Mr Kwasi Amoako-Atta, Minister for Roads and Highways has called on the security and law enforcement agencies to be vigilant and deal with thieves going round the country and dismembering parts of metal bridges.
These criminals, he said…
Mr. Joseph Kwesi Gbeze, Presiding Member Kpone-Katamanso Municipal Assemble has schooled resident in Bediako, a community within the Nmlitsakpo near Tema on the functions of the Public Relations and Complains Committee (PRCC).
The Presi…
Mr Mzwakhe Lubisi, the South African High Commission's Counsellor of Economics would lead a delegation to embark on a two-day working visit to the Ahafo Region, from June 8 to June 10 this year.
According to a statement issued, the visi…
Sudan has removed all subsidies for imported fuel, doubling the price of petrol and diesel.
The price of petrol will rise from 150 Sudanese pounds ($0.35; £0.25) per litre to 290 pounds while diesel will now cost 285 pounds a litre from…
A court in Ghana has denied bail to 21 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender-diverse (LGBT+) activists for the fourth time, two weeks after they were arrested.
The 21 were arrested in Volta Region's Ho town at a meeting to discuss LG…
Former US President Donald Trump has congratulated Nigeria on its decision to block Twitter - and that other countries should do the same.
"Congratulations to the country of Nigeria, who just banned Twitter because they banned their Pre…
Vice-President Kamala Harris has faced pressure to visit the US-Mexico border, as she tries to tackle a record migration spike.
Ms Harris had a testy exchange with a journalist who asked why she had not gone to the US southern boundary.…
The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Tom Norring, has stated that Ghana is an undisputed beacon of democracy on the African continent.
He commended Ghana for the important milestone it had attained following three decades of stability thr…
French President Emmanuel Macron has been slapped in the face on an official visit to the south-east of France.
In a video circulating on social media, Mr Macron is seen walking up to a barrier on a trip to Tain-l'Hermitage outside the …
Four opposition figures have been arrested in Nicaragua in what government critics have called a hunt for critics of President Daniel Ortega.
Two of those detained on Tuesday are potential candidates in the election in November, in whic…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Yendi Constituency in the Northern Region, Alhaji Farouk Aliu Mahama has been honoured for his hard work and contributions to the development of the constituency.
He was honour…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has called for broader consultations and consensus building to resolve the challenges confronting the country.
According to him, the country’s economy and democracy were in dire straits.
“Economic…
There was no show in court at the trial of the embattled Member of Parliament for Assin North, Mr James Gyekye Quayson over his citizenship suit.
This was because Mr Quayson is yet to be served with the motion-filled by his Counsel, Mr …
The vociferous Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Mr Kennedy Agyapong has questioned the declaration by the Executive Secretary of the National Identification Authority (NIA), that he was committed to building a formidable national id…
The UN Security Council has called on the Central African Republic authorities and other forces in the country to ensure the safety of peacekeepers.
The security council said that attacks against the UN peacekeepers "may constitute war …
All artisanal mines are being closed in the northern province of Sahel, in Burkina Faso, following a series of attacks that left at least 160 dead.
The order comes into force at midnight on Monday.
Since 2009, gold has become Burkina…
The interim President of Mali, Assimi Goïta, has named an opposition leader as prime minister of his transitional government.
Choguel Maïga is leader of the coalition which spearheaded protests against former President Ibrahim Boubacar …
Mozambique's mobile firm Vodacom which oversees the money transfer platform, M-Pesa, says it blocks around 2,500 numbers a month linked to fraud.
Some 80 people are swindled everyday in fraudulent mobile money transactions, according to…
The UK government wants to finalise a free-trade agreement with Australia in early June.
A deal with Australia would be the first trade agreement negotiated from scratch by the UK since it left EU.
But how does a free-trade agreement…
At least 18 people have died in a fire that broke out at a chemical plant on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Pune.
Some 37 workers were trapped inside the building when the blaze started around 15:45 local time (10:15 GMT) o…
A Deputy Minister-designate for Energy, Andrew Egyapa Mercer, has denied claims of conflict of interest against him in the PDS deal.
The MP for Sekondi, who was a Director and Secretary of TGN Energy Solution, one of the companies that …
A group calling itself the Concerned Youth Association within the Asante Akyem South Municipality of the Ashanti Region, is calling on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider the inputs of the youth in choosing a more vibrant, vi…
As we reach 50 days to the rugby sevens kick-off at the Tokyo Olympics, the Tunisian women's rugby sevens team prepares to play their second World Rugby Sevens Repechage in Monaco (WorldRugby.org), with ambitions beyond Tokyo 2020.
The …
More than 800 suspected criminals have been arrested worldwide after being tricked into using an FBI-run encrypted messaging app, officials say.
