Kenyans approved a new constitution leaders said they hope will alleviate problems that undermined good governance, preliminary results indicate.
Sixty-seven percent of voters approved the constitution, compared to 33 percent who voted no…
A project that seeks to increase public support for women's participation in politics was launched in Accra on Wednesday stressing on the need to build the capacity of women.
The project dubbed: "We Know Politics II", also hopes that…
Parliament on Tuesday suspended its sitting for the second time to allow a Joint Committee of Finance and Works and Housing to analyse the STX Housing Agreement for it to be due for laying.
The House had earlier suspended its sitting…
Parliament okayed the STX Housing Agreement after long hours of debate late Tuesday during which the Minority walked out.
The House had earlier suspended its sitting for three hours to allow the Committee to look at the Report but it…
The highly contested STX housing deal was on Tuesday adopted despite a walk out staged by the Minority.
The Minority said that the issues raised which they thought would have been addressed at the Joint committee of Finance and Works…
Executive members of the northern regional branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have vowed to compel President John Evans Atta Mills to contest the party's presidential slot for the 2012 elections even if he decides otherwise.
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South Korea denied Tuesday that it had requested a helicopter tour for a former North Korean female agent when she visited Japan last month.
Kyodo news agency reported earlier in the day that Hiroshi Nakai, the state minister on abduct…
South Korea's military said Tuesday it will stage an anti-submarine drill in the Yellow Sea from this week as planned, despite North Korea's latest warning of "strong physical retaliation" against it.
"The planned naval drill in the Y…
The United Kingdom and Ireland Branch of
Convention People's Party (CPP) on Wednesday said a CPP government would enact a revised Rent Act to help alleviate the suffering of workers and
small businesses.
It would in addition, work …
Participants at a Regional Public Hearing by
the Constitutional Review Commission held in Bolgatanga have kicked against the situation where Members of Parliament are made Ministers of State.
Mr Akolgo Alfred, a staff of the Ghana Ed…
Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng, aspiring to
become flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Election 2012, said the NPP could not win the forthcoming elections without him as the
flagbearer.
He said "Electoral statistics…
The legislative ethics committee on Monday began discussions on reprimanding a ruling party lawmaker accused of making sexist remarks derogatory to women.
Kang Yong-seok, a first-term lawmaker of the Grand National Party (GNP), denies …
A fresh wave of protests in Kashmir Valley of north Indian state Jammmu and Kashmir Monday
claimed six lives and left 250 injured as police opened fire to disperse rampaging mobs who indulged in stone-pelting, attacked government buildin…
Pakistan wants friendly and good neighbourly relations with India but it cannot be selective about the issues that have to be discussed between the two countries, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday.
Zardari, currently on an off…
The leadership of Convention People's Party (CPP)
has commended the recent decision of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of People's National Congress (PNC) to endorse the merger talks between the two parties.
A statement issu…
Mr John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer aspirant, on Monday said wrestling power from the ruling government would require more than mere rhetoric.
He said this needed a strong action-oriented leadership…
South Korea will send a former chief of staff for President Lee Myung-bak and a ruling party lawmaker as special envoys to Colombia's presidential inauguration, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.
Colombian President-elect Juan Manuel S…
Bilateral issues, nuclear commerce, international security and the situation in Afghanistan figured prominently during the discussions Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had with Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov on M…
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday described Janab Syed Mohammad Ali Shihab Thangal, a widely respected politician, as a "great son of Kerala" and said the late leader had contributed to the first successful experiment of coalitio…
Unfazed by an official protest lodged by Islamabad against his comments, Britain Monday said Prime Minister David Cameron stood by his remarks asking Pakistan to stop exporting terror and will not back away or apologise.
"He stands by…
The National Coordinator of the Women in Law and Development in Africa(WILDAF), Ms Bernice Sam, has appealed to women to be courageous and get involved in politics, and also contest the district assembly and parliamentary elections.
…
A senior U.S. envoy said Monday that Washington will adopt new sanctions "in the next several weeks" on North Korea that could isolate North Korean entities and individuals suspected of
illicit activities from the international financial …
A professor on Monday backed one piece of key evidence cited by an investigation team as proof that North Korea was responsible for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship as opponents
continued to raise doubts about the probe result…
The defense ministry said Monday it will select 60 female college students later this year for a college-based military officer-commissioning program for the first time.
The recruitment of female cadets for the Reserve Officer Trainin…
South Korea has turned down a request by an association of civic relief groups to be allowed to visit North Korea, as tension persists between the two countries over the sinking of a South
Korean warship, an official said Monday.
