At least eight people have been killed in wildfires that have ripped through southern Turkey, ravaging coastal resorts and forcing tourists to flee.
The blazes have been raging for six days as Turkey grapples with its worst fire crisis …
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called for urgent reconsideration of the constitutional provisions on asset declarations made by public office holders to the Auditor-General (A-G) to make the fight against…
Many residents in the Assin North Constituency have called on the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana and other state institutions to ensure a free, fair and transparent election in the impending by-election to deepen Ghana's democratic cre…
The 2020 parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, has appealed the High Court ruling which annulled his election as Member of Parliament (MP).
Mr Quayson in an appeal fi…
Tunisia's parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi was discharged from hospital on Sunday hours after he was admitted.
Mr Ghannouchi's admission came days after he called out President Kais Saied's move to suspend parliament and sack the pr…
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to suppress electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections - amid criticism by the opposition and other groups.
“I have allowed the Zambia Army, Zamb…
An Israeli court is to decide the fate of Palestinians facing eviction in East Jerusalem in a case which has become the focus of international attention.
The long-awaited hearing concerns four of more than 70 families appealing against …
Doctors in Nigeria's public hospitals are set to begin an indefinite strike over poor pay after the government failed to respond to their grievances.
The National Association of Resident Doctors (Nard) said its members would begin the s…
A fresh Covid outbreak in China has spread to more locations, raising concerns in local media over the country's vulnerability to the highly contagious Delta variant.
More than 300 cases have been detected within a span of 10 days.
L…
A sprinter from Belarus who refused her team's order to fly home early from the Olympics is seeking asylum in Poland, activists say.
Krystina Timanovskaya spent the night secured in a hotel under protection from Japanese police, after s…
The Chief of Kwapia in the Adansi District of the Ashanti Region, Nana Gyamena Kwabena Oyiakwan II, and his Krontihene, Nana Anokye Ababio, have sued the Minerals Commission, Obuasi and two others at the Obuasi High Court for assisting fou…
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has called for the strengthening of unity and promotion of cooperation between Muslims and Christians to ensure a more impactful development in the country for citizens.
Speaking at the opening o…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed the National Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Kwabena Awuku as the new Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA).
Mr Awuku is expected to res…
The Majority in Parliament has said the decision by the Minority to contest the Cape Coast High Court ruling that annulled the election of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Assin North is tantamount to “scanda…
India's north-eastern state of Assam is advising locals against travelling to neighbouring Mizoram in the wake of violent clashes at the border.
Six policemen from Assam died and 80 others, including officials, were injured on Monday wh…
Israel will offer a third dose of Covid vaccines to people aged over 60, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said.
Those who got their second jab at least five months ago would be eligible for a Pfizer booster from Sunday, he said.
Pr…
The Nigerian police say they have received ‘’allegation and indictment processes’’ from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) against a senior police officer.
A statement by police spokesperson Frank Mbah did not give details of …
A Chinese nuclear plant has shut down one of its reactors for maintenance after minor damage to fuel rods.
The plant operator said in a statement it had shut Unit 1 at the Taishan nuclear plant in Guangdong province after "lengthy" talk…
The immigration authorities in South Sudan have been ordered to implement a visa waiver for all Kenyans arriving in the country with immediate effect.
The waiver is in reciprocation to Kenya's gesture to waive visa's for South Sudanese …
The Electoral Commission says it's ready to conduct fresh election in the Assin North Constituency following a court order restraining Mr James Gyekye Quayson, from holding himself as Member of Parliament for the Area.
A Cape Coast High…
Participants at a day's seminar organised by Imani Center for Policy and Education, a Ghanaian Think Tank, have considered the resolution of the Western Sahara issue a necessary step to enhance the continent's economic integration.
The …
Kenya's health minister has suspended all public gatherings over rising Covid-19 cases.
Mutahi Kagwe said all public meetings planned for the next 30 days should be held virtually or cancelled.
The country has in recent days recorded…
Hong Kong police are investigating an incident where a crowd watching the Olympics booed China's anthem.
Hundreds gathered at a shopping mall on Monday to watch a broadcast and cheer on Hong Kong fencer Edgar Cheung, who won gold in the…
With the Tokyo Olympics underway, new cases of Covid continue to be identified at the Games, and across Japan.
Infection numbers have been climbing for some weeks, and the authorities have announced that a state of emergency in Tokyo wi…
Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, Programme Manager for the National AIDS/STI Control Programme has disclosed that most men who have sex with men in Ghana are bi-sexual, which exposes their regular female partners to risk of sexually transmitted dise…
About 200 Afghan interpreters and their families have arrived in the US - the first of a group of 2,500 Afghans being evacuated as the Taliban advances.
