The Nigerian senate has introduced a bill that aims to prevent the sexual harassment of university students.
The proposed legislation follows a BBC investigation that uncovered alleged sexual misconduct by lecturers in Nigeria and Ghana…
Germany's main Jewish community group has accused police of "negligence" after a gunman killed two people while attacking an east German synagogue.
The head of the Central Council of Jews said it was "scandalous" that police were not pr…
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has accused Parliament’s Acting Director of Public Affairs of peddling falsehoods regarding the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu.
The OSP in a statement said Parliament’s Acting Director of Pub…
US drug firm Johnson & Johnson has been told to pay $8bn (£6.6bn) in punitive damages to a man over claims he was not warned that an anti-psychotic drug could lead to breast growth.
A Philadelphia jury made the award to Nicholas Murray,…
At least two people have been killed in a shooting in the eastern German city of Halle, police say.
One person was arrested, police said, but other suspects were believed to have fled the Paulus area in a vehicle.
Witnesses said one …
Ugandan-American Jessica Nabongo says she has completed her quest to become the "first documented black woman to travel to all countries" in the world.
She announced the feat on her Instagram account after she arrived in the Seychelles:…
Eleven people have been arrested in southern Mexico after the mayor of their village was dragged out of his office, tied to a pick-up truck and dragged through the streets.
Police intervened to free Mayor Jorge Luis Escandón Hernández, …
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has said he is shocked by the lack of action against men who impregnated 229 schoolgirls in the south-western region of Rukwa.
"The government is providing free education and these men are busy making g…
The next government of the Convention People's Party (CPP) will work hard to make sure that education from the basic to the tertiary level is made free for all Ghanaians, Mr James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr, Acting General Secretary of the Party h…
Aspiring Assembly and Unit Committee members have responded to the Electoral Commission's opening nominations by filling and picking nomination forms.
A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to a number of electoral areas at districts in…
The Ablekuma North Municipal Assembly has held its Second Public hearing at Darkuman-Kokompe in Accra.
Participants included; Assembly members, Departmental heads, security agencies, traditional authorities, the clergy, artisans, market…
The Convention People's Party (CPP) has pledged to review the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) policy to cover all ailments when voted into power in the 2020 national elections.
It said appropriate measures would be put in place …
Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Ho West Constituency, has assured supporters of the Party that victory was "on the horizon" for the Party ahead of the 2020 general elections.
He…
Ms Josephine Nkrumah, the Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has said the amendment of article 55 (3) of the 1992 Constitution will allow political parties to participate in district level elections and prom…
The White House has officially refused to co-operate with the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
A letter sent to Democratic leaders rejected it as "baseless" and "constitutionally invalid".
Three Democratic-led House …
Zimbabwe's power regulator has increased the average electricity price by 320%.
The decision was taken to allow it to ramp up production and improve supplies amid daily power cuts.
Essentially, the electricity company needs more mone…
The US has said it will impose visa restrictions on Chinese officials accused of involvement in repression of Muslim populations.
It follows the decision on Monday to blacklist 28 Chinese organisations linked by the US to allegations of…
Law students have been calling for reforms in legal education in Ghana. To press home their demands, the students on Monday, October 7, 2019 undertook a street protest in Accra.
The students are of the belief that there is a deliberate …
African Ministers to discuss innovative ways to close Identity Gap in Fifth Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Conference
The conference will include discussions on new and emerging initiatives: the United Nations Legal Iden…
Guinea-Bissau is a country of origin for many young people who are looking for better livelihood opportunities abroad
Soil erosion is but one of many environmental threats that dramatically impact the rural economy in Guinea-Bissau. It’…
The contribution will provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to more than 700,000 vulnerable people
The European Union (EU) is providing US$10.4 million (€9.5 million) in humanitarian funding to the United Nations’ World Food…
United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) opens regional office in Egypt, providing rural development support to seven countries in the region
The IFAD new regional office covers Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jor…
The President had ordered the release of 333 persons arrested in the context of the conflict in the Northwest and Southwest regions
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday welcomed the release of hundreds of p…
The office at the University of Lagos of an academic who featured in a BBC Africa Eye report about sex for grades has been sealed off.
Boniface Igbeneghu was suspended after he was caught on film propositioning and sexually harassing an…
The US recently reopened its embassy in Somalia after 28 years, citing security improvements in the East African nation blighted by conflict for many years.
The announcement came days after a US military base about 90km outside Mogadish…
For the first time, all Canada's main party leaders were on stage together, in what is likely to have been the most watched TV debate in this federal election campaign.
So the stakes were high.
