The US embassy in Mali has issued an alert over a possible terror attack in the capital, Bamako, that could target key government facilities and public places.
This is the third alert issued by the US embassy in Mali since March 2021.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after it emerged the Church of England's investment fund has links to the transatlantic slave trade.
Queen Anne's Bounty was a fund to help support poor clergy in the 18th Century - but large …
Three Palestinian militants have been shot dead, Palestinian officials say, after armed clashes with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military said its forces returned fire "to neutralise" occupants of a…
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has implored Members of Parliament (MPs) to restore hope in the power and promise of democracy by reversing disillusionment of the citizenry in the system.
“The role of Parliament is critical in …
Dr Benjamin Kumbuor, the former Minister of Defence, has advised the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to allow a level playing field for all presidential-hopefuls of the party.
He indicated that the NDC as a democr…
The European Union gave its blessing on Friday for Ukraine and its neighbour Moldova to become candidates to join, in the most dramatic geopolitical shift to result from Russia's invasion.
Ukraine applied to join the EU just four days a…
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has tested positive for Covid-19, but with no symptoms, the monarch's personal doctor says, according to state news agency MAP.
Thursday's statement from Dr Lahcen Belyamani, quoted by MAP, said that the monar…
The Programme Officer in charge of Youth Development of Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), Peter Awuni, has advised the citizenry to be vigilant and support the initiative to educate and sensitise them on the menace…
Mr Kwesi Ahwoi, a former Ghana High Commissioner to South Africa, says he “engineered” the historic handshake between former Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Jerry John Rawlings on January 7, 1997, when the latter was being sworn into of…
Parliament will not consider two loan facility agreements totalling $1 billion laid before the House until the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, appears before the House on June 22, 2022, to account for how COVID-19 money approved by the H…
Transport by air, land and sea has been all but suspended in Tunisia as hundreds of thousands of state employees hold a 24-hour strike to demand better pay amid soaring inflation.
The powerful UGTT union that called the industrial actio…
Water rationing will be introduced in large parts of Durban, one of South Africa's main cities, following damage caused to infrastructure in April's floods, the local water company has said.
Different areas of the port city will receive…
Ex-President Donald Trump put his Vice-President Mike Pence in danger during the Capitol riot as he illegally pressured him to quash the 2020 election, says a congressional panel.
Lawmakers have heard from Pence aides who de…
One of seven asylum seekers taken off Tuesday's cancelled Rwanda flight says he would not have come to the UK if he had known about the deportation policy.
But the man, who can only be identified as KN, told the BBC he had b…
A National Youth Organiser aspirant in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Michael Osei Boateng, has kicked against suggestions that vote-buying takes place in the party.
“In NPP, we don’t buy votes. But we sell ideas, and t…
North Korea says it is dealing with an outbreak of an unidentified intestinal sickness, adding to the strain caused by the spread of Covid-19.
The country's leader, Kim Jong-un, has ordered quarantine measures be implemented…
US-led coalition forces say they captured a senior leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in an overnight raid in northern Syria.
The man was "an experienced bomb maker and operational facilitator", a coalition stat…
Atiku Abubakar, Nigeria's main opposition presidential candidate, has picked Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate for the February 2023 election.
Mr Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), announced the choice of Mr …
Conflict and disease outbreaks are pushing food prices up in South Sudan, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha).
The prices have increased by 17% compared to last month with the capital, Juba, be…
The most powerful union in Tunisia called for the stoppage to protest against the economic policies of the President Kais Saied in the latest challenge to his rule.
The UGTT union has urged its one million members to observe the strike …
Members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Ashanti Region have pledged to work hard in unity to consolidate the party’s gains to enable it to win the 2024 general elections.
The NDC said it has delivered in terms of infras…
General Secretary hopeful in the upcoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) elections, Frederick Opare Ansah has indicated that he is hopeful and optimistic about becoming the next General Secretary of the party.
The former Memb…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has asked Ghanaians to arise with a collective and patriotic energies to rescue the nation from decay.
“On this auspicious 30th anniversary, June 10, 2022, I ask all members of the National Democrati…
Police in Nigeria say they are investigating a reported mass abduction in the capital Abuja.
Kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs are becoming increasingly common across the country.
But what is extraordinary in this case is that on…
Egypt, Israel and the European Union have signed a provisional deal for the export of natural gas at an energy conference in Cairo.
The memorandum of understanding is aimed at lessening the EU's reliance on gas from Russia.
The Israe…
Poorer nations say rich ones have betrayed them by dragging their feet on paying for centuries of climate damage.
