The Governance Research Bureau has cautioned the NPP against believing that it would win the Western Region in the 2020 presidential election as they did in 2016.
Rather, the Bureau said, the NPP should research into the factors that le…
Uganda's foreign ministry has recalled some members of staff in its embassy in Denmark to pave way for investigations following a newspaper report of a plot to misappropriate public funds.
The Ugandan Daily Monitor newspaper highlighted…
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is on his way to Sudan from Israel, has touted the direct flight as a signal of a change in relationship between the two countries.
https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1298168689683038208?s=20…
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says the Akufo-Addo administration has the goal to make Ghana the hub of digitization in West Africa.
According to him, this goal will be achieved if Ghanaians will renew the mandate of the New Patriot…
A lockdown has been declared in the Gaza Strip after the first coronavirus cases were discovered outside its quarantine centres.
An outbreak in impoverished Gaza has been greatly feared because of its weak health care system.
Overnig…
Anchal Kumari looked on helplessly at thousands of people displaced by floods around her village in the Madhubani district of Bihar state in northern India.
In normal times, Ms Kumari, a volunteer humanitarian worker associated with Oxf…
On the first night of the Republican Party convention, the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, took centre stage and commanded the nation's attention.
"Trump's policies have been like rocket fuel to the economy," Mr Trump said duri…
South Korea has ordered the closure of all schools and kindergartens in the greater Seoul area following a rise in coronavirus cases there.
Nearly 200 staff and students have been infected in the greater Seoul area over the past two wee…
The Founder and Leader of the All People's Congress (APC), Mr. Hassan Ayariga says he will fight corruption if voted as the president of the Republic of Ghana in the December 2020 presidential elections.
Ayariga who was acclaimed as the…
Mr Hassan Ayariga, Presidential Candidate, All People's Congress (APC), has pledged the party's resolve to form an all-inclusive government with the best brains from all political parties when voted into power.
An all-inclusive govern…
The Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Constituency branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has inaugurated a 40-member campaign team for the December 7, general elections.
The team is to help retain the parliamentary seat and to garner more vote…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to visit Sudan in the coming week in a sign of the warming relations between the two countries.
Sudan remains on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism which means it has trouble getting debt…
Tunisia’s Prime Minister-designate, Hichem Mechichi, has unveiled a new government made up of technocrats rather than members of political parties.
This is the second cabinet to be named in six months in Tunisia.
Mr Mechichi had prev…
The health commissioner of Nigeria's commercial hub, Lagos, has tested positive for coronavirus.
Akin Abayomi was tested after being in contact with people who had tested positive for the virus, according to the state information commis…
Twenty prisoners were killed in Madagascar as the authorities attempted to stop a riot in a prison in the south of the island, the justice ministry said.
The trouble began at the prison in Farafagana at around 12:00 local time (09:00 GM…
The Berlin hospital treating the seriously ill Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, says he appears to have been poisoned.
The Charité hospital released a statement saying "clinical evidence suggests an intoxication through a subs…
The police in Madagascar say 11 out of 31 prisoners who escaped from a facility in the south-east of the country on Sunday have been recaptured.
The police and army were deployed to Farafanga prison when dozens of prisoners turned again…
More now from Argentina where health officials have confirmed a record 8,713 new cases of coronavirus and 381 more deaths over 24 hours.
The health ministry has warned that although quarantine measures have been tightened in the capital…
There have been clashes for a second night in Wisconsin, with buildings and cars set alight, following the police shooting of a black man on Sunday.
Jacob Blake, 29, is in a stable condition after he was shot several times as he went to…
US President Donald Trump has warned his fellow Republicans their opponents may "steal" November's election, as his party anointed him as their candidate.
"They're using Covid to defraud the American people," Mr Trump told delegates on …
At least 12 people have been killed as two storms tore through the Caribbean on Sunday.
Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura brought high winds and rough seas leaving at least nine people dead in Haiti and another three in the Domin…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will on August 31, launch its manifesto for the upcoming 2020 December general elections.
The National Communication Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi who disclosed this, said the launc…
The newly elected General Secretary of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Nana Yaa Akyimpim Jantuah says the party will go back to its original blueprint of grassroots organisation to build a more formidable party.
She has therefore c…
The Convention Peoples Party (CPP) is set for transformation to challenge the current duo-political system, which has covertly established undemocratic structures inimical to the development of the country.
Nana Akosua Frimponmaa Sarpo…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Asawase Constituency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to ensure peace ahead of the 2020 general elections.
