The Member of Parliament for Bawku, Mahama Ayariga says the Minority’s call for a vote of censure against the Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu is not motivated by their recent grievances over the controversial Electroni…
Former President John Mahama has rubbished suggestions he may be involved in a coup plot following claims made by Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe alias Abronye DC.
In a statement fr…
A new trial against jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has begun inside the maximum-security prison east of the capital, Moscow, where he is held.
Navalny is accused of fresh fraud charges. He has already spent …
As Western leaders warned of an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine, Yuri Vasylevych and his saxophone quartet played tango to a full house at the Kyiv Philharmonic.
The musician is used to performing under pressure: when pro…
Algeria's president says the government will introduce unemployment benefits for young adults as the country struggles with high rates of joblessness.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune told journalists that the payments to jobseekers aged …
Tanzania is looking to set up its own vaccine manufacturing plant as part of its wider plan to tackle Covid-19 and other diseases in the country.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan said the country was also aiming to export vaccines to easte…
Al-Shabab militants have attacked police stations and check points in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in the early hours of Wednesday, the authorities says.
Heavy gunfire and multiple explosions were heard at around 01:00 local time.
H…
Burkina Faso military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba is due to be sworn in as the country’s president, just over two weeks after soldiers ousted President Roch Kaboré in a coup.
Last week, the Constitutional Council, “having taken no…
Samuel Ntim Darkwa, a former Clerk to Parliament, has asked the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin to schedule his time in a manner that will make him available when crucial decisions are going to be taken in the House.
“If he constantl…
Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu in the Volta Region, has asked the Ministers of Transport and Foreign Affairs to seek parliamentary ratification on issues over the Electronic Passport (e-passport).
He sai…
The UK will "judge Russia by its actions" after reports it is moving back troops from the border of Ukraine, says Defence Secretary Ben Wallace.
He said the UK government would "take them at their word", but it was "too soon…
The Catholic Bishop of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese in the Upper East Region, Most Reverend Alfred Agyenta, has urged politicians to build bridges among the people and promote cohesion to drive the progress of the Ghanaian society.
“…
The Chairman of the National Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, has urged aspirants for various positions in the party to let the interest of the party prevail over their personal or individual i…
A section of the border fence separating Kenya and Somalia has been vandalised, Kenya's Nation newspaper reports.
It says the damaged 8km (five-mile) stretch near Mandera town had cost a whopping 3.4bn Kenyan shillings ($30m; £22m) to b…
Kenyan presidential hopeful Raila Odinga has released a music single as campaigns for the August general election heat up.
It's rare for candidates themselves to release campaign songs - usually famous artists do it for them - but Kenya…
US troops have joined several hundred soldiers from 10 African countries for an annual military exercise in Ivory Coast.
The two-week exercise, known as Flintlock, is designed to strengthen co-ordination against Islamist militant groups…
Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández has been arrested on drugs charges.
Police were deployed to his house in the capital Tegucigalpa hours after the US requested his extradition to prevent him leaving.
Th…
A Russian attack on Ukraine is "still very much a possibility" and the human cost would be "immense", US President Joe Biden has said.
In remarks televised nationally, he said the US was ready to respond decisively to such a…
The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC has been detained by the police.
He has been charged on two counts of publication of false news and offencive conduct conducive to …
Israel has clinched a $500m (£370m) deal to supply Morocco with an air defence system.
The contract with Israeli Aerospace follows the signing last November of a memorandum of understanding on defence collaboration by the two countries.…
The worsening humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has left over 20 million people in need of assistance, the UN says.
Many countries suspended or significantly cut funding to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover in Augus…
A local politician in the US state of Kentucky has survived a shooting inside his office on Monday morning.
Police have now apprehended the individual who shot Craig Greenberg, running to be Louisville's next Democratic mayo…
Donald Trump's accounting firm has cut ties with the former president and said a decade of financial reports should "no longer be relied upon".
The firm, Mazars, said in a letter to the Trump Organization that it could not …
Russia says it is pulling back some of its troops from near Ukraine after a build-up raised fears of an invasion.
The defence ministry said that large-scale drills continued but that some units were returning to their bases.…
The trial of a Kenyan lawyer accused of bribing prosecution witnesses of the International Criminal Court is due to begin in The Hague.