They were hoping to get compensation talks onto the official agenda for November's COP27 climate conference.
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Thousands of civilians are trapped in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk with essential supplies running out, the United Nations is warning.
Many of them are sheltering in bunkers beneath the city's Azot chemical plant.
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A group of Concerned Assembly Members in the Bosome Freho District of the Ashanti Region is contesting a move by some members of the assembly to pass a vote of no confidence in their District Chief Executive, Yaw Danso.
The …
Despite the travails of the Dome Kwabenya MP, Sarah Adwoa Safo, half of the voters in her constituency still favour her.
According to a survey by Global Info Analytics, 50.3 percent of voters in her constituency are very…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong Wednesday, June 15, 2022 appeared before the Privileges Committee of Parliament following summons for undue absence.
Mr. Agyapong came before the committee to answe…
Two opposition MPs have been arrested in Zimbabwe following violent protests over the killing of an opposition member in Chitungwiza near the capital, Harare.
Political tensions have been rising in the community after Moreblessing Ali's…
Russia has barred top UK-based journalists and defence figures as part of sanctions, in response to UK measures on Russian public figures.
The BBC's Clive Myrie, Orla Guerin, Nick Robinson and Nick Beake, who have reported f…
Zambia is getting a new US ambassador years after the last one was forced out following a diplomatic row over his remarks on gay rights in the country.
The newly appointed ambassador, Michael Gonzalez, is expected to arrive in the count…
The Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA) has urged the government to pay attention to grassroots sensitization as the surest way to prevent and counter the menace of violent extremism and terrorism.
A statement sign…
Kenya has written to Somalia to express "regret" at the “inadvertent and inappropriate presence” of the flag of the breakaway state of Somaliland at an event hosted by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Somalia's ambassador to Kenya, Mohamud Ahm…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Tuesday said 249 students out of the 1,200 Ghanaians evacuated from Ukraine, have returned to Ghana.
She, however, explained that most of the stud…
The Privileges Committee has summoned the Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sara Adwoa Safo, to appear before it on July 6, 2022, over her absenteeism in the House.
Chairman of the committee, Joseph Osei Owusu dire…
Mr Bright Essilfie Kumi, a National Organiser aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the Party has "a lot of work" to do to be able to retain power in 2024.
The 2020 Parliamentary candidate for Asikuma Odoben Brakwa, said the Pa…
National Youth Organiser of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye popularly known as Nana B who is highly tipped to be the National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party NPP says his strategic plan to organise the party…
The Archbishop of Wales has strongly condemned the UK government's policy of flying asylum seekers to Rwanda, calling it immoral.
Up to seven people had been expected to be removed on Tuesday on a first flight, but it was ca…
A Republican congressman has lost his bid to cling on to his seat, after a furious backlash to his vote to impeach former US President Donald Trump.
Tom Rice, a five-term South Carolina incumbent, was beaten in a primary ele…
The government says officials are already preparing for the next flight to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda, despite a court ruling stopping the first plane from taking off.
The first flight was cancelled minutes be…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Youth Employment Agency, Justin Frimpong Kodua has filed his completed nomination forms at the headquarters of the party at Asylum Down, Accra.
Prior to the official declaration of his …
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Asuogyaman Constituency, Thomas Apem Nyarko has launched an educational programme to promote reading habits among school pupils across the constituency.
Dubbed "Let's Read Together" the programme wa…
Tigrayan forces who have been at war with the Ethiopian government for more than 18 months say they are ready to send a high level delegation to talks mediated by the Kenyan government.
A letter signed by the head of the Tigray People's…
The city of Grenoble has gone to France's highest administrative court to challenge a ban imposed on a new city rule allowing full-body "burkini" swimsuits in public pools.
Grenoble's decision to authorise all swimwear, incl…
"Max speed!" The instruction comes via walkie-talkie from the armoured police car in front, as we hurtle past the burnt-out carcass of a Ukrainian military truck. There's a high risk of Russian attack on this stretch of road, but it's …
A Mexican political advisor has been killed by a lynch mob after child kidnapping accusations were spread on messaging groups, authorities say.
Daniel Picazo, 31, was attacked and beaten by a crowd of around 200 people in t…
Burkina Faso's government has announced three days of national mourning from Tuesday for the at least 50 civilians killed over the weekend in the north of the country.
Military leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Damiba issued the decr…
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said his government will announce details of peace talks with forces from the country’s northernmost region, Tigray, to end a civil war "when the time comes" and "when they begin".
Addressing par…
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