Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi popularly know as Bobi Wine has ended a radio interview with a Kenyan station abruptly after he said the military had raided his house.
Mr Kyagulanyi was being interviewed on HOT 96 radio…
Pressure group, the Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has called for an independent investigation into the incidents that marred the inauguration of the 8th Parliament.
The election of the Speaker of Parliament for the 8th Parl…
New swarms of locusts in southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya are spreading further in the eastern Africa region, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.
In its latest update posted on Monday, FAO said the immature …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bosomtwe in the Ashanti Region, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has set up a 10 year vision to ensure that the Bosomtwe area produces at least 100 engineers in the next 10 years.
As part of that he has been offeri…
Efforts by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to try to resolve a long running dispute over a giant dam on the River Nile have once again broken down.
Construction of the hydro electric dam, in the west of Ethiopia, was completed in July last ye…
A crowd in Nigeria's Lagos city
Nigeria has crossed the 100,000 mark of total infections since the pandemic began, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
This is after 1,024 new cases were confirmed on Sunday. T…
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has left the country for treatment in Germany, less than a month after his return.
He was being treated for Covid-19 for two months until 29 December when he returned home.
The 75-year-old pres…
Facebook has shutdown dozens of accounts aligned to Uganda's ruling party National Resistance Movement (NRM).
The tech giant accused the accounts of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead of Thursday's general elections.
"This mon…
Alhaji Iddi Muhayu-Deen, aide to the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) John Boadu says the national leadership of the party cannot and must not be blamed for the defeat of its nominee, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye in the Speake…
The legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is describing as misleading the responses by both President Akufo-Addo and the Electoral Commission to the election petition filed by their flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama.
Respon…
A civil society organisation, Parliamentary Network Africa says it will petition the Speaker of Parliament to cause investigations into the incidents that marred the inauguration of the 8th Parliament if it sees no action on the matter.
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The Ashanti Regional Zongo Caucus of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has congratulated Mr. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin on his election as the new Speaker of Parliament.
Mr. Bagbin, Ghana's longest-serving Parliamentarian, made…
The Indonesian navy has released footage of divers searching through the wreckage of a passenger plane which crashed into the sea at the weekend as the hunt for its black boxes resumes.
Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 left Jakarta with 62 peop…
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stepped up the pressure on Vice-President Mike Pence to act to remove Donald Trump from office over his role in last week's storming of Congress.
Lawmakers are expected to bring up a resolution asking M…
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has called on all Ghanaians to rise up and call for justice, accountability, transparency and fairness in all dealings in the body politic and the affairs of the country.
It said Ghanaians must speak …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Electoral Commission (EC) have given their responses to an election petition filed by the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama,…
A former Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has called for a ‘government of national unity’, with ministers and other officials appointed based on competence and not political party affiliation.
In an interview with …
Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, the Dean of the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College (GAFCSC), has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to consider having a lean size government in his second term.
He said having a lean governme…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), Presidential Candidate for the 2020 general election, former President John Dramani Mahama, has applauded the party’s representatives in Parliament for winning the Speakership after a hotly contested…
Nigeria's Ekiti state has announced a night-time curfew beginning Monday citing the "alarming rate at which the second wave of Covid-19 is spreading" in the country.
The state has also banned all gatherings of more than 20 people.
Pl…
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has dismissed Health Minister, Chitalu Chilufya, who was arrested in June for corruption but was later cleared.
Mr Chilufya was charged with four counts of being in possession of property reasonably suspec…
The legal team defending President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the Presidential Election Petition filed by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama has announced a five-member team of spokespersons.
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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked some former ministers in his first-term to take charge of their respective ministries until his upcoming ministerial appointments are approved by Parliament.
Multiple sources in government t…
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong received his first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, and urged others to take the jabs in a country that has largely brought the pandemic under control.
Unlike other mass vaccination programm…
The UK has imposed a ban on travellers coming in from six African nations over concerns about the importation of a new strain of Covid-19.
People who want to travel from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana as well as island nations Maur…
The president of the Central African Republic has announced a nightly curfew across the country as his government grapples with an insurgency from armed groups.
President Faustin-Archange Touadéra said the curfew would be in place from …
The Civil Society Organisations in Election Programming, has urged the nation's political leaders to compromise and accommodate each other to consolidate Ghana's democratic gains.
