The ninth wonder of the world is happening in the Tema West Constituency, where a leading member of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), is campaigning for votes for a member of the ruling party who is vying for the 2020 Par…
Members of the Inter-Party Resistance against the New Voters Register, on Tuesday, held its third demonstration, in Accra, to protest the Electoral Commission's decision to compile a new roll for the December General Election.
The first…
Nasa astronaut Christina Koch has completed the longest-ever single spaceflight by a woman.
The Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Koch parachuted down to the grasslands of Kazakhstan at around 09:12 GMT.
She spent 328 days on the Int…
Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children.
Paid allowance will increase to a combined 14 months, which works out as 164 days…
Mr. John Ntim Fordjour, incumbent Member of Parliament for Assin South on Monday picked forms to contest the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Primaries in the Constituency.
He was followed by an enthusiastic crowd amidst drumming and singing a…
Mr Naliwie Salifu Baluwie, a former District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Sissala West District has picked nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party's parliamentary primaries in the Sissala West Constituency.
Four leading me…
The Krachi East Municipal Assembly in the Oti Region has retained Mr Emmanuel Ladzi as its Presiding Member.
He polled 26 out of 31 total ballots cast, representing 81 per cent to secure the two-third majority for the position, with two…
Seven persons including President Faure Gnassingbe, leader of the Union for the Republic (UNIR), have been cleared by Togo's Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) to contest the country's upcoming presidential election.
This …
The Akatsi South District Assembly in the Volta Region again failed to elect a Presiding Member (PM) after four attempts.
Results recorded during the first meeting were not different as members maintained the same voting pattern after a…
Mr Lawrence Ampah, a Principal Auditor at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has picked nomination forms to contest the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Parliamentary Primary in the Cape Coast North Constituency.
Mr Ampah, described himself…
The Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese (AAK) District Assembly has failed again to elect a Presiding Member (PM) to steer the affairs of the Assembly for two years.
The election was held between the incumbent, Mr Jojo Bondzi, and Mr Napoleon Nsako …
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Free Zones Board, Mr Michael Okyere Baafi and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Finance, Dr Mark Assibey Yeboah have picked nomination forms to contest the primaries for nomination to r…
The foundation will provide up to $100 million to improve detection, isolation and treatment efforts; protect at-risk populations in Africa and South Asia; and accelerate the development of vaccines, drugs and diagnostics.
The Bill & Me…
According to the latest updates, the coronavirus has killed almost 500 people worldwide, mostly Chinese citizens and infected over 24,000 people
Equatorial Guinea’s Council of Ministers has agreed to support China’s fight against the co…
Vaccination is the most effective way to protect children against this very contagious disease
With the aim of vaccinating 2.5 million children against measles, a nationwide vaccination campaign is kicked off today. The campaign is a co…
Out of the more than 63,000 refugees resettled last year, the largest number originated from Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Myanmar
Out of 1.4 million refugees estimated to be in urgent need of resettlement worldwide, only 6…
WorldRemit sees volume of remittances to Zimbabwe almost double
WorldRemit, the market-leading money transfer provider, has revealed that Zimbabwe was one of the top five recipient countries in Africa for remittances in 2019, and contin…
Germany has made available two million euros for emergency aid to help tackle this infestation
The worst locust infestation in decades is currently destroying crops and pastureland in the Horn of Africa. There is a risk of famine in the…
The Programme is funded by the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund and the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has provided 4 500 drought-a…
President Donald Trump has hailed the "great American comeback" in a speech to Congress that exposed sharp divisions at the top of US politics.
At his annual State of the Union address, Mr Trump set out his case for another four years i…
Malawi's president is planning to contest a court decision overturning his election in May last year.
A spokesman for Peter Mutharika said he would lodge an appeal with the Constitutional Court.
On Monday judges annulled the vote, ci…
The First Lady of Lesotho has been charged with murdering the prime minister's previous wife.
Maesaiah Thabane turned herself into police on Tuesday and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.
Her husband, Prime Minister Thomas …
Olympic organisers are "seriously concerned" about the spread of coronavirus and the impact it could have on the Tokyo Games this summer.
Several qualification events have already been impacted due to the virus.
Tokyo Organising Comm…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, cut the sod for the construction of two solar power plants in Kaleo and Lawra, all in the Upper West Region, under the 17-megawatt peak solar power project.
