Mali's new president has been sworn into office, five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Former Defence Minister Bah Ndaw, 70, was picked by the coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, to head a transitional government unti…
France opened an anti-terror investigation after two journalists were stabbed in Paris on Friday near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that was attacked by Islamist militants in 2015.
Prime Minister Jean Caste…
At a court hearing in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Paul Rusesabagina, the man portrayed as a hero in Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda about the genocide, said that though he was part of a group that formed the National Liberation Front (FLN) r…
Chief Superintendent of Police, Ebenezer Ewudzi Sackey, Chairman of the Security Election Committee for Agona West, Agona East, and Gomoa Central Constituencies, has admonished political party supporters to desist from damaging opponents'…
Mrs Cynthia Morrison, the Minister of Gender and Social Protection, has inspected on-going Swedru township roads and Astroturf projects under construction in the Agona West Constituency of the Central Region.
The road projects include P…
Amnesty International Kenya, International Justice Mission Kenya, Haki Africa and the Kituo cha Sheria have filed a petition asking for monetary compensation for five victims of brutality as police enforced a Covid-19 curfew.
They have …
Three Egyptian rape suspects have been handed over to the Egyptian authorities by interpol.
Ahmed Helmy Toulan, 32, Amr Hussein Mahmoud Ismail, 30, and his brother Khaled Hussein Mahmoud Ismail, 33, were arrested in Lebanon.
Egypt re…
High-ranking Vatican official Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu has unexpectedly resigned, the Holy See has announced.
He previously worked as the second-most senior official in the Vatican's Secretariat of State.
Cardinal Becciu becam…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has said it will re-open the Voters Registration Exercise for one day.
A statement issued by the EC today said the scheduled exercise is to give opportunity to those who have attained the age of 18 and Citi…
Mali's new president will be sworn into office on Friday, five weeks after the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
Bah Ndaw, a former defence minister, was picked by the coup leader, Colonel Assimi Goita, to head a transitional governm…
There has been a second explosion in Nigeria in two days - this time involving a fuel lorry in Nigeria’s commercial hub Lagos on Thursday evening.
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency says at least 16 people are seriously injured aft…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has revealed that it has detected that about 60,000 registered voters got duplicate voter identification numbers during the last mass registration exercise.
This anomaly, the Commission says is across about…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has clarified that those who have been affected by the duplicate voter identification card numbers in the recent mass registration exercise, can still vote on December 7, 2020 whether or not they pick up their…
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has issued a rare personal apology for the killing of a South Korean official, Seoul says.
Mr Kim reportedly told his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in that the "disgraceful affair" should not have ha…
Face masks are no longer mandatory on public transport in most of New Zealand as Covid-19 cases continue to drop.
From midnight on Wednesday, they are required only in Auckland, the heart of a recent outbreak, and on planes.
The rest…
The EU has said it does not recognise Alexander Lukashenko as the president of Belarus, a day after he was sworn in for a sixth term at a secret ceremony.
The bloc's diplomatic chief said the unannounced inauguration, as well as his dis…
At least 15 top Kenyan government officials and businesspeople are to be recommended for prosecution in connection with the alleged theft of tens of millions of dollars meant for purchase of Covid-19 medical supplies.
Investigators have…
A Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) postponed in April because of the coronavirus pandemic will now be held in June next year in Rwanda's capital, Kigali.
The biennial meeting is the Commonwealth’s highest consultative an…
With Brazil still registering thousands of new coronavirus infections daily, politicians are keen to strike deals with vaccine makers to try to protect Brazilians from Covid-19.
On Wednesday, the governor of Brazil's most populous state…
A court in France has rejected a request by the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, to dismiss an investigation of allegations that he received bribes from Libya to finance his election campaign in 2007.
The ruling by the court of appeal…
Mr Francis Ato Cudjoe, Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development (MoFAD) said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its second term of office will continue to invest in the fisheries sector to ensure that the country derives the…
The Electoral Commission on Wednesday denied allegations that it is carrying out an agenda to remove the names of supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from the Voters Register.
A statement copied to the Ghana News Agency…
The Western Regional Chairman of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Anthony Evans Amoah, has described the party as the most disciplined political force in the country.
According to him, the NPP tradition has bee…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has hinted of plans to appoint “COVID-19 Ambassadors” at polling stations across the country on Election Day to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr Bossman Eric Asare, Deputy Chairman of the commission i…
Mr Samuel Pyne, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the NPP, has asked party members to desist from tribal politics as they intensify their campaign activities for the 2020 elections.
