The United Nations is seeking to raise more than $600m (£434m) in aid for Afghanistan, warning the country is facing a major humanitarian crisis.
It is calling for international support at a conference in Geneva, following the Taliban's…
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is holding talks with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
It is the first official trip to Egypt by an Israeli premier for a decade.
The Egyptian pr…
The Mozambican weather authorities have warned that more than one million people may be affected by floods in the upcoming rainy season.
The country is set to begin its rainy season in a month.
The southern and central regions will r…
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has said that his dispute with President Mohamed Farmajo will not affect plans for long-delayed elections.
“We are committed to holding the elections as planned and other existing matters will…
Dozens of children who were kidnapped by gunmen in north-west Nigeria nearly two weeks ago have been freed.
In a video seen by the BBC, the governor of Zamfara state is shown with some of the male and female students from a state-run se…
Togbe Keh XII, the Divisional Chief of Gbi Wegbe in the Volta Region, said President Akufo-Addo's unprecedented development of the Hohoe Constituency, over the last four years, is there for all to see.
He said it was needless to list al…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has ended his 'thank you tour' of the Western North Region with a call on party supporters to be vigilant at polling stations and collation centres in the next general election.
That was the only way…
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu has announced the country's first woman defence minister.
Stergomena Tax replaces Elias Kwandikwa, who died in August.
The president also revoked the appointment of three cabinet ministers and appoin…
The South African president has announced the easing of some restrictions that have been in place to curb the spread of coronavirus.
In a televised address Cyril Ramaphosa said due to a decline in infections an overnight curfew would be…
Human rights group Amnesty International says attacks by Islamist militants in western Niger have worsened significantly since the start of the year, with children increasingly targeted.
A report by the group says the conflict in the Ti…
More than 20 people are admitted to hospital and one person has died in Kilifi in coastal Kenya as families continue to be devastated by an ongoing drought.
Some 250,000 locals are in a dire state, according to local authorities.
Liv…
Afghan universities will be segregated by gender, and a new dress code will be introduced, the Taliban has said.
Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani indicated women would be allowed to study, but not alongside men.
He also a…
Plans to introduce vaccine passports for access into nightclubs and large events in England will not go ahead, the health secretary has said.
Sajid Javid told the BBC: "We shouldn't be doing things for the sake of it."
It was thought…
North Korea has tested a new long-range cruise missile capable of hitting much of Japan, state media said on Monday.
The weekend tests saw missiles travelling up to 1,500km (930 miles), the official KCNA news agency said.
It suggests…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has called members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to be vigilant at polling stations and collation centres in the next general election.
That, he said, was the only way to ensure victory f…
Government, through the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, supported over 75,000 people along the coastal communities with food items during the closed fishing season.
The intervention was to reduce the effects of the cl…
Mr. Richard Kwadwo Adu, an aspiring chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the Wenchi Constituency of the Bono Region has promised to ensure the Party recaptured the seat from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Election 2024.…
Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere, Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations - Ghana (CFR-Ghana), has welcomed the establishment of the Candidatures Unit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration (MoFARI).
He pledged the Counc…
The National Chairman of the People's National Convention (PNC), Mr Moses Dani Baah, and the 2020 flag bearer of the party, Mr David Apasera, have sued 18 top executive of the party over their removal from office.
The legal action adds…
The Vice-President of Liberia, Her Excellency Mrs Jewel Howard Taylor, was in Ghana to pay her last respects to Lieutenant General Joshua Hamidu, former Chief of Defence Staff, who was a family friend and very close to her former husband, …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cut the sod for the second phase of construction works on the main University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) Campus in Ho.
The 68-million-dollar China Aid Phase-Two project will provide fu…
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Thursday that he had clearly told his British counterpart Priti Patel that the United Kingdom must stick to its commitments on migrants trying to cross the Channel to reach Britain.
Darma…
France has raised its bird flu alert level after a severe form of the virus was found among backyard poultry in the northeast, on top of cases in neighbouring Belgium and Luxembourg, the farm ministry said on Friday.
The highly contagio…
A South African court pushed back to Sept. 21 and 22 a hearing scheduled for Thursday in a corruption trial of former president Jacob Zuma linked to a 1990s arms deal.
The 12-day postponement was agreed between Zuma's lawyers and prosec…
Guinea's military junta has ordered banks to freeze all government-related accounts so as to "secure state assets".
