The US military has said it could slow down its withdrawal from Afghanistan in light of recent battlefield victories by the Taliban.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the deadline for a full withdrawal by 11 September was still in plac…
Police in Canada say they are treating fires that destroyed two Catholic churches on indigenous community land in British Columbia as suspicious.
Sacred Heart Church and St Gregory's Church burnt down at about the same time early on Mon…
Vice Chairman of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Samuel Atta Mills has described as frightening political enlistments into the country’s security agencies.
The Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem MP says the development could endanger th…
The vice-chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament has revealed that the decision to recommend Deputy Education Minister-designate, Gifty Twum-Ampofo, to the House for approval was reached through consensus, in the absence of th…
A Deputy Minister for the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Herbert Krapa says Ghana’s vision to turn around its industrialisation drive is on course and will soon yield positive results for the betterment of the country.
He has thus urge…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Jomoro in the Western Region has been ordered to produce documents renouncing her Ivorian citizenship.
The Sekondi High Court gave the order for the MP, Dorcas Affo-Toffey …
Rescue operations are ongoing in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after a flyover under construction collapsed near a major road.
Builders who were working at the site and traders operating from the nearby Kangemi market are among those feared…
The Ethiopia election board has extended voting to 21:00 local time (18:00 GMT) in areas where people are still queuing.
The board said 37m voters had registered and high turnout has been reported in several cities.
Ideally 547 MP se…
The European Union is in the process of removing financial restrictions on Burundi, the president’s office has said.
The decision to lift the ban on restrictions was communicated to Burundi’s president when he met the EU delegates on Mo…
Sudan has once again urged the UN to replace Ethiopian peacekeepers in the disputed Abyei region, on the Sudan-South Sudan border, with another force from different countries, the state-owned Suna news agency has reported.
The proposal …
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has denied that there is hunger in the country's war-torn Tigray region.
Speaking at a polling station on the day of the country's general election, Mr Abiy admitted there was a problem but said the …
A large number of poorer countries receiving Covid-19 vaccines through a global sharing scheme do not have enough doses to continue programmes, the World Health Organization has said.
WHO senior adviser Dr Bruce Aylward said the Covax p…
The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr Henry Quartey, says he will ensure that non-performing Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region are sacked if they do not perform satisfactorily in their roles.
Addressi…
Ghana has been ranked 38th in the 15th edition of the Global Peace Index, a jump of two places from the previous year's ranking.
The country scored 1.715 points to secure the second spot in Africa, while Mauritius, with 1.592 points, wa…
A former Deputy Attorney General, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine has responded to a petition filed by the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah against him at the General Legal Council.
The Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has reported …
A former political prisoner who went into exile in the US, Birtukan Mideksa is now centre-stage in Ethiopia as she oversees the country's first parliamentary election since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018 on a pledge to end d…
Barnaby Joyce will return as Australia's deputy prime minister after a sudden leadership contest in the National party, the government's junior coalition partner.
Mr Joyce defeated Michael McCormack in a party vote on Monday.
It foll…
Sweden's parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.
A total of 181 of the 349 MPs voted in favour of the motion, with 51 abstentions. It is the first time in Swedish history that a prime minister has …
Forces loyal to Libya's eastern-based commander Khalifa Haftar have closed the border with Algeria, they said on Sunday, after major deployments of his forces to the south underscored his continued role despite efforts to unify the country…
Uganda's president Yowreri Museveni on Friday introduced sweeping new anti-coronavirus measures including a ban on all vehicular movement except for essential workers to help curb a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gripping the nation.…
An Ebola outbreak which started in southeast Guinea in February, infecting 16 people and killing 12, has been declared over, the health ministry and the World Health Organization said on Saturday.
"I solemnly declare the end of the Ebol…
Two Kenyan MPs have expressed concern after three girls from the Somali community went missing.
Two of the girls have been reported missing since Tuesday and a photo of a wounded girl was shared on social media.
A video of another gi…
Mr Barnabas Tengbani Gaazienye, the Assembly Member for the Dabo Electoral Area in the Wa West District has expressed concern about the government’s delay in providing Assembly Members with motorbikes, which is affecting their work.
He …
Iran's president-elect has welcomed the negotiations with world powers aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal but said they must guarantee national interests.
At his first news conference since his victory in Friday's election, Ebrahim R…
The main opposition political party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked the Chief Justice to withdraw his disciplinary complaint against Dr Dominic Ayine.
The Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has reported lawyer Dr…
A private legal practitioner has filed a suit at the Supreme Court urging the court to decriminalise “attempt to commit suicide”.
