Former Guinean Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory and three ex-cabinet members are due to face embezzlement charges before a court in Conakry following their arrest last week.
Mr Kassory, former Defence Minister Mohamed Diane, ex-Environme…
The number of people killed by gunmen in a series of raids on several villages in Nigeria's central Plateau state has risen to more than 100.
Gunmen on dozens of motorbikes attacked at least four remote villages in Kanam area on Sunday,…
Justice Abdulai, a law lecturer at the University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA) has said that the recent decision of the Supreme Court (SC) that the Deputy Speaker of Parliament could count himself for purposes of a quorum and is …
A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has launched a micro-business initiative to empower party activists at the constituency level.
The project, dubbed NDC ahot? project, is targeted at the gra…
Kwaku Kwarteng, the Chairperson of the Finance Committee of Parliament, has urged his colleagues to respect the referral of some Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Privileges Committee.
He explained that it was the only means through wh…
Fabien Mwingwa once fought as a child soldier with an armed group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Today, he has turned his life around, and works for the UN peacekeeping mission in the country as a firefighter, helping to ke…
The Egyptian government has denied allegations made by the family of a 42-year-old economist and activist that he was forcibly disappeared in early February.
The Interior Ministry said that Ayman Hadhoud had been placed in a psychiatric…
Several roads have been closed to the public around a Pietermaritzburg court as the corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma resumes on Monday.
Mr Zuma faces multiple charges of fraud, racketeering and money-launder…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a federal election for 21 May.
Mr Morrison's ruling coalition holds 76 seats in the House of Representatives - the minimum needed to retain power.
Polls suggest there will be a chan…
Pakistan's parliament will select a new prime minister on Monday, after Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in the early hours of Sunday.
Shahbaz Sharif - the leader of an opposition coalition who worked to depose …
Emmanuel Macron has won the first round of the French election and far-right rival Marine Le Pen will fight him for the presidency for a second time.
"Make no mistake, nothing is decided," he told cheering supporters.
…
Members of the pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, ‘Fixing The Country Movement’, say despite the challenges confronting all global economies, Ghana is working under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo.
The group said due to the imp…
Mariupol has been under Russian siege for five weeks, but some residents have managed to flee to other towns in Ukraine. They tell the BBC about the conditions in the besieged city - and the loved ones they left behind.
Peop…
New York's top lawyer has asked a state judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court, for allegedly failing to turn over files for an investigation into his business practices.
Attorney General Letitia James requested he …
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that around two-thirds of Africans have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus.
A study has found a significant under-counting of infections on the continent because of so many cases with no symptoms…
Non-communicable diseases, or diseases that are not transmitted directly from one person to another, are said to be on the rise in Africa as climate change continues to pose a big threat to health in the region, the World Health Organizati…
Morocco and Spain have announced they have turned a new page in relations - after Madrid pledged support for Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara.
During a meeting in Rabat, King Mohammed and the Spanish Prime Ministe…
The Peoples’ National Congress (PNC), has stated that it is not opposed to the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) but the charge should have been further reduced.
It said the 1.5 per cent on mobile money transactions was substantial a…
Hypocrisy is “one of three systems that rules the world”, President Paul Kagame said, while condemning powerful countries for their reaction to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Mr Kagame said that powerful countries idly watched the genocid…
Russia's Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Dmitry Muratov says he has been attacked with red paint laced with the solvent acetone aboard a train.
"My eyes are burning terribly," said the editor of the Novaya Gazeta libera…
Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi has arrived in Kenya for a state visit where he is expected to formally sign a treaty to join the East African Community (EAC).
Mr Tshisekedi will sign the treaty before President Uhuru Kenyatta who …
An aspirant contesting the Ahafo Regional Chairmanship position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Robert Sarfo-Mensah, has called on the leadership of the party to strengthen internal party structures to increase votes in Election 2024 and…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has hinted of repealing the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) if it assume the reins of power in 2025.
This is because the tax imposes hardships on the citizenry and will repeal it to ameliorat…
The immediate past Metropolitan Chief Executive of Tamale, Mr Iddrisu Musah, Musah Superior who has declared his intention to contest as general secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), says he will develop a strategic plan to re-energi…
Russia has admitted suffering "significant losses of troops" in Ukraine, as the invasion enters its 44th day.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told British channel Sky News the casualties were "a huge tragedy for us".
