The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Thailand awarded the DGM Consortium which includes Gemalto, a member of Thales Group, the contract to supply 15 million e-passports to its citizens over the next seven years.
This contract is …
FAO Director-General highlights need for innovative approaches focused on pro-poor actions in Africa
In their fight to end hunger and improve nutrition, African countries have the opportunity to tap into Japan's knowledge of smart tec…
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Brings Cultural Leaders to Peacebuilding Talks in Ethiopia
IOM’s peacebuilding meeting took place on 24 August in Shashemene, Ethiopia, funded by the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF)
Aba Geda…
The UK’s Minister for Armed Forces Rt Hon. Mark Lancaster will visit Ghana from 26th to 28th August 2019 and other partner countries in West Africa
The UK’s Minister for Armed Forces Rt Hon. Mark Lancaster will visit Ghana from 26th to …
International leaders at the G7 summit have agreed to provide logistical and financial support to help fight fires in the Amazon rainforest.
French President Emmanuel Macron said G7 countries would release $22m (£18m).
However, Presi…
President Donald Trump has said the US and China will "very shortly" resume trade talks after a weekend of escalating tension with Beijing.
"China called last night... said let's get back to the table. So we'll be getting back to the ta…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has failed to elect the only two female candidates that contested the party's parliamentary primaries out of the overall 36 candidates across 11 constituencies in the Upper West Region.
The two fem…
Mozambique’s National Social Security Institute (INSS) is owed about $40m (£32.6m) by companies that have not handed over workers' contributions, Labour Minister Victoria Diogo says.
The contributions have been deducted from workers' sa…
Kenya has exported its first batch of oil as President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the crude shipment from the port of Mombasa on Monday morning.
It is being described as a historic day and an important step on the way to the full explor…
The Ablekuma West Constituency of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has elected Reverend Kweku Addo as the Party's parliamentary candidate to contest the 2020 general election.
Rev Addo won the elections by a landslide, pulling 724…
A businessman, Mr. Christopher Beyere has won the slot to contest the 2020 parliamentary election on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Techiman South Constituency of the Bono East Region.
Mr. Beyere who is a f…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Candidate elect for Tema East, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, has saluted the party and its Flagbearer as part of his victory speech.
After sweeping 891 of the 1,157 valid votes cas…
Mr Abdul Latif Dan has won the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary election in the Ablekuma Central Constituency.
Mr Latif Dan swept 888 votes to defeat Alhaji Alidu Haruna, who had 654 votes.
The total ballots c…
Mr Alexander Ackuako has won the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary election in the Bortianor-Ngleshie-Amanfrom constituency in the Greater Accra Region.
He polled 418 votes to win with his closest opponent in the …
The Volta Regional Executive of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed gratitude to the delegates for peaceful and successful end of parliamentary primaries.
Mr James Gunu, Regional Secretary of the Party in release signed and…
At least 17 women have so far been elected by the delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest parliamentary elections in 11 constituencies across the country for the 2020 general election.
That constitutes about 10.8 …
Professor Margaret Kwaku, a former Municipal Chief Executive of the Hohoe Municipal Assembly has polled a total of 439 votes to win the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primary election in the Hohoe Constituency.
The ele…
School closures in West and Central Africa triple since 2017, as education comes under fire across the region
UNICEF Child Alert warns that upsurge in attacks and threats of violence against schools, students and teachers have pushed mo…
The UK is due to leave the European Union (EU) at 23:00 GMT on 31 October 2019. For those not following every twist and turn, this guide covers the basics.
What is Brexit?
Brexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU.
W…
The fifth meeting on the Ghana/Togo Maritime Boundary Negotiations has opened in Accra with a call on both parties to work towards an amicable solution.
'It is my fervent wish for both Parties to consider the fraternal relationship amo…
Britain will send back migrants who illegally try to cross the channel from France, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday.
“We will send you back,” Johnson told media, when asked what his message was to illegal immigrants after au…
Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has appointed a former warlord and government minister as the mayor of the capital, Mogadishu, and governor of Banadir Region.
Omar Mohamud Mohamed's appointment follows the killing of his p…
Madam Comfort Doeyo Kudjo Ghansa, Ada East Member of Parliament(MP), is appealing to National Democratic Congress (NDC) delegates to return their incumbent MPs to the ballot for victory in the 2020 national polls.
Hopeful of victory in…
Ivor Greenstreet, the 2016 Presidential Candidate for the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has observed that the increment in the communication/talk and holiday taxes will hurt the citizenry because they were already fraught with challen…
Spain’s largest airline, Vueling, has canceled 112 flights scheduled for Saturday and Sunday because of a strike by ground staff at Barcelona’s El Prat airport.