The operation, jointly conceived by Australia and the FBI, saw devices with the ANOM app se…
US Vice President Kamala Harris has urged would-be migrants in Guatemala not to try to enter the United States illegally.
Speaking on her first overseas trip since taking office, she said the journey north was dangerous and would mainly…
Four members of a Muslim family were killed in a "premeditated" vehicle attack on Sunday, Canadian police say.
The attack took place in the city of London, Ontario province. A boy aged nine, the family's only survivor, is in hospital wi…
Ms Sarah Dugbakie Pobee, Ada East District Chief Executive Officer, has filed documents for re-nomination while nine others have also filed for consideration to take up the post.
The other contestants are Ms Sarah Dugbakie Pobee, the in…
A former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr Kwaku Asomah-Cheremeh has denied cancelling the mining license of Kingston Okomeng Kissi, a former Board Chairman of the Precious Minerals and Marketing Company (PMMC).
In a radio int…
Several areas in Ethiopia's northern region in Tigray are "on the brink of famine", the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutterres has said.
In a stark warning, he said the situation would only "keep getting worse", unless fundi…
Hospitals in Kenya are preparing for a surge in Covid-19 cases with some launching oxygen plants and increasing bed capacity, the Star newspaper has reported.
Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe in his regular briefings last week asked Kenyans…
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the grave.
Short presentational grey line
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Namibia has said the deal agreed with Germany for €1.1bn ($1.34bn; £940m) in aid following the colonial-era genocide is "not enough", but it would "revisit and renegotiate" as funding is rolled out.
A week ago Germany issued a long-awai…
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has shut down schools and suspended public gatherings as the country faces a surge of infections in a second Covid-19 wave.
Public transport between districts will be banned starting Thursday to allow …
A sense of normalcy is returning to a Rwandan district ravaged by volcanic activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo two weeks ago.
The volcanic eruption in Mount Nyiragogo killed 32 people and destroyed hundreds of homes in DR Congo…
The Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has asked North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to desist from making a fuss about the alleged use of a luxurious chartered flight by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Accordi…
A presidential aspirant in the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) national elections, Mr Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, says he will focus on the welfare and security of members when given the mandate to lead the association.
He also pledged…
A Deputy Minister of Finance designate, Mrs Abena Osei-Asare, has given an assurance that the government will account for all COVID-19 expenditure.
He said the government had already accounted for some of the expenditure and would keep …
Attacks on the community of Solhan, in the Sahel region, have killed more than a hundred people, including several children and people who already had fled their homes.
The Director of Save the Children in Burkina Faso, Benoît Delsarte,…
Attacks on the community of Solhan, in the Sahel region, have killed more than a hundred people, including several children and people who already had fled their homes.
The Director of Save the Children in Burkina Faso, Benoît Delsarte,…
Home Secretary Priti Patel co-hosted the first UK-Ghana security dialogue with Albert Kan-Dapaah, Ghana’s Minister for National Security on Wednesday, 2 June 2021.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Ghana’s Minister for National Security…
Colonel Assimi Goïta is being sworn in as Mali’s interim president on Monday.
It’s a fortnight since he removed the transitional president and prime minister in a coup - the second he’s engineered in nine months.
Last week, leaders o…
Two passenger trains have collided in southern Pakistan, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens more.
Officials said that one train travelling in Sindh province had derailed and landed on another track. A second train packed wit…
The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audio recording.
In audio obtained by news agencies, the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) said Shek…
Major Indian states that have been virus hotpots are easing restrictions as Covid case numbers continue to fall.
National capital Delhi and financial hub, Mumbai, are among the cities that are opening partially.
This comes in the wak…
Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, a member of the New Patriotic Party ( (NPP) said no appointee under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government deserves credit for any policy implementations as they serve under the pleasure of the President.
…
North Korea has recently introduced a sweeping new law which seeks to stamp out any kind of foreign influence - harshly punishing anyone caught with foreign films, clothing or even using slang. But why?
Yoon Mi-so says she was 11 when s…
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has adjudged that the justice system must be opened to reflection and self-examination in order to avoid fossilization.
“This requires the judiciary to broaden the legal horizons and to be …
The Effutu Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), as part of its activities to commemorate the 2021 constitutional week, has presented a Number of booklets of the 1992 Constitution to some local F.
Winneba (C…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has bid farewell to Mr Iain Walker, the outgoing British High Commissioner to Ghana.
Mr Walker was appointed British High Commissioner to Ghana in Aug…
Half of the roughly 20 tropical cyclones expected to form in the western Pacific Ocean through September this year are predicted to hit land in east Asian nations, forecasters said on Friday, making for a season that is busier than usual.
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