haul of timber …
Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges.
The Catalan justice department said medics had tried …
Former Ivorian prime minister Guillaume Soro has rejected a verdict that sent him to prison for life.
"I totally reject these unfair verdicts, which have been handed down in violation of all the rules of law, and which are solely based …
An indigenous group in Canada says it has found hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan.
The Cowessess First Nation said on Wednesday that the discovery was "the most significantly substant…
Namibia recorded its highest ever daily increase in Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday.
The country's health ministry announced 45 deaths, which represents one of the worst current death rates in the continent - given Namibia's small populati…
The European Union and the United States have condemned an airstrike said to havebeen carried out by the Ethiopian air force leaving dozens of civilian casualties at a village market near Tigray's capital, Mekelle.
The EU has called the…
The Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, has explained that DCOP Opare Addo (rtd), a former Ashanti Regional Security Liaison Officer's refusal to hand to over to his successor led to his ejection from office.
Mr Kan Dapaa…
The government is working hard to find a lasting solution to the power cuts being experienced in parts of the country, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.
He explained that the recent power outages were as a result of ongoin…
The Minority Members of Parliament on Wednesday evening staged a walk out over the approval of some nominees for deputy ministerial positions.
They argued their members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament did not take part in th…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo, has advised the government to resist any temptation to request for additional funds to spend at the upcoming mid-year budget review.
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Eighty years ago on Thursday, British lawmakers driven from their debating chamber by World War Two Nazi bombs secretly set up a new home less than 100 yards away, from where Prime Minister Winston Churchill ran the country's wartime gover…
Several people were killed and others injured in an airstrike in a town in Togoga, about 25km (15.5 miles) south of Mekelle in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
An eyewitness told the BBC from Aider referral hospital that he was struck in the h…
The World Food Programme is warning that the worst drought in southern Madagascar for four decades is causing hunger and famine-like conditions.
Its director, David Beasley, who has just visited the region, said that without immediate a…
Sudan's foreign minister has written to the UN Security Council to intervene on the row over Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam (Gerd) on the Nile River.
Sudan wants the council to meet and discuss the dam's "impact on the safety and secu…
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told visiting junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with Myanmar, Russia's RIA news agency reported.
"We are determined to continue our…
Australia's largest city of Sydney re-introduced "soft touch" COVID-19 curbs on Wednesday to contain a widening outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant, mandating masks in offices while neighbouring states closed their borders.
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The Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD) has called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to consider all the people living with disability (PWDs) who have applied for the positions of district chief executives in the c…
There is no problem with the Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah filing a disciplinary complaint against legal practitioner and Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine at the General Legal Council (GLC).
…
Stakeholders at a workshop on post-election violence have called on government to address the high rate of youth unemployment in the Odododiodoo Constituency in Accra to curb political violence in the area.
The constituency was one of t…
The former president of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been jailed by a judge in charge of a corruption investigation.
He had previously been under house arrest.
Mr Aziz, who led the West African state from 2008 to 2019, ha…
US Republicans have torpedoed a Democratic bid to implement nationwide election rules, a cherished priority of President Joe Biden's party.
The huge bill - which sought to make it easier for Americans to vote - ended up deadlocked 50-50…
The Namibian president Hage Geingob has said he delayed getting a Covid-19 vaccine because doctors had advised him against taking the AstraZeneca jab that was available locally.
He said he had to request for the Johnson & Johnson vaccin…
A video of South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa that shows him asking where his missing iPad is has been shared widely online.
A seemingly distraught Ramaphosa kept saying it had been stolen, adding "this is the problem of always ha…
Zimbabwe has postponed the reopening of schools and other learning institutions by two weeks following a surge in new Covid-19 cases.
The schools were set to reopen on Monday.
Teachers' unions and health professionals had called for …
Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has announced its closure, in a blow to media freedom in the city.
