Ethiopian Airlines has announced it will start building a new $5bn (£3.8bn) airport in six months at a town located outside the capital, Addis Ababa.
Chief Executive Officer Tewolde Gebremariam was quoted by state-run Ethiopian News Age…
The Peoples' Democratic Movement (PDM), one of the country's new political parties, is to organise a public forum on the state of the nation in Ho, the Volta Regional capital.
Dubbed "the State of the Nation and the need for a Radical A…
The Electoral Commission has explained that it will continue with stakeholder consultations in its quest to bring democracy to the doorstep of all Ghanaians.
In a press statement issued Tuesday evening [January 14, 2020], the commission…
Ghanaians have been urged to continue to unite and maintain the country's enviable accolade as one of the peaceful countries on the African Continent by ensuring a peaceful election this year.
Reverend Ransford Obeng, the General Overse…
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have reached an initial agreement on the filling and operation of a mega dam being built on the River Nile.
A joint statement by the three countries, along with the US and the World Bank, says negotiators had a…
Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefah, Tema West Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party has demanded an apology from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for 'attacking' President Akufo-Addo, over the EC's new Voters' Register.
"For me, the …
The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) has appealed to political parties and other stakeholders to seek the nation's peace and harmony in the ongoing new vote registration saga.
"We appeal to the parties to place PEACE AND HARMONY in the…
Mrs Freda Prempeh, the Member of Parliament for Tano North constituency in the Ahafo Region has affirmed her determination to expand rural water coverage in the constituency by ensuring all deprived communities benefited from a mechanised …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inducted the Deputy Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) into office.
At a short ceremony at the Jubilee House, Accra, the President congratulated M…
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to ensure that election 2020 was free, fair, and devoid of political violence.
They asked that he used his good office to make sure that the secu…
For Ghana, the Summit will provide a platform to secure investment opportunities, more exports and jobs that will benefit both Ghanaian and British businesses
His Excellency The President of the Republic of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo will le…
Isabel dos Santos is the daughter of Angola's longest-serving president
The billionaire daughter of Angola's ex-president, Isabel dos Santos, has said she would consider running for president in the next election in 2022.
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An aide to Donald Trump's lawyer claims the president "knew exactly what was going on" with efforts to pressure Ukraine into investigating former Vice-President Joe Biden and his son.
Lev Parnas told MSNBC he went to Ukraine to put pres…
Football legends Roger Milla and Joseph-Antoine Bell create Noma Fund, an association for the fight against Noma disease
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Noma Fund, special solidarity fund for children victims…
The United States of America has lifted the visa restrictions it imposed on a section of Ghanaian travellers to the US.
The US Embassy in Ghana in a statement indicated that “visa processing will return to normal procedure” by Friday, J…
The Eminent Advisory Committee of the Electoral Commission (EC) and the Commission is to meet with members of the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) to deliberate on issues concerning the plan to compile a new voters register which has …
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The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi has invited scholarship applications from foreign students to pursue higher studies at …
Political groups in Ethiopia have raised concerns about an election timetable announced by the country’s electoral commission.
The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) proposed 16 August as the voting date and a month-long voter …
President Vladimir Putin has announced a series of plans to increase the number of children being born in Russia from an average birth rate of under 1.5 per woman to 1.7 within four years.
Last year he promised tax breaks for bigger fam…
The Nigerian and French navies have been joining forces to fight the piratesImage caption: The Nigerian and French navies have been joining forces to fight the pirates
The West Africa coastline recorded a 50% increase in kidnapping of s…
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's call for a new "Trump deal" to replace the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Mr Johnson said he recognised that Mr Trump saw the accord as "flawed" and suggested he c…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) will go to the polls to elect parliamentary candidates in constituencies with sitting Members of Parliament (MPs) in April this year.
As usual, a number of aspirants have declared their intention to battle …
Two leading members of the Inter-Party Resistance Against a New Voters’ Register (IPRNA) have welcomed the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to engage the political parties opposed to the compilation of a new voters register ahead …
"Child Parliament", a forum seeking to discuss and address issues affecting the development of the Ghanaian child, has been launched at Effiduase in the Sekyere-East District of the Ashanti Region.
The initiative is meant to bring toget…
One hundred and fifty-Six members of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC)including branch executives from eight communities in the Akontombra Constituency of the Western North Region have defected to the ruling New Patriotic Pa…
Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefah, New Patriotic Party Constituency Chairman for Tema West, has stated President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will win the 2020 polls whether a new Voters' register is used or the old one.
