Italian rescuers pulled four bodies from collapsed buildings in Sicily on Monday after a suspected gas explosion.
At least seven people have now died after the blast destroyed four residential buildings on Saturday evening i…
A Russian teenager has detonated an explosive device at an Orthodox school near a convent outside Moscow, injuring a number of people.
Russia's interior ministry says an 18-year-old man, a graduate of the school in Serpukhov…
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa is receiving treatment after testing positive for Covid-19, his office says.
In a statement, it says the 69-year-old has mild symptoms and is isolating in Cape Town.
South A…
The Minister for Energy and MP for Manhyia South, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, also known as NAPO, has strongly refuted claims of ethnic bias in relation to his recent comments on radio regarding the Keta Sea Defence Wall Project.
It will…
A former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Okaikwei North constituency, Mr. Fuseini Issah, has justified the government’s allocation of over GHS240 million for the collection of the 1.75 percent levy on electronic transact…
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has launched a new book titled The Words of A President: Jacob Zuma Speaks.
It comes just months after he was released from prison on medical parole. He was imprisoned earlier this year by the …
The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has expressed ‘’strong concerns’’ over delays in Mali's transition to civilian rule.
It warned of additional economic sanctions if "no concrete progress" was made to hold fresh elections scheduled…
The Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council is to crack the whip to ensure Administrators of the Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies, live up to expectation to improve local government service.
According to the Regional Coo…
A Communications Specialist and journalism lecturer, Dr. Mrs. Diana Heymann-Adu, has called for more private, public partnership (PPP) initiatives to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She said in view of the negativ…
The US is gravely concerned about accounts of alleged atrocities committed by Tigrayan forces in Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia, State Department spokesman Ned Price has said.
The department has urged all armed actors to stop using…
Medics working as interns in Uganda have announced an escalation of their strike for better pay.
The interns began their industrial action on 6 November, but they continued to work on emergencies and support some staff on hospital wards…
Nicaragua has received one million Covid vaccines from China, days after it cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of Beijing.
Government representatives returned to the Central American state on Sunday with news of the d…
Booster jabs will be offered to everyone over 18 in England from this week, the PM has announced, as he declared an "Omicron emergency".
"No one should be in any doubt, there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming," Boris Johnso…
The death toll from powerful tornadoes that devastated towns in Kentucky is likely to pass 100, the governor says, as hope of finding survivors wanes.
Andy Beshear said this was the most devastating tornado event in the stat…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has banned the display of paraphernalia and advocacy for aspirants at its upcoming National Annual Delegates Conference in Kumasi.
A statement signed by its Director of Communications, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, sa…
Some residents in Sunyani yesterday staged a peaceful demonstration on the principal streets to show their disapproval of lack of development projects in the Bono Region in general and the Sunyani Municipality in particular.
On top of t…
A Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), Mr Kwesi Jonah has said reforms within the local government system are critical for the effective development of the country.
According to him, the local governm…
176 vulnerable asylum seekers were evacuated from Libya today on a humanitarian flight to Rwanda, organized by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. It was the second such flight to Rwanda this year, using the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM), th…
Kenya has said it is in talks to send security personnel to Qatar to beef up protection at next year's football World Cup in the Gulf state.
Kenyan Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i said on Friday that the East African country had agreed…
It took over an hour for an agreement to be reached between the Justice For Ghana (JFG) protesters and security personnel at the entrance of Parliament House when the group besieged the complexity to present its petition for scrapping th…
Residents of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL) Traditional Areas in the Oti Region have reminded the Electoral Commission (EC) to quicken efforts to restore their electoral rights.
They stated that following earlier protests…
Women have been urged to take leadership positions in both the public and private sector to ensure equal representation in the society.
The Mayor of Freetown Municipality in Sierra Leone, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, made the call on Wednesday…
Kenya's national police have condemned a video showing a group of newly graduated officers boasting about how they are "the bad ones".
It has been widely circulated on social media in the east African country, with many user…
The opposition leader in Benin, Reckya Madougou, has appeared at the country's Economic Crime and Terrorism Court on charges of financing terrorism.
The former justice minister has been detained for more than eight months.
She is the…
France has no plans to join a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, President Emmanuel Macron has said.
Mr Macron said any such move would be insignificant and merely symbolic.
