The UK Times newspaper quotes unnamed government sources as saying plans are being drawn up to send hundreds of migrants to countries such as Ghana and Rwanda for processing and resettlement.
The Times says this is one of the populist p…
A year into the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA), the Ghana Union of Traders Associations (GUTA) wants more stakeholder engagement to ensure success.
The President of the Ghana Union of Trader…
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has called on the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and other relevant stakeholders with information on the cases of electoral violence recorded in the 2020 general elections to update the…
The Bawku Municipal Security Council says plans are far advanced to beef up security in the area to guarantee the safety of students as schools reopen today, Monday, January 17, 2022, following renewed chieftaincy disturbances in the area.…
Child marriage remains prevalent in Nigeria because the federal and state governments have not adequately enforced laws to prevent it, Human Rights Watch said today.
Nigeria’s rates of child marriage are some of the highest on the Afric…
Uganda is undergoing a fuel crisis following a build-up of fuel transporters at the major border points of Malaba and Busia in the east of the country.
Queues of waiting trucks, as long as 70km (43 miles), have been reported.
Truck d…
The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali has temporarily suspended flights.
This will affect the delivery of aid to the country whose neighbours have imposed sanctions and closed borders.
The peacekeeping mission has about 13,000 troops s…
Charles McGee, a highly decorated American pilot who battled racism and segregation in the military, has died aged 102.
He passed away in his sleep on Sunday morning, his family said. "He had his right hand over his heart an…
A major winter storm has brought heavy snow and ice to parts of the US and Canada, putting more than 80 million people under weather warnings.
More than 145,000 people are without power in some south-eastern states, and thou…
Two teenagers have been arrested in England as part of the investigation into a hostage-taking incident at a synagogue in Texas on Saturday.
British citizen Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, was shot dead after a stand…
Military personnel attached to the office of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin have been withdrawn.
The officers are WO1 Jafaru Bunwura, WOII Apugiba Awine David, S/Sgt Agbley Prosper and Sgt. Bonney Prince.
They have been serv…
The office of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has described the withdrawal of military persons assigned to offer protection to him as an "attempt to strip him of security protection".
“In a country that takes pride in its democr…
The Ministry of National Security has explained that the Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S.K. Bagbin still has security protection and that reports creating the impression that his security protection has been withdrawn is a "misinterpreta…
A finance and economic policy analyst, Mr Senyo Hosi, has repeated calls for state funding of political parties to help deepen the country’s democracy.
He said state funding of political parties would help limit financing of political p…
Sudanese activists have called for protests on Thursday to continue to demand the end of military rule.
Protest organisers had planned action for Wednesday but decided to delay it by a day at the last minute.
A poster shared on socia…
A Moroccan university professor accused of giving students good grades in return for sexual favours has been jailed for two years.
It's the first verdict in a string of high profile sexual harassment cases at universities in Morocco.
…
Egyptian prosecutors have again extended the pre-trial detention of three Al Jazeera journalists for 45 days - despite reports that one is suffering from serious health problems.
Hisham Abdelaziz has been detained for two-and-a-half yea…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that despite repeated requests to the Ethiopian government, it still has no access to Tigray - where 14 months of war have created a humanitarian crisis.
A WHO senior official said he'd received …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Okaikwei Central in the Greater Accra Region, Patrick Yaw Boamah, has urged Parliament to repair the negative image the citizenry currently have about them since they have a responsibility to repair the ta…
Pangea Global Ventures, a US-based connector of impact investors and West African capital seekers in the agricultural sector, has announced that Marian Ofori Twumasi, CEO of its client company Mariseth Farms, has received t…
The Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District Assembly will embark on an aggressive mobilisation of Internally Generated Funds (IGF) to aid development, the District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Ransford Kwesi Nyarko, has assured.
He said the assembly…
The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), Most Reverend Philip Naameh, has reiterated the need for political parties to focus on the common good of the people instead of serving partisan interests.
“The current pol…
Ghana and Saudi Arabia have resolved to deepen trade and investment ties between them.
The two countries firmed up their long-standing bilateral relations in Accra yesterday when Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integrat…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has reminded the citizenry of their responsibility to speak against breach of the 1992 Constitution.
“Ghanaians should be committed, determined and dedicated to protecting the legal doc…
Egypt’s superficial attempts to create an impression of human rights progress failed to disguise the government’s brutal repression of all manner of dissent in 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2022.
