The Executive Director of the Centre for Moral Education and Development (CEMED), Opoku Agyeman Prempeh, has stressed the need for the country to take a second look at the Article 71 of the 1992 Constitution to ensure industrial harmony.…
At least 10 people have died in Madagascar following heavy rains in the capital, Antananarivo.
Two other people were injured and more than 500 were displaced by the storm on Tuesday.
The rain caused floods, landslides and damaged hou…
Ashanti Regional Chairman hopeful for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Odeneho Kwaku Appiah has urged the party’s supporters to have a sober reflection of how the NPP has lost its dignity in the Ashanti Region and work towards change.
He …
The Forum for Former Members of Parliament has described the withdrawal of the soldiers attached to Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament, as ill-timed.
In a statement, the forum urged calm amid discussions on the impact of the decisi…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday joined tens of thousands of people to witness the inaugural ceremony of re-elected President of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, at the Independence Stadium at Banjul, the capital of The Gambia.
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Ten prisoners have been found guilty of raping dozens of female inmates during a violent riot at an overcrowded jail in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Thirty-seven women and a teenage girl testified that they were repeate…
Algeria has closed schools for 10 days and enhanced screening at airports and other control measures following a rise in coronavirus cases.
It has also encouraged people to get vaccinated to counter the spread of the virus.
The decis…
A Somalia minister has lashed out at a UK MP pushing for the recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland.
Gamal M Hassan accused MP Gavin Williamson of lacking facts about the Somaliland issue.
The minister revisited the MP's p…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fighting for his job in a row over gatherings at his official residence allegedly in breach of his own Covid lockdown rules.
In a perilous moment for his leadership, Mr Johnson is accu…
US President Joe Biden has said he thinks his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will "move in" on Ukraine but does not want "full-blown war".
He told a news conference Mr Putin would pay a "serious and dear price" for invad…
The Forum for Former Members of Parliament has called for restraint and calm on the part of all interested parties in the ongoing public discussion of the security detail for the Speaker of Parliament.
According to the Forum in a statem…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will on Monday, January 24, 2022 hold Town-Hall meeting in Kumasi.
The programme which is being organised under the auspices of the National Communications Bureau will take place at the Great Hall …
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya is under fire for saying that he - and most Americans - "don't care" about abuses against the Uyghur minority in China.
Mr Palihapitiya, a part-owner of San Francisco's basketball te…
The transitional authorities in Chad have released from prison the first of some 250 members of armed groups they had promised to set free under an amnesty.
Chad's Justice Minister Ahmat Mahamat Alhabo led a short ceremony at a prison n…
Nigeria's interior minister has ordered prison guards to "shoot to kill" those involved in jailbreaks.
Rauf Aregbesola made the comments in an address to prison staff in the southern city of Ibadan, saying anyone who attempt…
Kenyan police now say that incidences of decomposing bodies being recovered from a river in the western part of the country have been going on for two years.
However police spokesman Bruno Shioso told the BBC that investigations had yet…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Tema West Municipal Assembly,Anna Adukwei Addo, has encouraged women to aspire for leadership roles and called on relevant stakeholders to strengthen policies for them to take up such positions.
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“The withdrawal of four soldiers attached to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has negative implications for Ghana’s democracy,” the Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka has cautioned.
He said the explanation give…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commiserated with the government, family and people of Mali following the death of former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, which occurred on Sunday, January 16, this year.
President Akufo-Addo,…
The Minority in Parliament says it would summon the Minister of Education to the house to answer questions concerning the introduction of the semester-based system for basic and senior high schools.
Teacher Unions and other stakeholders…
What the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II said in relation to recent historical narratives by the Dormaahene, Oseadeyo Agyeman Badu II, and the paying of allegiance to Asanteman and the Golden Stool by various chiefs in Bono East, Bono and …
Lions and pumas at a South African zoo may have contracted Covid from their handlers, according to a study by scientists at the University of Pretoria.
The scientists warn of the risk of new variants emerging if the virus "establishes i…
Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio has sacked the attorney general who is also the justice minister.
No reasons have been given by the presidency.
Local media have linked the sacking to the pardoning of prisoners on New Year's…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin has 12 police guards in addition to the four soldiers who were recently withdrawn by the Ghana Armed Forces, the Majority caucus in Parliament has stated.
In a reaction to the assertion th…
A former Member of parliament and long-standing member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, has declared his interest in contesting as a flagbearer in the party’s upcoming presidential primary.
