Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefah, Tema West Chairman, New Patriotic Party (NPP), says the party's candidate, Mr Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah, remains the favourite despite the coronavirus campaign tag by opponents.
Mr Ahenkorah resigned as a Deputy …
India's Supreme Court has found a prominent lawyer and civil rights activist guilty of contempt of court.
It took action on its own authority against Prashant Bhushan, 63, for posting tweets that were allegedly derogatory to the top cou…
Seven African countries will begin administering coronavirus antibody tests next week, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has said.
The testing is part of an effort to understand how widespread the infection is on the c…
The US government says Yale University is illegally discriminating against white and Asian-American applicants.
The results of a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice found the Ivy League university had breached civil righ…
A total of 42% people surveyed in Nigeria have reported losing their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, while 79% reported a loss in income, the World Bank has said.
In Ethiopia, 45% of urban households and 55% of rural households co…
Tanzanians living near the Indian Ocean have been advised to continue with their daily activities as no tsunami risk is expected.
The country's meteorological authority has said no changes are expected in the ocean currents following a …
President Donald Trump says he has "heard" Democratic candidate Kamala Harris "doesn't qualify" to serve as US vice-president, amplifying a fringe legal theory critics decry as racist.
She was born in the US to a Jamaican father and Ind…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has dismissed a petition to remove the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa following a determination of no adverse evidence of a legal breach by the EC boss.
Civil society o…
The National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Sammy Awuku, says former President John Dramani Mahama decided to contest the December presidential polls without reflecting over his track record.
According to him, Mr Mahama,…
Former President John Dramani Mahama, the Flagbearer and Leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has restated his commitment to strengthening the country’s decentralisation process.
"It is only through decentralisation that we…
The amount of oil spilled from the Japanese-owned ship nearby the lagoons and coastal areas of south-east Mauritius is relatively low compared to the big oil spills the world has seen in the past, but the damage it will do is going to be h…
The Spanish region of Galicia has effectively banned smoking in public places over concerns it increases the risk of Covid-19 transmission.
It issued a blanket ban on smoking in the street and in public places, such as restaurants and b…
Tanzanians and Kenyans have been tweeting about their experiences when a 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit tTanzania's commercial city of Dar es Salaam.
The seismic waves were felt in the coastal parts of Kenya and the capital Nairobi on Wed…
China has stepped up measures to reduce food waste, after President Xi Jinping called the amount wasted "shocking and distressing".
The "Clean Plate Campaign" comes after Mr Xi highlighted that Covid-19 had "sounded the alarm" on food w…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris have attacked "whining" President Donald Trump as an incompetent leader who has left the US "in tatters".
The pair held their first campaign event together, a da…
Taiwan unveiled a T$42.1 billion ($1.4 billion) increase for next year’s planned defence spending on Thursday, as China announced details of its latest combat drills near the democratic island.
China has stepped up its military activi…
The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Belarus as soon as later this month, diplomats and officials said, after President Alexander Lukashenko cracked down on protests triggered by a disputed election.
Germany, Lithuani…
The security forces have fired tear gas to clear demonstrators in the Malian capital Bamako who are demanding the resignation of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Hundreds of protesters spent the night on the streets after holding a mar…
Zimbabwean breast cancer patient Tendayi Gwata, who campaigned for radiotherapy machines in the capital Harare to be fixed, has tweeted that they have finally been repaired them after a four-month wait: https://twitter.com/TendayiGwata/sta…
The Volta Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged registered voters to patronise the Voter Exhibition Exercise when it opens to ensure that their names are captured in the final register.
The exhibitio…
The Electoral Commission (EC), at the end of the nationwide voters registration exercise, captured a total provisional number of 16,963,306 registrants onto the Voters Register.
Mrs Jean Mensa, the EC Chairperson, at the Ninth Edition o…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has registered a total of 2,746 Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in the Upper West Region in the just ended voter registration exercise to enable them to participate in the December 7, elections.
In all, th…
Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, on Wednesday said 37,762 challenge cases, representing 0.20 per cent of the total number of registered voters, were recorded during the recently held Voter Registration Exercise.…
Mrs Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), on Wednesday expressed the Commission’s gratitude to Ghanaians for the massive participation in the just-ended 2020 Voter Registration Exercise.
“The spirit of patriotism…
The US state of Texas reported over 8,900 new virus cases on Tuesday, pushing the state's total over 500,000 since the start of the pandemic.
The state's average number of new daily cases is now higher than it was last week, which saw abo…
A 19-year-old Ugandan has picked nomination papers to vie for the presidency in the upcoming general elections.
