Former South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has been admitted to a hospital outside prison for medical observation, the prison authorities have said.
His foundation said it was an "annual medical routine check-up" and there was "no need …
Tanzania’s main opposition party leader Freeman Mbowe and his three co-accused have been brought before a court in Dar es Salaam.
The accused arrived at the Kisutu Magistrates Court at around 08:00 local time in a prison bus escorted by…
Rebels from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, a Unesco world heritage site in neighbouring Amhara region.
Lalibela, home to 13th Century churches hewn from rock, is a holy site for millions of…
The Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Freddie Blay, has noted that the NPP government has so far proven its ability to better position Ghana for economic growth and prosperity even in the face of difficulties.
He …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate for the 2020 Assin North parliamentary election, Mr. James Quayson, has filed an application to stay the ruling of the Cape Coast High Court that annulled his election as MP, pending the hea…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the Executives and members of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to bury their differences and remain united towards a common cause to retain political power in the 2024 Election.
He sa…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a suspension on booster vaccines for Covid-19 until at least the end of September.
WHO Chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said a pause would allow for at least 10% of the population in…
A new study shows that the percentage of the global population at risk from flooding has risen by almost a quarter since the year 2000.
Satellite images were used to document the rise, which is far greater than had been predicted by com…
Iran's new president, Ebrahim Raisi, has been sworn into office, following his election victory in June.
Mr Raisi, a hardline cleric, succeeds Hassan Rouhani, seen in the West as a relative moderate.
It comes at a time of growing cha…
More than 150 lorries carrying humanitarian aid have arrived in Ethiopia's conflict-hit northern Tigray region. Millions are in need of assistance there, according to UN estimates.
The UN World Food Programme said 175 lorries carrying s…
The court case of Tanzania opposition leader Freeman Mbowe, which was to be held virtually, has been postponed after technical difficulties.
Nevertheless, party supporters who had turned out on the streets to back him were dispersed by …
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah, has rebuffed calls on him to resign for the role he played in the military deployment to Ejura, which led to the death of two persons during a protest.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, he re…
Concerns are growing over the whereabouts of sacked Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, who has not appeared in public or spoken to the media since his dismissal on 25 July.
Some media outlets say he has also not been in contact wi…
A group of fishermen looking for a catch in Kenya’s Lake Victoria got the shock of their lives when they instead netted a heavy metallic box with six mortar bombs inside.
The fishermen in the western Mbita town, who had thought they had…
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has called on the leadership of the country to honour the significance of the Founders’ Day celebration by improving the living conditions of the citizenry.
The Party, in a release issued and signed …
Former President John Dramani Mahama and the Volta Region caucus of the National Democratic Congress in parliament on Wednesday, August 4, 2021, visited the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region and commiserated with the residents af…
The People's National Convention (PNC) has disclosed intention to institute an event to commemorate the achievements of former President Dr Hilla Limann of the Third Republic.
Dr Limann, touted as the incorruptible leader in Ghana’s dem…
Alhaji Collins Dauda, a former Minister of Works and Housing, accused in the $200 million Saglemi Housing Project saga, has been granted self-recognisance bail by a Criminal Court (High Court Division) in Accra.
The Court, presided over…
About 4.4 million people in north-eastern Nigeria may face acute hunger because of the attacks by the Boko Haram militant group that have forced farmers from their land, the UN has said.
Farmers have been targeted in the insurgency and …
Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has called on the government to consider dialogue with the armed groups operating in the conflict-hit Cabo Delgado region.
He says there are “certain types of terrorism” that have ended throu…
The speaker of parliament in Mauritius has spoken out after criticism for shaming an MP with vitiligo, a condition which causes patches of skin to become lighter.
The speaker said it was a "joke", regarding his remarks against an opposi…
The US will eventually require almost all foreign visitors to be fully vaccinated, a White House official has said.
The unnamed official told several news agencies that the Biden administration had tasked inter-agency groups with creati…
The Mexican government has sued some of the biggest US gun manufacturers, accusing them of fuelling bloodshed through reckless business practices.
The lawsuit alleges that the companies knew they were contributing to illegal arms traffi…
Fully vaccinated passengers returning to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from France will no longer need to quarantine after Sunday.
Under widespread changes to the traffic light system for travel, France is being moved from ambe…
Ghana marks Founders Day today. It is the third to be marked since it was promulgated into law in 2018. Because it is being marked during the COVID-19 global pandemic, just a few activities have been planned to mark the day which has been …
President Akufo-Addo is rallying the entire nation to work to free ourselves from the shackles of colonial economic arrangements that continue to bind us as a people.