A statement issued by the CSOs Coalition, copied to the …
Mrs Josephine Amoh, the Executive Director of the Concern Mothers Movement says the happenings in Ghana's legislature will only advance the development of the country.
"On what happened in parliament today, I think democracy has won. No…
Police in Uganda say they have rescued dozens of people from a church in the capital, Kampala, where the pastor said they were being treated for their mental illnesses through prayer.
The police found nine of them in chains tied to meta…
Several news outlets are reporting that Ugandan presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has sent his wife and children abroad ahead of next week's election.
He reportedly made the decision because he'd be…
With the country still reeling from Wednesday's violence in Washington, serious questions are being asked about how such a massive security breach was able to happen at the heart of US government.
Crowds of pro-Trump supporters were abl…
Mr Franklin Cudjoe, the Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of IMANI Africa, has described the election of the Speaker of Parliament and his two deputies as a plus for Ghana's democracy.
Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin of th…
The Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic was officially ushered in with the inauguration of 275 Members of Parliament (MPs).
It also came with the election of a Speaker and two Deputy Speakers.
In the absence of the Speaker, either…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has filed a motion for the Supreme Court to give him the green light to correct an ‘error’ in his election petition challenging the validity of the declaration of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo a…
Beijing closed places of worship on Friday and authorities in the Chinese capital restricted access to a highway to the city of Shijiazhuang, nearly 300 km (185 miles) to the southwest, which is battling a new cluster of coronavirus infect…
The Australian city of Brisbane has begun a snap three-day lockdown after a cleaner in its hotel quarantine system became infected with coronavirus.
Health officials said the cleaner had the highly transmissible UK variant and they were…
Eswatini's acting Prime Minister Themba Masuku has announced a partial lockdown to prevent the further spread of coronavirus.
The country that was previously known as Swaziland neighbours South Africa where coronavirus cases are surging…
The former Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Rockson Bukari has indicated that he is not interested in being appointed as neither a Regional Minister nor a Minister of state in the second term of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government.
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The Member of Parliament for Tema West and member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Carlos Ahenkorah has apologised for attempting to mar the election of a Speaker of Parliament on Thursday, January 7, 2021.
Mr. Ahenkorah on the sai…
The Winneba District Police Command has applauded the people of Effutuman for comporting themselves during the just-ended Presidential and Parliamentary elections that led to peaceful and successful event in the Area.
Chief Superintende…
The National Dean of Presiding Members of Ghana, Mr Joseph Korto, has praised the maiden performance of the Speaker of the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic saying Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin’s first Parliamentary session was forw…
A US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for "inciting" the riot.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-Presid…
A radical Muslim cleric linked to the 2002 Bali bombings has been freed amid concerns over his ongoing influence on extremists.
Abu Bakar Ba'asyir was picked up by his family from a jail outside Indonesia's capital Jakarta early on Frid…
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reacted to Wednesday's violent protests in the US capital after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol Building.
Mr Trump had egged on his supporters to march to the seat of …
President Edgar Lungu has called for increased local control over the ownership of mines in the country.
Mining is the backbone of the southern African nation but most mines are owned by foreign firms.
Mr Lungu, who is visiting the C…
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, will visit Taiwan next week for meetings with senior Taiwanese leaders, Taiwan’s government and the U.S. mission to the U.N. said, prompting China to warn they were playing with fire.…
Members of Parliament have been urged to apologize to Ghanaians for their shameful acts and conduct during the election of a speaker for the House.
Mr Opoku Agyeman Prempeh, Executive Director of Centre for Moral Development (CEMED), a …
President Akufo-Addo has congratulated the former Member of Parliament for Nadowli Kaleo, Alban Sumana Bagbin on his nomination and subsequent swearing-in as the Speaker of Parliament of the Eighth Parliament of the Republic of Ghana.
H…
Police in Hong Kong arrested an American lawyer under the city’s national security law on Wednesday, a source at his law firm told Reuters, hours after authorities arrested dozens of democracy activists under the controversial legislation.…
China said on Wednesday it would make a “necessary response” to a planned military dialogue between the United States and Chinese-claimed Taiwan, saying it firmly opposed the event.
China has been angered by stepped up support for the d…