South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has paved the way for the appointment of new MPs by reconstituting parliament after dissolving it on Saturday.
The names of the appointed MPs were announced on the national broadcaster, South Sudan Bro…
A Catholic Priest, Very Reverend Father Professor Peter Nkrumah Amponsah, the Dean of Graduate Studies, Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG) has condemned the '#Fixthecountry' campaign, and called for bottom-up attitudinal change to…
The NDC Professional Forum has call on Government to work hard to develop the country by fixing the enormous challenges confronting the country.
A statement issued by Dr S. Koma Jehu-Appiah of the Forum, copied to the Ghana News Agency,…
Kenya has banned all flights from neighbouring Somalia just a week after the two countries announced they had restored ties following months of diplomatic row.
A notice issued from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said only medical em…
The Nigerian government has reintroduced stricter lockdown conditions amid concerns about the fragility of the country's health system and disruption of vaccine deliveries.
Face masks are now mandatory in all government buildings, bars …
The G7 group of wealthy countries has pledged £276 million ($389 million) to assist millions of people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria.
It’s expected to support efforts by the UN and other aid agencies in …
Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, officials say.
Twenty-one other people, mostly children, were injured. A 19-year-old suspect was detained.
The attack happened in …
At a mosque in Lahore last week, hundreds of worshippers crowded together during Friday prayers. The vast majority wore masks, but they prayed shoulder to shoulder.
"You're right, there should've been gaps between us," said one man a li…
China's population grew at its slowest pace in decades, according to government data released on Tuesday.
The average annual growth rate was 0.53% over the past 10 years, down from a rate of 0.57% between 2000 and 2010 - bringing the po…
The Council on Foreign Relations-Ghana (CFR-Ghana), has expressed shock over the assassination of President Idris Deby of Chad and recent developments in the Central African nation.
Mr Daniel K. Osei, President, CFR-Ghana, said the whol…
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has hailed Monday as a "day of freedom" for the Republic of Ireland as Covid-19 restrictions were further eased.
The Republic had been at the highest level of restrictions - level five - sin…
Kenyans online are sharing an image of a vehicle that has been stuck in a ditch on a major road in the capital, Nairobi.
The Uhuru Highway, which runs across the central business district, is under construction and a section of it has b…
Kenya's health ministry plans to redistribute at least 200,000 doses of unused Covid-19 vaccines.
The country's Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe says the vaccines would be taken to cities or counties where the uptake was high to prevent was…
More than 100 former United Nations peacekeepers from Ethiopia have sought asylum in Sudan.
The group was part of a recently closed UN mission in Sudan's Darfur region, and had been due to return home.
A local refugee official said t…
A new open letter has been published in France warning of the threat of civil war and claiming to have more than 130,000 signatures from the public.
The message, published in a right-wing magazine, accuses the French government of grant…
The former head of the Russian hospital that treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last year has emerged from a Siberian forest, having been missing.
Teams using a helicopter and drones spent the weekend searching the swampy area in the…
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called for a total overhaul of the government’s leadership style.
This call comes on the heels of a social media protest by a group of Ghanaians who are unhappy with …
The immediate past Awutu Senya West MP, George Andah has bemoaned the decision of his constituents not to retain him as MP.
Mr. Andah, who lost the seat in his bid for re-election to the National Democratic Congress’ Gizella Tetteh, sai…
The Birim Central Municipal Assembly has gotten its second share of the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Programme (GSCSP) to commence works on the Old Premier Market at Akim Oda this month.
In September 2020, sod was cut at Oda Nkwantanu…
The leadership of the Concerned Voters Movement (CVM) has urged Ghanaians to be patient with President Akufo-Addo, as he is committed and determined to fix the socio-economic challenges that he inherited from former President John Dramani …
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the Eastern Region has urged Ghana's security services to be vigilant against threats posed by vigilantism, fundamentalism, and secessionism.
The Commission said these threats of vio…
The military in Chad has claimed victory against northern rebels following weeks of fighting.
The conflict against Libya-based rebels threw the country into a crisis when President Idriss Déby died after being wounded on the frontline l…
Ghanaians have taken anti-government protests online after a court ruling barred them from participating in an in-person gathering.
People have been sharing photos of themselves holding placards listing the changes they want in the coun…
Lawyers representing the alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have requested that charges against him be dropped on the grounds that he is unfit to stand trial due to ill health.
Félicien Kabuga, 84, was arrested a year ago …
There have been clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, ahead of a planned Jewish nationalist march.