In a suit invoking the jurisdiction of the court, Mr Christian Lebrechet Malm-Hesse argues that Section 57…
The Founder and General Overseer of the Lighthouse Group of Churches, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, has apologised to the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for using him as an example in a Kingship sermon where he questioned the relevance of ch…
Early results indicate both President Emmanuel Macron and his opponent Marine Le Pen will fail to make the gains they were hoping for in the first round of regional elections in France.
Mr Macron's centrist party is projected to gain mo…
The South African government says that stones found in a village last month are not diamonds but quartz.
A cattle herder first uncovered the stones in KwaZulu-Natal province. It prompted thousands to rush to KwaHlathi village, more than…
A former Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismark Tawiah Boateng, has suggested to the national executive of the party to appoint branch level election directors within the constituencies across the c…
Ethiopians are voting in key elections amid rising tensions and a bloody conflict in the northern Tigray region.
This pandemic-delayed poll is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's first electoral test since coming to power in 2018.
He hopes t…
Kumasi has been named as one of 50 Champion Cities selected as finalists in the 2021 Global Mayors Challenge, a global innovation competition that identifies and accelerates the most ambitious ideas developed by cities in response to the C…
Six Chinese nationals who ran out of a court in Tanzania after their economic sabotage charges were dropped have sparked reactions online.
The charges were dropped after the director of prosecutions told the magistrate in a Dar es Salaa…
The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was concerned by Nigeria's move to renew fuel subsidies and urged the government to continue efforts to unify its exchange rates.
Africa's largest oil exporter, which still has to impo…
Ethiopia is preparing for national and regional parliamentary elections on Monday that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said will be the country's first free and fair polls after decades of repressive rule.
But voting has been delayed in 1…
The border dispute between the Adaklu and Central Tongu districts during the 2010 Population and Housing Census (PHC) has reared its ugly head again at the ongoing PHC.
Three communities, Bakpa Dzave, Kwawudade and Matekorfe are being l…
Tanzania is working to join the COVAX global vaccine-sharing facility and will sit down with aid agencies next week to plan its first national COVID inoculation campaign, World Health Organization officials said on Thursday.
The East Af…
A court in Switzerland is due to announce its verdict in the trial of a former Liberian rebel commander later on Friday.
Alieu Kosiah is accused of committing war crimes including rape and murder between 1993 and 1996, during Liberia’s …
The Founder and leader of the All People’s Congress, Hassan Ayariga, has slammed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on their support for the #FixTheCountry campaign.
He explained that it was hypocritical for the NDC, who were in pow…
Mr Patrick Ekye Kwesie, Parliamentary Candidate for the Convention People's Party (CPP) in the 2020 Parliamentary elections has appealed to the President to re-appoint the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Jomoro, Mr Ernest Kofie.
H…
Mr Ebenezer Kojo Kum, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has hinted the need for a drastic law reforms at the Chieftaincy institution to ensure that the institution plays its rightful role in the governance structure of the coun…
The Minority in Parliament has said Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta’s is deliberately buying time to appear in Parliament to answer the cost of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s recent trip on a private jet to three nations.
The question, an …
Parliament has, by consensus, approved the second batch of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s deputy ministerial appointees who have duly been vetted by the Appointments Committee.
The approval of the 12 nominees came after the Hou…
Some Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will converge on Accra for their 59th Ordinary Session today.
The regional meeting, chaired by Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, w…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered an embarrassing defeat when his Conservative Party lost a parliamentary by-election on the outskirts of London, just a few miles from his own seat.
Since its creation in 1974, the Conservati…
Ivory Coast's former President, Laurent Gbagbo, has returned home after nearly a decade overseas during which was cleared of crimes against humanity.
Hundreds of cheering supporters greeted Gbagbo at Abidjan airport.
Earlier, police …
The Sudanese government has announced the formation of a joint force to maintain security and protect civilians in the troubled western region of Darfur following repeated ethnic clashes, the state-owned Suna news agency reported.
The f…
A member of the National Democratic Congress’ Greater Accra Legal Committee, Wayoe Ghanamannti, the lawyer who gained prominence after representing the two Achimota Rastafarian students, has resigned from the party.
He has since joined …
The Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, has vehemently rejected the assertion that the government has lost the fight against crime.
He insists the recent incidents of crime in the country does not mean that crime is on the increase.
Rep…
The US Supreme Court has ruled food giants Nestlé USA and Cargill can't be sued for child slavery on African farms from where they buy their cocoa.
Six African men alleged that they were trafficked from Mali and forced to work on cocoa …
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