China has introduced a new national security law for Hong Kong. The BBC's Michael Bristow takes a closer look at the detail, and what it will mean in practice.
Lawyers and legal experts have said China's national security law for Hong K…
A young South Korean triathlete has taken her own life after lodging a number of complaints over alleged abuse from her coaching staff.
Choi Suk-hyeon, 22, said she endured years of abuse, but that her complaints to sporting authorities…
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has quarantined himself after an official working closely with him tested positive for Covid-19, a government statement says.
Some other people in the president's inner circle are also self-isolating…
Ireland's former President Mary Robinson will lead a panel investigating the leader of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina.
The panel will be reviewing the report of the AfDB Ethics Committee, which cleared Mr Adesina of …
Police are randomly stopping people in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, seeking their consent for coronavirus testing.
The exercise kicked off on Thursday morning on some roads and entry points.
Rwandan health authorities say this “will provi…
The party agents of the two major political parties- New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed satisfaction with the registration exercise after day one processes.
The agents, who spoke to the Gh…
The ongoing voter registration exercise, by the Electoral Commission (EC) across all 120 registration centres in the Upper West Region has so far been smooth.
Out of these 120 registration centres, Wa Municipality has 19, Wa East 12, Wa…
Nursing mothers who carry their babies to the voter registration centres without any form of protection, are exposing their children to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, chairman of the Afigya-Kwabre South constituency who ma…
Eligible voters have been urged to find out when the voters' registration exercise would be held within their respective registration centres to enable them to register without massing at one centre.
This would help ease congestion at …
US President Donald Trump, long opposed to wearing a face covering in public, says he is "all for masks" and they make him look like the Lone Ranger.
Mr Trump also maintained that face coverings do not need to become mandatory to curb C…
Nigeria has said that domestic flights will resume on 8 July, but has not yet set a date for international air travel to restart.
They had been stopped as part of efforts to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Passengers have been urged …
Nearly 78% of Russian voters backed constitutional reforms that could keep President Vladimir Putin in power until 2036, election officials say.
With all the ballots counted, 77.9% voted for the reform package and 21.3% against, the ele…
The US House of Representatives has approved new Hong Kong-related sanctions, after Beijing imposed a security law that was condemned by countries around the world.
The measure, which was passed unanimously, penalises banks that do busi…
Amid concerns about infection rates in parts of Yorkshire and north-west England, UK Local Government Minister Simon Clarke said "won't hesitate to act" where local lockdown restrictions are necessary.
He told BBC Breakfast that Bradfor…
Gabon has suspended issuing visas to European travellers after its citizens were included in the EU ban list.
Gabonese foreign affairs ministry said it had applied the "the principle of reciprocity".
The nationals of the 27 EU member s…
Israel has confirmed more than 26,000 coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins UniversityImage caption: Israel has confirmed more than 26,000 coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins University
The Israeli parliament voted to …
This beach in Miami has introduced a curfew as coronavirus-related deaths in Florida reach 3,550Image caption: This beach in Miami has introduced a curfew as coronavirus-related deaths in Florida reach 3,550
The surge in cases in some s…
A statue of former Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie has been destroyed in a park in Wimbledon, south-west London.
Police are investigating the incident, which took place in Cannizaro Park on Tuesday evening.
The damage to the bust was…
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Wednesday said the schedule and venue of the five phases for the registration have been advertised in the dailies, the Commission’s website, and all its social media handles.
A statement signed by Mrs Sy…
A former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, popularly known in political circles as Sir John, has passed on.
He is reported to have died on Wednesday, evening at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospit…
Kenya has launched an electronic court filing system that will allow parties to file cases online.
Through the digital system, lawyers, prosecutors and litigants will be able to file cases and serve court papers to defendants from their…
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana at the end of the 38-day registration exercise, expect to capture more than 90,000 prospective voters in the 42 registration centres for the Jomoro Voters' roll.
It intends to register eligible vot…
Fake or misleading news can have a real impact on those who find themselves the targets. This has been a particular problem in India during the coronavirus pandemic, where reliable sources of news are frequently drowned out by unverified i…
The authorities in Burundi have announced rare measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic, moving away from a relaxed attitude shown by the previous government.
In a speech before the parliament after the swearing in of ministers, new …
South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party has called for a return to the strict level-five lockdown in the country as coronavirus cases rise.
The party says the only way to prevent further spread is for people to stay home and the …
The Electoral Commission in the Sissala East Municipality has targeted a 10 per cent increase in the voter population after the registration exercise.
