Human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has asked Chad to ensure officers involved in the killings during the demonstrations in April and May are prosecuted.
Civil society groups and political parties held demonstrations calli…
A 41-year-old Chinese man has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare bird flu strain.
Officials did not give details on how the man got infected but the H10N3 strain is thought to not easily spread from humans t…
Florida has become the latest US state to ban transgender girls and women from participating in female sports at public schools and colleges.
The state's Republican governor Ron DeSantis signed the measure into law on Tuesday.
The la…
US President Joe Biden's administration will suspend oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pending an environmental review.
The move reverses former President Donald Trump's decision to sell oil leases in the re…
A Deputy Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Samuel Asare Akuamoah, has urged Ghanaians to put the national interest above all partisan considerations.
"Ghana should be first. Our ethnic, tribal and pol…
The President of the Full Gospel Church International (FGCI), Bishop Samuel N. Mensah, has reiterated the need for the presidential tenure to be increased to six years with no option of re-election.
At the third edition of the Emmanuel …
The Nadowli-Kaleo District office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has sensitised women groups and trades associations on the tenets of the 1992 Constitution as part of activities to mark the 2021 Constitution Week.
…
Namibia's President Hage Geingob and First Lady Monica Geingos are said to be "on course for a speedy recovery" after they both tested positive for Covid-19 last Wednesday.
The couple is self-isolating at their residence, according to a…
Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo is set to return to the country this month, weeks after he was acquitted by the International Criminal Court.
The secretary general to his party, Assoa Adou, says the former leader intends t…
The French foreign minister has called for strict adherence to Mali's transition timetable by military authorities and reiterated France's condemnation of the coup in the country.
Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian tweeted that "France shares the ab…
The daughter of Uganda's Transport Minister Gen Katumba Wamala and his driver have died from injuries sustained after the shooting.
The two were in the vehicle with the minister when it was sprayed with bullets from the sides and front …
Ms Josephine Nkrumah, Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has called on Ghanaians to unite and fix the country as one people.
"We as individuals, as communities, as ethnic groupings, as holders of public o…
Dr Festus Kofi Aubyn, a Security Analyst, has welcomed the decision by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to suspend Mali from the regional bloc.
The suspension follows last week's coup d'état in which Mali's Transit…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked Ghanaians to disregard information circulating that the country was experiencing the culture of silence.
He said as a human right advocate, protecting the fundamental human rights of pe…
The African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has appealed to the members of the Pan-African Parliament to "recover their composure" after scuffles were reported in Monday's session.
He said the "shocking scenes of violen…
Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the terrorism and insurgency activities in the West African sub-region and Sahel Region is no more a risk but a reality.
He noted that the increasing seizure of territories by terrorists and…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Gamey and Gamey Group, Mr Austin A. Gamey, has called for the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) to resolve electoral disputes in the country.
According to him, the 2012 and the 2020 president…
Uganda's Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala has been shot and injured by unknown gunmen near his home in the capital Kampala.
Eyewitnesses say the gunmen were riding on a motorcycle.
General Wamala is a former army commander.
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the security authorities to hasten efforts to rescue more than 100 children kidnapped from an Islamic school in Niger state.
The president condemned the latest incident as "unfortunate" wh…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for variants of Covid-19.
From now on the WHO will use Greek letters to refer to variants first detected in countries like the UK, South Africa and India.
The UK v…
European powers have pressed the US and Denmark over reports the two worked together to spy on top European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Danish broadcaster DR said Denmark's Defence Intelligence Service (FE) c…
Peru has more than doubled its Covid death toll following a review, making it the country with the world's highest death rate per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
The official death toll is now more than 180,000, up f…
A US based Ghanaian human development specialist, Nii Naate Atswele Agbo Nartey who is seeking to be appointed Mayor of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly, is vowing to bring law and order to the capital city, and rid it of filth, should he b…
Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye has arrived in Kenya for a two-day visit.
This is Mr Ndayishimiye's sixth foreign visit in less than a year in power.
His predecessor, the late Pierre Nkurunziza, only left Burundi once during …
Shops are locked, schools closed, and streets are deserted in parts of southern Nigeria following a sit-at-home order by secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob).
The group told people to stay at home on Monday to mark…
The government of Chad has accused the Central African Republic (CAR) of killing six of its soldiers and wounding five others in an attack in the south of the country.
