Burkina Faso's military government has announced it will extend junta rule for another five years.
The country's ruler, Capt Ibrahim Traoré, will also be able to contest the next presidential election, the state-owned broadcaster says…
At least 45 people have been killed, including women and children, in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
Videos from the scene in the Tal …
The New Patriotic Party has planned to garner more than 300,000 votes from the Volta Region in the December 2024 elections.
The National Organiser of the party, Henry Nana Boakye (Nana B) gave this indication after touring the Volta reg…
The High Commission of Rwanda in Ghana has organised a symposium to commemorate the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
The symposium was to raise awareness about the genocide and provide recommendations to policymakers on how to…
The Electoral Commission (EC), as at day-13 of the limited registration exercise, had registered a total of 3,503 voters at its office in Effutu Municipality.
The office also recorded 21 challenged cases on basis of eligibility of their…
Czech President Petr Pavel has been taken to hospital after injuring himself while riding a motorcycle, his office has said.
It said the injuries "are not serious", but a "short observation" was required. It gave no further details.
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Police forces across the world are prepped for Eritrea’s independence day this Friday - fearing violent clashes as disgruntled Eritreans unable to protest at home may do so at events abroad to mark the day 33 years ago that the country w…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says a planned meeting of its leadership will determine if it will call for an extension of the limited voter registration or not.
The party says it will review the numbers registered so far …
Sudan's Darfur region is facing a growing risk of genocide as the world's attention is focused on conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, a UN expert warns.
"We do have circumstances in which a genocide could be occurring or has occurred," the…
A massive landslide is feared to have killed many after it struck six remote villages in Papua New Guinea, local officials and aid agencies said.
The landslide buried more than 100 homes after it struck at around 03:00 local time Frid…
The High Court in Accra has rendered moot an application for an injunction seeking to prevent organisers of the #DumsorMustStop vigil from converging at the Revolution Square, opposite the Jubilee House after it emerged that organisers hav…
As Ghana approaches the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections, the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has launched an initiative to ensure a peaceful and violent-free elections.
The Inter-Party Dialogue Committ…
Parts of northern India continue to reel under a prolonged heatwave that has thrown normal life out of gear.
On Thursday, temperatures soared beyond 45C in many states and touched 48.8C in Rajasthan state's Barmer city.
India's wea…
Tens of thousands of genetically modified (GMO) mosquitoes have been released in Djibouti in an effort to stop the spread of an invasive species that transmits malaria.
The friendly non-biting male Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes, deve…
The Director of Special Operations for the Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, has described his arrest and subsequent arraignment in court as a blessing in disguise.
In his view, the arrest provided significant political milea…
National Executives of the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP) and some government appointees have started arriving in the USA ahead of the NPP-USA 30th anniversary and fundraising celebration.
The NPP National Chairman, Stephen Ayesu Nt…
US President Joe Biden has named Kenya as a major non-Nato ally, making it the first sub-Saharan African country to receive that designation.
Mr Biden announced the move during a three-day state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto.…
Ohio's governor is pushing state lawmakers to avoid a partisan clash threatening to bar US President Joe Biden from the key swing state's presidential ballot in November.
The state's top election official said earlier this week that D…
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) has called on Ghanaians to fight to fix and strengthen Ghana’s democracy.
According to ACET, an alternative to democracy which is tyranny and autocracy will be detrimenta…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has announced that it will soon present evidence supporting the claims of the third accused in the ongoing ambulance procurement trial.
Richard Jakpa, the third accused in the ongoing case aga…
China has started two days of military exercises around Taiwan, with its military calling them "strong punishment" for the self-ruled island's "separatist acts".
The drills come three days after the inauguration of President William L…
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has launched a scathing attack on some of the country's top judges after he was barred from running for parliament on Monday.
In his first interview since the ban, Mr Zuma told the BBC the Con…
Two political scientists have called for timeliness and clarity of communication to address information gaps in the country’s political space.
Aside from that, they also stressed the need for inclusiveness in various aspects in the cond…
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, plans to introduce a private member’s bill in Parliament aimed at preventing politicians and politically exposed individuals from purchasing state assets.
The bill seeks to …
The Coalition of Domestic Election Observers (CODEO) has urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to be flexible in its schedule to accommodate eligible voters in hard-to-reach areas in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise.
