A clean-up has begun in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan after floods triggered by torrential rains left streets and houses underwater and at least three people dead.
Local residents said three hours of heavy rain on Thursday caused w…
Malawi's electoral chief Justice Chifundo Kachale has been quoted by local media as saying that results of the presidential re-run could be released by Saturday.
Mr Kachale on Thursday told journalists that determining the results could…
Nigeria's government has condemned Thursday's attack on its embassy in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, by its citizens living in the country.
The Nigerian nationals stormed the embassy and vandalised vehicles in the compound. They accused e…
More than 100 people in northern India have been killed by dozens of lightning strikes across two states in recent days, officials say.
The disaster management team in Bihar state said 83 were killed there, while another 20 were in hosp…
Sweden's state epidemiologist has taken issue with the World Health Organization (WHO) for including it on a list of 11 countries with "very significant resurgence" of Covid-19. Anders Tegnell has told Swedish TV the WHO has completely mis…
A group of British men living in Singapore have been banned from working there again after breaking lockdown to go on a "bar crawl".
The men were also fined around S$9,000 each ($6,500; £5,200).
They were charged after a picture of p…
The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare, which has provided health insurance to millions of Americans.
Government lawyers said the act became invalid when the previous Republican-led Congress axed…
Former President John Mahama Thursday said the National Democratic Congress Party is "deeply disappointed and disagrees with the Supreme Court's ruling that excludes the existing voter identification card as an identification requirement f…
Senegal has allowed students sitting for national exams back in schools but under strict guidelines that include hand-washing, keeping distances, temperature checks and wearing face masks.
It’s taken weeks of preparation for schools to …
The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck southern Mexico on Tuesday has risen to 10 people, authorities said on Wednesday, as locals began clearing the rubble and assessing the damage from the temblor.
The area surrounding …
France and Germany expressed political and financial backing for the World Health Organization in its fight against the coronavirus on Thursday, with Berlin saying it would give a record half billion euros in funding and equipment this yea…
Senegal's President Macky Sall has quarantined himself after coming in contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.
The president himself tested negative but will self-isolate for two weeks as a precaution, his office said …
A 114-year-old Ethiopian man has recovered from coronavirus, according to a Facebook post by Dr Yared Agidew, who runs the hospital in the capital, Addis Ababa, where the man was being treated.
People over the age of 80 are considered t…
As we've been reporting, the 23-month long Ebola outbreak in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is now over.
The World Health Organization's regional director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, said that the declaration wa…
A huge cloud of Saharan dust has darkened the skies over parts of the Caribbean.
The dust has been moving from Africa over the Atlantic Ocean.
On Sunday it reached Puerto Rico and has since covered Cuba and parts of Mexico.
The Ca…
With six days to the start of new voter registration, the Electoral Commission (EC) on Wednesday held an Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meeting to apprise the stakeholders on the registration exercise.
Representation was made by …
Moscow's coronavirus lockdown was strict and long. Its end has been swift and almost total.
Veterans in their nineties joined President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday for a giant 75th anniversary Victory Day parade as if facemasks and soci…
Australia is sending 1,000 army personnel to Victoria amid a surge in virus cases in the south-eastern state.
This comes after Victoria has seen a spike in Covid-19 cases in recent days, with 33 infections reported overnight.
Melbour…
Mr Hamidu Issaka, Kumawu Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has donated quantities of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all the constituency leaders of the Party.
The aim is to assist the branch executi…
Mr. Daniel Kenneth, the Okere District Chief Executive (DCE), says measures put in place to provide protection for the people against the novel coronavirus during the voter registration exercise scheduled to begin on June 30, are adequate.…
Madam Kate Gyamfua, National Women’s Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has hailed the women who contested in the just ended NPP parliamentary primaries for their confidence and show of partisanship.
She said the Women’s Wing w…
Ghana's foreign affairs minister has said the country will reconstruct a building demolished inside the Nigerian High Commission compound in Accra.
Armed men reportedly stormed the compound last week and destroyed buildings under constr…
The UK government is seeking to agree travel corridors or “air bridges” with European countries with low infection rates, so travellers can avoid quarantine requirements.
At present, people arriving in the UK, including Britons returnin…
India's capital, Delhi, has announced that it will screen its nearly 30 million residents for Covid-19 symptoms.
The ambitious plan - which involves a door-to-door survey of every household - comes amid record daily rises in infections.…
Russia has begun voting on constitutional reforms that could allow President Vladimir Putin to serve another two terms in office.
