Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Deputy Minister of Education, has disclosed that gross secondary education enrolment ratio in Ghana is now 62.6 percent, up from 36 percent registered in 2010.
Dr Adutwum said this, while contributing to the 2020 Bu…
People in northern Nigeria are celebrating the renaming of their village from Area of Idiots to Area of Plenty.
The local emir announced the Hausa-language name change after residents complained that they had been mocked for years and w…
Three men falsely convicted of murder in the US state of Maryland have been set free after 36 years in prison.
Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins had been sentenced to life in 1984 for killing a 14-year-old boy a year ea…
The Deputy General of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen says if the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has any qualms with the Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, they should proceed to court and desist fr…
The Chamber for Local Governance (ChLoG) requested the government to answer 22 questions on the upcoming December 17, 2019 referendum and solicited answers from the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama.
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The government has no agenda to hound the Auditor-General, Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo out of office, a Deputy Minister of Information, Mr Pius Enam Hadzide has said.
Reacting to claims by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on…
As displacement spikes in Burkina Faso, International Rescue Committee (IRC) assessment finds risk of growing health crisis
The assessment found 70% of the households surveyed in the north of Burkina Faso are feeding their children twic…
A new International Labour Organization (ILO) report highlights critical financing gaps in social protection and provides policy recommendations on how these gaps could be closed
More than US$500 billion a year needs to be invested if c…
Hungary is not prepared to support the document if it includes any refence at all to the global compacts for migration or on refugees
“Hungary is only prepared to support an EU agreement with the countries of Africa that concerns the fu…
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister, has called on the Information Service Department (ISD) to intensify the awareness creation efforts on the impending referendum for the citizenry to make informed decision.
"I want to appe…
Former prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday that Britain was in a dangerous mess and that neither his own Labour Party nor Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives deserved to win a Dec. 12 election.
Britain is holding an electi…
Jack Ma, the Chinese businessman and founder of e-commerce and technology giant, Alibaba, is in Addis Ababa for the launch of Electronic World Trade Platform in Ethiopia (eWTP).
The private sector-led initiative works with governments t…
At least 56 people have died in landslides caused by torrential rain in Kenya's West Pokot region on Saturday.
Hundreds of families have been made homeless and are sheltering in churches and schools, and desperately need food, water and…
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has said the government will "seriously reflect" after local elections saw massive gains by pro-democracy candidates.
Seventeen of the 18 district councils are now controlled by pro-democracy councillors, a…
Workers exposed to pesticides at a UK-funded firm in the Democratic Republic of Congo have complained of becoming impotent, a rights group has said.
Feronia, which dominates DR Congo's palm-oil sector, had failed to give workers adequat…
The Ministry of Information (MoI) is partnering the Information Services Department (ISD), to carry out educational campaign on the December 17 referendum on Article 55 (3) in farming and 'hard-to-reach' communities in the Ashanti Region.
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Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, Member of Parliament for Okere and Minister for Regional Re-organization and Development, has said he has not called for cancelation of the upcoming referendum as some media reports claim.
Speaking with the Ghana Ne…
Bonheur Malenga, a Congolese university student, found himself facing a dilemma one day last month about whether to purchase online data.
"As I was hungry, I didn't know if I should buy food or get a 24-hour internet bundle," he told th…
At least 27 people have died after a passenger plane crashed into houses in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials say.
The victims included nine people from the same family who were in one of the hous…
Clashes broke out in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro as police battled football fans who had been celebrating their team's victory in South America's biggest regional tournament.
Huge crowds had thronged the city centre on Sunday t…
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has lent its support to the ‘Yes’ vote in the upcoming referendum to amend Article 55 (3) to allow political parties to sponsor candidates in district level elections.
The party believes suc…
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, paid a courtesy call on former President Jerry John Rawlings at the Ridge residence in Accra last Friday.
Accompanied by a retinue of chiefs and elders from the Manhyia Palace, Otumfuo Osei Tu…
Uganda has launched its first mobile phone assembly and manufacturing plant.
The site in Namanve, east of the capital Kampala, is run by Chinese firm ENGO Holdings and will produce SIMI-branded items.
The first phase will see the pla…
The Arts Council of Pakistan has been forced to backtrack after it emerged that a discussion on feminism it is hosting was to have an all-male panel.
An outcry on social media resulted in two women guests being added, and Friday's event…
The Henry Djaba Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), focusing on gender and social protection is canvassing for votes for women and Persons With Disability (PWDs) in the December 17, 2019, district level elections.
