US President Joe Biden has voiced his support for a ceasefire after eight days of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza.
Mr Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US was working with Egypt and …
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has added its voice to the growing number of condemnations against the alleged arrest and assault on two journalists of Accra based Citi Fm/CitiTV by National Security Operatives.
In a…
The phrase that Nigerian militant group Boko Haram had been "technically defeated" is ringing increasingly hollow.
Seven months into his first term in 2015 President Muhammadu Buhari coined the term, but the group and its offshoots have…
Zimbabwe's justice minister has accused the judiciary of overreach and said it had been "captured" by "foreign forces" in order to destabilise the county.
It came after the high court ruled that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension …
Friends will hug, pints will be pulled and swathes of the British economy will reopen on Monday, giving 65 million people a measure of freedom after the gloom of a four-month COVID-19 lockdown.
Most of the British will be free once agai…
China's State Council has announced tough new curbs on school curricula and ownership of private schools, the latest in a series of measures intended to tighten control of the country's fast-growing education sector.
The new law, which …
India reported a further decline in new coronavirus cases on Monday, but daily deaths remained above 4,000 and experts said the count was unreliable due to a lack of testing in rural areas where the virus is spreading fast.
For months n…
Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten, Member of Parliament for Tema East Constituency at the weekend called for collaborative efforts to bring development in the constituency and the nation as a whole.
He reiterated his commitment to champion the …
Parliament is to reconvene on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 to commence the second meeting of the first session of the eighth Parliament.
The Parliamentary Service has, therefore, informed all members and staff of Parliament to take due notice …
India's western state of Gujarat is braced for the landfall of cyclone Tauktae, which is likely to be the strongest to hit the region since 1998.
The storm has roared up India's western coast over the past two days, with six people kill…
Israel conducted dozens of air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday, after Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities.
The pre-dawn raids on Gaza were some of the heaviest seen since the fighting began a w…
The Cape Coast High Court has overruled an objection by lawyers for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, seeking to have the presiding judge, Justice Kwasi Boakye, rec…
South Africa has started its second phase of Covid-19 vaccinations targeting people who are aged 60 years and above.
The country aims to inoculate five million citizens in that category by the end of June. It is also aiming to finish va…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said that he will not allow the delayed general election to be used "to fulfil the interest of external forces", state-owned Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported.
"The election will be decided by …
The son of long-serving Congo-Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been named minister in a new cabinet line-up.
Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso will head the newly created ministry of international cooperation.
The new gover…
Togbe Lablulu Tegbeza V, Chief of Adaklu Waya at the weekend said they were privileged to have an extraordinary and hardworking Member of Parliament (MP) who was working hard to develop the area and make it an enviable one.
He described…
The Tafo Traditional Council in the Old Tafo Municipality, led by the Tafohene, Nana Agyen Frimpong Ababio, has declared its support for the re-appointment of Mr Fred Owusu Obeng as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of the area.
The…
Mr Godwin Agudey, Presiding Member, Ada-East District Assembly has tasked the Assembly Members to be an epitome of good leadership in their communities.
He tasked the members to lead and provide guidance for the electorates by finding s…
Canada's ethics watchdog has cleared Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of wrongdoing in the WE Charity scandal.
The charity had been tapped by his government last year to oversee a volunteer programme for students during the pandemic.
Mr…
The Progressive People's Party (PPP) has called for "absolute" independence of the office of the Attorney General (AG) from the Ministry of Justice to enable it to carry out its prosecutorial functions effectively.
Nana Ofori Owusu, Nat…
In a scathing ruling, five High Court judges in Kenya have blocked a government-backed plan to make fundamental changes to the country's constitution.
The judgement is arguably the most significant ruling by Kenyan courts since Presiden…
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called for an ethics inquiry into a Republican for a "verbal assault" on another lawmaker.
In the halls of Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly accused New York's Alexandria Oc…
Rescuers in Mozambique gave priority to white people in an evacuation during an attack by jihadists in March, Amnesty International alleges, citing survivors' accounts.
Two dogs were also airlifted to safety, leaving people behind in a …
Mr. Daniel Agbesi-Latsu, the Kadjebi District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has appealed to organised groups to help educate Ghanaians on the values, principles and objectives of the 1992 Constitution.
H…
Mrs Justina Marigold Assan, the Central Regional Minister has urged workers at the District and Municipal Assemblies to shun away from party politics at the workplace because it had the potential to trigger violence and disturb national pe…
The Electoral Commission (EC) is conducting a post-election assessment with key stakeholders to further strengthen its processes, the Chairperson of the EC, Mrs Jean Mensa, has said.
