The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will today inaugurate a welfare fund to motivate the base of the party.
The fund, which will be opened for contributions after a ceremony at the Capital View Hotel in Koforidua, is the brainchild of the NPP…
Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has asked constituency chairmen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to remain united and not indulge in anything that will divide the party.
Remaining united, he said, would make it possible for the party…
The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is showing further signs of expansion to other areas with fighting now reported in neighbouring Afar state.
The government accused the Tigrayan rebels of attacking civilians and blocking aid but …
Nigeria has placed its capital Abuja and six other states on high alert following the emergence of the Delta variant of coronavirus infection in the country.
The presidential steering committee on Covid-19 in a statement on Saturday sai…
Votes are being counted in Sao Tome's presidential election after polls closed on Sunday in a country considered a regional model of democracy.
According to the National Electoral Commission, the voting process was conducted "normally",…
Two vaccination centres have been ransacked in France amid protests over the government's introduction of tougher coronavirus rules.
One site in south-east France was vandalised and flooded with fire hoses on Friday night, authorities s…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged caution as most legal restrictions on social contact are lifted in England.
There are now no limits on how many people can meet or attend events; nightclubs reopened at midnight; and table service …
Achieving African integration is not an end in itself. The purpose must be to offer the African citizenry prosperity and security. The objective of both regional and continental integration must enable African countries benefit from econom…
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Wednesday ordered the release of 101 members of a protest movement that forced his predecessor Abdelaziz Bouteflika to step down, the presidency said.
Elected in December 2019, Tebboune has vow…
Assembly Members in the Ashanti Region are calling for better incentive packages to enhance the discharge of their duties and welfare.
They argued that the plight of the members under successive governments had not been good, adding tha…
The Finance Committee of Parliament has recommended that going forward the current vehicle loan arrangement for Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of the Council of State should be discontinued.
It said MPs and Council of State Mem…
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged China to be more co-operative with the WHO's second phase of the investigation into the origins of Covid-19.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for more access and transparency…
A controversial opposition Liberian MP said he flew to the United Arab Emirates to get a Covid jab because he did not trust the one available locally.
He also said he did it because President George Weah was yet to be vaccinated.
The…
A former Deputy Minister for Information, Pius Hadzide, says he is willing and available to serve in any role if he is called upon again by President Akufo-Addo in his new government.
According to him, he is currently “at home and takin…
The immediate past Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to China, Dr. Charles Dwamena, has bid farewell to Chinese Government Officials and institutions with whom he had a close working relationship during his term of office.
Having successfully c…
Parliament has approved the $28 million medium-term loan agreement involving the government, members of the Eighth Parliament and the National Investment Bank (NIB) Limited to finance the purchase of vehicles for MPs from 2021 to 2024.
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A magnificent bust of former President of Niger, Mr Issoufou Mahamadou has been unveiled in his honour by AU leaders, in Accra.
The bust is in recognition of his immense contributions, sacrifices and dedication to the realization of the…
The Speaker of Parliament is to rule on a motion requesting him to refer the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Sammy Gyamfi, to the Committee of Privileges over comments he allegedly made against…
Police have dispersed supporters of the main opposition group in Eswatini holding an anti-monarchy protests in the country's largest city of Manzini, privately-owned Swazi News has reported.
The newspaper tweeted a video of protesters r…
The US and Germany will stand together against Russian aggression, President Joe Biden said as he welcomed outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel to Washington.
Mr Biden said he had voiced concern to Mrs Merkel over a Russia-to-Germany gas p…
Armed South African police officers are protecting deliveries of food and supplies to supermarkets after days of widespread looting and violence.
Riots were sparked by the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma.
An estimated $1bn (£7…
As unrest spreads in South Africa following the jailing of former President Jacob Zuma, some social media users have been sharing misleading videos and pictures.
The current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has urged South Africans to "refra…
The United Nations refugee agency has warned the situation in camps housing Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is rapidly deteriorating.
The UNHCR says conditions have worsened over the past two days as fighting has …
Senegal's Covid committee has advised against travel during the upcoming Eid al-Adha holiday as virus cases in the country increase.
The country has in recent days recorded the highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic.
…
Almost every night, a handful of young men slip across the well-guarded border, swimming across a fast-flowing brown river and trudging into Sudan to escape what they say is a sudden upsurge in ethnic violence in the far western corner of …
At least 93 people have died and hundreds more are unaccounted for in Germany after some of the worst flooding in decades.
