Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired the state security minister Owen Ncube.
In a press statement, the president’s office said Mr Ncube had been removed “with immediate effect for conduct inappropriate for a minister of gov…
US President Joe Biden has raised concerns about civilian deaths caused by recent air strikes in Ethiopia during a call with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
This follows reports that more than 50 displaced people were killed in an air strike…
The Bono Regional Minister, Ms Justina Owusu Banahene, has called for the investment potential of the region to be harnessed to speed up its development.
In line with that, she announced plans by the Bono Regional Coordinating Council (…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina, Mr Francis Xavier Sosu, has marked his one year in office by rewarding teachers in the constituency.
Fourteen teachers were presented with deep freezers and re…
The people of Akpo near Huhunya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region now have an electricity-powered mechanised water system after many years of deprivation.
The facility, which cost GH¢38,844, was constructed by the Kof…
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has established an Ambulance Service Fund for members of his constituency.
This followed a cash donation he made to the management of the North Tongu Office of the National A…
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church, Ghana, Rt Rev. Dr Lt Col. Bliss D.K Agbeko (retd), has bemoaned the worrying trend of needless politicking and propaganda in all facets of the nation.
He…
The First Deputy Majority Leader, Mr Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has called on Ghanaians to join hands to protect the country’s democracy.
He said it was prudent for the citizens to perform their civic responsibilities while politicians wo…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Wa West, Mr Peter Lanchene Toobu, has stressed the need for consensus building among Members of Parliament (MPs) in executing the business of the House.
“This hung Parliame…
The United Nations said on Saturday it would invite Sudanese military leaders, political parties and other groups to take part in discussions aimed at ending a crisis unleashed by a coup in October.
U.N. mediation in the weeks after the…
A woman whose parents fled a brutal military dictatorship has been appointed Wales' new children's commissioner.
Rocio Cifuentes arrived in the country as a one-year-old with her parents - political refugees from Chile.
…
Ten people have been killed after part of a cliff collapsed onto leisure boats on a Brazilian lake.
Another 32 were injured in the accident in the south-east of the country.
Video circulating online shows the mome…
Five people have been killed and 15 others seriously injured after heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunderstorms and lightning left a trail of destruction in Mozambique’s southern Gaza province.
The dead are victims of lightnin…
Congolese media are reporting that journalist and academic Samuel Sirasi, who had gone missing last week, has been found alive but unwell.
Members of DR Congo National Press Union want the authorities to grant him protection and find th…
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has called on Ghanaians to take keen interest in the constitutional provisions on their rights and stand up for them.
It tasked Ghanaians to religiously read the 1992 Con…
The Ghana Library Authority (GhLA) is asking metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies to use part of their common fund to establish public libraries.
It is also appealing to Members of Parliament (MPs) to consider building librar…
Schools in Uganda have fully reopened this morning, almost two years after the coronavirus pandemic started.
This has been one of the world's longest closures since the virus forced governments to close learning institutions back in Mar…
Aid agencies have suspended operations in a zone of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region where dozens of people were reportedly killed in an air strike, the UN says.
"The ongoing threats of drone strikes" left them little choice but to hal…
Buckingham Palace has unveiled the full line-up of celebrations to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this year.
Street parties, a concert with some of the world's "biggest entertainment stars" and a chance to see the Queen's…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) last Friday lost one of its leading members, Mr Ishmael Ashitey, and described his death as a great loss.
Mr Ashitey, who was also a former Greater Accra Regional Minister and former Regional Chairman of th…
The sound of the broken glass echoed as Andrey Mikhaylovich walked inside a looted shopping mall on the outskirts of Almaty, Kazakhstan's biggest city. Empty boxes, phone cases, shoes and other leftover goods were scattered everywhere.…
A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison, in the latest of a series of trials.
She was convicted for the illegal possession and import of walkie-talkies and breaking Covid-…
The military leadership in Mali has made a further last-minute change to its timetable to restore civilian rule after its initial proposal of a transition of up to five years was rejected.
According to the Chair of the E…
The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold an Extraordinary Summit on the Political Situation in the Republic of Mali, today, January 09, 2022, in Accra.
The Heads …
All 15 prison facilities in Liberia have this week run out of food for inmates.
This has caused two prisons, including the main Monrovia Central Prison, to temporarily shut their doors to newcomers, prison officials have said.
