The Electoral Commission (EC) will today, Wednesday, hold the district level elections in some electoral areas where polls were not held during the nationwide exercise on Tuesday.
The polls would be conducted between 7am and 5pm in the …
Jose Filomeno dos Santos denies corruption chargesImage caption: Jose Filomeno dos Santos denies corruption charges
Angola's justice minister says the country has so far this year recovered more than $5bn (£3.8bn) stolen from the state.…
The University of Abuja in the Nigerian capital has dismissed one of its lecturers over sexual harassment.
A female student had alleged that the lecturer, a professor, had demanded sex in exchange for marks.
The university said it ha…
Three Great Royal Statues of ancient Dahomey are displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in ParisImage caption: Three Great Royal Statues of ancient Dahomey are displayed at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris
The French culture minister says h…
Police have rescued a 12-year-old boy who fled a raging bushfire in Western Australia by driving his brother's pickup to safety with their dog.
Luke Sturrock was alone at home when a fast-moving blaze threatened the town of Mogumber, no…
Estonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new prime minister as "a sales girl".
President Kersti Kaljulaid said she was "embarrassed" by the comments of Mart Helme, 70, who leads the po…
President Donald Trump has lashed out over his impending impeachment in a letter to top Democrat Nancy Pelosi, accusing her of declaring "open war on American democracy".
The president wrote that he had committed "no offences whatsoever…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has asked its members against rushing to pass comments on internal matters including decisions and actions of party leadership.
“While upholding the principle of free expression of views includin…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu in the Central Region, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has constructed a multi-purpose community centre for the people of Eyipe, a community at Winneba in the Central Region.
The facility is expected …
Special aide to former President John Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari, says Ghanaians have regretted voting out the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2016 elections.
According to her, interactions with a cross section of Ghanaians in…
Mr Eric Kwakye Darfour, the Eastern Regional Minister, has inaugurated an eight-member Regional Population and Housing Census (PHC) implementation committee to oversee the 2020 census activities in the region.
The eight-member committee…
Orange and GIZ form strategic alliance to enhance digital employability of 20.000 young people in Africa and the Middle East
This partnership will have a long-lasting impact on the economic perspective of young people
Today, …
Egypt: African Development Bank board approves €109 million to transform sewage coverage in Upper Egypt rural areas
The initiative is in line with the Bank’s water sector policy, which promotes efficient, equitable and sustainable devel…
Specialist risk intelligence firm EXX Africa publishes a new report that assesses that the West African country of Benin has set one of the most admirable examples on how to successfully mitigate country risk for foreign investment
EXX …
The ILO’s 14th Africa Regional Meeting in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, concludes with a Declaration reaffirming the need for a human-centered strategy to boost equitable development.
Representatives from 49 African countries have is…
African Development Bank urges African nations to persist with climate change ambitions as marathon talks end in Madrid
The African Development Bank has urged the continent’s nations to stay the course on climate action, after a maratho…
We might associate donkeys with Christmas, but new research from the University of Portsmouth shows the animals are keener on hotter periods of the year.
Donkeys, it seems, love sun and warmth. That’s the finding of the first study to e…
The Mozambican authorities are detaining 12 Iranians caught allegedly shipping drugs off the coast of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.
The boat was intercepted on Saturday in a joint operation carried out by the Mozambican navy an…
A Nigerian Prince, Adewale Oyekan of Lagos, was on Monday sentenced to death for the murder of a businesswoman.
Prince Adewale is the son of the late traditional ruler of Lagos Adeyinka Oyekan and had been employed by the deceased as a …
General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's former military leader, has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad.
The three-member court sentenced him over a high treason charge that has been pending since 2013.
Gen M…
The Electoral Commission (EC) says it is in the process of changing the current voter register for the 2020 election, a Deputy Chairperson in Charge of Operations, Mr Samuel Tettey, has said.
“The register that we are going to use for…
All is set for the district level elections today, as 57,030 candidates jostle to win seats in either the assemblies or the unit committees across the country, except in Nkoranza North, Nkoranza South and Lower Manya Krobo.
In the dis…
Fifteen years after the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 230,000 people on Boxing Day, 2004, a cargo container at a police station in southern Thailand bears witness to the hundreds of victims whose remains were never identified.
I…
The gap between men and women, measured in terms of political influence, economic gain and health and education, has narrowed over the last year, but will take another century to disappear, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said.
