President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reiterated that the New Patriotic Party government is better at protecting the public purse than the opposition National Democratic Congress.
Commissioning the Pokuase Interchange today in Accra…
Parliament has constituted a nine-member adhoc bipartisan committee to probe procurement contracts the government entered into with private companies for the procurement and supply of Sputnik-V vaccines.
The committee will determine the…
Jehan Sadat was sitting in the stands, just a few metres away from her husband, when gunmen opened fire at a military parade in Cairo.
Her life partner, Anwar - then president of Egypt - was hit by several bullets and died two hours lat…
Nigeria has announced its first confirmed case of the Delta variant of Covid-19.
The variant was detected in a traveller following a routine travel test required of all international visitors. An analysis in a lab in the capital Abuja c…
Rwanda has begun deploying 1,000 troops to Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, where a militant insurgency has left thousands dead and millions displaced.
The troops consists of officers from the defence force and national police.
Th…
Mr Rockson Nelson Defeamakpor, Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi has justified government's decision to provide US$100,000 as car loans for MPs.
According to him all the other arms of government with the exception of the legislat…
Popular Nigerian televangelist TB Joshua is being buried in Lagos after a week of funeral rites.
Thousands of mourners are attending the burial service at his Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in the Ikotun area of Lagos.
The …
South Sudan is marking the tenth anniversary of its independence with little fanfare, its population advised to celebrate at home because of coronavirus.
The only official event a 10km run in the capital, Juba.
President Salva Kiir h…
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma will be eligible for parole after four months of his 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court, the justice minister says.
Zuma handed himself in to police on Wednesday to begin his jail te…
All nine people have died on board an aeroplane carrying skydivers, that crashed in Sweden, police say.
The plane was carrying eight skydivers and a pilot when it crashed close to the runway at Orebro airport, about 160km (100 miles) we…
A group of 28 foreign mercenaries, including retired Colombian soldiers, assassinated Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say.
Most were detained after a gun battle at a house in the capital Port-au-Prince where th…
The Ministerial Committee investigating the circumstances that led to last week’s deaths in Ejura in the Ashanti has requested for an extension of the deadline to complete its work.
According to the committee, considering the testimonie…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Ejura Sekyedumasi, Mr Mohammed Salisu Bamba has denied suggestions that two suspects currently in police custody in connection with the death of Macho Kaaka are his bodyguards.
Appearing before th…
The Youth Wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has hinted at challenging Parliament’s approval of salaries for the First and Second Ladies in the Supreme Court.
“The Youth Wing will in the coming days invoke the jur…
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested the leader of the Mai-Mai militia, Kambale Kabamba.
The arrest took place in North Kivu province.
The police had pursued him over his alleged involvement in deadly attacks in t…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed security agencies for the arrest of Igbo separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and the raid on Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo's home.
It's the first time the president has spoken about the arrest …
UK oil firm Cairn Energy has gained the right to seize Indian state assets in France worth more than €20m (£17m) as part of a long-running tax row.
A French tribunal ordered a freeze on about 20 properties in central Paris as Cairn incr…
EU pressure on Hungary has intensified over a new law banning the depiction or promotion of homosexuality for the under-18s.
MEPs are expected to vote shortly for a resolution urging the EU to speed up legal action over Hungary's law.
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It's been six months since supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol and the FBI is renewing its appeal for the public's assistance in identifying those involved.
On Tuesday, the agency released 11 new videos of s…
The Olympic Games in Japan are to be held without spectators due to rising cases of coronavirus.
Olympics Minister Tamayo Marukawa made the announcement following discussions with officials and organisers on Thursday evening.
A state…
The youth wing of the opposition National Democratic Congress, NDC, says the approval of allowances for the wives of Presidents and Vice Presidents is unconstitutional.
They have thus announced that they will challenge the move at the S…
A mining company in Botswana has announced the unearthing of a 1,174-carat diamond. It's the second unveiling of a huge diamond discovery in the country in a month.
The latest diamond was discovered on 12 June by Canadian diamond firm, …
The Director-General of State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has urged constituents of the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency to rally behind their Member of Parliament (MP), Mr George Mireku Duker, as the …
The Vice-Chairman of Parliament’s Finance Committee, Patrick Yaw Boamah, has defended the decision of the Seventh Parliament to approve an increment in allowances for the spouses of the President and the Vice-President.
According to him…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged political parties globally to pursue development and uphold multilateralism and cooperation in addressing the challenges that humanity faces.