“We are not resting on the successes of the recent el…
Kenya MP Moses Kuria has told the BBC he received a $1,000 (£700) bribe in parliament last year to back the appointment of the majority leader.
"It is not unusual for members to get this kind of an inducement," he said, adding he would …
South Africa’s information regulator says it is considering legal action over messaging service WhatsApp’s plan to share user data with parent company Facebook.
The regulator considers that the move violates the country's protection of …
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has received a letter from her Cuban counterpart, Mr Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, requesting Ghana's vote at the United Nations.
The letter requested…
Israel has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel on the fifth day of hostilities.
Israel's military said air and ground forces were involved in attacks on Friday but had not enter…
It took 31-year-old Sneha Marathe half a day to book an appointment online for a Covid vaccine.
"It was a game of 'fastest finger first'," she says. "The slots filled up in three seconds." But the hospital cancelled her slot at the last…
President Joe Biden has hailed a "great day for America" as US officials said vaccinated people can go mask-less in most indoor and outdoor settings.
The president removed his mask in the Oval Office with Republican lawmakers as the gui…
The army in Nigeria has denied reports that Boko Haram terrorist group distributed Eid packages in Borno and Yobe states.
Reports alleged that the group had donated food and money to residents in attempts to woe them to support its acti…
A Scottish legislator who was born and raised in Zimbabwe has excited online users after taking her oath in local Shona language.
Maggi Chapman is quoted by Press and Journal newspaper as saying that she was "bringing a little bit of Af…
Zambia's parliament has been dissolved exactly 90 days before the upcoming general election.
The house held its last sitting on Wednesday and the clerk announced that it would formally dissolve on Friday.
The Zambian constitution req…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has received Open Letters of Mr Hadera Abera Admassu, the Ethiopian Ambassador-designate to Ghana.
The Minister congratulated Mr Admassu on his ap…
The Commanding Officer, the 66 Artillery Regiment in Ho, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sarpong Appiah, has assured Ghanaians that the military will not relent in its efforts to protect the 1992 Constitution.
He said the military was conscio…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will on Sunday, May 16, 2021 leave Ghana for a nine-day official working visit to France, Belgium, and South Africa.
The visits are part of the efforts the President is making to re-engage with the …
The Progressive People's Party (PPP) has proposed wide-ranging constitutional and public governance reforms to help address fundamental issues impeding the development of the nation.
While throwing support behind the ongoing social medi…
Paris has said it will delay a European Union financial services deal with Britain until Prime Minister Boris Johnson grants European fishermen fair access to UK waters, a source familiar with the French move said on Wednesday.
"We've m…
Nigeria's new anti-corruption chief on Tuesday announced that $153m (£108m) had been recovered from the country's former oil minister Diezani Alison Madueke who fled to the UK in 2015, the Vanguard news site reports.
Abdulrasheed Bawa s…
The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr Freddie Blay has explained that Mr Paul Afoko, a former national chairman of the party on was still on an indefinite suspension.
According to him, Mr Afoko has not appealed the decisi…
More than 4,000 people, including leaders from across the continent, have attended President Yoweri Museveni's swearing in ceremony in Uganda's capital, Kampala.
Mr Museveni won a highly contested election in January, which main challen…
A new law that tightens patriotic loyalty tests for Hong Kong politicians will take effect later this month after being passed by the city's legislature on Wednesday, local media reported.
The law is widely expected to further stifle de…
The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said.
The panel, set up by the World Health Organization, said the combined response of the WHO and global governments was a "toxic cocktail".
The WHO should have…
The Leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, has called on the government to identify and prosecute sponsors of illegal mining in the country.
According to him, while the youth were engaged in ille…
Discussants at a post-election stakeholders’ review workshop of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, have called on the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to develop a Legislative Instrument (LI) to guide the implementa…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development has expressed worry about the continuous award of contracts by the government for the implementation of capital projects at the local level.
The Committee said…
The island nation of Madagascar has launched its Covid-19 vaccination programme after receiving Astra Zeneca vaccines last week.
The country recently registered for the global vaccination initiative Covax.
Health Minister Jean Louis …
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has taken the oath to officially begin a sixth term in office.
A local newspaper has been sharing updates:
He won re-election in a disputed poll in January.
Security had been increased in the cap…
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