Hospitals in Kenya are preparing for a surge in Covid-19 cases with some launching oxygen plants and increasing bed capacity, the Star newspaper has reported.
Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe in his regular briefings last week asked Kenyans…
In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the grave.
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Namibia has said the deal agreed with Germany for €1.1bn ($1.34bn; £940m) in aid following the colonial-era genocide is "not enough", but it would "revisit and renegotiate" as funding is rolled out.
A week ago Germany issued a long-awai…
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has shut down schools and suspended public gatherings as the country faces a surge of infections in a second Covid-19 wave.
Public transport between districts will be banned starting Thursday to allow …
A sense of normalcy is returning to a Rwandan district ravaged by volcanic activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo two weeks ago.
The volcanic eruption in Mount Nyiragogo killed 32 people and destroyed hundreds of homes in DR Congo…
The Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, has asked North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to desist from making a fuss about the alleged use of a luxurious chartered flight by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Accordi…
A presidential aspirant in the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) national elections, Mr Albert Kwabena Dwumfour, says he will focus on the welfare and security of members when given the mandate to lead the association.
He also pledged…
A Deputy Minister of Finance designate, Mrs Abena Osei-Asare, has given an assurance that the government will account for all COVID-19 expenditure.
He said the government had already accounted for some of the expenditure and would keep …
Attacks on the community of Solhan, in the Sahel region, have killed more than a hundred people, including several children and people who already had fled their homes.
The Director of Save the Children in Burkina Faso, Benoît Delsarte,…
Attacks on the community of Solhan, in the Sahel region, have killed more than a hundred people, including several children and people who already had fled their homes.
The Director of Save the Children in Burkina Faso, Benoît Delsarte,…
Home Secretary Priti Patel co-hosted the first UK-Ghana security dialogue with Albert Kan-Dapaah, Ghana’s Minister for National Security on Wednesday, 2 June 2021.
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Ghana’s Minister for National Security…
Colonel Assimi Goïta is being sworn in as Mali’s interim president on Monday.
It’s a fortnight since he removed the transitional president and prime minister in a coup - the second he’s engineered in nine months.
Last week, leaders o…
Two passenger trains have collided in southern Pakistan, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens more.
Officials said that one train travelling in Sindh province had derailed and landed on another track. A second train packed wit…
The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audio recording.
In audio obtained by news agencies, the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) said Shek…
Major Indian states that have been virus hotpots are easing restrictions as Covid case numbers continue to fall.
National capital Delhi and financial hub, Mumbai, are among the cities that are opening partially.
This comes in the wak…
Mr Razak Kojo Opoku, a member of the New Patriotic Party ( (NPP) said no appointee under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government deserves credit for any policy implementations as they serve under the pleasure of the President.
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North Korea has recently introduced a sweeping new law which seeks to stamp out any kind of foreign influence - harshly punishing anyone caught with foreign films, clothing or even using slang. But why?
Yoon Mi-so says she was 11 when s…
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has adjudged that the justice system must be opened to reflection and self-examination in order to avoid fossilization.
“This requires the judiciary to broaden the legal horizons and to be …
The Effutu Directorate of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), as part of its activities to commemorate the 2021 constitutional week, has presented a Number of booklets of the 1992 Constitution to some local F.
Winneba (C…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has bid farewell to Mr Iain Walker, the outgoing British High Commissioner to Ghana.
Mr Walker was appointed British High Commissioner to Ghana in Aug…
Half of the roughly 20 tropical cyclones expected to form in the western Pacific Ocean through September this year are predicted to hit land in east Asian nations, forecasters said on Friday, making for a season that is busier than usual.
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European Union ambassadors on Friday adopted a plan to ban Belarus airlines from flying over EU territory or landing in EU airports, and prohibiting EU airlines from flying over Belarus, three diplomats said.
The decision is part of bro…
Mr. Eugene Sackey, Acting District Chief Executive of Upper West Akim District, has called on his constituents to support the 2021 Population and Houses Census (PHC).
He made the call at the official launch of the 30-day PHC night at Ad…
India has ordered 300 million doses of an unapproved coronavirus vaccine amid a devastating second wave.
The unnamed vaccine from Indian firm Biological E is in Phase 3 trials, and had showed "promising results" in the first two phases,…
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Tehran wanted action and not promises from six world powers for the revival of their 2015 nuclear deal.
"I have told our negotiators that actions, not promises (by the six…
The Office of Mr. Emmanuel Kofi Agyemang, the Dormaa East District Chief Executive (DCE) has refuted claims that he has connived with the Office of the Chief of Staff to take the Assembly's grader for private use.