This is expected to increase the current 34,649 voter population in the Municipal's r…
For more than a month thousands of displaced people have been stuck in DR Congo’s Ituri region trying to seek safety in northern Uganda. The government in Kampala finally agreed to give them entry on humanitarian grounds.
They will firs…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has cautioned the citizenry against the use of violence in challenging the eligibility of registrants at the ongoing voter registration exercise.
Mr. Benjamin Bano-Bio, Ashanti Regional Director of the Commis…
Residents of the sprawling Sakumono Estates in Tema West, thronged registration centres on Tuesday to acquire Voter's Identification Cards.
The mass voters' registration exercise, being conducted by the Electoral Commission which comme…
Prospective voters thronged various registration centres of the Electoral Commission in the Greater Accra during the early hours of Tuesday to register for their voter identification cards.
A visit by the Ghana News Agency to some centr…
The nationwide voters' registration exercise has started on a high note in Teshie and Osu.
A visit to some polling stations by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) namely the Teshie Neighbourhood Day Care Centre and the Saint Barnabas Anglican P…
Statement by SRSG Mohamed ibn Chambas on Ghana
As Ghana embarks on nationwide voters registration exercise today, in anticipation of the December 2020 general elections, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of th…
A New York judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's niece from publishing a damning tell-all memoir about the US first family.
Mary Trump's upcoming book, Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World's Most D…
Hong Kong police have made their first arrests under a new "anti-protest" law imposed by Beijing, as crowds marked 23 years since the end of British rule.
Seven people were held accused of violating the law, including a man with a pro-i…
The EU has decided that from Wednesday EU borders will be reopened to citizens from 15 non-EU countries, including Canada, Morocco and Australia, but not the US, Brazil and Russia.
China is on the list, but subject to a reciprocal agree…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has launched an ambitious gas pipeline project linking the south of the country with the north.
Nigeria secured a $2.6bn (£2.2bn) loan from the China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation, also know…
Forty-seven migrants who were adrift and in danger in a boat in the Mediterranean have been rescued.
They were picked up in waters south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, three days after setting off from Libya.
They had run out of…
Some 111 guests tested positive for Covid-19 after a wedding in India's northern Bihar state. The groom also died a day after the wedding on 16 June, NDTV reported. However, it's not clear if he had the virus as he was not tested.
More …
A whopping majority of infections and deaths in India happened in June - more than 400,000 cases and nearly 12,000 fatalities were reported last month, according to the Times of India newspaper.
To put that into perspective, India curre…
The mass registration of citizens for the compilation of the new voters’ register took off smoothly in the Northern Region on Tuesday albeit late at some registration centres.
Citizens thronged the registration centres and waited patien…
The Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to take into consideration the prevailing COVID-19 environment and peg its threshold for the number of voters at each polling station at 600 instead of…
The leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has unveiled its Campaign Team for the 2020 General Election, with Professor Joshua Alabi as the National Campaign Manager, and Mr Alex Segbefia as his Deputy.
A statement issued …
The United States is not on a “safe list” of destinations for non-essential travel due to be unveiled by European Union governments later on Tuesday, three diplomats said.
The 27-member bloc is expected to give outline approval to leisu…
France's Fessenheim nuclear plant, for years the focus of anti-nuclear protests, has been switched off after more than four decades.
The divisive plant near the borders of Germany and Switzerland produced 70% of the Alsace region's ener…
Volunteers in India will be immunised with a new locally made coronavirus vaccine in July.
An unspecified number of people will have the vaccine, as part of a trial by Hyderabad-based firm Bharat Biotech.
Tests in animals suggest the…
The mayor of what was once a slaving post in Senegal says a local square has been renamed, as protesters around the world challenge symbols of imperialism and racism in public spaces.
Gorée Island's place de l'Europe will now be called …
A fire at a hospital in the Egyptian city of Alexandria has killed at least seven patients and injured seven members of staff.
Egyptian media said a short circuit in the air conditioning system at the Badrawi Hospital triggered the blaze …
Zimbabwe's Central Bank has permitted limited transactions on mobile payment platforms but the stock exchange remains suspended over accusations of economic sabotage.
On Monday, EcoCash, the largest mobile payment company announced that…
Senegalese President Macky Sall has said a state of emergency and nighttime curfew imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus will be lifted from Tuesday.
In a televised address, the president also announced the resumption of internation…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed governors for eight of the country's 10 regional states after sharing them out with his former rival and now the country’s Vice-President Riek Machar.
The president also appointed superin…
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