In the WE…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that official inquiries into last week’s fatal volcano eruption could take up to a year, and will carry potential criminal penalties of up to five years in jail.
Ardern also annou…
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his support for Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Monday, praising her courage in governing the Chinese-ruled financial hub in these “most difficult” times after months of often violent anti-government pro…
The authorities in South Africa's coastal city of Cape Town are investigating how dozens of decapitated sharks were dumped at a beach where they were found on Sunday morning.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the…
Somalia's government has installed surveillance cameras on major roads in the capital, Mogadishu, to deter more attacks from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
This is the first time that the government has installed surveillance ca…
Mali's former leader who was ousted in a coup in 2012 has returned to the country after living in exile in neighbouring Senegal.
Amadou Toumani Touré was met by large crowds at the airport and outside his home on Sunday, RFI reports.
…
Two district level election aspirants for the Kasadjan Electoral Area in the Tema West Municipality have justified their candidature as the best persons to champion development in the area.
Mr Eric Kwame Boakye, is contesti…
The incumbent assembly member for Oklor Kofi Electoral Area, Tema Newtown, has debunked the assertion that he promotes social vices in the area.
Some electorates in the area accused him of befriending drug addicts, a situation they in…
An aspirant in the upcoming District Level Elections says most electorates in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality think the elections have been cancelled alongside the abortive referendum.
Mr Isaac Newton Tetteh, an aspirant for the Saki-N…
More than 57,0000 candidates are contesting the nationwide District Assembly and Unit Committee elections scheduled for Tuesday, December 17.
Of the figure, 18,519 are vying to become assembly members, while 38,520 want to be in the Uni…
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed have formally committed their organisations to work more closely together.
The two leaders signed a Memorandum of Understa…
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement already has ongoing operations on food insecurity in Eswatini, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Hunger is threatening the lives of 11 million people in Southern Africa due to deepening…
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm as violent protests against a new law on illegal migrants entered a fifth day.
Large demonstrations are taking place in the capital Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata (formerl…
Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, will on Monday appear in court to face charges of money laundering and fraud.
The fraud charges arise from an alleged attempt to forge a marriage certi…
Two Ghanaian women have been elected MPs, winning their seats on the ticket of the Labour party.
Abena Oppong-Asare won the Erith and Thamesmead Constituency with 48 per cent of the votes and a majority of 3,758.
She basked in …
A three-day global gathering aimed at transforming the way the world responds to refugee situations starts today in Geneva, Switzerland.
The first-ever Global Refugee Forum brings together refugees, heads of state and government, UN lea…
The Chairman of the Old-Tafo Municipal Assembly branch of the Persons With Disability ( PWD), Mr. Frank Prempeh has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo for providing their members with items of their choice to help improve the…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Old-Tafo, Mr. Fred Obeng Owusu has said that, it was the aim of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government to ensure that all the new municipal assemblies have a new administration block that wil…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has welcomed the invitation by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for dialogue on the amendment to the provisions regarding the elections of district chief executives on political party lines and t…
Scotland’s nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday it was now time for the country to decide its future and that her administration would make the case next week for full legal powers to call an independence referendum.
“The p…
Hope Mwanake understands the plastic pollution crisis facing Kenya better than most.
An environmental scientist who ran a waste collection service in Kenya’s central town of Gilgil, she witnessed first hand the mountains of plastic buck…
West Africa’s top court on Thursday ordered Sierra Leone to revoke a ban on pregnant girls in school, a move activists hope could lead to challenges against similar laws across Africa.
The continent has the highest adolescent pregnancy …
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed to make the currently 28-member bloc carbon neutral by 2050.
However Poland, which is heavily reliant on coal, remains opposed and has been exempted for the time being.
European …
The 2012 presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Abu Sakara Foster, has expressed disappointment in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s fight against corruption.
Dr Foster, who is also the founder of the National Inter…
Parliament on Thursday expressed concern over mass failures at the Ghana school of Law entrance examinations and delay in completing that Law House project which started about nine years ago.
The issues came up as the House debated the …
Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria's presidential election with 58% of the vote, the national electoral body says quoting preliminary results.
It also confirmed that voter turnout was just 40% - the lowest ever for a multi-party elect…
OccupyGhana, civic society group has commended the constitutional independence the Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo is using to save the country from dissipation of its resources.
The group in a release Thursday said it had monitor…