Two constituency executi…
Protests have erupted in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot a black man many times while responding to what they said was a domestic incident.
The man, identified as Jacob Blake, was taken to hospital for surgery and is now in …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP), has expressed its unwavering determination to set up three ultra-modern recording studio to support players in the Arts and Entertainment industry.
It is to offer the brilliant array of multi-talented arti…
India carried out more than one million coronavirus tests on 21 August, realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pledge to ramp up tests to one million a day.
It fell to 801,147 and 609,917 tests in the next two days.
But how did India…
The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Democratic Party (NDP) has cleared eight aspirants, in the phase one of its Parliamentary vetting exercise to represent the Party in the Volta Region for the December general elections…
Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dipped by 6.1% for the second quarter of the year compared to the same period last year.
The country is battling a global coronavirus pandemic that has affected other economies.
The rate of unem…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has bid farewell to Madam Tove Degnbol, the outgoing Ambassador of Denmark to Ghana.
The Minister lauded the excellent bilateral relationship bet…
A group of people on Saturday, besieged the house of Private Legal practitioner, Mr. Ishmael Kofi Tekyi Turkson pleading with him to contest the Agona West Parliamentary Election as an Independent Candidate in the upcoming December 7, poll…
Mr. Thomas Ntumy, Volta Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party (CPP) has said the Party would address festering unity among its members towards ensuring a successful general elections.
He said some loopholes aiding the diso…
Footage of rats crawling freely in a ward at one of Zambia's biggest hospitals has landed the facility's administrators in trouble.
The video captured the rats rummaging a plastic bag as a patient lay on a bed next to it at Kitwe Centra…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has predicted victory for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) ahead of the December 7 polls.
The former President said considering the government's remarkable economic performance, social interv…
Opposition supporters in Belarus have held a mass rally in the capital Minsk, two weeks after a disputed election gave President Alexander Lukashenko another term in office.
Correspondents in the city said tens of thousands filled the c…
Kellyanne Conway has announced that she is resigning from her post as senior adviser to US President Donald Trump.
In a statement, Mrs Conway, 53, said she was stepping down at the end of August to focus on her children, giving them "le…
The man who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand in 2019 had plans to target a third mosque, his sentencing hearing has heard.
Brenton Tarrant also planned to burn down the mosques, wanting to "inflict as many fatalities as po…
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has "strongly reprimanded" his Finance Minister Tito Mboweni over comments on social media on the sacking of Zambia's central bank governor.
Mr Mboweni had in a series of tweets on Sunday challen…
The Bono Regional Chairman of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Mr Salifu Ali Dayinday has said the party was targeting five parliamentary seats out of 12 in the region.
He mentioned Wenchi, Berekum East, Dormaa Central, Banda Consti…
South Africa's students in all grades resume classes on Monday after weeks of closure because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Final-year students had resumed classes earlier to prepare for examinations.
President Cyril Ramaphosa closed …
he National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay has called on Ghanaians to renew the mandate of the party in order to safeguard the country's future.
According to him, the NPP under President Akufo-Addo has been able…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has givien the Nana-Addo administration a pat on the back for its performance in office.
According to Kufuor, the government has done wonders in less than four years in office.
He said this in a r…
Mr Benjamin Anafo, the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Zebilla Constituency in the Upper East Region says, the constituents are fed up with the failed promises of the two major political parties and are ready fo…
Mr Ivor Kobina Greenstreeet, newly elected Presidential Aspirant of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) on Sunday said: “Ghana needs the CPP desperately.
Our country needs a progressive government to transform the nation”.
He theref…
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will remove import duty on sanitary pads.
The intervention is geared towards reducing its market price, encourage usage and promote personal hygiene …
Spain saw one of the most draconian Covid-19 lockdowns in Europe, but two months after it was lifted, the virus is spreading faster than in any neighbouring nation.
It now has Europe's fastest-rising caseload, with 142 positive cases pe…
A post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU "seems unlikely" at this stage, the bloc's negotiator has said.
Speaking after the latest round of talks, Michel Barnier said he was "disappointed" and "concerned".
His UK counterpar…
Mr. Benjamin Yeboah Sekyere, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano South Constituency in the Ahafo Region on Thursday, described the level of development brought to the area under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government as unpr…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan reconverted the historic Chora church, one of Istanbul’s most celebrated Byzantine buildings, into a mosque on Friday, a month after opening the famed Hagia Sophia to Muslim worship.
The mediaeval Church…