Despi…
Angolan President João Lourenço has condemned as an "act of terror" Monday's demonstration by taxi drivers in the capital, Luanda.
At the opening of a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Mr Lourenço said the protest was a "political pretext" …
South African police have uprooted several cannabis plants growing near President Cyril Ramaphosa's office in Pretoria.
They belonged to activists from the indigenous Khoisan community, some of whom have camped in the area f…
Nigeria has lifted its ban on Twitter - seven months after clamping down on the social networking site.
Nigeria's government suspended Twitter last June after the company deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari about p…
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has denounced US President Joe Biden's voting rights speech as "incoherent" and "profoundly unpresidential".
"I have known, liked, and personally respected Joe Biden for many years," Mr …
Prince Andrew is to face a civil case in the US over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17.
Virginia Giuffre is suing the prince, claiming he abused her in 2001.
His lawyers said the complaint …
Boris Johnson is facing calls from senior Tories to resign after he admitted attending a drinks party during lockdown.
The prime minister apologised for the way he handled the event in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 a…
Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, says government may sometimes be forced to make some ‘unpalatable’ decisions, in the interest of Ghanaians.
He bemoaned that the posture on what revenue mobilization measure is …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Sissala East, Mr Amidu Chinnia Issahaku, has built an office in Tumu to keep in touch with the constituents.
The construction of the office, which began in the early part of 20…
The Canadian province of Quebec will charge a health tax to residents who are not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Quebec, which has seen the highest number of Covid-related deaths in Canada, is currently struggling with a surge…
A court in Saudi Arabia has for the first time ordered that a man convicted of sexual harassment be named and shamed in public, local media report.
Yasser al-Arawi was found guilty by the Criminal Court in Medina of harassin…
The trial of Zimbabwean journalist Jeffery Moyo, who is charged with smuggling two of his colleagues into the country in May, is expected to begin in Bulawayo city.
Media groups say he was wrongly accused and should not face trial.
M…
The authorities in Burkina Faso have announced the arrest of eight soldiers who are accused of plotting a coup.
Among those arrested is Colonel Mohamed Emmanuel Zoungrana - a well-known former army commander who has reportedly been crit…
The World Health Organization has warned that half of Europe will have caught the Omicron Covid variant within the next six to eight weeks.
Dr Hans Kluge said a "west-to-east tidal wave" of Omicron was sweeping across the r…
The US State Department has warned Somali leaders against further delays to the indirect parliamentary elections and threatened to impose targeted sanctions, including visa restrictions.
The US asked the Somali leaders to adhere to the …
The former Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, Nii Armah Ashitey has debunked rumours purporting that he is dead.
Nii Ashitey was mistaken for the former Greater Ac…
The Minority in Parliament is questioning the propriety of the relationship between Second Deputy Speaker, Andrew Asiamah Amoako and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus.
The independent Member of Parliament for the Fome…
A decade after civil conflict erupted in Mali, hopes for an early resolution to insurgency and strife have not materialized, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the country, El-Ghassim Wane, told the Security Council on…
Two people died and eight others are missing after a truck plunged into River Nile in Egypt.
The accident happened outside the capital Cairo when the truck was on board an unlicensed ferry.
Rescue operations have continued at the riv…
The UN is calling on the Tunisian authorities to either release or properly charge the country’s former justice minister.
Noureddine Bhiri has been detained after being taken away from his home on 31 December for suspected terrorism off…
Leading EU figures have paid tributes to European Parliament President David Sassoli, who has died at the age of 65.
The Italian former journalist and centre-left politician had been seriously ill for more than two weeks an…
North Korea says it has conducted another hypersonic missile test, under the watch of its leader Kim Jong-un.
State media said the missile fired on Tuesday had successfully made a turn before hitting its target in the sea so…
Conservative and opposition MPs are demanding answers from Boris Johnson over whether he attended a drinks event in the No 10 garden during lockdown.
Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner said that if he was there, and he lie…
A group of 46 individuals sympathetic to the #FixTheCountry Movement have petitioned the President for the removal of the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Mensa, and her two deputies; Dr Bossman Eric Asare and Samuel Tettey, over the…
The political space for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region is getting hot in the lead up to the party’s internal election.
It follows what some party members described as selective implementation of the party’s campaig…
Nigeria's first census in more than 15 years is due to be held in May, the head of the country's National Population Commission has said.
Nasir Isa Kwarra said digital technology would help to ensure that the nationwide survey was relia…