Despit…
Haiti's health system is "on the verge of collapse", the UN children's agency, Unicef, has warned, saying six out of 10 hospitals in the country are barely operational.
“The combination of violence, mass displacement, dangerous epidemic…
President Emmanuel Macron has described rioting in the French-Pacific territory of New Caledonia as an "unprecedented insurrection movement" that no-one saw coming.
During a tour of police headquarters in the capital Nouméa on Thursda…
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has stated that the ongoing Ghana Card registration exercise in the Pusiga District is “lawful, proper, necessary, and wholly wholesome.”
Dr Edward Omane Boamah, the Director of Elections …
The National Peace Council has warned the Electoral Commission (EC) not to exploit its independence ahead of the December polls.
The Council says the EC must open up for suggestions that will help make the polls free, fair and transpar…
South Africa, one of the continent’s richest and most influential countries, goes to the polls on 29 May amid concerns about unemployment, high crime rates and power cuts.
Here, in charts, are the big issues in this general election -…
A tornado killed multiple people in a small Iowa town as powerful storms swept through the Midwest.
Homes and businesses in Greenfield were destroyed, cars smashed and debris strewn across the landscape.
Iowa police confirmed the f…
Nana Kwame Bediako, the founder of the New Force Movement, has expressed his determination to advance his political agenda, undeterred by potential obstacles.
During an interview on Citi TV’s Face to Face, with Umaru Sanda Amadu, Kwame …
The Electoral Commission (EC) has categorically denied allegations of covertly registering voters using stolen Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) Kits.
These allegations were made by a group known as Election Watch Ghana, which clai…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has warned its temporary officials undertaking the ongoing limited voter registration exercise that it will not countenance a breach of its electoral laws.
It said any person found violating its el…
Kenya's government has defended the cost of President William Ruto's trip to the US.
The price of hiring the luxury private jet in which he and his delegation travelled is estimated to be $1.5m (£1.2m), according to Kenya’s private KT…
Iran’s supreme leader has presided over a funeral for the country’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers at Tehran University, where caskets carrying th…
The Majority in Parliament has described as baseless and preposterous allegations that parliamentary candidates or Members of Parliament from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) side have been allocated recruitment slots into security servic…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has warned its temporary officers, stating that it will not tolerate any violations of its laws.
This warning follows the recent arrest of a registration official at the Pusiga District Regi…
South Africa is heading for a general election in late May, with some polls suggesting the governing African National Congress (ANC) could get less than 50% of the vote for the first time in 30 years.
Mounting criticism of the par…
The judge in Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal trial cleared the courtroom on Monday to reprimand a witness and ally of the former president.
Robert Costello, a lawyer who once gave legal advice to Mr Trump's former attorney, Mich…
Media practioners have been cautioned against allowing politicians to use their platforms to engage in insults, and the promotion of violence as the country approaches the December General Election.
According to the Chairperson of th…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has promised that the next NDC government will win the fight against corruption in the country.
He contends that this canker is crippling Ghana’s economy and…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa East, Paul Apraku Twum Barimah, has stated that the campaign strategy of the 2024 flag bearer of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is dazing members of the opposition Nation…
South Africa's highest court has barred former President Jacob Zuma from running for parliament in next week's general election.
The Constitutional Court ruled that his 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court disqualified him.
…
Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, the Founder and General Overseer of Action Chapel International, has called on all stakeholders in Ghana’s electoral process to ensure a peaceful election in 2024.
He stressed that maintaining pe…
Medical workers in Israel have told the BBC that Palestinian detainees from Gaza are routinely kept shackled to hospital beds, blindfolded, sometimes naked, and forced to wear nappies – a practice one medic said amounted to “torture”.
…
The Upper West Regional House of Chiefs has urged Vice President and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, to maintain his honesty and transparency.
At an interactive meeting with Dr. Bawumia on Monday in…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has expressed concern over what he describes as partisan recruitment into the Electoral Commission (EC).
According to Mr Mahama, the recruitm…
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for war crimes.
Karim Khan KC said there were reaso…
The Democratic Republic of Congo army says it has quashed an attempted coup against President Felix Tshisekedi in the capital Kinshasa involving Congolese and foreign fighters.
DR Congo army spokesperson Brig Gen Sylavin Ekenge said t…