The said the agitation by som…
Chiefs from the Avenor Traditional Council in the Volta Region have expressed gratitude to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his sense of promise to the development of the area.
They described as historic, the developments takin…
Peter Salovey, Yale University’s president, arrived in Nigeria this week to deliver on the promise of the Yale Africa Initiative, a long-term university wide commitment to enhance Yale’s ongoing bilateral engagement with African institutio…
The bombings of schools and the killing of civilians violate international humanitarian law
The United Nations Country Team in Kenya is deeply distressed by the rising cases of terrorist attacks on schools, teachers and learners, especi…
The bridge was repaired by Thai engineers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan in partnership with the World Food Programme
A simple task of meshing together metal pallets and bars to repair a broken bridge has provide…
The United States Government in October 2019 announced its partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation to promote entrepreneurship initiatives in Nigeria
U.S. Consul General Claire Pierangelo on Tuesday reiterated the importance of Nig…
Iran says it has arrested the person who filmed the footage showing a Ukrainian passenger plane being shot down by a missile.
It is believed the person being detained will face charges related to national security.
Flight PS752 was b…
For 32-year-old Iranian Shohreh Bayat, the Women's World Chess Championship was meant to be a career highlight.
It is her first time as the event's chief arbiter - a senior role.
But that achievement has been clouded by controversy a…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the challenges inherited by his government were enough to undermine the promises he made to Ghanaians ahead of the 2016 elections.
According to him, the ailing banking sector, low agricultural…
“Having achieved all these significant milestones, even in the midst of the difficulties we met, I am hopeful that the Ghanaian people would reward my party with another resounding victory in 2020. We will not be complacent, and we will wo…
A traveller in Thailand has become the first person outside China to be diagnosed with a new coronavirus.
The Chinese woman was quarantined after arriving in Bangkok from Wuhan, in eastern China, where the outbreak began in December.
…
Police in Lesotho are looking for Maesaiah Thabane, the wife of the prime minister, for questioning in connection to the killing of his estranged wife two years ago.
Mystery surrounds Ms Thabane's whereabouts since Friday when a court i…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated a branch in Kuwait as part of efforts to strengthen its international branches and ensure a resounding victory in the 2020 general election.
The Middle East branch is the 54th external branc…
The Avenor Traditional Council has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for his commitment to the development of the area, a gesture reflected in the role he played in getting the area elevated.
The council said its elevation…
Nana Obiri Boahen, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Deputy General Secretary, says the various public protestations would not change the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) in acquiring a new Voters Register for the country.
"You can…
Mr Achibald Donkor Jnr, the Upper West Regional Director of the National Youth Authority (NYA) has appealed to the members of the Youth Parliament (YP) to avoid introducing partisan politics into their activities.
He made the appeal dur…
President Akufo-Addo has recalled that during the previous administration, some citizens were maimed and brutalised during demonstrations.
In an address at the 71st New Year School and Conference today (January 14) in Accra, President A…
European powers have triggered a dispute mechanism over the nuclear deal with Iran, after the country took a further step back from its commitments.
Iran has suspended all limits on its production of enriched uranium, which can be used …
Nigerians online are angry after President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter Hanan travelled in a presidential jet to Bauchi in northern Nigeria for a private function.
Ms Buhari, a photography graduate, was taking photos at an annual festiva…
The Chamber for Local Governance (ChaLoG) says it is of the firm conviction that the reasons so far advanced by the Electoral Commission (EC) to procure a new IT system and compile a new Biometric Voters Register (BVR) are simply unjustifi…
The Henry Djaba Memorial Foundation has appealed to the President to consider appointing the women and persons with disability (PWDs) who lost in the 2019 district assembly and unit committee elections as government appointees.
It has a…
In our series of letters from African writers, journalist and former Ghana government minister Elizabeth Ohene writes about why she avoided New Year celebrations.
We go to great lengths here to start every year on a high note.
The be…
US President Donald Trump should take his complaint about being overlooked for the Nobel Peace Prize to the award organisers, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 winner, has said.
Mr Abiy said he was not aware of the criteria…
Parents are wrongly being arrested and having their children taken into care due to the stigma around female genital mutilation (FGM), members of the UK Somali community have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. They say figures suggest…