They should also refrain from the use of foul language…
Nana Oduro Numapau, the Ho Municipal Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), has attributed the low turnout at the exhibition centres within the Municipality to the code verification system introduced by the Commission.
He said the m…
A court in Algeria has sentenced four members of a billionaire family to lengthy prison sentences in a high-profile corruption case linked to the era of the former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Three brothers in the Kouninef family re…
Mr Jonathan Azasu, a Local Governance Expert, has said the development of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies hinges on strong Unit Committees.
He said the Assemblies would only realise their visions if there was a proper fu…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has said the party is committed to winning the 2020 general election by strengthening its activities to attract more members.
He, therefore, impressed on pa…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called for restructuring of the global financing architecture to enable access to fresh capital by developing nations in the face of the covid-19 pandemic and the havoc it has wreaked on their econ…
Fatma Karume, one of Tanzania’s top lawyers, has said she's been struck off from the roll of advocates, a decision that bans her from practising law in the mainland.
Ms Karume, popularly known as shangazi, Swahili for aunt, has been a v…
West African leaders have indicated they might lift the sanctions they have imposed on Mali following last month's coup.
Their envoy, the former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, said on his arrival in Mali that the military office…
Two policemen have been shot amid protests in the US over a decision not to charge any officers over the killing of Breonna Taylor.
Ms Taylor, 26, a black hospital worker, was shot six times as three officers raided her home on 13 March…
Gambia's opposition leader has blamed the government for the rejection of a draft constitution that would have limited presidential terms.
Parliament rejected the draft constitution on Tuesday.
A clause that prevented President Adama…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled an "ambitious plan for an unprecedented reality" amid rising Covid-19 cases.
His expansive new legislative agenda includes new investments and initiatives to help the country recover f…
US President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses November's election.
"Well, we'll have to see what happens," the president told a news conference at the White House. "You know that."
Mr Tru…
A young Ethiopian journalist has produced and distributed the country’s first Braille newspaper.
Braille is a system allowing visually impaired people to read by using raised dots to represent letters that are felt by the fingertips.
…
Africa needs support from the rest of the world in order to rebuild "our shattered economies" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the meeting of the UN's General Assembly.
Mr Ramapho…
Cameroon's opposition leader, Maurice Kamto, has been confined at home for planning Tuesday's anti-government protests.
A video showing police vehicles outside the leader's house has been shared online.
The leader of the Cameroon Ren…
A leading university in China has started to offer Ethiopia's widely spoken Amharic language as a full course at degree level, in the latest effort to improve ties between the two countries.
About 30 students applied to learn the langua…
China is coercing hundreds of thousands of people in Tibet into military-style training centres that experts say are akin to labour camps, a study has said.
The report by the Jamestown Foundation is based on state media reports, policy …
The European Union has called for a compulsory system across the bloc to manage migration, after years of division over how to respond to a big influx of migrants and refugees.
The German-backed pact would require all 27 EU countries to…
All polling stations with more than 700 names on their voters register will be split into two — A and B — for the December 7 general election, the Electoral Commission (EC) has said.
The decision, it explained, was to ensure that long q…
Mr Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the Majority Leader in Parliament, has called for a reform in political parties' structure to ameliorate the incidence of monetization in the country's electoral discourse.
He said the growing trend of monetiz…
French television channel M6 has called on the Algerian government to lift a ban on its operations in the country after it aired a report on the so-called Hirak movement, a name for protests against former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
…
Some exhibition officers in the ongoing voter register exhibition have blamed poor patronage of the exercise on low publicity.
"Many people are not aware of the exercise. Others too do not know the relevance, so only a few people pass by,…
Exemplary leadership which used to be the hallmark of the Ghanaian Society must be reincarnated, Mr Douglas Frimpong Nnuroh, a former Lecturer of the University of Cape Coast, has suggested.
Concerning the Nkrumah Government, he said go…
Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, the running mate of the Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described her nomination as a call to duty for all women to ensure she succeeded.
She has, the…
Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Vice-Presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has appealed to constituents of Assin residents in the Central Region to vote massively for John Dramani Mahama in the upcoming Dec…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is set to begin a three-day working tour of the Western North Region from Thursday, September 24, 2020.
The visit would enable him to commission some projects, address durbars, cut sod for the const…
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