He says Gha…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the withdrawal of the military guards that formed part of the security details of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt Hon Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as unfair treatment as the reasons provi…
The chiefs and people of Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality of the Western Region have called on the government to empower the municipal assembly and traditional authorities to regulate mining activities in the area.
T…
Ash cloaking a runway has hampered relief efforts to Tonga, as the scale of the damage from a volcanic eruption and a tsunami becomes clear.
New Zealand is trying to send clean drinking water and other supplies but planes ca…
Ukraine's former president, Petro Poroshenko, landed in Kyiv on Monday to face treason charges in a case he says was trumped up by allies of his successor, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
In a brief stand-off at border control after arriving on a …
Activists in Sudan say three people have been shot dead by the security forces in the latest round of protests against last year's coup.
Thousands demonstrated in the capital Khartoum and the central city of Wad Madani.
Doctors say m…
Twitter has agreed to a raft of conditions to end a seven-month ban in Nigeria, in what feels like a big win for President Muhammadu Buhari's administration in its efforts to regulate the internet, some analysts say.
Nigeria…
A man accused of setting fire to South Africa's parliament is being released from a psychiatric hospital and moved to an normal prison.
This follows a decision by a high court which said that Zandile Mafe’s referral to Valkenberg Psychi…
The British parliament is expected to debate a motion entitled "recognition of Somaliland" which has been tabled by MP Gavin Williamson.
Somaliland seceded from Somalia more than 30 years ago, but it is not recognised as an independent …
Council workers in Buea in south-west Cameroon are being compelled to attend the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations football games.
This is in line with instructions by the regional governor, according to the town’s mayor, with attendance be…
The Ningo-Prampram National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Secretariat in the Greater Accra Region, has congratulated the Member of Parliament, Sam George on his recognition as the overall best MP of 2021 by FAKS Investigative Ser…
The Accra High Court hearing the GH¢217 million financial loss case against the former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Dr Stephen Opuni, and two others, has adjourned the case to January 31 this year following a…
The withdrawal of four soldiers attached to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has negative implications for Ghana’s democracy, the Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak has said.
Muntaka Mubarak on Eyewitn…
Clara Beeri Kasser-Tee, law Lecturer at the University of Ghana Law School, has stated that the appointment of Members of Parliament (MPs) unto boards of state-owned enterprises is a breach of Article 98(2) of the 1992 Constitution.
She…
Guinea's deposed President Alpha Condé has flown to the UAE for medical treatment.
Mr Condé - who has been under house arrest since he was ousted in a coup more than four months ago - was accompanied by his doctor and two bodyguards, lo…
The Nigerian government has filed fresh charges that border on terrorism against separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu.
The new charges filed on Monday against the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) group leader came barely 24 hours before the …
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has stressed the need to protect the constitution.
This is after the tourism minister made accusations against judges and attacked the country's constitution.
Lindiwe Sisulu wrote in an articl…
At least 22 people have been killed so far after back-to-back earthquakes struck the west of Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.
According to data from the US Geological Society (USGS), the 4.9 and 5.3 magnitude quakes af…
Britain is supplying Ukraine with short-range anti-tank missiles for self-defence after Russia amassed about 100,000 troops on its border, the defence secretary said.
Ben Wallace told MPs a small team of British troops would…
Hong Kong police say two former flight attendants have been arrested and charged for allegedly breaking the city's coronavirus restrictions.
Police said the two had "conducted unnecessary activities" when they should have be…
The General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu, says the party will come out victorious in the 2020 Techiman South Parliamentary Election Petition trial.
He said this after lawyers of NPP’s Martin Adjei-Men…
The Nandom Municipal Security Council (MUSEC) has called on the people of the area to ignore news reports on some local radio stations about the enskinment of a new Paramount Chief for the Nandom Traditional Area in the Upper West Region o…
A former Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has denied media reports that he was given military protection when he was the Speaker of the Seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic.
A statement issued and signed by Prof.…
Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was ousted by the military in 2020 after a turbulent seven-year rule, has died, officials said on Sunday. He was 76.
Known by his initials IBK, Keita ran the West African country from …
The vice president of Democratic Republic of Congo's parliament Jean-Marc Kabund resigned on Friday over what he described as bullying, humiliation and torture.
Kabund, a top ally of President Felix Tshisekedi, quit two days after CCTV …
Police in Kenya have termed "alarmist" a viral video of school kids lying down in a classroom to avoid gunfire.
This even as tension remains high in Kenya’s North Rift region, along the Kerio Valley where a series of banditry attacks ha…