Stakeholders at Ekumfi in the Central Region have been schooled on the importance of census and the need for residents to get ready to be counted for credible data to facilitate the country's development.
Participants at the programme,…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has presented letters of credence to 21 appointed envoys, urging them to champion the Government of Ghana's post COVID-19 recovery agenda.
The 15 Ambassadors and six High Commissioners, comprise pol…
Twitter has removed a post by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for violating its rules.
The tweet referred to the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War and to treating "those misbehaving today" in "the language they will understand".
It foll…
Two parents of kidnapped schoolchildren in Tegina in Nigeria’s central Niger state have died of trauma, local media report.
They had been in shock after armed gangs kidnapped the students from their school on Sunday.
The parents were…
The UN's children's agency, Unicef, is urging the world's richest countries to donate a fifth of their Covid vaccines to 18 African nations who are running out of supplies.
Vaccine manufacturers have been unable to keep up with demand, …
The Minister of State designate for Finance, Mr Charles Adu-Boahen, has stated that the government's solid management of the COVID-19 pandemic has made it a victim of its own success.
“Under the exceptional leadership of President Nana …
Tokyo 2020 president Seiko Hashimoto is "100%" certain the Olympics will go ahead, but warned the Games "must be prepared" to proceed without spectators in the event of a coronavirus outbreak.
There are 50 days until the delayed Tokyo G…
Israeli opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year tenure as prime minister.
Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, announced an eight-faction coalition…
Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has emphasized the need for the country to reach a consensus on revenue generation to finance roads and other critical infrastructure.
He said it was long overdue for the Government of Ghana to inc…
Parliament has released a schedule of Ministers of State and Deputy Minister nominees to appear before the House's Appointments Committee for vetting.
The public vetting exercise which began on Wednesday, June 2, 2021, is expected to be…
The Australian state of Victoria will extend its lockdown by another week as authorities battle to control a growing virus outbreak.
Officials say people have been catching the virus from "fleeting" encounters in a Melbourne outbreak of…
A humanitarian organisation says at least 23 migrants have drowned off the coast of Tunisia as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy.
The Tunisian Red Crescent, speaking to Reuters news agency, said 70 other pass…
The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says more than half a million people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have lost their supply of drinking water as a result of the recent volcanic eruption.
MSF said becau…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved China's Sinovac Covid vaccine for emergency use.
The WHO said it prevented symptomatic disease in 51% of those vaccinated and prevented severe symptoms and hospitalisation in 100% of samp…
South Africa's power company Eskom has announced load shedding, or scheduled blackouts, that will last until Friday.
The state-owned electricity provider said this would be implemented from 10am on Wednesday until 10pm on Friday.
It …
Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of Asogli State, has said unity among traditional leadership on the continent was key to stronger continental integration, empowerment and progress, and should be promoted.
He said a united traditional lea…
Mali has been suspended from the African Union following last week's military coup - for the second time in nine months.
The first was last August following a military coup - but the country was reinstated after the heads of a civilian-…
Mali's transitional president Colonel Assimi Goïta has named Choguel Kokalla Maïga as new prime minister.
Mr Maïga is a leader of the 5 June-Rally of Patriotic Forces (M5-RFP) movement.
The movement took part in the overthrow of form…
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.
…
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…
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