On the occasion of Founders’ Day, the President says “We must make co…
The Jubilee House has described as 'premature', the petition to have the Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah removed from office over a $5 million bribery allegation.
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA…
The Africans Rising Coordinating Collective, the governing body of the movement for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, has constituted a new leadership.
The new leadership has Mr. Deji Adeyanju, a human rights activist, as …
The Government together with the Government of Korea will Fund the Regional Maritime University’s (RMU) Modernisation project within the Economic Development Cooperation Fund Framework Arrangement.
The project earmarked for the 2020 –…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a message to mark Founders' Day, rallied citizens to work relentlessly to free the nation from the non - productive neo-colonial structure of the raw material producing and exporting economy.
He…
The UK and Iran have summoned each other's diplomats in a row over last week's deadly attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman.
The UK, US and Israel blame Iran for the attack, in which two crew members - a Briton and a Romanian - …
Dozens of bodies have washed up on a river that marks the border between Ethiopia and Sudan, residents on the Sudanese side have reported.
Some of the bodies had gunshot wounds and others had their hands bound, witnesses told news agenc…
Kenya's deputy president was on Monday made to wait for clearance for hours before he was stopped from flying to neighbouring Uganda.
William Ruto was set to attend to private matters in Uganda when Kenyan immigration officers said he n…
A Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Joseph Atsu Ayee, has said the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) should be institutionalised to enable it to play its role effectively as a major stakeholder…
Ghana and Angola Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to hold consultations to boost political and economic ties between both nations.
By the MoU, the two nations have established a consultative mechanism that would enabl…
Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan will begin testing its entire population, after a handful of positive coronavirus cases were detected there.
Wuhan has recorded seven locally transmitted cases - the first local infections in mor…
Rights groups and social media users have raised concerns about freedoms in Tunisia as more critics of President Kais Saied have been arrested.
"Two members of parliament from El Karama and Ennahdha parties, Maher Zeid and Mohamed Affes…
Morocco is introducing new coronavirus restrictions, including a night curfew, as infection rates rise.
The prime minister's office tweeted that the curfew would begin Tuesday night and would last from 21:00 to 05:00 local time.
The …
Mr Isaac Manu, the Central Regional Communications Director of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), has expressed the Party's determination to convincingly win the Assin North Parliamentary seat which had been declared vacant by a Cape Coast Hi…
A former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, Koku Anyidoho, is demanding a formal letter of his expulsion from the opposition party.
“I am please requesting for the expulsion letter for my perusal to enabl…
An Afghan general has warned of "devastating" consequences for global security if the Taliban win in their fight against government forces.
General Sami Sadat is leading the battle against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand…
The head of a group helping people who have fled Belarus has been found dead near his home in neighbouring Ukraine.
Vitaly Shishov's body was found hanged in a park in Kyiv, a day after he failed to return from a jog. Police have opened…
Nigeria has received a donation of four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the US government.
The US embassy in Nigeria says the donated vaccines are part of the "US pledge to initially provide at least 25 million of the 80 million …
Tanzania's Defence Minister Elias Kwandikwa died on Monday night while being treated in Dar es Salaam.
Mr Kwandikwa had been been in hospital for 14 days.
The MP's secretary, Julius Lugobi, confirmed his death.
President Samia Sul…
Ethiopia's national carrier Ethiopian Airlines has denied reports that it shipped arms to the conflict-hit region of Tigray.
The airline said that after the airspace was reopened it only gave "commercial essential service by transportin…
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Kigali on her first official visit to Rwanda.
She is expected to hold talks and have a joint press conference with President Paul Kagame later in the day.
Tanzania is the second…
Algerian students in France have raised more than €600,000 ($713,000; £513,000) to buy medical equipment and supplies for hospitals battling coronavirus in their home country.
The Algerian Medical Network launched a fundraiser on 20 Jul…
The UK has been asked to apologise and compensate members of two communities in western Kenya whose land was taken away during the colonial era and who suffered horrific abuses.
The petition by indigenous Kenyans who had settled in the …
The death toll from the floods in China's central Henan province last month has risen sharply to at least 302, officials have confirmed.
About 50 people remain missing after the region was engulfed by severe flooding caused by heavy rai…
The commander of the rebel group in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray has told the BBC they will continue fighting until their terms for a ceasefire are met.
Gen Tsadkan Gebretensae said the group aims to force the federal government…
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