The authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) said they would delay the country's first municipal elections in 34 years, citing a lack of funds, the AFP news agency reports.
The elections were scheduled to take place on 11 Septe…
The US ambassador to the United Nations has said that African states cannot remain neutral on the war in Ukraine.
Speaking to the BBC, Linda Thomas-Greenfield noted that in the General Assembly vote two weeks ago to deplore the Russian …
The Volta Regional Directorate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s explanation in maintaining the numerous barriers and snap check points along the Aflao-Accra and Ho-Accra Highways…
Professor David Abdulai, Senior Advisor, Africa Parliamentarians Network against Corruption, has called for the introduction of a biometric attendance system in Parliament to curb legislators’ absenteeism.
“It is about time Parliament i…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) plans? to raise $1bn (£759m) in a week’s time to support agricultural production in Africa and shield the continent from potential food shortages arising from the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The US government has dismissed as fake the reports that the detained Nigerian influencer Ramon Abbas, known as Hushpuppi, executed a $400,000 (£304,000) internet fraud from prison.
Hushpuppi, 37, was arrested in the United Arab Emirate…
Two years after the US went into its first lockdown, the country is getting nearer to a pre-pandemic existence. But what about the rest of the world?
When California issued a statewide stay-at-home order on 19 March 2020, mo…
The President of Forum for Equity, a human rights non-governmental organisation, Prince BagnabaMba, has appealed to the citizenry to denounce any form of military takeover in the country and on the continent at large.
He explained that …
A former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Suhum, Mr Frederick Opare-Ansah, has asked Parliament to rise above the partisan differences and work collectively for the interest of the people.
According to him, the ro…
The lack of quorum at Friday’s sitting in Parliament once again forced the House to stop short of approving the €20 million agreement between the government of Ghana and the German Development Bank Group, Frankfurt.
The inability of the…
For every vote that is bought, there is a giver (the political candidate), the receiver (the voter) and the financier.
However, most discussions on vote buying tend to focus on the politicians rather than the voters. Indeed, it is true …
A group of children evacuated from Ukraine by a Scottish charity has been granted permission to travel to the UK.
Home Secretary Priti Patel said Ukrainian authorities had confirmed the orphans from Dnipro would be able to …
This weekend marks one year since Tanzania's former Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan took office as the country’s first female president.
Despite being Africa's only female political head of state, she doesn’t want to be referred to i…
The Ethiopian government has denied an accusation that it is blocking aid from reaching the Tigray region, where there has been conflict for more than a year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus had c…
Samuel Noi Mensah, a former Presiding Bishop of the Full Gospel Church International, has proposed the holding of a referendum ahead of the next general election to review the 1992 Constitution.
He contended that failure to review and a…
The outgoing governor of Nigeria's south-eastern Anambra state was arrested hours after he handing over to his successor.
Willie Obiano was detained on Thursday evening by officers from Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and…
Freddie Blay, the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has assured that the party will come out of its much anticipated flagbearership race unscathed and more formidable to win the 2024 polls.
“The New Patriotic Party in …
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, has directed the ministers of National Security, Defence and the Interior to appear before the House to brief members on the security situation in Bawku in the Upper East Region…
The former chairperson of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Hajia Hamdatu Ibrahim, has described women’s representation in parliament as a key democratic function necessary to strengthen and deepen the tenets of good governance and rule…
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) yesterday re-elected Mr Alfred Asiedu Agyei as its Presiding Member for the third consecutive time.
The community development specialist polled 31 “yes” votes and two votes against in an election …
A subsistence farmer in Burundi, who used to be a refugee, is donating 100kg (220lb) of his maize crop to those fleeing violence in Ukraine.
“As a former refugee myself, I thought of offering some help. I am a peasant farmer, I don’t ha…
Nigeria's president has apologised for the hardships caused by recent fuel shortages and the power cuts that followed this week's collapse of the national grid which left the entire country without state-supplied electricity for hours.
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All remaining Covid travel restrictions have now been lifted for passengers entering the UK.
As of 04:00 GMT, unvaccinated arrivals will no longer have to take tests - the rule had already been lifted for the vaccinated - a…
Turkey has positioned itself with great care to be the go-between with Russia and Ukraine - and this seems to be paying off.
On Thursday afternoon, President Vladimir Putin rang the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, …
Mr Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, a senior partner at Africa Legal Associates is proposing a national debate on whether Ghana should go back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or rely on the propossed Electronic Transaction levy (E-levy)…
Some New Patriotic Party members in the Kwadaso Constituency of the Ashanti Region have obtained an injunction at the Kumasi High Court to retrain the party from holding any elections in the constituency.
