German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has issued a rallying cry for European unity during the pandemic in a speech for the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
Steinmeier spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony at Berlin’s Neue Wache memorial, w…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has urged African governments to invest in the dissemination of the right information to their citizens.
He said that would help avert the “the total collapse of Africa’s already fragile economies …
Nana Yaw Baffour Frimpong, an activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Offinso South Constituency, has called for concerted efforts in the fight against the coronavirus.
He said in a situation where people outside…
The Hohoe Municipal Assembly in the Volta Region has inaugurated four zonal councils to ensure effective management and administration of the Municipality.
They are the Hohoe Zonal Council, Gbi-South Zonal Council, Agumatsa Zonal …
The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament is demanding an audit into all expenditure related to the COVID-19.
The Minority, at a press conference in Parliament House in Accra, condemned the Government for misapplyin…
Coronavirus – South Africa: Ministry of Communications & Digital Technologies congratulates South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) on improved Market Share
The Ministry appreciates the crucial role that the public broadcaster is …
Zilla Limann, daughter of former President Dr Hilla Limann, has bemoaned the lack of a national agenda to propel the nation’s growth and development and alleged that the nation is still marking time due to lack of leadership clear cut agen…
Berliners have been given an unprecedented public holiday, to mark the end of World War Two in Europe but also liberation from Nazi rule.
Not since reunification has a German city acknowledged 8 May as a day of liberation in this way; s…
A Nigerian medical team investigating reports of a rise in deaths in the northern state of Jigawa has said it has found no evidence to support the claims.
The five medics were sent to the town of Hadeja following rumours of an increase …
Some 10 staff members working at the Lagos State House, the official residence of the governor, have tested positive for coronavirus.
Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his wife have however not been diagnosed with the virus after th…
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce on Sunday his plans to restart the economy and ease lockdown restrictions.
But what could everyday life be like?
When can I go shopping again?
High Street fashion chains and others cl…
A reminder of the strong words from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres this morning, who says the virus outbreak has "unleashed a tsunami of hate and xenophobia".
Without naming specific countries, Guterres called for an "all-out eff…
Indian officials have ordered an investigation after 16 people were run over by a freight train in the state of Maharashtra.
The dead were migrant workers who had fallen asleep on the tracks, while attempting to walk to a station, from …
Russia says it has recorded 10,699 new coronavirus infections, marking the sixth day with more than 10,000 positive tests.
There are now 187,859 confirmed infections in the country.
There were 98 more fatalities, taking the total to …
Residents of Ogun state in Nigeria face arrest if found not wearing face masks in public, according to police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi.
The state is considered as a coronavirus hot-spot and was under a 35-day lockdown that ended last …
The Juaben Municipal Assembly has intensified public education campaign on the novel coronavirus to strengthen the people’s understanding on the pandemic.
The exercise, which is being conducted by the Assembly in collaboration wit…
Europe is marking 75 years since the end of World War Two in unusual circumstances, as much of the continent remains under coronavirus restrictions.
It was on this day, in 1945, that Britain and its Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany…
Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Thursday that the real number of coronavirus cases in the Russian capital was actually around 300,000, a figure that is more than three times higher than the official total, the TASS news agency rep…
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Four Burundian journalists have appeared before a court to appeal against a two-and-a-half year sentence handed down to them in January.
Térence Mpozen…
China said on Thursday it supports the World Health Organization (WHO) in trying to pinpoint the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of telling one lie after another in his attacks on Beijing.
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João Doria is the governor of São Paulo, Brazil's wealthiest state. He was once an ally of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. But the two men have clashed over how to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
On Tuesday it was announced that 61…
Black men and women are nearly twice as likely to die with Covid-19 as their white counterparts, according to new analysis from the Office for National Statistics.
The analysis combines data on Covid-19 deaths with information on ethnic…
President Trump is moving ahead with plans to reopen the US and get the economy going again, despite concerns that the number of infections is not yet under control.
On Wednesday he acknowledged that lifting lockdowns could lead to an i…
Beninese President Patrice Talon has ordered investigations into allegations of sexual harassment made by two female journalists.
Angéla Kpeidja, who works for the national television station ORTB, and Pricile Kpogbeme made claims of se…
For the last year forces loyal to Gen Haftar have been trying to capture the capital, Tripoli
Mercenaries working for the Russian private military contractor Wagner PMC (Private Military Company) are operating in Libya, according to UN …
The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) in partnership with the Manhyia Palace and the security services, has launched an operation to enforce the wearing of nose masks by residents in the metropolis.
