Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister, has said the Region is enjoying “absolute peace, stability” and developing rapidly.
The “security is intact and we are developing very fast,” he said.
The Regional Minister said this i…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was Saturday acclaimed the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the December 7, 2020 elections.
The acclamation, done at a special National Council meeting of the Party, was d…
The African Development Bank has earmarked about $115 million in grants for the next three years to finance public sector projects and programs in Sudan
Over $1.8 billion dollars in pledges for Sudan poured in during a high-level Sudan …
The Leader and Flagbearer of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) has entreated all eligible Ghanaians to register in the upcoming voter registration exercise slated to begin on Tuesday.
June 30, 2020.
This is to allow them to exercise t…
In readiness to seek re-election in 2020 Elections, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will on Saturday, June 27, acclaim President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the party’s Presidential candidate.
The Special National Council meeting, whi…
Burundi's former First Lady Denise Nkurunziza has told mourners at Gitega's football stadium that her late husband Pierre Nkurunziza did "noble deeds", and had "a good end and a peaceful death".
Mrs Nkurunziza had to leave her hospital …
There is mounting evidence of a new wave of desert locusts in East Africa, raisng fears of food insecurity.
Earlier in the year, billions of the insects destroyed crops across the region – with the UN warning a second generation would b…
The United States recorded an all-time daily high of 40,000 coronavirus infections on Thursday, figures from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) show.
A recent surge in infections and hospitalisations has prompted the states of Texas, Florid…
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has come under fire from opposition MPs after telling parliament that the US "martyred" Osama Bin Laden.
Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was killed in 2011 when US special forces raided…
Kenyan police have killed three people when a crowd of motorcycle taxi drivers protested against the arrest of a colleague for ignoring coronavirus restrictions.
Police shot at the crowd in the western city of Lessos after clashes, a po…
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong-Boanuh yesterday met with representation of political parties on this year’s upcoming elections in Accra yesterday.
Although the meeting was under closed door meeting the Ghanaian T…
African Development Fund approves COVID-19 Response grants for six Southern African countries and São Tomé & Príncipe
The funds will facilitate the procurement of laboratory and medical supplies
The Board of Directors of the African…
The gains made during this response are already being applied to other public health emergencies in the DRC
The Ebola outbreak in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared over today, almost two years since th…
Burundi's late President Pierre Nkurunziza - who ruled for nearly 15 years - will be buried on Friday in the capital, Gitega.
The government said he died of a "cardiac arrest" almost two weeks ago.
He was expected to officially hand ov…
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…