Earlier this month, the ground crew for International Airlines Group’s Iber…
A journalist has been arrested in Tanzania accused of publishing fake news about alleged police abuse of suspects in custody.
Joseph Gandye works for Watetezi TV, a station established last year by the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Co…
The count will be done over seven days in the evenings
The hashtag #census2019 is trending in Kenya with most tweeps concerned by the interior minister's decision to shut down bars and other entertainment venues nationwide over the week…
After sterling soared and some British newspapers roared at a supposed Brexit victory for Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Europe’s power brokers had a more sobering message: the basic divorce deal is not changing.
Three years after the Un…
The next reshuffle of the UK share indexes is due to take place next week, and M&S is "certain" to be dropped from the benchmark index according to Helal Miah, investment research analyst at The Share Centre.
"Marks and Spencer for so l…
Mr Rapheal Parku, a parliamentary aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Juaboso in the Western North Region, disqualified from contesting the August 24 parliamentary primaries, has debunked rumours that he would go inde…
Ghana and Mexico have established a consultation mechanism on matters of common interest.
A joint statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and the Secretariat of Foreign Relations of Mexico, which was…
All is set for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Primaries slated for Saturday, August 24, with the exception of five constituencies.
The constituencies are Yilo Krobo in the Eastern Region, Mpohor in the Western Reg…
The US authorities have charged 80 people, "most of whom are Nigerian nationals", with participating in a conspiracy to steal millions of dollars, prosecutors say.
They are accused of using business email fraud schemes and romance scams…
Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil - the most intense blazes for almost a decade.
The northern states of Roraima, Acre, Rondônia and Amazonas have been particularly badly affected.
However, images purport…
France and Ireland say they will not ratify a huge trade deal with South American nations unless Brazil does more to fight fires in the Amazon.
French leader Emmanuel Macron said President Jair Bolsonaro had lied to him about his stance…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has suspended from office the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Public Procurement Authority (PPA), Mr. A. B. Adjei.
This takes immediate effect, according to a statement issued by the Presidency on …
Alhaji Amidu Sulemana, former Member of Parliament for Sissala West Constituency has stated that he has no preferred candidate among the three seeking to succeed him in the impending National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary primari…
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), Rt Rev. Prof. Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, has said that Ghana needs development-oriented leaders who will help the development agenda of the nation and not …
Twenty-four aspirants in the Upper West Region of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who picked nomination forms to contest the party’s parliamentary primary in the six constituencies of the region have been cleared.
That was after they al…
As the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) goes to the polls on Saturday to elect its parliamentary candidates for the 2020 general election, its members in the Bono Region have only one thing in mind.
That is the resolve to e…
The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, has observed that the level of successes chalked up, quality of work and the continued sustenance of democracy in Ghana depended on how “we are able to train, educate and incu…
A Senior lecturer at the Department of General Studies at the Methodist University College, Dr Bonsu Osei-Owusu, has called on the two major political parties to begin the affirmative action policy in some of the constituencies they cons…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) primary in the Ho Central Constituency promises to be an exciting one.
Unlike four years ago when the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Benjamin Kpodo, had a field day without a contender, …
A Former Municipal Chief Executive of the La Dade-Kotopon Municipal Assembly (LaDMA), Ms Rita Odoley Sowah, has stated ahead of the primary of the party that she will win the La Dade-Kotopon Parliamentary seat for the National Democratic…
There was drama at the Swedru Main Lorry Park during a grand durbar to climax this year’s Akwanbo festival of the chiefs and people of Agona Swedru last Saturday.
This was when the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and the Member of Parli…
Former President John Dramani Mahama on Thursday started what he describes #JohnMahamaLive on social media to interact with the public.
In the maiden edition which went LIVE at 5pm, Mr Mahama condemned the Akufo-Addo government for supe…
The agreement operationalizes a relationship which began in August 2016 when Africa CDC was established
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union Commission (AUC) through its Africa Centres for Disease Control and Preven…
Torrential rain has destroyed makeshift tents and caused severe flooding to temporary displacement camps in northeast Nigeria, leaving vulnerable families homeless. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is appealing for urgent financial …
Up to one million people in Somalia will receive lifesaving food and clean water to help stop starvation and malnutrition thanks to new UK funding
Somalia is one of the world’s poorest and most fragile states, compounded by climate shoc…
Migration experts say the UK cannot end freedom of movement from the EU on Brexit day because it has no system to work out who is legally in the country.
The Home Office said on 19 August that EU freedom of movement would end immediatel…