The si…
U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will step down from his post this month after more than nine months in the job, and David Satterfield, the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Turkey, will take up the role, three sources f…
An aspiring National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has stated that he is in the race to position the party to break the eight and continue the reins of power in 2025.
He explained that the NPP wa…
Morocco and China have signed an agreement aimed at greatly increasing cooperation under Beijing’s joint "Belt and Road" initiative.
Under the agreement, which was sealed via video conference, Chinese companies will be encouraged to ste…
Japan and Australia hailed on Thursday a new agreement to cooperate closely on defence as a breakthrough and a landmark, in the latest step to bolster security ties against the backdrop of rising Chinese military and economic might.
Ja…
Pope Francis has suggested people who choose to have pets over children are acting selfishly.
The Pope's comments came as he was discussing parenthood during a general audience at the Vatican in Rome.
"Today ... w…
The Assin South District Assembly is making strides in infrastructural development in the area to improve the livelihoods of the people.
The basic physical and organisational structures has closed the infrastructural gap and opened up t…
The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), has asked sections of the citizenry to stop denigrating the nation’s image internationally because she is not broke.
It bemoaned using words such as “broke” to describe…
A former Eastern Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bismark Tawiah Boateng, has called on the party’s communications officers in the New Juaben South Constituency to rally behind officers of the party.
He sa…
A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Agona West Constituency in the Central Region, Alhaji Gibrine Tanko, has urged communications officers of the party to stand up against vile propaganda against the government by the …
The National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has commended Ghanaians for helping to sustain the 1992 Constitution for 30 years.
“It is a feat worth celebrating. We must pat ourselves on the ba…
The National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has been called upon to step up its duties on sensitising the public to the importance of the Constitution Day, which is a public holiday.
The Constitution Day, which is January 7, every…
Twelve Rwandans including women and children have been pushed out by Burundian authorities after refusing to get the Covid jab.
They spent more than five days on the Nyakarama hill in Kirundo province in northern Burundi.
They said t…
North Korea successfully tested a hypersonic missile on Wednesday, its first major weapons test this year, said a state media report.
KCNA said it "precisely hit" a set target 700km (434 miles) away.
This is the …
The people of Nandom Traditional Area in the Upper West Region have outdoored Naa Nibenee Langdinedome Pozentaa Chiir VIII as their new Paramount Chief at a colourful ceremony at the Nandom Naa’s palace.
He was outdoored to the commun…
A "supersonic" rise in French COVID-19 cases will continue in the coming days, an official said on Wednesday as the government decreed a health state of emergency in Guadeloupe, Guiana, Mayotte, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy.
Gover…
Ivorian ministers were prevented from attending a cabinet meeting on Wednesday after they failed to present Covid-19 test certificates.
Health officials announced on 31 December the mandatory presentation of Covid-19 tests before being …
A 74-year-old man who died in the western state of Rajasthan was India's first death with the Omicron variant, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
Officials said the man had been suffering from diabetes and other comorbid…
The Member of Parliament for Walewale Constituency in the North East Region, Hajia Lariba Zuweira Abudu, yesterday presented assorted food and other items worth about GH 300,000 to about 600 widows in the constituency.
The items inclu…
The former President, John Agyekum Kufuor, has advised the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) not to detach itself from the grassroots since doing so will destroy the democratic tradition of the party.
He challenged them to u…
As the country marks Constitution Day tomorrow, four governance experts have underscored the need for the country to build on the gains of the 1992 Constitution.
Constitution Day, a public holiday, has been set aside to mark the promulg…
President Joe Biden will blame Donald Trump for the US Capitol riot as he marks the anniversary of the attack on the seat of American democracy.
Speaking at Congress, Mr Biden will say his predecessor holds "singular respon…
A local mayor and his driver have been arrested in a desert in northern Niger with more than 200kg (440lbs) of cocaine in their vehicle, police say.
The two suspects, who have not been named, were allegedly transporting the…
Security forces in the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan say they have killed dozens of anti-government rioters in the main city, Almaty.
They moved in after protesters tried to take control of police stations in the city, a…
The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi says nothing but the mismanagement and reckless spending of the government is all to blame for the country’s present economic woes.
Contrar…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the reversal of the benchmark value discounts on 44 products announced by the government will adversely affect the living conditions of all Ghanaians.
According to the NDC, the deci…