The body of Robert Mugabe has arrived back in Zimbabwe after a private flight from Singapore, where he died last week aged 95.
Mr Mugabe was Zimbabwe's first leader after the country became independent in 1980. He held on to power for a…
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and former rebel leader Riek Machar have agreed to form a transitional government.
The information minister said the new administration would be in place by mid-November.
The two leaders have been hol…
The ongoing voter's register exhibition has recorded a low turnout in the new Juaben Municipality, on the first day of the nationwide exercise being conducted by the Electoral Commission (EC).
When GNA visited some of the polling statio…
The Electoral Commission is to start discussions with political parties and stakeholders to reduce the voting duration by an hour as a proactive measure to reduce tension, suspicion, guarantee the security of ballot and electoral officials…
The Speaker, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye has called on the academia and think-tanks in Ghana to support Members of Parliament (MPs) with their research evidence and information to enable them deliver on their mandate.
According to him, …
Five Ambassadors from Belarus, Finland, Gambia, Morocco and Suriname, accredited to Ghana by their respective countries Tuesday presented their letters of Credence to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House in Accra.
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President Trump announced in a tweet on Tuesday that he had asked his national security adviser, John Bolton, to resign. Sources say the departure was due to disagreements and suspicions that Bolton was involved in leaks.
The shocking a…
The Corporate Secretaries of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) will hold their 20th annual meeting from 11 to 13 September 2019 at the headquarters of the African Development Bank in Abidjan.
The Abidjan deliberations …
The Minority in Parliament has expressed concern over the number of abandoned health facilities across the country and has said it is a sign of failure of effective health delivery.
According to them, the government had shown little i…
The nationwide voters register exhibition exercise, which will allow about 17 million registered voters to verify their information, opened at almost all polling centres yesterday.
The eight-day exercise, scheduled to start from yeste…
The Leader and Founder of the United Front Party (UFP), Mr Akwasi Addai, has called for the powers of the President to make key appointments to state institutions to be reduced.
That, according to him, would give impetus to the fight …
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called on Parliament to use its oversight role to ensure that the Executive works with a national budget that will reflect the aspirations of the people.
“The national budget must transform t…
More than eight million people in Ethiopia need food, shelter, medicine or other emergency assistance
Ethiopia is beset by “persistent and multi-faceted humanitarian problems”, the United Nations relief chief said on Tuesday, calling fo…
The training is part of refresher courses for the Managed Equipment Services (MES) project launched in 2015
Healthcare technologists including radiographers, radiologists and biomedical engineers drawn from Kenya’s 47 counties; The trai…
Fraud is at its essence the result of mirroring
By Ayanda Kotobe, Finance Director at RS Components
Why do we stop at traffic lights? It’s not because we are naturally attuned to seeing red as the order to stop. If that were …
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are presumed to be significant threats to the national health and economic development of Ethiopia
On 5 September 2019, Ethiopia disseminates the results of a case report for Investment in prevention and …
Republican Dan Bishop defeated Democrat Dan McCready in Tuesday’s special election for a North Carolina U.S. House seat, holding onto the seat for the GOP after 2018’s vote was thrown out for fraud and giving President Trump a victory, alt…
Many migrants attempt to make the dangerous crossing over the Mediterranean to reach EuropeImage caption: Many migrants attempt to make the dangerous crossing over the Mediterranean to reach Europe
A deal for Rwanda to host hundreds of …
8 women and 7 men will be pursuing a fully-funded master’s degree course on subjects including human rights, public health, development, IT and wildlife in the UK
British High Commissioner to Cameroon, Rowan James Laxton called on the 1…
A Kenyan police officer is being praised for teaching pupils whose teachers failed to turn up for work after a non-governmental organisation posted a photo of him in class on Facebook.
The Education Development Trust said Jairus Mulumia…
A group of teachers in Cameroon is clubbing together to pay the ransom for their kidnapped colleague.
Bouba Samson was abducted in August by suspected English-speaking separatists, who later contacted his wife to demand payment to free …
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Nigeria military of detaining more than 3,500 children over the last seven years.
The children, almost half of them girls and some as young as seven, are accused of having links to the Islamist B…
Since the unification of Italy in the late 19th Century, the country has had 58 prime ministers - every one a man.
No woman has come close to leading this country. Female politicians in Italy have often been used either as decoration or…
An Iranian female football fan who set herself on fire a week ago has died.
The woman set herself alight in Tehran after her trial, for attempting to enter a football stadium disguised as a man, was postponed.