The US, UK, Can…
Families in sub-Saharan African countries are spending a large chunk of their household income to educate their children, with many being priced out of quality education, a new report from the UN's education body, Unesco, says.
IN Ghana…
The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Rev. Dr Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, has appealed to Ghanaians to protect the peace, stability and integrity of the country.
“This is the only country we have and everybody in this country must wo…
The Techiman Municipal Assembly has collected a total of GH? 2.194 million, as Internally Generated Fund (IGF) from January to October this year.
Mr Benjamin Yaw Gyarko, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), in an interview with the Gh…
Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, says the 2022 budget allocation to his office is below his expectation, as that is not enough to fund the numerous ideas and projects the Office has in mind.
According to Mr. Agyebeng, though he will …
The seventh batch of 176 asylum seekers evacuated from Libya have arrived in Rwanda, the ministry of emergency has said.
The new arrivals include 102 Eritrean nationals, 62 Sudanese, five Somalis, four South Sudanese and three Ethiopian…
While hospital admissions in South Africa have risen sharply because of the Omicron variant of Covid-19, it is not yet clear if it causes more severe illness, according to comments by Health Minister Joe Phaahla.
Journalist Mia Malan sa…
The US has imposed visa restrictions on Isabel dos Santos, often described as Africa's richest woman, "for her involvement in significant corruption by misappropriating public funds for her personal benefit", a statement from US Secretary …
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, the High Court has ruled.
The US won its appeal against a January UK court ruling that he could not be extradited due to concerns over his mental heal…
An anti-corruption activist, Vitus Azeem, wants the Special Prosecutor Office to focus on chasing corruption itself instead of spending time on ranking public institutions on corruption perception.
In his view, corruption perception ran…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has urged the government to as a matter of urgency cut its expenditure, rather than overburdening Ghanaians with new taxes. According to the main Opposition party, the government’s revenue projection …
The Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL) has thrown its weight behind the Minority in Parliament to oppose the 1.75 per cent levy on mobile money and other electronic transactions in the 2022 Budget and Economic Policy.
According to the fed…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been hardening his rhetoric over the situation in Ukraine, saying the war in the country's east looks like genocide.
Russian-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian troops there since …
India's capital Delhi has alarmingly high levels of indoor air pollution, new research has found.
The study found that the levels of PM2.5, the lung-damaging tiny particles in the air, indoors were "substantially higher" th…
Tributes have poured in from around the world for India's top military commander, who died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.
Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 others died after the Mi-17V5 helicopter …
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, along with two other prominent activists, has been found guilty for taking part in a vigil to mark the Tiananmen massacre.
Lai, Gwyneth Ho and Chow Hang Tung were convicted for inciting and t…
The UN’s peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) says it is prepared to contain any possibility of violence related to elections scheduled to take place in 2023.
South Sudan has never conducted elections since becoming independent …
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has assured citizens that the death of a schoolboy will be thoroughly investigated and justice served.
Sylvester Oromoni, 12, was allegedly tortured in his school hostel at Dowen College in Lagos last…
Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré has in a decree dismissed Prime Minister Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré and dissolved the government.
"The functions of the prime minister are terminated, the government is dissolved," a…
Only about 3% of Nigeria's population has received a full course of vaccines against Covid - a low rate even compared with other countries in Africa. For South Africa, the figure is 24%.
However, it's emerged that Nigeria ha…
Dr Kwabena Duffuor, Former Minister of Finance, has touted the popularity of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and described claims Ashantis do not like the party as propaganda.
“The party once polled 33 per cent in the Ashanti R…
The Chairman of the USA Tallahassee chapter of the New Patriotic Party, Abubakari Shani Bawumia, has said the party risks going into opposition for over a decade if it loses the 2024 elections.
Mr. Bawumia said this is …
The Minority in Parliament has raised red flags over the allocation of over GH¢240 million in the 2022 budget for the collection of the 1.75 percent levy on electronic transactions.
According to MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablak…
Australia's deputy prime minister has tested positive for coronavirus after arriving in the US on an official visit.
Barnaby Joyce said he believed he had been infected while visiting the UK earlier this week.
He …
New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking.
Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected…
The World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended distribution of food aid in two northern Ethiopian towns after gunmen looted its warehouses.
Looters from rebel Tigrayan forces held aid staff at gunpoint in the town of Kombolcha…