The organisers of the Blue Economy conference that has just closed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, told the BBC the event had been a great success, but admitted they had made a mistake by allowing single-use plastic at the venue.
Ambassado…
The US Senate has advanced a measure to withdraw American support for a Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen, in a blow to President Donald Trump.
Many senators are unhappy with Mr Trump's response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jam…
Seven Indian nationals are being held captive in western Ethiopia by local workers demanding their salaries, media reports say.
The seven work for an Indian firm building roads in Ethiopia.
Local staff have allegedly held the seven f…
Former president Jerry John Rawlings has hinted at publishing a book that will chronicle his political life after his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings launched hers on Monday.
Congratulating his wife on the successful launch of the bo…
A flag bearer aspirant of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Ekwow Spio- Garbrah, has indicated that the NDC suffered greatly in the 2016 general election due to its inability to present a well-crafted message to the ele…
Tema West Municipal Assembly (TWMA) has held its First Ordinary General Assembly Meeting with a call on the Tema Metropolitan Assembly to release all assets belonging to the new Assembly.
Mrs Adwoa Amoako, Tema West Municipal Chief Exec…
The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has urged the media to focus their discussions on issues that are relevant to the country's socio-economic development.
He said the over concentration on irrelevant issues would …
People of African descent are facing "widespread and entrenched prejudice and exclusion" across the European Union, a study suggests.
Race-related violence, discriminatory police profiling, and discrimination in the search for jobs and …
Sri Lanka's top military officer has been remanded in custody, accused of covering up civil war-era murders.
Chief of Defence Staff Ravindra Wijeguneratne appeared in court after warrants for his arrest were issued.
Prosecutors say h…
Against the backdrop of rising global hunger, Pope Francis will join world leaders at the opening ceremony of the Forty-Second session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a United Nations…
Sydney has been deluged by the heaviest November rain it has experienced in decades, causing flash-flooding, traffic chaos and power cuts.
Heavy rain fell throughout Wednesday, the city at one point receiving its average monthly rainfal…
Professor Maxwell Owusu, a lecturer at the University of Michigan, in the United States, has observed that the country needed a strong mass of literacy culture to boost industrialisation for holistic development.
He explained that an in…
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived for a one-day working visit in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and the birthplace of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency.
He is expected to address the troops deployed to the front l…
The Rural Women farmers of the Nanumba North Municipality has called on Government to institute policies to ensure women had easy access to land for farming purposes.
This, they said, would help solve the long standing land tenure syste…
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo, who has been in hospital for more than a month in Saudi Arabia, is being transferred on Wednesday to the Moroccan capital, Rabat, to convalesce.
His wife Sylvia Bongo posted on social media that the transfer…
Mr Ignatius Akwasi Amankwah, District Chief Executive for the Bodi District of the Western Region, has called on leaders of institutions and organisations, especially those in his area, to live a selfless leadership style in order to brin…
The Chartered Institute of Bankers (Ghana), the professional body for banks and financial institutions in Ghana, on Tuesday, November 27, 2018, honoured the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia at the 22nd National Banking Conference in Ac…
Embattled French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will not abandon a controversial fuel tax, as he set out France's future energy strategy.
The so-called yellow vests protests have seen thousands take to the streets across France o…
US President Donald Trump has defended the use of tear gas on a crowd of migrants, including children, trying to cross the US-Mexico border on Sunday.
Border agents were forced into action because they were "being rushed by some very to…
Protests in Tunisia began overnight on Monday and have continued into Tuesday ahead of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to the north African country.
Rights activists and journalists say they object to the prince's regiona…
Lesotho is aiming to make money from the booming medicinal marijuana industry, but the BBC's Vumani Mkhize says the southern African nation already has an unheralded illicit trade in the drug for recreational use.
Green dust swirls arou…
Traditional authorities in the Asutifi South District of Brong-Ahafo Region over the weekend expressed appreciation to the Member of Parliament (MP) for his efforts at enhancing the development of the area.
They showered praises on Alha…
Some constituency executives have stated that Mr Alban Sumana Bagbin has worked hard to become a conspicuous figure that cannot be ignored in the forthcoming primaries.
"Having worked so hard from ordinary Member of Parliament through t…
The privately owned Lesotho Times newspaper says it has learned that the nation's MPs are demanding a 100% pay increase.
The newspaper reported that Prime Minister Thomas Thabane had instructed Finance Minister Moeketsi Majoro to explo…
Electoral reforms are high on the agenda as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hosts dozens of opposition leaders in his office to discuss what he called "the building of democratic institutions and culture".