It was a crowded stage: Liberal leader …
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, says the NDC will continue to promote greater academic freedom in universities.
He said the government had no business interfering in the running of uni…
A ferry that sank off the Pacific nation of Kiribati - killing 95 people - was overloaded, had a drunken crew, and was not allowed to carry passengers at sea, an inquiry has found.
Of the 102 people aboard the MV Butiraoi last year, onl…
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has nominated Dr Akinwunmi Adesina for re-election as the President of African Development Bank (AfDB) Group.
Dr Adesina who disclosed this while speaking at an event in Lagos on Sunday, expressed a…
Mr Oscar Ofori Larbi, the former District Chief Executive (DCE) who is also the Parliamentary candidate for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Aowin Constituency has embarked on the re-graveling and re-shaping portions o…
As at 1200 hours midday five candidates, three for District Assembly and two for Unit Committees pick forms to contest in the December 17, polls.
The exercise is currently on going in all 17 electoral areas within the Ashaiman Electoral…
Mr Ras Mubarak, Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu in the Northern Region, has constructed two boreholes for two communities in the area to ensure they have access to potable water.
The mechanised boreholes constructed at Begu and Z…
The Young Professionals Youth Coalition (YPYC) has awarded Former President Jerry John Rawlings and the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, for being exemplary models to the youth in political and traditional governance, respectively.
T…
The Local Governance Network (LOGNet) has called on government to resource the National Commission for Civic Education, the Electoral Commission, and the media to educate citizenry ahead of the upcoming district level elections and referen…
The Electoral Commission (EC) will today Monday 7, start accepting nominations from prospective candidates for election as members of District Assemblies and Unit Committees.
There will be no payment of filing fees.
A statement signe…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) said the fight against corruption must begin from the home and urged parents to lead by resolving to be incorruptible and good role models to their children.
"This will give you the mor…
The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori-Panin, has launched the 20th Anniversary of his ascension to the Ofori-Panin Stool at a ceremony at the forecourt of the Palace at Kyebi in the Eastern Region.
On October 4, 1999, the Okyenhene was …
Standing in the 12th position amongst African oil producers, the DRC’s petroleum industry is miniscule at best, producing an average of 25 thousand barrels of crude oil per day
By NJ Ayuk, CEO of Centurion Law Group and Executive Chairm…
The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese organisations for their alleged involvement in abuses against ethnic Uighurs in China's Xinjiang province.
The organisations are now on the so-called Entity List, which bars them from buying products fr…
The University of Lagos has suspended a lecturer who was caught on film propositioning and sexually harassing an undercover BBC reporter.
Boniface Igbeneghu, also a pastor, has been condemned by his church.
He was one of several acad…
The Erratic Truth Foundation (ETF), a US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has congratulated Dr David Nfodjo, the newly elected parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ho West Constituency of the Volta Reg…
The UK will give Zimbabwe up to £2 million to help remove landmines after the Duke of Sussex backed the cause on his recent tour of Africa.
The government said it would match public donations to the Halo Trust's Zimbabwe appeal.
Prin…
The announcement was made in a tweet by Saudi Arabia's foreign affairs ministry following a meeting in Riyadh between King Salman and the leader of Sudan's Transitional Military Council (TMC), Lt Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, and Pr…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the European Union to set out in detail its concerns with his Brexit plan and said he had already made a “big compromise” to agree a new deal.
Johnson told reporters on a hospital visit outside…
The National Basketball Association (NBA) came under fire on Monday for its response to a tweet by a Houston Rockets official in support of Hong Kong protests for democracy, the latest overseas business to run afoul of political issues in …
Three scientists who discovered how cells sense and adapt to oxygen levels have won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
The award was shared by Britain's Sir Peter Ratcliffe and two Americans, William Kaelin and Gregg Semen…
Environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion says it will start a two-week protest on Monday.
In London, it aims to "peacefully occupy the centres of power and shut them down" and protests are also planned in world cities, includin…
The Government of Israel has renewed its technical co-operation with Ghana with a focus on recycling water bodies destroyed by the illegal activities of the people in the rural areas.
Madam Shani Cooper-Zubiba, Israeli Ambassador to Gha…
The Second Lady, Hajia Samira Bawumia, has been named the first of seven global honourees by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll), in partnership with Ashden.
This is in recognition of her contribution towards mobilising action for t…
This week, International Organization for Migration (IOM) completed a fish farming project in Bilma, in the Kawar region in northern Niger, to the benefit of more than 6,500 people
The adoption of the law N° 2015-36 criminalizing the sm…