Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree aimed at restricting the powers of social media companies to remove accounts and content.
Mr Bolsonaro said a change of regulations was needed to combat the "arbitrary removal" of pr…
El Salvador has become the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender in a move that has got the nation and the world debating the opportunities and dangers of cryptocurrency.
From today, businesses will be obliged where possible t…
The G7 group of industrialised nations has called on President Kais Saied of Tunisia to urgently appoint a new head of government.
In a joint-statement, the group said that naming a prime minister would create space for dialogue about p…
There is a growing rift between Somalia’s president and prime minister over the disappearance of a female intelligence agent, Ikraan Tahliil, in the capital, Mogadishu.
Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble publicly suspended the head of…
A new political alliance announced in The Gambia between the party of ex-President Yahya Jammeh and the governing party has thrown into doubt whether some of the former ruler's victims will get justice.
The long-serving leader was defea…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the decision to release former President Jacob Zuma on medical parole.
President Ramaphosa wished Zuma a quick recovery, during his concluding remarks at a national executive committe…
Mr Prosper Kofi Afealete, Ketu North Municipal Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged the youth to use the right channel to address their grievances.
He was speaking at a day's Youth Activist Workshop …
The 'Concerned NPP Supporters in Bono Region', an emerging youth group in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to ignore political saboteurs and concentrate on building a better Ghana.
The gr…
The African Court on Human and People's Rights have expressed concern that more African States are yet to ratify the Protocol and make the Declaration under Article 34 (6).
Lady Justice Imani D. Aboud, African Court President, explaine…
A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to jail for five years for flouting Covid-19 rules and spreading the virus.
A court found Le Van Tri guilty of "transmitting dangerous infectious diseases" to eight people, one of whom eventually died…
The leader of the coup which ousted Guinea's President Alpha Condé has said a new "union" government would be formed in weeks.
Col Mamady Doumbouya told ministers who served in Mr Condé's government that there would be no witch-hunt aga…
The rebel group in Ethiopia’s Tigray region says that 150 people may have died of starvation as the humanitarian crisis worsens in the region.
The Ethiopian government has not reacted to the claim. But it’d previously rejected accusatio…
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday received 250,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine donated through the global Covax programme.
It is the first time the country has received another vaccine than AstraZeneca.
President Felix Tshi…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been hit by gravel thrown by protesters during a campaign stop.
He was returning to his bus after visiting a brewery when he was struck by small stones. He was not injured.
Mr Trudeau called…
Good afternoon Ladies and gentlemen. Let me begin by thanking Mr. Seth Terkper for his delivery, which has brought home a number of key issues surrounding our recent economic trajectory. I do not intend to belabour the points he has made, …
The Taliban have declared victory over the province of Panjshir northeast of the capital Kabul, the final pocket of territory which has remained outside their rule.
The group posted footage online of their fighters raising their flag th…
The former President, John Dramani Mahama has once again taken a swipe at President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his management of the economy which he says has brought “hardship in the country.”
Mr. Mahama is of the view that the CO…
Mr José Javier Guitérrez Blanco-Navarrete, the Kingdom of Spain's Ambassador-Designate to Ghana, has presented his open letters to Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, in Accra.
At the me…
A statue of Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, which stood on one of the main avenues of Mexico City, will be replaced by one of an indigenous woman.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said the bronze likeness of Columbus would be …
Israeli authorities have launched a massive manhunt after six Palestinian prisoners escaped from one of the country's most secure jails overnight.
The men are believed to have dug a tunnel from their cell over several months that led to…
Mali's anti-terror police have been widely condemned after armed officers marched on a prison to demand the release of their commander - who was then set free.
The exact circumstances of how Oumar Samake was released are not clear.
S…
A Tanzanian newspaper has been suspended for 30 days for publishing false information, the government spokesperson has said.
The weekly publication, Raia Mwema, headlined a story linking the gunman who attacked soldiers near the French …
More than 100 trucks of food aid have arrived in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region after weeks of blockade, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
It has had difficulty getting the aid through to the region.
Tigray has been destabi…
São Tomé and Príncipe's former Infrastructure Minister Carlos Vila Nova has won Sunday's twice-postponed presidential run-off election.
Mr Nova was backed by the opposition Independent Democratic Action party.
The National Electoral …
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Jinapor, believes that no president has done more for the Savannah Region than President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He said the creation of the region including the provision of wat…
The MP for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, has said the recent Center for Democratic Development survey has given further cause to doubt the legitimacy of the 2020 election results.