The …
The chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) resigned on Monday over the party's defeat in last week's parliamentary by-elections, the party spokesman said, shaking up the political bloc riddled with internal feud.
Chung S…
A total of 12,940 delegates of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) in Brong-Ahafo are expected to cast their votes in the 24 constituencies of the region on Saturday, August 7.
The party goes to polls on August 7 to elect its presidential…
A group calling itself concerned youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the Upper East Region, has condemned the demand of Cadres of the Party in the Bolgatanga Constituency to remove the Bolgatanga Municipal Chief Executive,…
President John Evans Atta Mills would early this month go on an annual leave, and spend about three weeks to "cool off," the Ghana News Agency has learned.
Part of the holidays would be spent in Ghana and the rest with relatives and …
President John Evans Atta Mills at the week-end announced that he would soon be visiting all the districts to access the progress of work at the district level.
He gave no date for the tour, but the visits might be unannounced, to gi…
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan have an equally critical role in helping to bring stability in
the region, US has said.
"All three countries and others can play a role in helping to stabilise the situation," State Department spokes…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday introduced newly appointed Upper West Regional Minister, Alhaji Issahaku Salia to the chiefs and people of the Region.
The Vice President, who did the introduction during a durbar to c…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday received
a special message from Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos at the Osu Castle in Accra.
The contents of the message, delivered by Mr. George Rebelo Pinto Chicoti, Angola Secret…
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign (CSC), has called on
the American Government to free the five Cubans in US prisons.
The group made the call at the commemoration of 57th anniversary of the assault on Moncada Barracks and Carlos Manuel de…
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Friday announced
a nationwide exhibition of the voters register at all polling stations from Monday, August 9 to Sunday, August 15.
The exercise would take place from 7:00 am to 6:00pm each day.
…
Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Deputy Minister of
Information, on Friday announced that, cabinet has approved funds for the emergency construction of roads, destroyed by heavy rains in the Western
Region.
He was speaking at a Public Y…
President John Evans Atta Mills has cautioned Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives against complacency in the discharge of their work and urged them to be up to the task, else the "axe" would fall on them.
He minced …
President John Evans Atta Mills on Friday made a
spiritual commitment of the nation, seeking prayers for Ghana to realise its goals to improve and better the lives of the people.
He said that despite the objections raised in some qu…
A special envoy of India would visit Sri Lanka in a few days to discuss the issue of resettlement of the internally displaced Tamils in that country, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Sunday.
He disclosed this to reporters her…
US President Barack Obama's visit to India in
early November would take the bilateral relationship to a new level and demonstrate how the two countries are working together to find solutions to the pressing global challenges, India's envo…
US President Barack Obama's visit to India in early November would take the bilateral relationship to a new level and demonstrate how the two countries are working together to find solutions to the pressing global challenges, India's envoy…
Vice President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to eschew arrogance, intolerance and other divisive tendencies that could impede the progress of the National Democrati…
Reverend. John Kwame Kodua, one of the five presidential aspirants of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has advised the party's delegates not to vote for monetary gains in the forth-coming delegates' conference.
He said they should rath…
The Eastern Regional Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismark Tawiah Boateng, has called on people appointed as Chief Executives or as members of Boards of Directors to public institutions to provide effective leader…
Nkrumah Rising, a political mouth piece composed of CPP and PNC, has commended the executives of the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the People's National Convention (PNC) in the Northern Region for their tireless efforts to unite both…
Mr Alan John Kyerematen, a Flagbearer aspirant of New Patriotic Party, (NPP) has promised farmers of massive improvement in the agricultural sector when elected and eventually becomes the next President of Ghana.
"I would make agricu…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Okere, Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, on Wednesday, predicted a landslide victory for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in the primaries of the New Patriotic Party, scheduled for August 7.
"Nana is the favourite to…
President John Evans Atta Mills, on Friday swore-in Alhaji Issaku Salia as Upper West Regional Minister.
The President charged the new Minister to work hard for the Region's development and ensure unity in the National Democratic Con…
U.S. and South Korean naval vessels conducted live-fire anti-submarine drills Tuesday, the third day of a joint military exercise, military officials said.
About 20 warships, 200 aircraft and 8,000 military personnel began the "Invincible…
Strongly recommending Indo-Pak peace talks, the Obama Administration has said a stable relationship between the two neighbours would benefit the world and the US in particular and underlined that Islamabad should address New Delhi's concer…