The junta, which took over control last weekend, says the order affects institutional and individual accounts of the out…
The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Anthony Forson, has stated that it is time to have a review of the 1992 Constitution instead of scrapping it for another Constitution.
He noted that a total overhaul was not the way to g…
Canadian federal party leaders traded barbs over leadership, climate change and indigenous reconciliation in their final debate pitch to voters.
The English-language TV debate is usually the most widely watched political sparring match …
The Vatican has rejected criticism from senior Israeli rabbis over remarks by Pope Francis about Jewish books of sacred law, saying he was not questioning their continuing validity for Jews today.
Last month Reuters reported that Rabbi …
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema said on Friday his new government would implement policies to reduce the fiscal deficit, restore economic growth and review mining policies.
In his first address to a new session of parliament since …
The head of Gambia's reconciliation commission has expressed disappointment at the political alliance between the parties of President Adama Barrow and former long-serving leader Yahya Jammeh
They have teamed up ahead of elections in De…
The Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has warned leadership, members and supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) against not achieving breaking of the eight years of political cycle if complacency sets in their campaign before and…
Dr Prince Sodoke Amuzu, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Akatsi North, has called for an improved welfare package for assembly members to better serve as development agents in their respective electoral areas.
Currently, assembly…
Tunisian President Kais Saied plans to suspend the constitution and may amend the political system via a referendum, one of his advisers told Reuters on Thursday in the first clear indication of his plans after moves his critics have calle…
A video that appears to show US soldiers driving among crowds of people in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has been fueling speculation that America had some involvement in this week's coup.
In the video, people are shouting "freedom, fre…
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has condemned the coup in Guinea.
She told the BBC that she had great confidence in the West African block Ecowas to resolve the situation.
"I'm sure that Ecowas, which has successfully…
The US Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit challenging Texas' controversial abortion law.
"The act is clearly unconstitutional," Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a briefing on Thursday.
It bans abortions from as e…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration says the country has no interest or intention to consider any proposal partnership on Third Country Asylum.
A statement issued by the Ministry, copied to the Ghana News Agency, sa…
The rapid adoption of technology over the last 18 months has transformatively powered production and service delivery around the globe. In the education sector, integration of technology in learning enhances student's interest in learning,…
Almost all state institutions in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province remain shut, about a month after jihadist attacks in the area were brought under control.
The situation is considered serious in Palma district, the only area …
About $16,000 (£11,500) of counterfeit notes have been seized in Mozambique, with investigators suspecting that a regional syndicate is specialising in printing fake currency.
Police said they had arrested two Angolans, and arrest warra…
Gunmen have kidnapped three people who worked on a farm owned by Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo in south-western Ogun state.
The gunmen opened fire on a vehicle transporting the three, before abducting them and running int…
The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is likely to have "emboldened" UK terrorists, the director general of MI5 has warned.
Ken McCallum told the BBC that while the terror threat would not change overnight, there could be a "morale boo…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with his US counterpart Joe Biden for the first time in seven months.
A White House Statement said both leaders had "discussed the responsibility of both nations to ensure competition does not vee…
US President Joe Biden has announced sweeping new Covid-19 measures that require workers at large companies to be vaccinated or face weekly testing.
The measures also include a vaccine mandate for millions of federal government workers …
The National Chairman of the National Democratic (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, has urged members of the NDC to adopt “Break the 8” as its battle cry for the 2024 general election.
“We have to break the eight years of high unemployment,…
A former deputy Ambassador from Ghana to China, Horace Nii Ayi Ankrah is proposing that flagbearers of political parties should be limited on the number of times they can contest presidential elections on the ticket of a political party.
…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the 2024 general election is critical for both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He explained that it was on that basis that he stated that it …
Ethiopian officials say they have found the graves of at least 119 civilians after rebel forces withdrew from a village they had occupied.
Tigray's rebel forces have denied any responsibility, calling the accusations "fabricated".
On…
Banking services have been restored in the northern Mozambican town of Mueda in the restive Cabo Delgado province.
The services had been discontinued due to insecurity in the region and a lack of electricity supply.
Civil servants li…
Artefacts looted by British troops from Ethiopia in 1868 have been returned to the Ethiopian embassy in London.
They include an imperial shield, a Bible and crosses, the embassy said.
The Scheherazade Foundation purchased the items t…