The meeting, which is bei…
The Republic of The Gambia has deposited at the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights, the declaration required under Article 34(6) of the Protocol, to allow Non-governmental Organisations and individuals to access the Continental Cour…
Madam Paulina Patience Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, has said she would focus her attention on vulnerable groups to help improve their lives.
“I am going to work with women, children and the disabled in the region to establ…
Mr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, a Presidential Aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has appealed to party’s delegates to vote for him to lead the party because “it is his time”.
He explained that when he contested with the late Pr…
Mr Anthony Mensah, the Asutifi North District Chief Executive (DCE), has appealed to residents in the area participate in the Assembly’s activities to achieve its development goals.
He said the Assembly did not only represent the centra…
The Deputy Central Regional Minister, Mr Thomas Yaw Adjei Baffoe, has admonished political party supporters not to insult political opponents since it does not help to grow the country’s democratic governance.
He said politicians should…
Chinese state media heaped pressure on Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday after her ruling pro-independence party suffered heavy defeats in local elections at the weekend, as party officials sought to work out what went wrong.
Tsai…
Europe’s top court will hold an urgent hearing on Tuesday over whether Britain can unilaterally reverse its decision to leave the EU, in a case supporters of membership hope could pave the way to a second referendum and ultimately stop Bre…
More than 700 people have been injured in a 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck western Iran on Sunday night, state television reports.
The epicentre was in Kermanshah province, where last year more than 600 people were killed in the c…
A conference focusing on the sustainable use of the world's oceans seas, lakes and rivers is under way in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Thousands of delegates from around the world including researchers and conservationists are expected …
At least one million bees are suspected to have died of poisoning in a wine-producing area of South Africa.
Brendan Ashley-Cooper told the BBC that an insecticide used by wine farmers, Fipronil, was thought to have killed the insects on…
The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of diverting the first tranche of the US$1.3 billion cocoa syndicated loan for the 2018/19 crop year.
They claim the loan has been diverted into areas that will not directly benef…
STAR Ghana Foundation, a donor pool organization, was on Thursday launched in the Central Regional Capital, Cape Coast.
The Foundation seeks to promote active citizenry participation in local governance to contribute to advancing democr…
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the national minimum wage bill, his office said on Monday, part of efforts by the government to tackle wage inequality in Africa’s most industrialized economy.
The National Mi…
Russia on Monday ignored Western calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships it fired on and captured near Crimea at the weekend and accused Kiev of plotting with its Western allies to provoke a conflict.
Kiev in turn accused Russia of…
Zimbabwe's former President Mugabe, 94, is unable to walk because of ill health, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.
Mr Mugabe has been in Singapore for treatment for an undisclosed illness for the past two months, he added.
The f…
Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom’s mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.
Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to th…
A needle was found inside a punnet of strawberries on sale in a New Zealand supermarket, the second such incident in recent months.
The strawberries were bought at a Fresh Choice supermarket in Geraldine, a town on the South Island.
…
Brigadier-General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, a former National Security Advisor has flayed the government for under-performing in the last two years considering the mouthwatering promises made to the citizenry in the 2016 electioneering campaign…
The Second African Culture and Sustainable Development Conference has been launched in Accra to help spur actions at pushing Africa’s development agenda through cultural perspective.
Scheduled for November 28 to 30, the three-day event …
At least 29 people are now known to have died after a cruise boat carrying party revellers capsized on Lake Victoria, Ugandan police say.
The vessel was carrying close to 100 people when it sank on Saturday near Uganda's capital, Kampal…
Mexico will deport Central American migrants who attempted to storm the US border, its interior ministry said.
The group, part of the migrant caravan heading towards the US from Central America, was rounded up after trying to cross the …
It's Monday, it's a new week, and while we won't pretend to know everything that's going to happen over the next seven days, we have some sense of what's coming up.
Here's your briefing on some of the most important and interesting stor…
The Minister of Information, Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has denied claims that the government intends to increase staffers in the Office of the President from the current 998 to 1,614.
Rather, he said, the number of staffers was decreasi…
Children as young as five are being trafficked or made to work for companies supplying some of the world’s top brands, which practice “willful ignorance” of the problem, said the director of a new film.
“Invisible hands” depicts childre…
Ethiopian Airlines is accelerating its strategy of weaving a patchwork of new African routes to soak up traffic on the continent and fly customers towards its more lucrative flights to rapidly expanding Asian markets.
With a long-delaye…
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