The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said the NPP government's flagship educational intervention, Free SHS, has significantly increased female enrolment for secondary education in the country.
In an interview on Wontumi FM in Ku…
Liberia's Information Minister, Ledgerhood Rennie, has defended the move to seek help from the US government on investigations into the deaths of civil servants.
The minister told the BBC's Newsday that the government wanted a transpare…
The Asante Mamponghene, Daasebre Osei Bonsu II has paid glowing tribute to the competence and professional prowess of Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
Vice President Bawumia paid a courtesy call on the Mamponghene ahead of his tour…
Greece accused rival Turkey of lacking credibility on Monday by sending a survey vessel into contested waters in the eastern Mediterranean, and of orchestrating the partial opening of an abandoned town on ethnically-split Cyprus.
Earlie…
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has postponed her annual policy address scheduled for Wednesday in order to go to Beijing for talks on how the central government can help with the financial hub’s economic recovery.
Lam said she wou…
Ethiopia's Agriculture Minister, Oumer Hussien, has said more spray planes will be deployed to fight huge locust swarms that are devastating farms.
This is after two spraying planes crashed early October slowing down the effort to stop th…
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation says more than nine million people in Sudan are in need of assistance because of flooding.
The agency told the BBC that millions of hectares of farmland had been affected.
Much of Sudan has …
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta are due to launch a call to action on Monday to raise $5bn (£3.8bn) for educating the most vulnerable children around the world.
The number of children out of sch…
Communities living near Mount Kilimanjaro have been battling a wildfire on the mountain - Africa's highest peak - that broke out on Sunday afternoon.
Tanzania’s National Parks service (Tanapa) said efforts to contain it were ongoing.
T…
Authorities in Rwanda have penalised two Catholic priests after presiding over Masses that violated coronavirus safety measures.
The Catholic parish of Ruhengeri in the north of the country - where the priests are stationed - also risks c…
Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has predicted that the party would win the presidential elections by 57 per cent on December 7.
He said the prediction was based on the party's …
Four persons have filed to battle the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Akatsi South, Mr Bernard Ahiafor in the December 2020 parliamentary and presidential elections.
Top among the parliame…
Spare Parts Dealers at Kokompe, near Darkuman have expressed their support for the Akufo-Addo led government, indicating their votes for the NPP in the December elections.
Nana Asiedu, Chairman of the dealers told First Lady Mrs Rebecca…
A total of 51 Parliamentary Candidates have filed their nomination forms to contest the 15 parliamentary seats in the Upper East Region in the December 2020 polls.
Out of the 51 candidates, six are females while 45 are males.
Accordi…
Professor Kwesi Yankah, Minister in charge of Tertiary Education has filed his nomination to contest the Agona East Parliamentary seat with a call on his supporters to unite to win in the December 7, polls.
He said the rationale behind …
The Chief of Prestea, Nana Nteboa Pra IV, has hailed the impact of the government's flagship educational intervention, Free Senior High School (SHS) on his people.
According to the Prestea chief, the Free SHS intervention, introduced by…
The government offered a lifeline to more than 250,000 youth hurt by COVID-19 response measures
Through the National Hygiene Program, the government offered a lifeline to more than 250,000 youth hurt by COVID-19 response measures; the s…
Police in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, have fired teargas and rubber bullets at protesters seeking an end to violence against women.
The country has one of the highest levels of reported rapes in the world while more than 200 cases o…
The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days.
The mass testing comes after the discovery of a dozen cases linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients …
Campaigners in Nigeria have responded with scepticism to the announcement that a police unit, widely accused of brutality, has been disbanded.
Protesters had called for the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or Sars, to be broken up.
But th…
New local lockdown rules for England are due to be announced later.
The Liverpool City Region is expected to face the tightest restrictions under a new "three-tier" system, which will classify regions as being on "medium", "high" or "ve…
The Sitting Member of Parliament for Tempane in the Upper East Region,Mr Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, on Friday, filed his nomination forms to contest the Tempane constituency seat for the second time on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NP…
Interim Malian leader, Colonel Bah N'daw, has lauded the role played by the ECOWAS Chairman, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in resolving the political crisis in his country.
Col. Bah N'daw, at a meeting held at the Malian govern…
The Electoral Commission (EC) may on Wednesday, October 14, organise a balloting session for cleared Presidential Aspirants, a source at the EC disclosed to the Ghana News Agency.
Depending on the decision of the Technical and Informati…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Mfantseman constituency in the Central Region, has initiated moves to find a replacement for Mr Ekow Kwansah Hayford, the party's Parliamentary nominee for Election 2020 who was killed last Friday by su…
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has arrived in Ethiopia for a three-day working visit.