Paul Gicheru faces charges of hindering the administration of justice by corruptly influencing witne…
Ethiopia’s lower house of parliament has approved with a majority vote a resolution to lift a state of emergency ahead of its expiry date.
It follows the proposal by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s cabinet last month to end the emergency pe…
The Bishop of the Navrongo-Bolgatanga Diocese of the Catholic Church in the Upper East Region, Most Reverend Father Alfred Agyenta, has postulated that politics and Christianity are not incompatible and the belief among some members of the…
“Rancour and bitterness within political parties in a democratic dispensation are retrogressive, inimical to their development and socioeconomic well-being, Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of Forum for Equity, a human rights non-governmental…
Two Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called on Ghanaians to embrace political tolerance to preserve the peace of the country.
The CSOs also stressed the need for stakeholders to take concrete action to address the issue of electo…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, who has been accused of forgery and perjury, has been granted bail in the sum of GH?100,000 with one surety by the Accra High Court.…
A human rights organisation is preparing to take France to the International Criminal Court over compensation for victims of nuclear tests in Algeria during the 1960s.
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Algeria…
Separatist rebels in Senegal’s southern Casamance region have released seven soldiers who they captured last month.
The soldiers were captured on 24 January during a clash with the MFDC separatists, in which four other soldiers were kil…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken the unprecedented step of invoking the Emergencies Act to crack down on anti-vaccine mandate protests.
Mr Trudeau said the scope of the measures would be "time-limited", "reas…
The US and UK leaders have said not all hope is lost for a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis but warned the situation remained fragile.
In a 40-minute call, Joe Biden and Boris Johnson agreed a deal was still possibl…
The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo says former President John Dramani Mahama is willing to support the government to revive the ailing economy.
According to him, the curr…
Stephen Ntim, an aspiring national chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has assured members, supporters and sympathisers of the party that he will ensure the party regains its full majority control in Parliament in 2024.
He conced…
The leadership of the Christian Community in Ghana yesterday conferred with former President, John Dramani Mahama, on various issues affecting the country’s development in areas including governance and the economy.
The meeting, held …
Ukraine is taking moves to keep its airspace open after KLM became the first major airline to suspend flights to the capital Kyiv.
It comes as tensions over Russia's military build-up on Ukraine's border intensify despite di…
Swiss voters have backed a ban on tobacco advertising anywhere young people might see it.
In effect, the Yes vote in the nationwide referendum will lead to a complete ban.
The move will bring Switzerland into line…
Mozambique is withdrawing from its education curriculum a book for 12-year-old grade seven pupils containing some controversial subjects on sexuality.
The natural sciences book addresses subjects such as masturbation and sexual orientat…
Somalia's deputy speaker Abdiweli Mudey says he has been barred from travelling to Barawe town to seek a seat in the country's next parliament.
Mr Mudey, a long-time ally of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, told local media he was s…
The Mauritian flag has been raised for the very first time on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean.
The Mauritian ambassador to the United Nations led a ceremony on the island of Peros Banhos, where a pre-recorded message from the Mau…
Some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have expressed worry about the “growing use of the state prosecutorial and judicial power” to punish speech that allegedly injures or damages the reputation of others and state institutions.
“We n…
Young women including the youth have been advised to be politically conscious and contribute to the progress, growth and development of the country.
They have been asked to focus on helping in women’s participation in decision-making an…
Embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North Constituency in the Central Region, James Gyakye Quayson, says he is unperturbed by the actions of the government.
He is being pursued by the state for alleged misrepresentation on hi…
A Sudanese politician who had been a member of the dissolved joint civilian-military government has been arrested.
Mohamed al-Faki Suleiman was picked up near his home in the capital Khartoum, relatives say.
This follows the arrest o…
Two Malian soldiers have been killed in an attack blamed on jihadists.
The attack was on the Niafunké post in central Mali on Sunday morning.
Five of the militants were killed during the attack.
The Malian army, which has been str…
Ukraine has called for a meeting with Russia and other members of a key European security group over the escalating tensions on its border.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia had ignored formal requests to explain th…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has eulogised the deceased former Member of Parliament for Navrongo, Mr Joseph Kofi Adda, for his service to the nation and his native community.
In a tribute to the former MP, who held ministerial …
Parliament has approved €350 million contractual agreements for the construction of a bridge over the Afram River and the construction of 124km of roads from Adawso-Bunso, Ekye–Amanfrom and other specified roads within the Afram Plains are…