Mr Barnabas Tengbani Gaazienye, the Assembly Member for the Dabo Electoral Area in the Wa West District has expressed concern about the government’s delay in providing Assembly Members with motorbikes, which is affecting their work.
He …
Iran's president-elect has welcomed the negotiations with world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal but said they must guarantee national interests.
At his first news conference since his victory in Friday's election, Ebrahim R…
The main opposition political party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the Chief Justice to withdraw his disciplinary complaint against Dr Dominic Ayine.
The Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has reported lawyer Dr…
A private legal practitioner has filed a suit at the Supreme Court urging the court to decriminalise “attempt to commit suicide”.
In a suit invoking the jurisdiction of the court, Mr Christian Lebrechet Malm-Hesse argues that Section 57…
The Founder and General Overseer of the Lighthouse Group of Churches, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, has apologised to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for using him as an example in a Kingship sermon where he questioned the relevance of ch…
Early results indicate both President Emmanuel Macron and his opponent Marine Le Pen will fail to make the gains they were hoping for in the first round of regional elections in France.
Mr Macron's centrist party is projected to gain mo…
The South African government says that stones found in a village last month are not diamonds but quartz.
A cattle herder first uncovered the stones in KwaZulu-Natal province. It prompted thousands to rush to KwaHlathi village, more than…
A former Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismark Tawiah Boateng, has suggested to the national executive of the party to appoint branch level election directors within the constituencies across the c…
Ethiopians are voting in key elections amid rising tensions and a bloody conflict in the northern Tigray region.
This pandemic-delayed poll is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's first electoral test since coming to power in 2018.
He hopes t…
Kumasi has been named as one of 50 Champion Cities selected as finalists in the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, a global innovation competition that identifies and accelerates the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the C…
Six Chinese nationals who ran out of a court in Tanzania after their economic sabotage charges were dropped have sparked reactions online.
The charges were dropped after the director of prosecutions told the magistrate in a Dar es Salaa…
The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was concerned by Nigeria's move to renew fuel subsidies and urged the government to continue efforts to unify its exchange rates.
Africa's largest oil exporter, which still has to impo…
Ethiopia is preparing for national and regional parliamentary elections on Monday that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said will be the country's first free and fair polls after decades of repressive rule.
But voting has been delayed in 1…
The border dispute between the Adaklu and Central Tongu districts during the 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) has reared its ugly head again at the ongoing PHC.
Three communities, Bakpa Dzave, Kwawudade and Matekorfe are being l…
Tanzania is working to join the COVAX global vaccine-sharing facility and will sit down with aid agencies next week to plan its first national COVID inoculation campaign, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday.
The East Af…
A court in Switzerland is due to announce its verdict in the trial of a former Liberian rebel commander later on Friday.
Alieu Kosiah is accused of committing war crimes including rape and murder between 1993 and 1996, during Liberia’s …
The Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress, Hassan Ayariga, has slammed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on their support for the #FixTheCountry campaign.
He explained that it was hypocritical for the NDC, who were in pow…
Mr Patrick Ekye Kwesie, Parliamentary Candidate for the Convention People's Party (CPP) in the 2020 Parliamentary elections has appealed to the President to re-appoint the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Jomoro, Mr Ernest Kofie.
H…
Mr Ebenezer Kojo Kum, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has hinted the need for a drastic law reforms at the Chieftaincy institution to ensure that the institution plays its rightful role in the governance structure of the coun…
The Minority in Parliament has said Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s is deliberately buying time to appear in Parliament to answer the cost of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s recent trip on a private jet to three nations.
The question, an …
Parliament has, by consensus, approved the second batch of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s deputy ministerial appointees who have duly been vetted by the Appointments Committee.
The approval of the 12 nominees came after the Hou…
Some Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will converge on Accra for their 59th Ordinary Session today.
The regional meeting, chaired by Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, w…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an embarrassing defeat when his Conservative Party lost a parliamentary by-election on the outskirts of London, just a few miles from his own seat.
Since its creation in 1974, the Conservati…
Ivory Coast's former President, Laurent Gbagbo, has returned home after nearly a decade overseas during which was cleared of crimes against humanity.
Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted Gbagbo at Abidjan airport.
Earlier, police …
The Sudanese government has announced the formation of a joint force to maintain security and protect civilians in the troubled western region of Darfur following repeated ethnic clashes, the state-owned Suna news agency reported.
