Data from a study conducted by the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana have shown that metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) do not frequently visit their communities.
When they do, it is d…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday, February 20, 2020.
The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who announced this …
A staggering one in ten people in Burkina Faso will need food assistance by June
The number of people displaced in Burkina Faso increased tenfold last year to over 560,000. The figure is predicted to skyrocket to 900,000 people by April…
The agency reported that children have been attacked, abducted or recruited into armed groups due to the spike in armed conflict and insecurity in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger
A surge in violence in the central Sahel region in Africa me…
Members of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly have been entreated to always resort to laid down internal mechanisms to address their grievances rather than going public to seek redress.
"If there are issues we are not clear about, let us …
Four people with suspected coronavirus have been put into isolation in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, the BBC's Bizuwork Olana reports.
Since last Wednesday, all passengers arriving from China are being screened at Addis Ababa's Bole …
A Kenyan high court has ordered the government to build public toilets along all highways.
Justice Kossy Bor told the transport minister to constitute a team to oversee their provision, according to Business Daily newspaper.
The team…
Rwanda's government has started spraying insecticides in mosquito-breeding sites using drones.
The head of the malaria division at Rwanda Biomedical Centre told the BBC that the drones would be loaded with 10 litres of an insecticide th…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Concerned Youth of the Zebilla constituency has proposed Dr John Kingsley Kurugu to contest for the parliamentary primaries in the area.
The seat is currently occupied by Mr Frank Fusieni Adongo, the Deputy…
Mr Emmanuel Valis Akyianu, a clergyman, Businessman and a politician has declared his intention to contest the Cape Coast North seat as an independent candidate in the 2020 general election.
He is with the conviction that the developmen…
Mr Isaac Kwame Antwi, Tema Metropolitan Director, National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), is asking Ghanaians to tolerate each other before, during after the elections.
Mr Antwi said there was the need for Ghanaians to ensure a …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on government to implement the compensation aspect of the Emile Short Commission's recommendations in order to bring relief to victims of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence.
Th…
The Deputy Minister of Regional Re-organization and Development, Mr Agyei Mensah Korsah, has entreated assembly members to support the campaign for revenue mobilization by assemblies to improve their Internally Generated Fund (IGF).
He …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Monday received the credentials of seven newly appointed envoys from Zimbabwe, Mali, Kenya, India, Togo, Rwanda and Guinea.
They are; Mr Kufa Edward Chinoza, Zimbabwe; Abdoul Karder Toure, Mali; Eli…
A Kenyan student from China with symptoms similar to those of the deadly coronavirus has been quarantined at the national referral hospital in the capital, Nairobi.
The hospital’s Communication Manager Hezekiel Gikambi has told the BBC …
Dutch police got to the bottom of mobile phone thefts at a rock concert when they found a man with 30 mobiles in his cycling shorts.
The suspected pickpocket is a 34-year-old man, believed to be in a roving gang of thieves, police say.
…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday picked nomination forms at the headquarters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to kickstart the process to launch his bid for a second term as President.
With a banker’s draft of GH¢20,000…
The air strikes will target areas with tough terrain
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered air strikes against bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers in forested areas bordering three major states in the north and centre of …
Italy’s right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini failed to overturn decades of leftist rule in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna on Sunday in an election that brought relief to the center-left and the embattled government.
Salvini ha…
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will “inspect and direct” efforts to control a virus outbreak in the central city of Wuhan and promised reinforcements, as provincial authorities faced accusations from the public of a failure to respond in time.…
A key figure of the 2011 Arab Spring, Tunisian activist and blogger Lina Ben Mhenni, has died after suffering for years from a chronic illness.
The 36-year-old shared her last post on her site A Tunisian Girl on Sunday.
The blog was …
Mr Kwame Dzudzorli Gakpey, 2020 Parliamentary Candidate (PC) for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Keta has said the Party "will do everything legally possible to win power," in the 2020 general elections.
He said the "grassroo…
The Ada West District Assembly has for the first time in its life failed to elect a Presiding Member(PM).
Mr Prince Akoto polled 12 votes, representing 54.55 per cent while his contender, the former PM, Mr. Amuyao, had 10 votes represe…
Mr Kwamena Duncan, Central Regional Minister has called on District Assemblies to channel chunk of the funds received from Central government and donors into the education and sanitation sectors to improve human development.
According …
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and her Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Sunday announced that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will be paying a State visit to…
This morning,the Karpinsk City Court convicted Brother Aleksandr Prianikov, along with Sisters Venera and Darya Dulova. The court issued them suspended prison sentences of two and a half years, two years, and one year, respectively. Althou…
An alleged Portuguese hacker has been named as the person who leaked the documents which revealed how Africa's richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption.