Hillary Humphrey Kaweesa said he had always been a leader and was qualified to lead the country.
He said he would fund-rais…
A court in Nigeria has made the first convictions under a new anti-piracy law which came into force last year.
Three men were fined about $50,000 (£38,000) each.
They are thought to be part of a syndicate accused of hijacking an oil ta…
A top health official in Kenya has died from coronavirus as the country deals with rising infections.
Kamau Mugenda was second in charge at the Kenya Medical Research Institute which oversees Covid-19 testing and vaccine trials programm…
Osofo Kofi Atabuatsi, a Governing Board Member, the National Peace Council (NPC), has assured Ghanaians of peace in the country before, during and after the December polls.
He said just as peace reigned in the country during the 2016 el…
Former President John Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has assured Ghanaians that he and his running mate, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, will never engage in politics of insults.
“My running mate, …
Togbe Adzimah V, Divisional Chief of Gbi Abansi, has said the Council and the Traditional Area had acknowledged the construction and tarring of Hohoe Township roads and other development projects in Hohoe.
"We acknowledge the massive an…
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Dr. Sayibu Pabi Gariba, Director of Operations, Ghana Police Service, says security for this year's election will be "robust and decisive."
"Security for the 20202 election will be robust. It will b…
Mr. Francis Kerby, District Registration Officer (DRO) of the National Identification Authority (NIA) in the Hohoe Municipality, has said the Authority’s mop-up registration had low patronage due to low publicity.
He said the registrati…
Mrs. Linda Ofori-Kwafo, the Executive-Director of Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), the local chapter of Transparency International, has advised journalists to be fair and objective in their reportage regarding the December General Electio…
Health officials in Kenya have said they will engage Russia over its Covid-19 vaccine, radio station Capital FM reports.
This is after Russia became the first country in the world to officially register its vaccine. But experts have rai…
Guinea's President Alpha Condé has announced 18 October as the date for the upcoming general elections.
The electoral commission had proposed the date but the leader was yet to sign it off.
The president has however not confirmed if he…
Three people have died in the Indian city of Bangalore after police fired on crowds protesting against an allegedly blasphemous Facebook post.
Crowds gathered outside the house of a local politician whose relative was accused of making …
New Zealand has put its largest city back into lockdown after recording four new Covid-19 cases, ending a 102-day streak without a local infection.
A three-day lockdown was swiftly imposed in Auckland after the cases were confirmed.
…
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has named Kamala Harris as his running mate - the first black woman and South Asian American in the role.
Once a rival for the top job, the California senator of Indian-Jamaican heritage had l…
New Zealand has detected its first locally-transmitted coronavirus cases in more than 100 days.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said four people tested positive from the same household. The source of the infections is not yet known.
Auck…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has registered the world's first vaccine for coronavirus.
Despite earlier scepticism from health experts and a warning from the World Health Organization to follow established p…
More now from the US where the White House is reported to be mulling a plan to block US citizens and permanent residents from returning home if they are suspected of having coronavirus.
The New York Times reports that, under the draft p…
Officials in Somalia say 10 people have died during a shoot-out inside the capital Mogadishu's main prison.
A spokesman for the information ministry said six inmates who were members of the jihadist group al-Shabab were killed and four …
Egyptians have started voting for the senate that was revived after last year's constitutional referendum.
Tuesday's poll will see 200 members elected by public vote to the upper chamber of parliament, which has an advisory role and few…
Nigeria has begun the handover ceremony for 200 ventilators donated by the US government.
The ventilators were a promised by President Donald Trump during a phone conversation with President Muhammadu Buhari in April.
President Trump w…
A group of concerned Ghanaians have initiated an advocacy project aimed at getting Ghanaians to shun politicians that engage in vote-buying ahead of the December elections.
The campaign dubbed "Say No To Vote Buying", would help fight c…
Mr Samuel Aye-Paye, Member of Parliament for Ayensuano constituency has called on the electorate in the to unite and contribute to the development of the constituency.
He also advised the youth to avoid greedy politicians, who would lur…
Rescue Mission Volunteers, a group affiliated to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has welcomed the Party's Flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama's pledge to "pay Assembly Members monthly" if voted into power in the December General Electio…
A total of 398 applicants have been issued with the new voter identity cards by Electoral Commission (EC) in the two-day mop - up registration exercise in the Oti Region.
Mr Nuhu Mahama, Oti Regional Director of Electoral Commission (EC…
The New Juaben South Municipal branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged Ghanaians to continue to adhere to the COVID-19 safety protocols to stop its spread.
Mr Joseph Tawiah Mensah, the Constituency Chairman of the pa…