The two plaintiffs,…
For the second time in the second session of the 8th Parliament, the lack of quorum in the House compelled the House to arrest the approval of two major loan agreements within two weeks.
For the first time, the House failed to approve a…
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says another Russian general has been killed during fighting.
He didn't name the officer, but an adviser to Ukraine's interior ministry said Maj Gen Oleg Mityaev had been killed by the…
Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin has tested positive for Covid-19 on the eve of the St Patrick's Day celebrations in the White House.
He was informed of the positive test while attending the Ireland Fund dinner in Washin…
Ukraine has accused Russian forces of bombing a theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged southern city of Mariupol.
Deputy Mayor Sergei Orlov told the BBC that between 1,000 and 1,200 people had sought refuge …
The Russian embassy in Kenya has blamed Western sanctions for the rising cost of living in the East African nation.
This is after Kenya's presidential spokesperson, Kanze Dena, had blamed Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the soaring fue…
Uganda's parliament spokesperson has lashed out at people who edited the speaker's profile on Wikipedia to indicate that he was dead.
The spokesperson, Chris Obore, said the health condition of the speaker would be revealed by his deput…
Deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has made the strongest case yet that Henry Nana Boakye, popularly known as Nana B, should be the next National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The Effutu MP belie…
The newly confirmed Adaklu District Chief Executive (DCE), Ms Juliana Kpedekpo, was last Tuesday sworn into office at a brief ceremony on the premises of the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) in Ho.
It followed her overwhelming…
“Contracting Lassa fever was a very bad experience”, says 41 years old Marian Oyinbor, a resident of Ekpoma, Esan West Local Government Area (LGA), Edo state, who was treated for Lassa Fever – a haemorrhagic disease which has killed 98 peo…
At least 13 freelance gold miners have died in Sudan’s South Kordofan state after a tunnel collapsed.
The accident happened on Tuesday night after the discovery of large amounts of gold in one of the shafts, the news agency EFE quotes t…
US President Joe Biden has labelled Russian leader Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" in a move likely to escalate diplomatic tensions even further.
Mr Biden delivered the remark off-the-cuff in response to a reporter's questio…
Former National First Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Mr Stephen Ayesu Ntim has rallied members of his party to work tirelessly to set the new record of breaking the 8 in the political history of Ghana.
According to …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Damango and Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel A. Jinapor, has mounted a spirited call for investment and tourism in the Savannah Region, one of the six newly created…
A suspected drug lord, whose arrest sparked clashes in north-eastern Mexico, has been deported to the US.
Juan Gerardo Treviño, also known as "El Huevo" or "The Egg," was captured at dawn on Monday by Mexican authorities.
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Ukraine's president invoked the horror of the 2001 terror attacks on the US as he pleaded for more military aid in a historic address to the US Congress.
Volodymyr Zelensky said via video link that Ukraine was enduring a 9/11 every day …
More than 10 Kenyan soldiers have been killed by a roadside explosive in southern Somalia.
Five others were seriously injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device in the Gedo region, near the Kenya-Somalia border.
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The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the peacekeeping force in South Sudan for a year, amid ongoing rebel violence in parts of Africa’s youngest nation.
AP news agency reported that Russia and China abstained from the vot…
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa) is on the spotlight again, after hundreds of thousands of condoms, mosquito nets and tuberculosis drugs worth $100,000 (£77,000) disappeared from its warehouse.
The lost medicines are believe…
The plaintiff, who sought the Supreme Court’s interpretation on the voting rights of Deputy Speakers of Parliament when presiding, has stated that he is working on a review application for the consideration of the Supreme Court.
Mr Just…
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has urged the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, to take bold and pragmatic action to clean the Ghana Police Service of all miscre…
Member of Parliament for Buem, Kofi Adams, is confident the government’s proposal to conduct a new parliamentary election in the constituency to include residents of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL) will amount t…
The Minority Caucus in Parliament has called on the government to open Ghana’s land borders to allow for the free movement of persons and goods.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on March 22, 2020 announced the closure of the count…
Israel has imposed restrictions on Ethiopian pilgrims travelling to the country for the upcoming Easter holiday.
The Israeli authorities said that because of the war in the north of Ethiopia they were worried that many of the visitors w…
Two journalists working for Fox News have been killed in Ukraine, staff at the US network say.
Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Oleksandra Kuvshinova, 24, were killed when their vehicle was struck by incoming fire in Hor…