Mr Osei Assibey Antwi, Mayor of Kuma…
Dr. Gideon Boako, an economist, has criticised the leader of the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), for what he casts as 'grotesque choice of self, over country, in times of a major health crisis'.
He said…
Mr Johnson Asiesu Nketia, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has denied issuing a letter on selection of the 2020 Running Mate.
"My attention has been drawn to a fraudulent fake letter on the selection of th…
Mr Phanuel Donkor Kadey, Adaklu District Chief Executive has debunked suggestions that the absence of a Presiding Member (PM) was hampering the smooth running of the Assembly.
The Assembly, since its inauguration on January 23, 2020 ha…
Coronavirus - Kenya: IMF Executive Board Approves a US$739 million Disbursement to Kenya to Address the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a serious toll on the Kenyan economy, significantly reducing growth,…
Coronavirus - South Africa: International Relations and Cooperation on repatriation from Qatar during Coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown
The Department wishes to state that it has NOT cancelled any arrangement with Qatar Airlines
The Depa…
Coronavirus - Sub-Saharan Africa: Government responses to COVID-19 should guarantee the protection of women and girls’ rights
Organisations are calling for governments to take urgent action to protect the rights of women and girls, high…
As Europe begins to reopen, caseloads continue to mount in places like Somalia, Yemen and Democratic Republic of Congo
As the United Nations increases its Humanitarian Response Plan to nearly $7 billion to counter the global public heal…
Surface-based weather observations are in decline, especially in Africa and parts of Central and South America where many stations are manual rather than automatic
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is concerned about the incre…
The sentencing to death of a Nigerian driver via Zoom is "inherently cruel and inhumane", Human Rights Watch has said.
It comes after Nigeria issued a death penalty ruling using the video chat app because of the coronavirus pandemic.
…
In our series of letters from African journalists, Waihiga Mwaura writes from Kenya about concerns that money set aside for the fight against coronavirus is being misspent.
The hashtag #Money Heist has been trending on Twitter in Kenya …
A virtual meeting held by a South African parliamentary committee was on Thursday morning hacked and the Speaker abused.
The meeting of the programming committee had just started when pornographic images appeared on the screen and a mal…
The first new coronavirus case in two weeks has been recorded in South Australia, after a man who returned from the UK in March tested positive.
The man in his 70s was tested after developing "very mild" symptoms. He self-quarantined af…
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has taken part in legal arguments from her hospital bed, just a day after she was admitted with a gallbladder condition.
Ms Ginsburg, 87, participated in two cases shortly after receiving non…
Richard Takyi Mensah, the Central Regional Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has urged parliamentary aspirants to channel their campaign energies towards the fight against the COVID-19 scourge due to the suspension of the preside…
Parliament is to begin the vetting of the four persons who have been nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as justices of the Supreme Court from May 11 to May 12, 2020, the Director of Public Affairs of Parliament, Ms Kate A…
There was a drama on the radio in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on Wednesday morning over public concerns that President George Weah had neither gone into isolation nor tested for coronavirus after his information minister had gone down wit…
A woman has given birth onboard a flight repatriating Nigerians from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, said that Kafayat Amusan had given birth to a baby bo…
Flooding as a result of recent heavy rains has killed almost 200 people across Kenya, the government says.
The water has also washed away 8,000 acres of crops and some vital infrastructure.
In Rwanda more than 45 people have died and…
A ban on all flights in and out of Nigeria has been extended by four weeks from Friday.
The initial ban was brought in at the end of March in order to halt the spread of coronavirus.
Boss Mustapha, secretary to the government of the …
At least 13 people have been killed by a massive gas leak at a chemical plant in southern India, with hundreds of others taken to hospital.
The leak from the LG Polymers plant in the city of Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh state came as…
The Liberal Party of Ghana(LPG) wishes to congratulate all mothers for the motherly care shown towards children and contribution to national development.
The Party recognised the vital role mothers played in child upbringing, with some …
The United Kingdom has drawn up a three-stage plan to ease the coronavirus lockdown that was first imposed at the end of March, The Times newspaper said.
The government must review the lockdown by May 7 but Prime Minister Boris Johnson …
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating slipped to 59% in April from 63% a month earlier amid the coronavirus crisis, its lowest level in more than two decades, the Levada-Center opinion pollster said on Wednesday.
But Levada…
The Czech authorities say the results of a mass antibody study carried out on 23 April has revealed a tiny proportion of the population has so far been exposed to Covid-19.
Of 26,549 people tested in eight locations across the country, …