Strengthening India's economy while it battles coronavirus is a top priority, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told business leaders on Tuesday.
"We will definitely get our growth back. India will get its growth back," he told the Confedera…
The National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Freddie Blay urged Ghanaians to ignore the “provocation and empty threats” of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) concerning the compilation of a new electoral roll.
According t…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has added his voice to calls for full disclosure on the COVID-19 status of Members of Parliament.
Mr Mahama made the call via a tweet on his official Twitter page on Friday.
“Reports that the viru…
South Sudan had tested positive
Two Ugandan MPs have been arrested after leading a demonstration calling for the closure of the border with South Sudan in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus, Daily Monitor newspape…
Rwanda has reversed its planned easing of coronavirus restrictions on Monday after recording the first death from the virus and a rise in new cases.
Travel between provinces, including movement in and out of the capital, Kigali, was sch…
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed concern over the number of rising cases of coronavirus in the East African nation.
In an interview aired by local broadcaster NTV, he said experts were predicting Kenya's peak would be in A…
A Cameroonian journalist working for the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle is receiving treatment after being beaten by soldiers in country's Anglophone area where separatists are fighting for independence.
Jean-Marie Ngong Song "is in …
China and Iran have taken the opportunity to criticise the US over its problems of racism and police violence.
"Black people's lives are also lives. Their human rights must also be guaranteed," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Li…
George Floyd's younger brother, Terrence, has condemned violent protests continuing across the US, stressing that George stood for peace.
"I'm outraged, too. Sometimes I get angry. I want to go crazy. My brother wasn't about that. You'l…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Auditor-General to undertake a special audit into the GH?280.3 million that was allocated by the government for the provision of food, water and sanitation under the Coronavirus Alle…
The decision by the Electoral Commission to compile a new voters register is a laudable one which must be supported by all stakeholders, two-time Independent presidential candidate, Mr Jacob Osei Yeboah, has stated.
Mr Yeboah, who is al…
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, last Friday told Parliament that the Electoral Commission (EC) was likely to appear before Parliament on June 9, this year, to brief lawmakers on its activities for the 2020…
The Tamale Regional Police Command has identified 884 flashpoints among the total of 1,943 polling stations in the Northern Region ahead of the December 7, 2020 general election.
The increase is as a result of recent experiences of viol…
The positive cases in the country now stand at 1,962 while cumulatively the government has so far tested 78, 536 samples
Today the Government has reported 74 more cases of people who have tested positive for Coronavirus out of 1,574 sa…
The online training “Care for pregnant women and newborns in the context of COVID-19” for Moroccan health workers was organized by WHO Morocco and UNFPA
In an online conference on a Wednesday afternoon in May 2020, the background noise …
The Chamber is calling for broader support for post-Covid-19 economic recovery to support peace, stability and economic revival in South Sudan
The African Energy Chamber (EnergyChamber.org) has provided financial and material support to…
An open letter to United States Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin
The first ever U.S. Representative to African Development Bank, Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr., has written an open letter to United States Secretary of the Treas…
A Belgian prince who contracted coronavirus after attending a party during lockdown in Spain has apologised and "will accept the consequences".
"I deeply regret my actions," he said in a statement on Sunday.
Prince Joachim, 28, trave…
There is outrage in Nigeria following the murder of a 22-year-old student, Uwavera Omozuwa in a church.
The hashtag #JusticeForUwa is trending in Nigeria, with her family appealing for help to track down her killers.
Uwavera had been…
Violence has erupted in cities across the US on the sixth night of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd.
Curfews have been imposed in nearly 40 cities, but people have largely ignored them, le…
The number of coronavirus fatalities in Brazil has risen by almost 1,000 in a day, making the country's overall death toll the world's fourth highest.
Its figure of 28,834 has now surpassed France, and only the US, the UK and Italy have…
Long queues have formed outside shops selling alcohol in South Africa as restrictions on its sale are lifted for the first time in two months.
Social media posts showed people cheering and clapping as buyers emerged clutching their bott…
The President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Mr Roland Affail Monney, has challenged senior media practitioners to professionally play their role as gatekeepers as campaigns towards the December 2020 general election gather mo…
South Africa has delayed the reopening of schools by a week to allow school administrators to prepare.
Final year students in primary and secondary schools will now report back to school on 8 June, according to the Department of Basic E…
The Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute (KNII) on Friday urged the American government to do more to protect the lives of its citizens and ensure, that people do not become victims of unjust law enforcement.
“The Institute urges t…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo, has given the green light to the Electoral Commission (EC) and other constitutional and statutory bodies to moderately scale up their activities.