Accordin…
All but three of the district and regional offices of the Electoral Commission (EC) have been provided with Internet connectivity as the commission prepares towards the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The EC has 260 off…
China's top leadership has admitted "shortcomings and deficiencies" in the country's response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The rare admission came from the Politburo Standing Committee, which called for an improvement in China's …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has thrown a challenge to former President John Dramani Mahama to come out and state clearly his innocence in a case in which Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, is alleged to have paid bribes in Gha…
According to the US department of justice, the property was stolen by former Nigerian military leader, Sani Abacha and was forfeited following a 2014 complaint.
This alleged that Mr Abacha and his associates embezzled billions from the …
Kenya's education minister has temporarily closed a primary school where 14 pupils were killed in a stampede on Monday evening.
The crush happened at Kakamega Primary School, north-west of the capital Nairobi, as the children were leavi…
The Asante-Akim Central Municipal Assembly, has unanimously elected Mr. Samuel Ohemeng as Presiding Member (PM), after two unsuccessful rounds voting to produce a PM on the day the Assembly was inaugurated.
Mr. Ohemeng needed only one v…
Mr Emmanuel Agyei Anhwere, Member of Parliament (MP) for Atwima Nwabiagya South Constituency has asked aspirants in the upcoming primaries of the party in the constituency, to conduct a clean campaign.
He said political contest was a no…
The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA) Monday urged the Electoral Commission to be sensitive to the political undertones of its decisions and work to build consensus with the political parties on the way forward.
…
Polling station executives and electoral area coordinators of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Sefwi- Akontombra Constituency, have picked nomination forms on behalf of Mr Alex Djonoboah Tetteh, the incumbent MP to contest the upcomin…
Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefah, the Tema West Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has branded the upcoming Accra leg of the protest march by some opposition parties against the compilation of a new voters' register as a good swea…
Nana Ngyatoku IV, Chief of Damtse in the Ahanta West Municipal Assembly (AWMA), has called on Assembly Members to collaborate with their chiefs and communities to enhance development.
According to him, being an assembly member is a call…
The Amasaman Constituency of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has organized a training workshop to equip its members with effective communication skills to better tell the government's success story.
The programme brought together t…
The Paramount Chief of the Tumu Traditional area, Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton VI, has appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo to redeem his promise to construct a Municipal Hospital in Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality to improve healthc…
Hopes have been dashed an experimental vaccine could protect people against HIV, the virus that causes Aids.
The National Institutes of Health has stopped its HVTN 702 trial, of more than 5,000 people in South Africa, as it found the ja…
Kenya's former President Daniel arap Moi has died at the age of 95.
President Uhuru Kenyatta announced his death, saying the nation had lost a "great man".
Mr Moi was Kenya's longest-serving president. He was in office for 24 years, …
Results from voting in Iowa, the first round in the contest to pick a Democratic candidate to face President Donald Trump, have been plunged into chaos by apparent technology issues.
The state's Democratic party said the holdup was a "r…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it is unaware of any presidential debates to be organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) this year.
It said the NPP could, therefore, not be a party to any such arrangements an…
The Head of the Local Government Service (LGS), Dr Nana Ato Arthur, has urged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to improve on productivity and develop competencies in their various districts to help achieve the…
THE HOUSE OF LORDS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEFENCE COMMITTEE [1] WILL THIS WEEK HEAR FROM FORMER UN UNDER-SECRETARY GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS BARONESS AMOS AND DR NICK WESTCOTT, DIRECTOR OF THE ROYAL AFRICAN SOCIETY.
In the f…
UN agencies raise alarm in the Central Sahel where millions face hunger amid rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis
The unprecedented escalation of humanitarian needs in the Central Sahel is a major factor for the alarming situation tha…
The deadly coronavirus outbreak that has spread from China does not yet constitute a "pandemic", the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
A pandemic is the worldwide spread of a new disease, according to the WHO.
At least 427 pe…
One of the abiding images of any virus outbreak is people in surgical masks.
Using them to prevent infection is popular in many countries around the world, most notably China during the current coronavirus outbreak where they are also w…
A second activist campaigning for the conservation of monarch butterflies and the woods in which they hibernate has been found dead in Mexico.
Raúl Hernández worked as a tour guide at a butterfly sanctuary in Michoacán state.
His bod…
The US has invited the head of Sudan's governing body to Washington - the first such visit in more than three decades.
Sudan said Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan would go to the US soon to discuss ways of developing bilateral ties.
He …
The first event that will help decide the candidates for US president is to take place with Monday's Iowa caucuses.
Democratic and Republican voters will choose their preferred nominees for the White House race.
While victory in Iowa…
A video of an airport staff at the Victoria Falls Airport, in western Zimbabwe, screening passengers for the coronavirus without wearing a mask has sparked discussions about the country's preparedness.
In the video, the official checks …