The e…
Dan Botwe, the Minister of Regional Reorganisation and Development, has proposed a total withdrawal of the December 17, 2019, referendum over what he claims are attacks on the president’s person.
“I am convinced some persons are unjus…
The Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) will establish a $10-billion Job Fund to provide capital for young Ghanaians to start their own businesses when the party is voted into power in next year’s general election, the presidential candidate, K…
Zimbabweans have reacted with disbelief to news that the government has approved plans to rename major roads and buildings after "national heroes" - including 10 streets named after President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Many of those honoured f…
Four in five 11- to 17-year-olds around the world are not taking enough physical exercise, according to the first such analysis.
The World Health Organization says children's health is being damaged as well as their brain development an…
A woman in a domestic violence situation managed to call 911 without the perpetrator realising, by pretending to order a pizza.
Officers in Oregon city, Ohio, praised the caller's quick thinking, which led to the alleged abuser being ar…
The UK has been called an illegal colonial occupier by Mauritius after it ignored a deadline to return control of an overseas territory to the island nation.
The UN had given the UK six months to give up control of the Chagos Islands - …
The Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih has thrown his weight behind the New Patriotic Party’s, (NPP’s) parliamentary candidate for the Wa Central Constituency.
Dr. Bin Salih described the candidate, Hajia Humu Awudu as th…
Government has repackaged and re-awarded contracts on Swedru roads to enhance the quality of life of residents, Mrs. Justina Marigold Assan, Agona West Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), has assured.
The MCE said road projects were dear t…
A motorcyclist has defended the storming of an Indonesian hospital morgue to claim the body of a baby being held over unpaid bills as a "humanitarian mission".
Wardiansyah was among dozens of motorcycle taxi drivers who decided to take …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to press on with the development of a nuclear-powered rocket believed to have been at the centre of a deadly accident.
Five engineers and two others died when a rocket engine exploded at a t…
Concerned citizens of Jirapa and a group of New Patriotic Party (NPP) loyalists based in the Upper West Region have mounted pressure on the government for the removal of Christine Bombanye-Amadu, their Municipal Chief Executive from office…
Ethiopia"s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a news conference at his office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia August 1, 2019
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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the new party would help reduce ethnic divisions in Ethio…
The National Peace Council has called on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) to endorse and adopt the Draft Roadmap and Code of Conduct on political vigilantism.
The document has been developed by a Tech…
A local government expert has urged Ghanaians not to politicize the December 17 referendum on the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs).
Dr Eric Oduro Osae, Technical Adviser, Ministry of Local Gover…
Weak Vaccine-Preventable Disease Surveillance Could Cost the African Region $22.4 billion over the next decade, World Health Organization (WHO) Warns
Vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) surveillance is a critical component of the integrat…
Minister of Health – Honourable Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Minister of Gender, Children & Social Protection – Honourable Cynthia Morrison M, Minister of Planning – Honourable George Gyan-Baffour, distinguished panelists, ladies and gentlemen,…
For a second consecutive year, a South African has won the coveted Brian Davies Award, a prestigious international award that recognizes the outstanding work for animals in difficult and dangerous situations. The 2019 award recipient - Sha…
At Finland’s initiative, development ministers will hold a lunch meeting to discuss education in Africa from the viewpoint of gender equality
The EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) will meet in Brussels on 25 November. Minister fo…
The international police agency Interpol has arrested Nigeria's former attorney general and justice minister in connection with a corruption scandal over an oil deal worth more than $1bn (£770m).
Mohammed Adoke's lawyer confirmed the ar…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has committed his country to being "open defecation free by 2025", according to a series of tweets from his spokesman Garba Shehu.
More than 20% of Nigerians do not have access to a toilet, a statist…
British broadcaster Sky News has taken down from its website its investigation that said it had identified a stowaway who fell from a plane into a garden in London in July.
The identification has since proved controversial.
The story…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has predicted a bleak economic outlook for Ghana in the year 2020 following what it says was an unconvincing budget statement and economic policy presented to Parliament by Finance Minist…
The New Juaben North Municipal Assembly in collaboration with the Electoral Commission (EC) and The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has organized a day's workshop for all aspiring assembly members in Koforidua.
The effort…
The Greater Accra Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on Wednesday held a forum for students of the Accra Technical University to educate them on corruption.
The forum aimed at exposing the students to the natur…
The Omanhen of Nsein Traditional Area in the Western Region, Awulae Agyefi Kwame II, has described as unfortunate the statement issued by the President of the National House of Chiefs that Nananom were in support of a No vote in the upcomi…
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