Ugandan opposition figure Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has said he is two years younger than purported by his critics in a recent row over his real age.
Bobi Wine, a presidential nominee for Uganda's elections in Jan…
US President Donald Trump has defended supporters for their alleged roles in recent deadly street clashes.
He suggested a teen accused of killing two in Wisconsin last week and Trump fans involved in clashes in Oregon on Saturday had ac…
One of India's most competitive college exams - which determines the fate of millions of young people - is starting on Tuesday, amid protests and fear over rising Covid-19 cases.
Many students have campaigned to delay the Joint Entrance…
Mali’s military leaders have held a series of meetings with political, social and religious groups to discuss a transition to civilian rule.
The talks were due to take place on Saturday but were postponed due to disagreements with the M…
A number of Saudi officials, including two members of the royal family, have been sacked.
A royal decree said Saudi King Salman had relieved Prince Fahad bin Turki of his role as commander of joint forces in the Saudi-led coalition in Y…
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) is set to outdoor its Flagbearer in the person of Dr Henry Herbert Lartey in the few weeks.
This came to light when Mr. Ato Dadzie, the General Secretary of the Party formally launched the Pa…
Mrs. Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North in the Ahafo Region at the weekend inspected work on the construction of some educational infrastructure in the constituency.
The facilities are being funded by the MP, wh…
A man who inspired a Hollywood film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested for leading "terrorist movements", officials say.
Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu, became well known after Hotel Rwanda depicted his efforts to save hundred…
The Deputy Northern Regional Minister, Mr John Jabaah Benam, has advised Ghanaian youth not to allow themselves to be used by politicians to foment trouble during the 2020 general election.
He reminded them that Ghana was the only count…
GNA-President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday laid the foundation stone for Ghana's first ultra-modern foundry and machine tooling Centre at Kwabenya, near Accra.
The facility, in line with Government's agenda to use science techn…
A French right-wing magazine has been criticised across the political spectrum in France for depicting a black socialist MP, Danièle Obono, as a slave.
The article in Valeurs actuelles accused Africans of colluding in slavery, and had a…
A twenty-five member campaign team for the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa (AOB) branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been inaugurated with a call on members to work for the party's victory in the December 7 elections.
The committ…
Mr Davis Opoku Ansah, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for Mpraeso Constituency, has called for the re-election of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to continue with the massive infrastructure gains of the country.
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The transitional government of Sudan has signed a peace deal with five rebel groups at a ceremony in neighbouring South Sudan.
The deal is aimed at ending 17 years of conflict in the western region of Darfur and southern states.
This…
Lebanese security forces have arrested five fugitive suspects linked to the raping a woman at a luxury hotel in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Egypt's public prosecutor last week said seven of the nine suspects had fled the country before…
The Egyptian authorities say they'll refer more than 50 million voters for prosecution, because they failed to cast their ballots in a recent Senate election.
The electoral commission's decision was a response to the poor turnout. Only …
Thousands of people have marched through the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, in protest at the authorities' handling of a massive oil spill, and the discovery of 39 dead dolphins.
Many wore black and waved the national flag, while honkin…
BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has extended by 21 days a state of emergency in mainland Africa’s smallest nation as coronavirus cases surged, a government statement said on Thursday.
Gambia, with a population of just…
India has accused China of violating the border consensus reached between them during recent peace talks.
It said Chinese troops carried out "provocative military movements" to change the status quo in Ladakh.
At least 20 Indian sold…
Almost 500,000 people in Hong Kong have now signed up for a free mass testing programme that is due to begin on Tuesday.
The scheme comes as the city battles a third surge in infections, weeks after the virus appeared to be largely unde…
Daughter of Ghana’s first president, Samia Nkrumah, is set to contest as an independent candidate in the 2020 parliamentary elections in the Jomoro constituency.
The former Chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) who made thi…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), has fixed Monday, 7th September, as the date for the launch in Accra of the Party’s Manifesto for the December 2020 general elections.
A statement signed by Mr Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, the General …
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Friday that the coronavirus pandemic would worsen in coming months, and that life would not return to normal until a vaccine against it had been developed.
Western Europe’s lo…
The first commercial flight from Israel to the UAE is taking place, marking a major step in normalising relations after the announcement of a peace deal.
An Israeli El Al airliner will make the three-hour trip, carrying a delegation of …
The Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLoG) has scored the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development 40 per cent performance based on her fulfilment of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2016 manifesto promises.
The local government…
The Democratic and Republican National Conventions are typically an opportunity for US voters to get a sense of what their next president's domestic policies might look like.