Last week some 715,000 leaked documents re…
A plane has crashed and caught fire in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
The aircraft came down in Ghazni province's Deh Yak district, south-west of the capital Kabul, in an area with a strong Taliban presence.
Local officials init…
Inaugural ceremonies were held at various metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) in Accra last Thursday for elected assembly members, government appointees and unit committee members.
Their role, as provided for under…
President Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, will be the closing keynote speaker at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s 2020 World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. The 8th annual Summit will be held in …
US basketball legend Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in California, sparking an outpouring of grief from fans around the world.
Bryant, 41, and his daughter Gianna, 13, were among the nine killed when the aircraft came down i…
Over One Million Ethiopians Received Humanitarian Aid from International Organization for Migration (IOM) in 2019
IOM provided shelter construction and other emergency items to vulnerable populations, primarily in Somali and Oromia Regi…
Residents of Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo, have complained about the supply of dirty water after days of having dry taps.
The Bulawayo city council had been repairing water pipes and had shut down supply for several days.
The cou…
Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has denied fraud and plans to sue the Angolan government.
Ms Dos Santos in a statement on Thursday said the accusations made by Attorney General Helder Pitta Gros on Wednesday were false and po…
Mr. Michael Awuah, first Vice Chairman of the Japan branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called for Ghanaian voters to renew the party's mandate in this year's general election.
They should return the party to power to co…
The Adaklu District Assembly Thursday failed to elect a presiding member (PM) after two rounds of voting.
Mr Fred Kwame Agbogbo, the Assemblyman for Ablornu Electoral Area, who is also the immediate past PM, and Mr Phanuel Kudi, Assembl…
Mr James Kobina Bomfeh Junior, the Acting Secretary of the Convention People's Party (CPP) Thursday said technology is an enabler and not a panacea to solving electoral irregularities.
He said just having a Biometric Voter Management Sy…
Japanese police have announced an investigation into a former postman who kept tens of thousands of undelivered items at his home.
Authorities found about 24,000 pieces of mail at the man's house in Kanagawa, near Tokyo.
The unnamed …
Lasting peace and the prosperity that comes with it cannot be achieved without justice, the Commonwealth Secretary-General has declared, during a keynote speech in the Hague.
Patricia Scotland was addressing the International Criminal C…
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Merck for Mothers, Credit Suisse, and USAID seek to expand Lifesaving Medical Products for Mothers in Africa
Project would mark the first investment of The Maternal Outcomes Matt…
Representatives also agreed to form a Regional Ministerial Labour and Social Protection Forum, with a rotational chairmanship
The rescue last week of roughly 100 children and young Ugandan women here as they prepared to fly to United Ar…
Atlantic Methanol Production Company to create a methanol-to-gasoline and derivatives unit to further monetize domestic gas produced in Equatorial Guinea
Atlantic Methanol Production Company (AMPCO) is part of a series of foreign invest…
To eliminate cross border malaria in Southern Africa, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, awarded MOSASWA (Mozambique, South
Africa and Eswatini) a grant in 2017. Following the successful completion of the original gr…
In Kenya, U.S. forces are primarily responsible for training Kenyan forces, sharing intelligence, and personnel recovery
U.S. Africa Command continues to investigate the Jan. 5 attack on the Kenyan Defense Force Military Base in Manda B…
A banker implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Africa's richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found dead in Lisbon.
Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, managed the account of oil firm Sonangol, formerly chaired by…
The number of police killings in Rio de Janeiro reached a record high last year, officials say, amid controversial hardline measures to tackle violence.
Police killed 1,810 people, an average of five per day, the highest number since of…
UN human rights experts have demanded an immediate investigation into allegations Saudi Arabia's crown prince hacked Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's phone.
They said Mohammed bin Salman should also be investigated for "continuous, direct and p…
Chinese online giant Taobao has warned sellers using its platform not to profit from the deadly coronavirus outbreak by raising prices.
Fears over the spread of the virus in China have triggered a surge in sales of protective gear in As…
BONABOTO, a Civil Society Organisation made up of natives from Bolgatanga, Nabdam, Bongo and Tongo in the Upper East Region, has disagreed with the Aviation Minister, Mr Joseph Kofi Adda over his proposal to relocate the site of the region…
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the principal leader of the Church of England, has visited Kiburu Boys Secondary School, a school he taught at in central Kenya.
During his visit, the archbishop said it was the Kenyan school w…