His delegation includes Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and presidential adviser Yemane Ghebreab.
President Isaias and his host, Prime Minister Abi…
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has assured the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II that the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is committed to a peaceful campaign towards this year's elections, as well as a peaceful process for the…
At one point during her four years in the hands of jihadist militants in northern Mali, French aid worker Sophie Petronin said she felt like giving up hope. She wandered into the desert, sat on the ground in the baking sun and wept.
The…
The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on 18 "major" Iranian banks in one of the most extensive such moves by Washington against Tehran in months.
The order will also penalise non-Iranian institutions trading with them, effectiv…
Fourteen civilians have been killed in fresh attacks in the western Ethiopian state of Benishangul-Gumuz, according to the authorities.
Fourteen perpetrators who were alleged to have carried out the attacks were also killed.
This is th…
Professor Frimpong Boateng, Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation has donated a Pick-up vehicle, two motorbikes and thousands of T-Shirts to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Wa East in the Upp…
Association of Presiding members of the Greater Accra region have called on the Electoral Commission, Political Parties and individuals to play their roles responsibly to ensure peaceful elections on December 7, 2020.
“Because of mainst…
Reverend Seth K Mawutor, Chairman, Volta Regional Peace Council (VRPC), has said an effective and efficient way of making vigilantism a thing of the past was for political parties to be sincere with themselves on the matter.
"They know …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the Vigilantism and related offences Act 999 will be fully enforced without fear or favour.
The Vigilantism and Related Offences Act bans all acts of vigilantism including; political party …
The Greater Accra Presiding Members’ Association, has appealed to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development to organize training programmes for presiding members.
Mr Joseph Korto, Dean of the Greater Accra Presiding Members…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to voters in the Upper West Region to vote massively for him in the December polls based on his remarkable track record.
He said in 2016 he came to solicit their support with promises b…
Protesters in Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, are into the second day of a sit-in campaign calling on the government to scrap a notorious police unit that is accused by many of brutality.
The protesters, mostly young people, spent Thur…
A man who killed nine women in a case that caused outrage in Nigeria has been sentenced to death in the southern city of Port Harcourt.
Prosecutors say 40-year-old Gracious David-West strangled his victims in hotel rooms across Nigeria…
The People’s National Convention (PNC) has chosen Reverend Dr. Divine Ayivor as the Running Mate to Mr David Apasera, the Party’s flagbearer for the 2020 presidential election.
A statement from the PNC, copied to the Ghana News Agency o…
Mr Emmanuel Abole Abugre, the Bolgatanga District Chief Executive Officer (DCE), has filed his nomination on the ticket of the NPP, in readiness to contest the Zuarungu constituency parliamentary seat.
Mr Abole, who was flanked by party…
Parliamentary hopeful, Mr Joseph Akweteh Tettey has filed his nomination forms to contest on the ticket of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Kpone-Katamanso Constituency.
Mr. Tettey, who is popularly known as Joe …
The Vice President, Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawamia has cut sod for the construction of Samanye Barrier-Jaway Wharf road and other internal roads in the Jomoro District of the Western Region.
The 108.8 km road project, would be undertaken wi…
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has pointed out that the time has come for Ghanaians to retain President Akufo-Addo for another four years to enable him implement the transformation he promised Ghanaians.
He said Ghanaians have witne…
A man who was cleared of terrorism charges over the 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack in Kenya has been abducted by unknown gunmen.
On Wednesday, two men were convicted over the attack in the capital, Nairobi, which saw more than 71 de…
The FBI says it has thwarted a plot to abduct and overthrow Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
Mrs Whitmer has become a target for coronavirus sceptics after enacting strict measures that were overturned by a judge last we…
Kenyan lawmakers will next week take a short recess to shoot their #JerusalemaDanceChallenge video.
The Jerusalema song by South African musician Master KG has spawned dance videos across the globe.
Kenya's leader of majority in parl…
In the quest to protect national peace for development, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has stressed the need for optimum transparency in the processes involving t…
Mr Alfred Obeng Boateng, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Constituency has presented 13 sets of jerseys and 13 footballs to 13 football teams to equip the youth in their sporting activities.…
The Vice presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang says the party's manifesto promises are all geared towards practicable progress.
According to the NDC Running mate, the 2020 election i…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr John Dramani Mahama has rounded up his four-Days tour of the Western North Region with a call on Ghanaians to vote massively for the NDC.
He said the next NDC administration woul…
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