But this year they also provided a key insight for China Inc …
To many Japanese, racism towards black people has long been considered something that happens in the US or Europe, not at home.
But when the death of George Floyd in the US sparked a wave of protests demanding that Black Lives Matter, p…
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) has launched the Citizens' Anti-Corruption Manifesto (CACM) to serve as a basis for conversations on potential anti-corruption reforms.
Mrs Beauty Emefa Narteh, the Executive Secretary of the G…
A Kenyan journalist who was freed from detention in Ethiopia has opted to stay there with friends, according to Kenya's foreign ministry.
Yassin Juma was arrested at Ethiopian opposition figure Jawar Mohammed's house in early July durin…
The Amenfi East Municipal Officer of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Daniel Akyeampong Boateng, has urged Ghanaians to demand accountability and to monitor development projects in their communities.
He also asked …
A lightning strike has killed 10 children in Uganda's north-western city of Arua.
The region has been experiencing severe rains coupled with thunder and lightning.
A heavy downpour on Thursday prompted the children to take a break fr…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Shinzo Abe on Friday said he was resigning because of poor health, ending a tenure as the country’s longest-serving prime minister in which he sought to revive an economy stricken by deflation and push for a stron…
Wearing a face mask in public has become mandatory across Paris and several surrounding areas, amid a surge in Covid-19 cases in France.
On Friday the country recorded 7,379 new infections - its highest number since early May.
The nu…
Mr Emmanuel Louis Agama, the South Tongu District Chief Executive, has asked Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) to use money from the disability common fund to improve their lives.
He said the common fund was to support PWDs to undertake …
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has appealed to all political parties and their supporters to avoid violence in all its forms in the run-up to the December 7, 2020 elections.
He tasked them to be tolerant of divergent views, stres…
Ukraine closed its borders to foreign visitors at midnight - in an attempt to halt the spread of Covid-19. A record 2,438 cases have been reported in the past 24 hours.
These are the headlines elsewhere in Europe:
• As of 08:00 this mo…
The Convention People's Party (CPP) has said as a party it is the only beacon of hope for Ghana and expressed optimism of winning the upcoming December 7 general election.
The CPP says the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New …
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has declared Saturday a national prayer day for Covid-19.
The president said he got the idea from a Ugandan citizen who "got a vision from God".
"God had told him in a vision that I should organise …
President Donald Trump delivered a speech to a large crowd of more than 1,000 people on Thursday, as he formally accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination on the South Lawn of the White House.
Photos show audience members …
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Doctors employed by Kenya’s Nairobi County government resumed work on Thursday following a six-day strike over delayed salaries and a lack of protective equipment when handling patients who may have COVID-19, a union of…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned allegations of ill-faith over the deployment of security personnel in the Volta Region.
He said the deployment of 1,000 security personnel nationwide, of which 163 were in the Volta R…
French President Emmanuel Macron has been urged to intervene on Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara's bid for a third term in October's election - which his opponents say is unconstitutional.
Former Ivory Coast rebel leader Guilla…
The World Food Programme (WFP) has said serious hunger and malnutrition looms for millions of refugees across eastern Africa who depend on assistance from the food agency to survive.
It said that the socio-economic impact of the Covid-1…
Europe is entering a "tricky moment" with the new school year, the World Health Organization has said.
While classrooms have not played a major role in spreading coronavirus, there is growing evidence of young people infecting others at…
The Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) and the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Wednesday, launched the Citizen’s Manifesto (CACM); as part of efforts to make combating corruption a key election issue in the 2020 general election.
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EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan has resigned after attending a golf dinner in Ireland with more than 80 guests.
The Irish government says the dinner, which was held in County Galway on 19 August, breached Covid-19 guidelines. Hogan was…
At least four people have been killed by falling trees as Hurricane Laura battered the US state of Louisiana.
Winds of up to 150mph (240km/h) caused severe damage, with power cuts to more than half a million homes and a chemical fire fr…
Mr Percival Kofi Akpaloo, the Flagbearer of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) says he will not appoint any relative into his government if voted into power in the December 2020 General Election.
The decision is part of a broader measure …
The Every Ghanaian Living Everywhere (EGLE) Party will not contest the 2020 General Election, Mr Francis Lokko, the National Communications Director of the Party, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA).
He said though the Party had priority a…
Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, Executive Director, Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), has urged media practitioners to interrogate political parties' manifestoes for the forthcoming 2020 general elections.
He noted tha…