American special operations forces are to spend two months training troops in Mozambique to try to prevent the spread of Islamist militant violence in the north of the country.
Insurgents have staged regular attacks in the gas-rich Cabo…
The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, says his commitment is towards serving the nation, rather than doing the bidding of the political party he belongs to — the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According…
The Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, (NDC) has stated that the composition of the current Parliament demands consensus building to ensure good governance.
He, therefore, stressed the need for both the Majority and Minority sides to w…
Rwanda has eased some of its restrictive measures against the spread of coronavirus, including a reduction of night curfew hours.
In a statement on Monday night, the government reduced the curfew by two hours and it will now run from 21…
Aid agency Save the Children says Islamist militants are beheading children as young as 11 in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado.
One mother told the agency she had had to watch as her 12-year-old son was killed in this way …
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has warned the US not to "cause a stink", as President Joe Biden prepares to set out his Korean policy.
In remarks on state media, Kim Yo-jong criticised the US and South Korea f…
The Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto who has been nurturing a presidential ambition on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken his moves to a new level.
During the weekend, he initiated a private me…
Members of Parliament (MPs) have called for the setting up of a commission of enquiry to probe electoral violence in Ghana so as to help bring justice to those who have suffered excesses from the security agencies.
They said the commiss…
The government has given an assurance that it will complete all abandoned and uncompleted public funded projects in the country.
The move is to end the practice where government projects started by different administrations are abandone…
The Chinese capital of Beijing was covered in thick dust on Monday as it experienced what its weather bureau has called the worst sandstorm in a decade.
The storm caused an unprecedented spike in air pollution measurements - with pollut…
Tens of thousands of people have turned out to marches across Australia, protesting against the sexual abuse and harassment of women in the country.
They were spurred by a recent wave of allegations of sexual assault, centred around Aus…
Ugandan politician and former presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, has been arrested in the capital, Kampala.
He was leading a team of MPs from his party, the National Unity Platform, in a protest agai…
Former diplomat Berhane Kidanemariam, who resigned last week as the deputy chief of mission at the Ethiopian embassy in Washington, says "war and conflict" is everywhere in the Horn of Africa nation that no media was covering.
He told B…
Presiding Members in the Ashanti Region have called on Ghanaians to respect the three arms of government in order to deepen Ghana's democracy in succeeding years.
This, they said could empower the Executive, the Legislature and the Judi…
Parliament on Sunday commenced a post-2021 budget workshop for members of the House in Ho, the Volta Regional Capital.
The workshop will equip the legislators with the knowledge to appreciate the dynamics and objectives of the budget…
The lead counsel for John Dramani Mahama in the 2020 election petition case, Tsatsu Tsikata has taken a swipe at the Supreme Court over the ruling it delivered in the 2020 election petition case.
According to Mr. Tsikata, the apex court…
Ahanta Chiefs within Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality (EKMA) have asked the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kwesimintsim, Mr Joseph Mensah to contest when the party opens nominations for parliamentary primaries in 2024.
They assured…
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has suffered heavy losses in two key regional votes seen as major tests ahead of September's general election.
The centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) suffered their worst-ever results in Baden…
India recorded its highest single-day spike this year on Monday, with 26,291 new coronavirus cases reported in the last 24 hours.
The western state of Maharashtra, which has long been a virus hotspot, accounts for more than half the new…
Myanmar's military has imposed martial law across more districts around the country following the deadliest day of protests since February's coup.
About 50 people were reported killed when troops and police opened fire on protesters in …
Kenyans are expressing their anger over fuel price hikes announced on Sunday in the latest adjustment by the energy regulator.
The price of fuel in the country is determined by a government authority, which sets the maximum prices of ea…
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says he is still "looking at which of the vaccines" to go for, days after his government kicked off mass vaccination against Covid-19 using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
Presidents across the contine…
Officials in Nigeria say security forces foiled another attempt to kidnap students during an overnight attack on Sunday in a school in Kaduna State.
Thirty-nine students are still missing following a raid on a college in the same state …
A delegation from the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) led by the 2020 running mate to the presidential candidate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has paid a visit to Apam to commiserate with the families of the 13 childr…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Bagbin has asked member of the House to be guided by their conscience and integrity in their exercise of the power over the public purse.