The survey indicated that 62 percent of Ghanaians do …
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has been adjudged by Initiators of Change Foundation, as an Outstanding Foreign Affairs Minister of the Decade.
The award was presented to the Ministe…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, says he cannot declare the Assin North Parliamentary seat vacant because the matter is currently a subject of appeal in court.
The Speaker made this known in a letter to the R…
Members of the pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, ‘Fixing The Country Movement’, say they will petition the office of the Special Prosecutor (SP) to revisit the Airbus bribery scandal in order to deal with all individuals cited in the sc…
The 62nd Ordinary Session of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights is slated to begin on September 6, to October 1, 2021, at Arusha, the United Republic of Tanzania.
The Judges, among others, will examine a number of applicatio…
India administered more than 180 million doses in August as it continues to ramp up its vaccination drive to stave off a third wave of Covid.
This was more doses than all the Group of Seven (G7) countries - Canada, the UK, the US, Italy…
South Africa's jailed former President Jacob Zuma has been granted medical parole.
The 79-year-old is serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court at Estcourt Correctional Centre.
The nature of his illness was not specified, but…
A group of soldiers who ousted Guinea's President Alpha Condé from power on Sunday have ordered the country's cabinet to attend a mandatory meeting on Monday.
Those who refuse to attend the 11:00 GMT meeting will be considered rebels, a…
The third son of the former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been released from jail in the capital Tripoli, where he had been held since 2014.
Sa'adi Gaddafi was commander of Libya's Special Forces but was also famous for attempting…
Little is known about Col Doumbouya's early life, except that he is a Malinke like President Conde and hails from Guinea's eastern Kankan Region.
He was based in Forecariah, western Guinea, where he served under the bureau of territoria…
A US lawmaker has accused the Taliban of stopping Afghans and Americans from leaving Afghanistan via Mazar-i-Sharif International Airport.
Republican House member Michael McCaul said on Sunday that planes had been trying to leave the ai…
Heavy gunfire has been heard in the centre of Guinea's capital, Conakry, while soldiers have been seen on the streets near the presidential palace.
It is not clear what is behind the shooting, and authorities in the West African country…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned Sunday's attempted coup in Guinea, and has demanded swift return to constitutional rule.
The bloc has also ordered the immediate and uncondtional release of President …
Burundi's President, Evariste Ndayishimiye, has been condemned for his verbal attack against a journalist who covered the Covid-19 situation in the country.
The president had said Esdras Ndikumana, who reports for French broadcaster RFI…
Yahanasu Rabilu Lawal has been grieving for her seven-year-old son Isma’il, in her one-bedroom house on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
He died of cholera three weeks ago.
Mrs Lawal and her husband, a farmer, tried unsu…
A Zimbabwean man has been charged with fraud after trying to pass himself off as the country's vice-president to receive free medical treatment.
A court in the capital, Harare, heard that Marlon Katiyo, 35, visited two hospitals on seve…
Members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been charged to show commitment and adopt measures that can secure the party to maintain political power in 2024.
“You must shun the needless tension mounted amongst yourselves and work for …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday signed off on a law allowing for vaccine and medication patents to be broken in a public emergency, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
But the right-wing leader vetoed the provisions that paten…
The United Nations says the flow of humanitarian aid into Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has been severely disrupted with no supplies currently getting into the region.
Fighting between government and Tigray forces, as well as roadbl…
Zambian lawyer Nelly Mutti has become the country's first female speaker of parliament - responsible for the orderly conduct of debate as well as disciplining lawmakers
She was elected unopposed by the new set of MPs and will be deputis…
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday, visited the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), to seek knowledge on the core mandate and operations of the Commission.
The call was crucial to help to promote peace and s…
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said in a surprise move on Friday he would step down, setting the stage for a new premier after a one-year tenure marred by an unpopular COVID-19 response and sinking public support.
Suga, who took…
The Nigerian military says nearly 6,000 Boko Haram members including commanders, fighters and their families have surrendered to the authorities in the last couple of weeks.
Cameroon had also announced the surrender of hundreds of Boko …
Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, a member of the New Patriotic Party has appealed to Ghanaians to disregard the propaganda carried out by some opposition members to bury the benefits of President's recent travels.
He said although the President's v…
A toxic leak from a massive diamond mine in Angola killed at least 12 people and left 4,500 sick, a minister in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo says.
The leak turned a tributary of the River Congo red and killed huge numbers o…
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