The interpreters are being resettled under a visa programme for those who worked wi…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has urged African Governments to take into consideration Afrobarometer data survey reports in policy-making.
She noted that Afrobarometer data wou…
Ghana will develop a home-grown strategy to extract fossil fuel, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, has said on Thursday.
He noted that given the prevailing sentiments around energy transition, there was a strong possibility t…
Japan is extending a state of emergency in Tokyo and expanding it to new regions as the Olympic Games host faces a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The restrictions are being imposed in areas surrounding the capital as well as in the city of Os…
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has said the rate of vaccination in the country had suffered as a result of vaccine nationalism, a claim that rich countries are buying up vaccine supplies.
He told the BBC that despite Kenyan researcher…
The UN Security Council has extended by one year an arms embargo against the Central African Republic.
The vote took place on Thursday in New York among the 15 council members, with 14 votes in favour and an abstention by China.
Fran…
US President Joe Biden has called for states to offer $100 (£71) to the newly vaccinated in an effort to address flagging jab rates amid virus surges.
The president also issued a strict new vaccine requirement for US federal workers, th…
A Covid outbreak first discovered in the Chinese city of Nanjing has spread to five provinces and Beijing, with state media calling it the most extensive contagion after Wuhan.
Almost 200 people have been infected since the virus was fi…
Australia has deployed hundreds of soldiers to Sydney to help enforce a Covid lockdown.
A Delta outbreak which began in June has produced nearly 3,000 infections and led to nine deaths.
Australian Defence Force soldiers will undergo …
The US aid agency (USAID) boss Samantha Power will next week visit Ethiopia to push for more aid to be allowed into conflict-hit Tigray region, the agency says.
Ms Power will meet government officials to seek a solution to the…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has lifted an international arrest warrant against former Ivory Coast first lady Simone Gbagbo.
She was facing accusations of crimes against humanity committed during the country's 2010-2011 post-e…
The ousted Member of Parliament for Assin North constituency in the Central region, Mr James Gyakye Quayson says he was in good spirits and unshaken by events leading to the annulment of his election.
"All my beloved constituents should…
Minority Leader in Parliament and MP for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu, has suggested government’s claims of managing a resilient economy underpinned by high discipline and competence, is a façade soon to be exposed.
He predicts that onl…
A high court in the northern Nigeria has acquitted the leader of a banned Shia Muslim group and his wife who had both been charged with inciting violence and unlawful assembly.
Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, 68, leads the Islamic Movement of …
For years the fortunes of Teodoro "Teodorin" Nguema Obiang Mangue mirrored those of his country, Equatorial Guinea, as it rose to become one of sub-Saharan Africa's biggest oil producers.
The son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbaso…
South Africa's government has said it is "appalled" by last week's decision to grant Israel observatory status at the African Union (AU).
Its foreign office accused the body of making a "unilateral" decision without consulting its 55 me…
Civilians have borne the brunt of unlawful killings, kidnappings and the widespread destruction of houses during the four-year separatist conflict in Cameroon, Amnesty International says.
The rights group collected witness accounts and …
Burundi has agreed to receive Covid jabs, but the government says it will not urge people to get vaccinated, the health minister has said.
Dr Thaddée Ndikumana told reporters that the vaccines were proposed by the World Bank and they to…
The People’s National Convention (PNC) has held its 29th anniversary symposium to deliberate on ways to ensure the success of the Party in future political events.
Present at the symposium was the Party’s twin which is the Convention pe…
The Audit Service has called on the Public Procurement Authority (PPA) to increase its monitoring role on procurement processes at the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs).
That, it explained, was because of the poor …
The Local Government Service (LGS) has rated the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) as the top performing among the 16 regions for the year 2020.
The rankings were released by the Office of the Head of the LGS, following a moni…
The UK is already undergoing disruptive climate change with increased rainfall, sunshine and temperatures, according to scientists.
The year 2020 was the third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest on record, scientists said in the…
A prominent Chinese billionaire has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, the latest in a string of punishments against outspoken corporate bosses.
Sun Dawu runs one of the country's largest private agricultural businesses in the northe…
Nigerian Instagram celebrity Hushpuppi , whose real name is Ramon Abbas, has pleaded guilty to money laundering in a US court.
He was arrested, along with other suspects, in Dubai last June over defrauding someone in connection with a $…
Somalis online have questioned why some state governments received donations of ballot boxes from the UN.
The UN office in Somalia (UNSOM) donated the election materials to the South-West regional state, state-owned Somali National TV r…
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