The f…
A member of the National Democratic Congress’ Greater Accra Legal Committee, Wayoe Ghanamannti, the lawyer who gained prominence after representing the two Achimota Rastafarian students, has resigned from the party.
He has since joined …
The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has vehemently rejected the assertion that the government has lost the fight against crime.
He insists the recent incidents of crime in the country does not mean that crime is on the increase.
Rep…
The US Supreme Court has ruled food giants Nestlé USA and Cargill can't be sued for child slavery on African farms from where they buy their cocoa.
Six African men alleged that they were trafficked from Mali and forced to work on cocoa …
Africa is in the middle of a full-blown third Covid wave and there is need for more vaccination, the Wold Health Organization (WHO) has said.
The total infections have crossed the five million mark and at least seven African countries h…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country needs to prepare for both "dialogue and confrontation" with the US, and "especially to get fully prepared for confrontation".
This marks the first time Mr Kim has directly commented o…
Iranians are voting to elect a new president, with all but one of the four candidates regarded as hardliners.
Opinion polls suggest Ebrahim Raisi, a conservative Shia cleric who heads the judiciary, is the clear favourite.
Mr Raisi i…
The time has come for political parties to redefine their structures and ensure the active participation of the youth in decision making, the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S. K. Bagbin, has said.
He said the present political system i…
A book of essays on 70 selected global artworks of former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been launched.
The 194-page book, titled: “A collection of John Agyekum Kufuor”, was written by the acting Director of the Ghana Museums and Mon…
Malawi’s former ruling party turned opposition wants last year's election nullified saying it was presided over by an electoral management body that was illegally constituted.
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has filed a lawsuit i…
Parliament has approved one Minister of State Designate and 11 Deputy Ministers Designate, vetted publicly by the Joseph Osei Owusu chaired Appointments Committee of Parliament for various portfolios.
They are expected to be later sworn…
The African Union says it will launch an inquiry into allegations of abuses in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
The commission of inquiry will begin work on Thursday and will investigate for three months subject to renewal.
"The Co…
Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is expected to return to the country for the first time since he was arrested and handed over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in November 2011 for his role in the 2010-2011 post-election cr…
A Member of the New Patriotic Party (npp), Mr Kwasi Poku Bosompem, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his leadership style and initiatives to make Ghanaians comfortable.
“Despite the challenges COVID-19 has brought …
The two major political parties in the country, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) last Saturday put their political affiliations aside and jointly mourned the death of Maxwell Kojo Okyere Atta-Krah, a…
The Director of Elections at the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, has tasked members of the Tertiary Educational Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC to campaign vigorously for the return to power of the main…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has formally acknowledged that his country is facing food shortages.
Addressing a meeting of senior leaders, Mr Kim said: "The people's food situation is now getting tense".
He said the agricultural se…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni and his counterpart from the Democratic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi have launched the construction of road projects between the two countries.
The ground-breaking ceremony for the works took place in Uga…
A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Vincent Frimpong Manu, has called for a review of the election processes for parliamentary candidates of the party.
"I think we need a lot more voices in the selection of candidates at the p…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and and First Vice-President Riek Machar have instructed government agencies to speed up the graduation of army recruits.
The two leaders discussed the bringing together of the soldiers coming from dif…
Eritrea has criticised the United Nations Security Council and the UN humanitarian chief for “rehashing unfounded claims” against the country.
It denied the charge levelled against it by the UN aid chief, Mark Lowcock, who told a closed…
The presidents of the US and Russia have praised their talks in Geneva but have made little concrete progress at the first such meeting since 2018.
Disagreements were stated, said US President Joe Biden, but not in a hyperbolic way, and…
A Deputy Attorney General designate, Mr Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has registered his opposition to calls for the country to abolish the death penalty.
He subscribed to the execution of persons sentenced to death by a court of competent jurisd…
Tackling political polarisation is crucial to ensuring and sustaining national peace, Reverend Dr Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, the Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), has said.
He said it was also crucial to establish early warning and …
Criticism that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is only interested in going after Africans was part of a “propaganda” campaign by those who wanted to discredit the court, its outgoing prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has told the BBC.
Th…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced new restrictions as South Africa faces a third wave of Covid-19.
A nationwide curfew has been moved up to 22:00 local time, while alcohol sales have been limited to Mondays to Thursdays.
Public…