The official vote is scheduled for 1 July, but authorities said they were opening polling stations a week …
The Executive Secretary of the National Accreditation Board, Dr Kingsley Nyarko, has been elected to represent the Kwadaso constituency on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December polls.
He defeated the incumbent Memb…
A powerful earthquake has shaken buildings and caused panic in six Mexican states, killing at least six people.
All of the reported fatalities occurred in the state of Oaxaca, where the quake's epicentre was located.
Buildings also s…
Ugandan pop star turned opposition MP Robert Kyangulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has said he will hold campaign rallies despite a ban by the electoral commission.
The People Power Movement leader said President Yoweri Museveni wa…
Zimbabwe’s dollar fell against the US dollar on Tuesday as the central bank launched its first foreign currency auction trading system.
Since March the rate had been fixed at 25 Zimbabwean dollars to $1 to stabilise the currency but tha…
The Indian government has blocked plans to promote and sell a herbal-based product that claims to "cure" coronavirus.
Patanjali Ayurved, a big consumer goods company in India set up by a popular yoga guru, said that it had found the "cu…
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have used tear gas and fired shots to disperse protesting supporters of President Félix Tshisekedi.
Hundreds of them arrived - many on motorbikes - to demonstrate outside parliament in the capi…
Russia is celebrating its biggest public holiday, Victory Day, with a military parade in Moscow that was meant to be held on 9 May.
It is 75 years since the then USSR defeated Nazi Germany. World War Two cost more than 20 million Soviet…
A plane crash that killed 97 people in Pakistan last month was a result of human error by the pilot and air traffic control, according to an initial report into the disaster.
They failed to follow protocol, Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarw…
America's top infectious disease expert has told lawmakers that the US is seeing a "disturbing surge" in coronavirus infections in some states.
A panel of health officials, including Dr Anthony Fauci, said the next few days will be cruc…
The Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is poised for a resounding victory in the December General Election.
“Victory is on the way coming, because, the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administr…
A Civil Society Group, Mass Action Committee has condemned former President Mahama’s warning that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not accept the results of any “flawed election" come the December 2020 polls.
The former pres…
The Tema Metropolitan Officer of the Electoral Commission of Ghana has briefed the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) on the Commission's preparations towards the registration of voters, commencing on June 30 nationwide.
Mr Manasseh Ofosu…
Odeneho Kwaku , Afigya-Kwabre South Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, has commended party members for their continued support and cooperation which had ensured peace and unity in the party.
He said through understanding and cooperati…
Infrastructure Symposium “is laying a path for South Africa after coronavirus, but also way into the future.” - President Ramaphosa
The symposium follows weeks of consultations to garner support for the revised Infrastructure Investment…
Coronavirus - Africa: COVID-19 compounds families’ painful search for missing and disappeared migrants
Due to COVID-19, more people are dying away from home and away from their families
Often, bereaved families have no opportunity to…
Dozens of activists and students gathered peacefully in Bangkok early this morning to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, which ended nearly 800 years of absolute monarchy, defying a ban on public gatherings am…
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologised to Nigeria for the demolition of a building at its High Commission in the capital, Accra, the Nigerian presidency said
The Ghanaian leader told President Muhammadu Buhari in a telephone c…
EU ambassadors meet on Wednesday to plan reopening external borders on 1 July, and travellers from the US could be among those not allowed in.
A number of European countries are keen to open up to tourists but others are wary of the con…
The sale of bushmeat - or wild animal meat - at markets continues in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, despite calls for a ban by the UN biodiversity office.
At Olowu market in Epe, one of the most popular bushmeat markets in the city,…
The Adentan constituency of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has congratulated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a successful and peaceful parliamentary primaries, which saw the election of more youth.
A statement signed by Mr Abdul …
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the party will respect the verdict of the Supreme Court on the issue of the voters registration exercise.
He said the party was awaiting …
Health authorities in Brazil have registered the second-highest daily death toll since the pandemic began.
The health ministry said on Tuesday that 1,374 deaths had been registered in the previous 24 hours.
The highest daily number o…
Liberia’s education minister is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 as his ministry prepares to reopen schools next week.
Ansu Sonii and his deputy Latim Da-thong are both in hospital.
The deputy minister was flown to Ghana after his c…
Coronavirus - Morocco: Kingdom of Morocco gives more than 600 000 pieces of medical supplies to the African Union for the COVID19 response
The supplies were received by the Commissioner for Social Affairs H.E. Mrs Amira Elfadil, and the…
Merck Foundation together with Liberia First Lady raced to respond to Coronavirus pandemic through community support, awareness and training doctors
Merck Foundation partners with Liberia First Lady to support livelihood of casual worke…