Chad's Foreign Minister, Cherif Mahamat Zene, said troops from the C…
Vietnam hopes to tackle a new Covid outbreak by mass testing risk groups in Ho Chi Minh City and introducing new social distancing measures.
The efforts come in response to a new cluster linked to a religious mission.
Vietnam has had…
Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a proposed unity government aimed at replacing him would be a danger to the country's security.
He urged fellow right-wingers not to back a deal after ultra-nationalist Naftali Bennett said…
The Greater Accra Regional directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has called for collective national efforts towards sustaining Ghana's democracy.
The NCCE reminded Ghanaians not to lose sight of the processes…
Delegations from the Klefe and Matse Traditional Areas in the Volta Region have paid courtesy calls on Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, the Volta Regional Minister to congratulate him on his re-appointment by President Akufo-Addo.
They also disc…
Mr Eric Gregory Kwatia, Chairman of the Finance and Accounts Committee at the Ashaiman Municipal Assembly, at the weekend said the government recognised the importance of data in the development agenda for accelerated national growth.
M…
The Appointments Committee of Parliament will from Wednesday, June 2, 2021, begin the vetting of the President’s nominees for the positions of a Minister of State and 39 Deputy Ministers.
The exercise, which will end on Tuesday, June 15…
Nigeria's president has appointed a new army chief, the ministry of defence said in a statement on Thursday, following the death of the military head's predecessor in a plane crash last week.
President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Major G…
Czech restaurants, bars, night clubs and other hospitality venuescan serve customersindoors from Monday, Health Minister Adam Vojtech said on Friday, announcing a quicker-than-planned easing of COVID-19 restrictions following a court rulin…
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he would run for a second term of office next year, implicitly gambling that the likely winners of September's national election would not turf out a sitting national figurehead from a differen…
Ex-President Jacob Zuma has failed in his attempt to recoup personal costs he has incurred while challenging the constitutionality of the ongoing corruption inquiry against him.
South Africa's Constitutional Court struck his application…
Ms Josephine Nkrumah, the Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has launched a campaign dubbed: "We are One, Ghana First," to reinforce the essence of national cohesion as a prerequisite for deepening our democr…
The rescue operation in Nigeria's Kebbi state has entered day three with 60 bodies having been recovered so far.
The authorities say the number of survivors still stands at 22 with some of them still being treated at the hospital.
Au…
The foreign ministers of Ireland, Poland, Hungary and Serbia will visit China from Saturday, the Chinese foreign ministry said, in a sign of a push to strengthen ties with Europe after an investment treaty was frozen.
The European Parli…
The leaders of several southern African countries have agreed to form a joint armed force that will combat Islamist militants in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, the country's President Felipe Nyusi has said.
Leaders of t…
The Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, is appealing to the government to invest in young people to achieve the industrialization needed in the country.
The MP said: ‘’If we invest in our young people and provide t…
Citizens have been urged to express political sentiments through decent expressions and not insults.
“In any democracy, disagreeing is okay, but it must be respectful," Mr Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, Member of Parliament for the Madina Co…
Superintendent Kwabena Otuo Acheampong, Regional Crime Officer, Tema Regional Police Command of the Ghana Police has noted that the consistent attacks on the Police Institution in recent times in the traditional and social media a national…
ECOWAS has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of Mali's Transitional President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane.
A communique issued by ECOWAS, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the demand was made when an ECOW…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Chair of the Authority of Heads of State and Government, will on Sunday, May 30, in Accra, hold an extraordinary meeting of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on Mali's political up…
The minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has called on the government to, as a matter of urgency, constitute the boards of the statutory organisations such as the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETfund) and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF…
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble said he was committed to free and fair polls after he signed an agreement on Thursday with leaders from the country's regions to hold indirect elections after delays triggered a crisis.
Under …
A $20 billion plan to give NATO more flexibility in facing military threats, climate change and China's rise has hit firm resistance from France, which fears the move could undermine its defence priorities, four diplomats and a French defe…
A suspected burglar has been arrested in Zimbabwe's southern district of Gutu for allegedly using a "ghost" costume to frighten his victims before stealing from them, local media report.
Paul Nyathi, the national police spokesperson, sa…
The UN Human Rights Council has voted to investigate violence in the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The body approved the resolution, brought by a group of Islamic countries, by 24 votes to nine.
But the United States said…
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