…
There was public outrage in Angola after President João Lourenço was accused of using the presidency's official Facebook page for political propaganda for his own party, the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
The con…
Israeli PM Naftali Bennett says security forces will have "full freedom" to act after an attack in Tel Aviv killed three Israelis.
Two were killed when a Palestinian opened fire on a bar in one of the city's busiest streets …
Nigerian authorities have issued new guidelines for trials of persons charged with terrorism in the federal high court.
The measures include a ban on media coverage of court proceedings unless ordered by the trial judge, according to a …
Ethiopia repatriated 101 children from Saudi Arabia on Friday as it continued a campaign to return tens of thousands of its nationals from the country.
Many of of the Ethiopians from the Middle Eastern country are undocumented migrant w…
The Anchoring Democracy Advocacy Movement Ghana (ADAM-GH), has called on the Zugaraan Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II, the Paramount Chief of Kusaug Traditional Area at Bawku in the Upper East Region to help restore peace in his area.
T…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for La Dade-Kotopon Constituency, Ms Rita Odoley Sowah, has advised female students to emulate the example of role models to enable them to become better future career leaders.
Ms Sowah, was speaking to f…
The least a president might expect, when juggling a war in Europe with an election at home, is a bounce in the polls.
But Emmanuel Macron has discovered that all the energy he spent dealing with Vladimir Putin's war in Ukrai…
The least a president might expect, when juggling a war in Europe with an election at home, is a bounce in the polls.
But Emmanuel Macron has discovered that all the energy he spent dealing with Vladimir Putin's war in Ukrai…
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources (MLNR) has refuted allegations by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, that the ministry had spent GH¢10m on conferences relating …
The wife of the late Vice-President of Ghana, Aliu Mahama, has died. Hajia Ramatu Aliu Mahama (neè Egala) died on Thursday, April 7, 2022.
The news was shared by his son, the Member of Parliament for the Yendi Constituen…
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia's State of the Economy report after the passage of the Electronic Transaction levy
The Vice-President spoke at an event organised by the Tertiary Education Confederacy of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) …
Sufficient aid is not getting through to reach millions of people in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray despite a humanitarian truce agreed between the government and the rebels, the rebels say.
A hundred trucks of aid each day are…
Ethiopia has called a joint investigation by rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleging war crimes in the Tigray region "unhelpful".
The government has however vowed to "examine" the accusations that inclu…
The Ministry of Energy has reacted to a recent comment by Dr. Kwabena Donkor, a former Minister of the sector, that the power outage crisis popularly referred to as "dumsor" will return if urgent steps were not taken.
In a press stateme…
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is of the view that the digitalisation of various sectors of Ghana’s economy has greatly helped to reduce corruption.
For him, “[it] has dealt a big blow to corruption” and that the government wil…
The Awomefia of Anlo, Torgbi Sri III has entreated the citizenry to be very analytical and objective in assessing the current economic challenges facing Ghana, saying putting all the blame on the government is not the right step to confron…
The trial in Turkey of 26 Saudi nationals accused over the notorious murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018 has been halted.
A judge said the case would now be handed over to Saudi Arabia, which had refused …
Colombia's Supreme Court has approved the extradition of the leader of the country's largest gang to the US.
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, better known as Otoniel, led the Gulf Clan cartel and is wanted in the US on drug trafficking…
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has dismissed a move by the prime minister to expel the African Union’s special representative in the country.
Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble earlier said that Francisco Madeira had been …
Burkina Faso’s ousted President Roch Kaboré has been allowed to return to his home in the capital, Ouagadougou, the military government said in a statement.
Mr Kaboré was under house arrest in a ministerial villa in the capital since Ja…
Rwanda is holding a subdued memorial at the Kigali genocide memorial, for the 1994 genocide that left about 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu moderates dead in just 100 days.
Similar events are being held at sites across districts - but they have…
A motorcade of former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was involved in a road crash in the capital, Abuja.
The Wednesday evening accident claimed the lives of two policemen attached to him.
His spokesman Ikechukwu Eze told the BB…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has stated that the Supreme Court’s interpretation of Article 102 and 104 of the constitution has posed serious challenges to long-held conventions and the Standing Orders of the Ho…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has urged the Gonjaland Youth Association to increase its advocacy for the government to live up to its responsibility and respond to the needs of the people.
He noted that the Savanna Region, being …
The Tamale North MP, Alhassan Suhuyini, thinks there was a ploy by the government to reduce the numbers of the Minority in Parliament by inviting MPs from Tamale to the inauguration of the interchange in that metropolis.
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