Record rainfall in north-western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, devastating the region.
German Cha…
The Finance Committee of Parliament has tabled a request for the waiver of $13.1 million tax and duties for the purchase of vehicles for the official use of Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Council of State from 2021 to 2024.
The wai…
The Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Prof. Henry Kwasi Prempeh, says the current 1992 constitution is not-fit-for purpose.
In comparison with the country’s second constitution developed in 1…
South Africa’s government is to increase its deployment of defence forces to 25,000, 10 times more than originally proposed, to curb widespread looting and violence in the provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
The authorities also urg…
Tanzania is set to receive 300,000 Covid-19 vaccines from the UN-backed Covax scheme.
Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima said healthcare workers and all those on the frontline of the war against coronavirus would be first to be jabbed.
…
The authorities in Ethiopia's Amhara region say they will go on the offensive against forces from neighbouring Tigray.
The Tigrayan rebels have recaptured much of Tigray in recent weeks, with federal forces and their allies withdrawing …
The United States says it is concerned by the worsening human rights situation in Egypt.
A State Department spokesman, Ned Price, referred to the detention and harassment of NGO leaders, academics and journalists.
"The United States …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will on Saturday, July 24, commemorate the ninth anniversary of the demise of Professor John Evans Atta Mills, the third President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
A wreath-laying ceremony will be …
A man's chilling confession to killing at least 10 children has topped Kenyan newspaper headlines.
Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, was arrested on Wednesday after investigations into the recent killings of two children.
The children's bod…
Australia, one of the world's biggest fossil fuel exporters, has strongly criticised the European Union's proposal to enact a carbon border tax.
The measure was confirmed yesterday in the EU's sweeping new climate plan.
Such a tax wo…
Rights group Amnesty International has condemned what it called the complicity of European states in horrific abuses suffered by migrants intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to Libya.
A report by the group suggests that conditions …
The Rwandan government has announced a 10-day lockdown in the capital Kigali and eight districts amid a rising number of Covid cases and deaths.
People have been ordered not to leave their homes from this Saturday to 26 July to try to h…
Cuba says it will allow travellers arriving in the country to bring in food, medicine and other essentials without paying import duties.
The announcement was made following the biggest anti-government protests on the Communist-run islan…
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has encouraged young people in the country to be resolute in their demand for improved living conditions and their constitutional rights.
The Party said the youth was the foundation of national develo…
Mr Salisu Bamba, Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejura, has announced his decision to withdraw from seeking re-nomination.
The MCE said the decision was borne out of his resolve to let peace prevail in the Municipality.
It was al…
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council (RCC) in collaboration with the Advertising Association of Ghana, has held a training workshop for members of the Technical Committee on Outdoor Advertising (TCOA) of the various Metropolitan…
Mr Ernest Henry Norgbey, MP for Ashaiman Constituency, has threatened to lead a protest against the bad state of roads in the area.
"If after some time the roads do not see any improvement, we'll see if the roads could be turned into fa…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, on Wednesday afternoon directed the Privileges Committee of Parliament to look into motion of contempt against Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, MP for Assin Central, for allegedly threatening a journalist…
A video of a junior minister in Liberia splashing expensive champagne on a luxury vehicle that he had reportedly bought for his wife as a birthday gift has sparked anger, especially among young supporters of the governing Congress for Demo…
Some seventeen people have died after a hotel collapse in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou.
After 36 hours of search operations, rescue workers found 23 people buried in the rubble - six of whom were found alive.
A preliminary inve…
Some social media users have been sharing misleading videos and pictures depicting the violence in South Africa in recent days, clearly not connected to the current unrest.
One such video which has been widely shared falsely claims prot…
The African Union Commission has condemned the violence in South Africa that has left 72 people dead.
Protests against the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma morphed into looting and destruction of property in some provinces.
"Th…
Four Iranian intelligence officials have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist critical of Iran, US prosecutors say.
The indictment did not name the target, but Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American author and a…
Lithuania has voted in favour of strict new migration laws amid an influx of arrivals from Belarus.
Politicians backed the controversial legislation on Tuesday, allowing the mass detention of migrants and limiting their right to appeal.…
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, says he is encouraged by the support received from colleague Members of Parliament with regard to the private member’s motion he filed jointly with the Okaikoi…
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