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…
Robert Mugabe's nephew has said the former Zimbabwean leader died a "very bitter" man.
Mr Mugabe, who died aged 95 last week, led Zimbabwe for nearly four decades until he was ousted by a coup in 2017.
"Imagine people you trusted - peo…
Bahamian officials have defended their response to Hurricane Dorian after it devastated parts of the island chain last week, killing at least 43 people.
Residents on the Abaco Islands have accused the government of failing to provide as…
Russia's ruling United Russia party has suffered major losses in Sunday's election to the Moscow city parliament, nearly complete results show.
The party lost nearly a third of the seats in the 45-member parliament, but remains on course …
An Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, has said Ghana’s democracy is gradually treading on a dangerous path with the over-increasing splashing of money by politicians as a ba…
A lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Joseph Atsu Ayee, has called for the setting up of a new body to regulate the financing of political parties to curb corruption.
He said the Electora…
Madam Tangoba Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, has called on municipal and district chief executives in the Region to monitor and supervise projects to avoid delays and shoddy works by contractors.
She said the Government was …
Madam Tangoba Abayage, the Upper East Regional Minister, has called on Civil and Public Servants to put aside their political interests and support the Government to carry out its development agenda.
"For any municipality, district or c…
Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo, Senior Minister, has held consultations with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) as part of efforts to broaden discussions on the 'Ghana Beyond Aid' charter document for effective implementation.
The consultations wil…
Angola receives unctad’s support on business climate reforms to boost economic diversification and responsible investment in agriculture
The Ministry of Trade, the Ministry of Economy and Planning and UNCTAD discussed reforms to boost F…
Since 1995, the American people, through USAID, have provided $100 million in assistance to conserve monuments and masterpieces spanning the full range of Egypt's long history
In support of Egypt’s vital tourism industry, the thousands …
Boris Johnson must put his ego aside to break the Brexit deadlock for the sake of Britain's long-term sustainable economic growth, blasts the boss of the world's largest independent financial advisory organization.
Nigel Green, founder …
City of Tampere: First Downtown Arena in Finland Got Its Ground-breaking Ceremony - Arena Designed by Daniel Libeskind
The City of Tampere’s newest district is being constructed over the railway tracks in Tampere city centre. The main l…
P&G, National Geographic and Global Citizen Launch Groundbreaking Series, ACTIVATE: THE GLOBAL CITIZEN MOVEMENT To Drive Action Around Poverty, Inequality and Sustainability
Six-Part Docuseries Draws Attention to Critical World Issues W…
The African Union Commission, AUDA-NEPAD and OCP Group Deepen Collaboration to Develop Agriculture in Africa
OCP Group is a major player in Africa’s sustainable development and does so by contributing to the African agricultural ecosyst…
Thousands of people have flocked to the capital, Port Louis, to catch a glimpse of the leader of the Catholic Chuch, including Solange who told the BBC she saw his predecessor Pope John Paul II 30 years ago:
"I still remember how we wel…
A no-deal Brexit would be a failure that both the British and Irish governments would be responsible for, Boris Johnson has said.
The prime minister was in Dublin for his first meeting with Irish PM Leo Varadkar since he entered Number …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will today address the country on major strides the government is making in the fight against corruption.
He will do so at the annual conference of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), slated for the …
Over the past two centuries, millions of dedicated people – revolutionaries, activists, politicians, and theorists – have yet to curb the disastrous and increasingly globalised trajectory of economic polarisation and ecological degradation…
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a man who divided global public opinion like few others.
To some, he was an evil dictator who should have ended his days in jail for crimes against humanity.
To others, he was a revolutionary hero, who fough…
It will be his fourth visit to the continent since he became the head of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013, compared to the two his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, made during his eight-year papacy.
The importance of Africa to the Catholi…
Isaac Adjei Mensah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Wassa East in the Western Region, has urged the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to join forces and embark on community tours to energise the grassroots and branch execu…
John Boadu, the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has made his assessment of commitments, dedication, determination and propositions of the NPP in which the party is working systematically to fulfil campaign promises.
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Participants at a day's stakeholders forum on enhancing public accountability and environmental governance have urged government to ensure that it sets up offices of anti-corruption institutions at all municipal and district levels.
Th…
Richard Johnson said his six-year-old brother Adrian was just too small to withstand Hurricane Dorian. The boy was blown into churning storm surge and is among thousands of people missing, many of them children, after the worst hurricane t…
A 73-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has given birth to twin girls.
Doctors delivered the twins, who were born following IVF treatment, on Thursday.
"The mother and the babies are doing well," Dr Uma San…
1) He was an early riser and traditional eater
Needing little sleep, Mr Mugabe used to wake between 04:00 and 05:00 every morning to exercise and would, according to a close source, listen to the BBC World Service.
He also prefer…
The Agona Swedru High Court has adjourned the injunction case filed against the Agona East National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary to Friday, 27 September.
The court, presided over by Justice Janet Anima Marfo, adjourne…
he Member of Parliament (MP) for Adenta Constituency, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah yesterday inspected some ongoing road projects in the metropolis.
Accompanied by some party executives from the constituency, he visited the Tano asphalt road pro…
Four months after his younger sister Samya died in an Ethiopian Airlines crash with 156 others, Adnaan Stumo sifted soil through his fingers at the site where the plane came down.
His hand closed around a human jawbone.
“I just looke…
The number of women climbing the career ladder in science is "disappointingly low", say researchers.
Women make up half of students in the life sciences, but only one in four professors, according to data from 500 scientific institution…
The Chinese government says it plans to "curb and regulate" the use of facial recognition technology and other apps in schools.
The pledge came from Lei Chaozi, director of science and technology at China's Ministry of Education.
It …
Pope Francis has told Mozambicans they need to nurture peace to make it last.
The pontiff was speaking on the first full day of his visit to Mozambique, where a recent peace accord formally ended years of civil war.
"Peace must be th…
The former president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Joseph Kabila, has issued this statement following Robert Mugabe's death:
"We will forever remember the worthy son of Africa, who came to our rescue when our country was victim o…
A member of the Technical Committee working to review the national youth policy, Mr Alex Bankole Williams, has called on the government to pay attention to policies of economic empowerment for the youth as a matter of urgency to reduce t…