He reiterated that it required fair knowledge about fin…
Turkey has resumed the diplomatic contacts with Egypt it broke off after the Egyptian military overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the foreign ministries and intelligence ag…
Millions of people globally, including in some African countries, risk dying from conflict-driven hunger, with the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change making the situation worse, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned.
More t…
The Executive Director for Afrobarometer, Prof. Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has given a gloomy description of the state of democracy in Ghana, describing it as largely flawed.
According to him, the kind of democracy Ghana prides itself in has…
For almost 24 years, Hong Kong has been a kind of unwitting political laboratory, the subject of an experiment centred on the defining ideological divide of our time.
Could two entirely incompatible sets of values - authoritarianism and…
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has announced an eight-day mourning period, starting on Friday, following the death of Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko.
In a statement on Thursday night, President Ouattara said flags would be flown…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says aside the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination, the country also needs a corruption vaccine for the Akufo-Addo-led government.
Mr. Ablakwa believes tha…
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has called on the Electoral Commission (EC) to, as part of its review of the conduct of the 2020 general election, carefully reflect on its election results management processes and make…
The Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has stated that the decision by the government to increase taxes in the 2021 budget as a means of mobilising more revenue to support national development will only subject Ghanaians to more hardships…
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has no wife called "Ramatu", an official statement said Friday.
"The attention of the Office of the Vice President has been drawn to stories and pictures circulating of a woman supposedly named, " Ramatu"…
The Speaker of Parliament, Right Honourable Kingsford Alban Sumana Bagbin, has asked the Government to provide adequate resources for the operations of Parliament and the Judiciary in the 2021 Budget.
He said Parliament and the Judiciar…
Supporting Covid vaccination rollouts is expected to top the agenda at a leaders meeting of the Quad on Friday.
It will be the first meeting of all four Quad leaders since the US, Japan, Australia and India first formed the group in 200…
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi has sacked his army and air force chiefs as the country battles an Islamist insurgency in the north and a rebellion by a militia linked to the main opposition party.
A statement from the presidency on T…
Some Assembly Members in the Shama District Assembly of the Western Region have appealed to President Nana Akufo-Addo to retain Mr Joseph Amoah as District Chief Executive (DCE) for the District.
The Assembly members, some of whom have …
US President Joe Biden is “deeply concerned” about the crisis in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has said.
“The president is deeply concerned and highly engaged on this issue,” Ms Psaki told repo…
Ghanaians are expecting normal times without the threat of covid-19 and all hands must be on board to steer the ship out of the hurricane, Mr Prince Bagnaba Mba, President of Forum for Equity has stated.
“Parliament should be the heart …
Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga has been placed under quarantine after returning positive tests for coronavirus on Thursday evening.
Mr Odinga was admitted to hospital on Tuesday in the capital, Nairobi, after developing fatigue,…
King Goodwill Zwelithini of the Zulu nation in South Africa has died in hospital where he was being treated for diabetes-related issues.
The king, 72, was the leader of South Africa's largest ethnic group and an influential traditional …
The European Parliament has declared that the whole of the European Union is an "LGBTIQ Freedom Zone".
The symbolic resolution was passed in response to local authorities in Poland labelling themselves "LGBT ideology-free zones" in rece…
Nagpur in western India is to be the first major city in the country to return to a complete lockdown amid a sharp spike in coronavirus cases.
The week-long lockdown, which starts on 15 March, will extend to adjoining areas of the distr…
President Joe Biden has said he is hopeful that America can "mark independence" from Covid-19 on 4 July if people get vaccinated.
In his first primetime address as president, Mr Biden said he would order states to make all adults eligib…
Parliament has unanimously approved the President's nominations for regional ministerial appointments.
The nominees were approved on consensus after the Appointments Committee submitted its third report on the 16 regional nominees who h…
The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has been assigned additional responsibilities as an interim Minister of Finance.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo gave him the temporary responsibility for the Minist…
Member countries of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have been unable to agree on a proposal for a waiver from patents and other rules for efforts to combat the pandemic.
The initiative led by South Africa and India seeks to support t…
Somalia's former president, Ali Mahdi Mohamed, died on Wednesday at a hospital in neighbouring Kenya aged 82.
He rose to power in 1991 after the overthrow of President Siad Barre and stayed in office until 2000. He was succeeded by Abdi…
Uganda kicked off mass vaccination against Covid-19 on Wednesday, after receiving 864,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine last week.
Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng was the first to receive a jab at the main hospital in the capi…