The authorities in Iran…
A group, calling itself 'The Concern People of Zongo' has expressed displeasure at the current events in the two main political parties in the country—NPP and NDC, in Zongo communities, especially, in the Asawase Constituency.
It said i…
Mr Stephen Ashitey Adjei, Executive Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Tema East Constituency, has called on chiefs to take a stance against government's move to change the appointment process for MMDCEs into an electo…
As Heads of State, dignitaries, government officials and influencers around the world prepare to arrive in New York for this year’s United Nations General Assembly, GUBA Enterprise is proud to announce that five African Presidents will be …
Mr Alfred Amoah, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal Assembly in the Western North Region, has visited Baakokrom, a village near sefwi Bekwai, to educate the constituents on government policies and prog…
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia on Monday called on Parliament to use its oversight role to ensure that Executive works with a national budget that will reflect the aspirations of the people.
The national budget must transform the lives…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says no effort is being made to suppress freedom of expression in Ghana, as the continuing vitality of the Ghanaian media and the intense diversity of the public discourse remain some of the most inte…
Overland routes in the Horn of Africa and the perilous sea passage across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea have claimed the lives of at least 1,171 people since 2014
African migrants are perishing at a rate of about 25 persons p…
The African delegates will remain in St Petersburg for the 23rd session of the UNWTO’s General Assembly, the most important high-level event for the global tourism sector
Leaders from across Africa have met in Saint Petersburg a…
The Agenda outlines macroeconomic, structural and sectoral reforms that will pave the way for job creation, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth
The government of Ethiopia has unveiled what it describes as a “Homegrown Econom…
Expressed deep concern over recent and ongoing acts of violence against foreign nationals that have been spreading across several parts of the country, particularly in the Gauteng Province
The Acting Resident Coordinator for the…
A team was in Sudan to purchase relief materials from the local market to save time and ensure swift delivery of aid
The Khalifa bin Zayed Foundation will distribute humanitarian relief and food assistance to around 30,000 Sudanese fami…
In our series of letters from African writers, journalist and former Ghana government minister Elizabeth Ohene writes that Zimbabwe's ex-President Robert Mugabe, who has died aged 95, had a special place in the hearts of Ghanaians.
We i…
The narration on migration should change. It’s time for European Union (EU) to see Africa as important trade partner - Carmelo Abela
Minister Abela emphasised that by investing in countries of origin the EU will be leading to addressing…
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had threatened to fire senior staff at the federal weather agency unless they backed President Donald Trump's claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, the New York Times reports.
It says this led …
The research project was funded by Murdoch University, with support from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Millions of hectares of sandy, infertile Australian farmland could benefit from the commercia…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stressed the government’s commitment to press freedom and given the assurance that strenuous efforts are being made to find the killers of Ahmed Suale, the murdered journalist, for them to face…
Shell’s subsidiary in Nigeria says the oil giant is losing 10,000 barrels of oil a day to thieves in the West African nation – at a cost of $560,000 (£452,000) a day.
The losses by vandals attacking oil pipelines in the southern Niger D…
The ICRC has been working to support Burkina Faso’s health professionals, with medical kits, and vaccination campaigns
Away from the world’s attention, Burkina Faso has been slipping into violence. In less than a year, the number of dis…
The disqualified aspirant for the Asawase primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mubarick Masawudu, has called on his supporters to exercise restraint and allow due process to prevail in the matter of his disqualification.
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The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has denied claims that he was shielding corrupt officials within his government.
He categorically denied the claims that he was shielding corrupt officials in his administration whilst addressi…
The nationwide exhibition of the voters register begins today, the Electoral Commission (EC) has announced.
The eight-day exercise, which is meant to clean the register ahead of the upcoming referendum on the participation of politica…
“It is not my job to clear or convict any person accused of wrongdoing, or of engaging in acts of corruption. My job is to act on allegations of corruption by referring the issue or issues to the proper investigative agencies for the rel…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given his assent to the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act, 2019, which bans acts of vigilantism in Ghana, disbands vigilante groups, including political party vigilante groups and land guards.
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WHO and partners to help the Government boost health facility defences against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
At least 155 health care workers have been infected with the Ebola virus disease since the beginning of this te…
The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Nuertey Ayertey, has called for the protection of children, adolescents and girls to enable them to grow to become responsible adults.
''We believe that as a people we should strive toward…
The hashtag #ShameOnTheChurches is trending in Kenya after a Sunday service at a Catholic Church descended into chaos when two MPs started fighting.
They had both addressed the congregation in the town of Kiharu, in central Murang’a cou…