The tabloid's offices were raided last week over allegations that several reports had breached a controversial nation…
The Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, has applauded President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for seeing to the construction and completion of several projects which had been on the wish list of the chiefs a…
“I want to end by saying a big thank you to the people of the North East Region, especially to the people of Walewale. You have given me a first-class assistant in the form of the Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia. He has been of great help …
The head of the World Trade Organization says Africa is working with the European Union and other partners to create regional hubs to produce vaccines.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said facilities would be established in South Africa, Senegal an…
A private plane belonging to Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi has landed in the capital Tripoli after nearly a decade in France for safekeeping and maintenance, domestic and pan-Arab outlets have reported.
The giant plane, an Airbus …
The formation of a unified national army is a “critical element” in South Sudan’s transition to peace, head of the UN peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Nicolas Haysom has said.
Mr Haysom told the UN Security Council in New Yo…
Reported deaths from COVID-19 in Colombia passed 100,000 on Monday, the country's health ministry said, amid warnings of potential scarcity of treatment drugs and oxygen in hospitals during a long and brutal third peak of infections and de…
Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations and member countries on Tuesday to pressure Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to stop alleged human rights abuses, including a crackdown on opposition figures ahead of a November presidential el…
China's longest-serving ambassador to Washington, Cui Tiankai, announced on Tuesday that he will be leaving his post after eight years, departing at a time of strained relations between the world's two largest economies.
Cui, who is 68 …
The US military has said it could slow down its withdrawal from Afghanistan in light of recent battlefield victories by the Taliban.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the deadline for a full withdrawal by 11 September was still in plac…
Police in Canada say they are treating fires that destroyed two Catholic churches on indigenous community land in British Columbia as suspicious.
Sacred Heart Church and St Gregory's Church burnt down at about the same time early on Mon…
Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Samuel Atta Mills has described as frightening political enlistments into the country’s security agencies.
The Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem MP says the development could endanger th…
The vice-chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament has revealed that the decision to recommend Deputy Education Minister-designate, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, to the House for approval was reached through consensus, in the absence of th…
A Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Herbert Krapa says Ghana’s vision to turn around its industrialisation drive is on course and will soon yield positive results for the betterment of the country.
He has thus urge…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Jomoro in the Western Region has been ordered to produce documents renouncing her Ivorian citizenship.
The Sekondi High Court gave the order for the MP, Dorcas Affo-Toffey …
Rescue operations are ongoing in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a flyover under construction collapsed near a major road.
Builders who were working at the site and traders operating from the nearby Kangemi market are among those feared…
The Ethiopia election board has extended voting to 21:00 local time (18:00 GMT) in areas where people are still queuing.
The board said 37m voters had registered and high turnout has been reported in several cities.
Ideally 547 MP se…
The European Union is in the process of removing financial restrictions on Burundi, the president’s office has said.
The decision to lift the ban on restrictions was communicated to Burundi’s president when he met the EU delegates on Mo…
Sudan has once again urged the UN to replace Ethiopian peacekeepers in the disputed Abyei region, on the Sudan-South Sudan border, with another force from different countries, the state-owned Suna news agency has reported.
The proposal …
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has denied that there is hunger in the country's war-torn Tigray region.
Speaking at a polling station on the day of the country's general election, Mr Abiy admitted there was a problem but said the …
A large number of poorer countries receiving Covid-19 vaccines through a global sharing scheme do not have enough doses to continue programmes, the World Health Organization has said.
WHO senior adviser Dr Bruce Aylward said the Covax p…
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, says he will ensure that non-performing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region are sacked if they do not perform satisfactorily in their roles.
Addressi…
Ghana has been ranked 38th in the 15th edition of the Global Peace Index, a jump of two places from the previous year's ranking.
The country scored 1.715 points to secure the second spot in Africa, while Mauritius, with 1.592 points, wa…
A former Deputy Attorney General, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine has responded to a petition filed by the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah against him at the General Legal Council.
The Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has reported …
A former political prisoner who went into exile in the US, Birtukan Mideksa is now centre-stage in Ethiopia as she oversees the country's first parliamentary election since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018 on a pledge to end d…
Barnaby Joyce will return as Australia's deputy prime minister after a sudden leadership contest in the National party, the government's junior coalition partner.
Mr Joyce defeated Michael McCormack in a party vote on Monday.
It foll…