Mr. Agyemang also de…
The White House has defended the president's top coronavirus adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, amid scrutiny of his recently released work emails.
Dr Fauci has been the face of the nation's Covid-19 response, drawing both praise and criticism.…
Colombia on Thursday approved the reopening of most large events it had banned to contain the pandemic, even with intensive care units likely to be full until the end of June and more than 90,000 dead from COVID-19.
The South American c…
Justice Sylvain Oré immediate past President, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights has called on the President of Tanzania, Mrs Samia Suluhu Hassan at the State House in Dar es Salaam.
Justice Ore, used the occasion to bid farew…
Two Judges elected during the Executive Council session of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in February 2021 have been sworn in at the 61st Ordinary session at Arusha, Tanzania.
They are: Justice Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza fr…
The Cape Coast High Court has adjourned the suit against James Gyekye Quayson, the embattled Assin North Member of Parliament's (MP) to Tuesday, June 8, because the Court was yet to serve first Respondent with a motion filed by his Couns…
Mozambique has received the third batch of Covid-19 vaccines, a donation from China.
Some 60,000 doses have been donated for use by the Mozambican armed forces from their Chinese counterparts.
Defence Minister Jaime Neto said the dos…
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has been criticised for refusing to confirm the appointment of six judges.
The six are among 41 judges who had been recommended for appointment by the country's Judicial Service Commission (JSC) two year…
A Moroccan court has rejected an appeal for the release of a journalist who has been on hunger strike for 57 days, his lawyer has said.
Mohamed Messaoudi says Soulaimane Raissouni is seriously unwell but a judge in Casablanca says the j…
Pro-democracy activist Chow Hang Tung has been arrested by Hong Kong police on the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Ms Chow is vice chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance which organises annual vigils for victims o…
The family of Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich says he was coerced into making a confession on TV of organising anti-government protests.
Mr Protasevich, 26, was arrested in Minsk last month after his flight to Lithuania was dive…
Sakora-Wonoo, a farming community near Bonwire in the Kwabre East District in the Ashanti Region, was rendered too small to receive the great number of mourners who thronged the town to mourn the passing of a former General Secretary of th…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his government has gone great lengths to establish a closer partnership between the private sectors of the United Kingdom and Ghana.
He explained that a deepened relationship was important for …
The Deputy Minister of Energy designate, Mr William Owuraku Aidoo, has called for a freeze on the award of new contracts under the rural electrification project.
That, he explained, would afford the government the opportunity to complet…
India's Supreme Court has sharply criticised the federal government over its coronavirus vaccination programme.
The judges asked the government to explain why it was mandatory to register on an app for getting a jab.
The court said t…
Burkina Faso has launched its campaign to vaccinate its population of 20 million people against coronavirus a few days after receiving 155,000 doses of AstraZeneca via the global-sharing vaccine scheme Covax.
The ministers of health, sp…
Prosecutors have asked for a 30-year prison sentence for the murderer of George Floyd.
Former police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted for the killing in April and is due to be sentenced on 25 June.
On Wednesday the prosecution sai…
Nasa has announced that it is sending two new missions to Venus in order to examine the planet's atmosphere and geological features.
The missions, which have each been awarded $500m (£352m) in funding, are due to launch between 2028 and…
The nominee for Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu Boahen, has disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic cost the country about GHS21 billion.
The nominee, who served as a deputy Finance Minister in President Akufo-Addo’s…
The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi says the Member of Parliament for Assin North, James Quayson, has petitioned the Chief Justice to direct the judge presiding over his du…
Stakeholders at Ekumfi in the Central Region have been schooled on the importance of census and the need for residents to get ready to be counted for credible data to facilitate the country's development.
Participants at the programme,…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has presented letters of credence to 21 appointed envoys, urging them to champion the Government of Ghana's post COVID-19 recovery agenda.
The 15 Ambassadors and six High Commissioners, comprise pol…
Twitter has removed a post by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari for violating its rules.
The tweet referred to the 1967-70 Nigerian Civil War and to treating "those misbehaving today" in "the language they will understand".
It foll…
Two parents of kidnapped schoolchildren in Tegina in Nigeria’s central Niger state have died of trauma, local media report.
They had been in shock after armed gangs kidnapped the students from their school on Sunday.
The parents were…
The UN's children's agency, Unicef, is urging the world's richest countries to donate a fifth of their Covid vaccines to 18 African nations who are running out of supplies.
Vaccine manufacturers have been unable to keep up with demand, …