More than 200 people were injured, as crowds threw stones and officers fired stun gren…
Afghan families have been burying their children who were killed in explosions outside a secondary school in the capital, Kabul, on Saturday.
More than 60 people, mostly girls, are now known to have died in the attack that hit students …
The US government issued emergency legislation on Sunday after the largest fuel pipeline in the US was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack.
The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day - 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel,…
Discussants at a post-election stakeholders’ review workshop of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, have urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to review the close of poll time from 5p.m. to 4p.m.
They also entreated the com…
Roland Affail Monney, the National Council and the Election Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) have been sued for staying in office illegally.
The plaintiff, Ms Caroline Boateng of the Graphic Communications Group Limi…
The African Union (AU) has appointed former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama as its High Representative to Somalia, to help mediate between stakeholders towards a mutually acceptable compromise for the holding of elections in the cou…
The newly compiled 2020 voters register should be the last register to be compiled from scratch, participants in a high-level Post-Elections Stakeholders Review Workshop to assess the conduct of Ghana’s 2020 presidential and parliamentary …
A cargo plane carrying oxygen generators from Northern Ireland to India left Belfast International Airport on Friday afternoon.
Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with a second surge of Covid-19 cases.
India's official d…
Cameroonian minister Paul Atanga Nji has announced a ban on the sale of automatic pistols in the country citing rising insecurity.
The ban was announced after a meeting with gun sellers in the country.
The territorial administration …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed a move by the US government to support a temporary patent waiver on coronavirus vaccines, calling it a potential game-changer in fighting the pandemic.
Hundreds of millions more doses are…
The Member of Parliament for the Asuogyaman Constituency, Thomas Ampem Nyarko, has urged his parliamentary colleagues to pursue the implementation of developmental projects in their constituencies all year round, and not only during elect…
A court in Rwanda has sentenced journalist Phocas Ndayizera and six others to 10 years in prison for terrorism charges.
They were found guilty of planning explosions in public areas of the capital, Kigali, and of conspiracy to commit te…
The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has been injured in a suspected bomb blast in the capital, Male.
The blast happened as he was about to get into a car outside his home on Thursday evening.
Local media reports a …
A former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Moses Asaga, has criticised the government for introducing new tax policies in the 2021 budget statement.
“It will be unfair for consumers to pay more for fuel …
Dr Kingsley Nyarko, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwadaso, has stressed the need for concerted efforts by all Ghanaians to fight the illegal mining menace.
He said it was important for traditional and religious leaders, media, civi…
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) has called for a second look at the composition of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) for it to engender trust and confidence of Ghanaians in the policie…
The Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has expressed the government's determination to create a more conducive environment to ensure that freedom of expression and the media are upheld.
He explained that freedom of express…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has appealed to its Election 2020 Filed Operatives to exercise patience as the Commission works acidulously to pay their allowances.
Dr Bossman Eric Asare, the Deputy Chairman of the EC, in charge of Corpor…
An unknown number of university students have been kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Abia.
The group was abducted on Wednesday, the same day that 29 students seized last month in the north-western state of Kaduna were rel…
China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined, a new report has claimed.
The research by Rhodium Group says China emitted 27% of the world's greenhouse gases in 2019.
The US was the second-largest emitter a…
Dr Alidu Seidu, Senior Lecturer, Political Science Department, University of Ghana, says he supports Professor Ransford Gyampo's call for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to adopt a "One-Man, One-Vote" principle in selecting its flagbearer fo…
A former Chief Executive Officer of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Moses Asaga, has criticised the government for introducing new tax policies in the 2021 budget statement.
“It will be unfair for consumers to pay more for fuel …
The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, who was standing trial over alleged procurement breaches in an ambulance purchase has been acquitted and discharged by the Accra High Court.
Mr Ayariga together with six oth…
The officials of Tanganyika province in the Democratic Republic of Congo have impeached Governor Zoe Kabila - a younger brother of former President Joseph Kabila.
The impeachment motion was supported by officials allied to President Fél…
The Catholic Bishop of Enugu in Nigeria, Callistus Onaga, has called for week-long prayers over church vandalism by supporters of a controversial priest.
On Wednesday supporters of Father Ejike Mbaka marched in protest to the residence …
The Zulu Queen, Mantfombi Dlamini-Zulu, who died unexpectedly last week, has been buried in a private ceremony in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province.
She was appointed regent of the country's largest ethnic group in March following t…
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