President Xi, who is also the General Secretary of the …
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has bid farewell to Mrs Diana Acconcia, the outgoing European Union (EU) Ambassador to Ghana.
This was when Mrs Acconcia paid a farewell call on t…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called for more civil society engagements in the work of Parliament.
He also stressed the importance of enhancing parliament-citizen interface and engagement through partn…
Kenya has received 182,000 AstraZeneca vaccines to boost its vaccination programme.
The doses were donated by the French government through the global Covax scheme.
"The Kenyan government is very grateful to the government of France …
Ethiopia has called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to respect the AU-led tripartite negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd), saying the issue "does not fall" under its mandate, according to a statement from Ministry o…
Thailand's plan to re-open the country to foreign tourists in about 100 days has been thrown into doubt as it sees a new spike in Covid cases.
Some 7,000 cases and 75 deaths were reported on Thursday, a daily record for the country.
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Russia has offered North Korea Covid vaccines once again, amid reports that a harsh lockdown is leading to extreme hunger.
Pyongyang has refused vaccines and aid from a number of countries.
It has instead sealed borders to try and ke…
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has handed himself in to police to begin serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court.
He was admitted to Estcourt Correctional Centre in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesd…
Rescue teams combing the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Florida are switching from a search-and-rescue mission to a recovery effort.
The decision comes about two weeks after the 12-storey Champlain Towers South fell in the …
The Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, has told the Committee of Inquiry into the Ejura shooting incident that he was compelled to call in the military to maintain peace and order in the area following intelligence reports.
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The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has described the late President of Zambia, Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, as a deep thinker, who served his people selflessly till his death.
The Party said the late Dr Kaunda was a committed freedom fight…
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah says the concerns raised by the National Democratic Congress during the ‘March for justice’ protest were already being addressed by the government.
The Youth Wing of the NDC hit the stree…
Aid workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo say children have stopped going to school in the eastern city of Uvira because of a recent spate of abductions.
They told the BBC that at least five children aged between six and 14 were t…
Mozambique’s Deputy Health Minister Lídia Cardoso has said vaccines had arrived in the country at an "opportune moment" as the country is experiencing its third Covid wave.
Dr Cardoso received 158,000 doses in two different ceremonies a…
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is under fire for launching projects past curfew hours.
President Kenyatta launched five hospitals on Tuesday night and explained that it was necessary to do it at night so as to ensure efficiency in ser…
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma must hand himself over to police Wednesday or face being arrested according to last week's ruling by the Constitutional Court because he was found to be in contempt.
It is not clear however wha…
Indian PM Narendra Modi has inducted 36 new ministers into his government in the biggest cabinet reshuffle since he came to power in 2014.
At least 12 cabinet members, including IT and health ministers, resigned ahead of the reshuffle t…
Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, it has told the global nuclear watchdog.
Tehran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the process was to develop fuel for a research reactor.
But u…
Mr Fred Bubune Kpodo, Coordinating Director of Ada-East District Assembly, has called on Assembly Members, to hold regular meetings to deepen participatory decision making in the District.
It is expected that after each engagement with …
A former police captain who promises to be tough on crime has been declared the winner of the race to pick a Democratic candidate to be New York City's mayor.
Eric Adams, currently borough president of Brooklyn, is now likely to become …
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) is whipping up enthusiasm among residents in the Tema West Municipality to ensure their full participation in the ongoing 2021 Population and Housing Census.
Mr Fidel Bortey, the Tema W…
Madam Patience Adumua-Lartey from the Office of the Attorney-General has sworn in an eight-member Entity Tender Committee of the Ministry of Local government, Decentralisation and Rural Development (MLGDRD).
The committee members took t…
Zimbabwe will from Wednesday circulate new 50-dollar currency notes, the highest ever denomination to be printed.
The new note is only worth 60 US cents.
The new notes were launched on Tuesday and the central bank said it would circu…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday stressed the need for a negotiated ceasefire in Tigray in a call with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
The US official called for the full withdrawal of Eritrean and regional Amhara fo…
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan have spoken about the importance of political rights and civil liberties for Tanzanians.
In a call readout shared by his spokesperson Ned Price, the U…
Tropical Storm Elsa, which has weakened from the first hurricane of the season, is poised to make landfall on the west coast of Florida on Wednesday.
A warning is in force for a 200-mile (300km) stretch of the Gulf Coast north of Tampa …