By easing measures for containing COVID-19, …
The chairperson of the African Union, Cyril Ramaphosa, has said the coronavirus pandemic is a major threat to developing countries' efforts to meet their development goals - which include targets on education, health and eradicating povert…
The virus may be spreading relatively slowly in Africa because of its young populationImage caption: The virus may be spreading relatively slowly in Africa because of its young population
The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Contr…
Saudi Arabia confirmed it will host a virtual donors conference next week for Yemen together with the United Nations which said the conflict-riven nation risked being overwhelmed by the coronavirus.
Millions need aid in Yemen, whose gov…
North Korea accused the United States of smear tactics on Friday after Washington renewed accusations last month that Pyongyang was responsible for malicious cyber attacks.
It was the latest in a series of exchanges underscoring the fri…
Government has awarded on contract five feeder roads to be upgraded into bitumen surface in the Agona East District of the Central Region to aid the effective transportation of goods and services.
The roads are Agona Namawura/ Agona Kwa…
The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Most Rev. Professor Emmanuel Asante has been appointed a member of the United Nations Sixth Advisory Group of the Peacebuilding Fund.
A statement issued by the Office of the UN Secretary…
The wife of Nigeria's Kaduna state governor is under criticism for not using her influence to speak out against last week killings in the southern part of the state.
Hadiza Isma el-Rufai tweeted that although she was married to the gove…
Three Zimbabwean opposition members charged with holding an illegal demonstration and violating coronavirus lockdown measures have each been released on a $40 (£32) bail.
The court hearing on Thursday was conducted in a hospital ward wh…
Hungary's parliament has approved a law that bans transsexual people from changing the gender they were assigned at birth on official documents.
The law, proposed by the governing right-wing Fidesz party, passed by 133 votes to 57.
R…
Ancient Israelites burned cannabis as part of their religious rituals, an archaeological study has found.
A well-preserved substance found in a 2,700-year-old temple in Tel Arad has been identified as cannabis, including its psychoactiv…
Mr Paul Collins Appiah-Ofori, the outspoken New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart has kicked against the relentless move by the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voters' register ahead of the 2020 elections.
He rather suggested th…
Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and Head of UNOWAS, Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, says the UN has been having frequent consultations with Ghana’s Electoral Commission, EC to share ideas in the …
Moscow's authorities have more than doubled the official death toll from Covid-19 in the Russian capital for the month of April.
The city's health department now says 1,561 people died from the disease - not 639 as initially announced.
…
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission, has condemned the killing of a unarmed black man in the US city of Minneapolis, calling it "murder".
George Floyd, 46, died in police custody on Monday. A white pol…
Rwanda's High Court has sentenced a former mayor to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide.
Ladislas Ntaganzwa - who was arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo five years ago - was found guilty of personally leading a se…
Tensions after more than two months of lockdown in Italy have boiled over into sexist attacks and threats against Education Minister Lucia Azzolina, who now has police protection.
Right-wing Senator Giuseppe Moles of Forza Italia spoke …
There is a sharp division among Members of Parliament (MPs) over calls for an immediate shut down of the House, following reports that two MPs and 13 Staff members have tested positive for COVID-19.
When the news broke out yesterday (Ma…
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it will maintain its cluster method for the upcoming voter registration exercise although the time spent in each cluster is expected to reduce. Each registration team will work for six days in each phase …
Amidst speculations that some Members and Staff of Parliament have tested positive for Covid-19, Mr Samuel Nartey George, MP for Ningo-Prampram, is calling for a two-week shut-down, and fumigation of Parliament.
“Given the way Par…
Funding will be supporting aid organisations in Ethiopia (€850,000), Kenya (€500,000), Somalia (€1.4 million) and Uganda (€250,000)
The EU has mobilised €3 million in emergency assistance to countries in East Africa that have been hit b…
Coronavirus - Kenya: Team Europe supports the most vulnerable Kenyans with health and social security
This includes the provision of COVID-19 related health services, support for access to universal health coverage, and cash transfers t…
Supporting people living with HIV with treatment adherence in this period of COVID-19 by picking and delivering their medicines to their homes
Hillary Nuwamanya, 24, was born HIV-positive, and has chosen to live his life setting an exam…
South Africa's firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema has urged people not to fall for the "trap" of going to church, saying they will die after contracting coronavirus.
Places of worship are set to reopen from 1 June after Presi…
A police station in Minneapolis has been set alight during a third night of protests over the death of an unarmed black man in custody on Monday.
A police officer was filmed kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, 46, despite him saying h…