The death toll from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas will be "staggering", the country's government has warned as aid efforts are being stepped up.
The official death toll stands at 30, but is expected to rise further.
Officials are s…
Mr Hackman Owusu Agyeman has been elected as the Chairman of the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Mr Owusu Agyeman is the only surviving founding member who was part of the three signatories who signed forms for regis…
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader, has died aged 95.
Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in a military coup in 2017 after 37 years in pow…
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says he will be happy to partner the party’s flagbearer, John Mahama if he is chosen as running mate for the 2020 presidential elections.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia w…
Several businesses in Cameroon have been fined by the government and had their licences withdrawn after they obeyed a lockdown imposed by separatists.
Kumba City Council says the businesses will be reopened once the owners pay a fine of…
Illegal brewers want to avoid the expense of getting a licenceImage caption: Illegal brewers want to avoid the expense of getting a licence
Kenyan police have started using drones to help identify illegal breweries.
The drones being …
A court in Honduras has sentenced former First Lady Rosa Elena Bonilla to 58 years in prison.
Bonilla, 52, was found guilty of misappropriating $779,000 (£635,000) from international donations and public funds during the four years her …
At least 42 people have died as ongoing floods swamp eastern Niger in West Africa.
Heavy rain started in June, but it was last week that the waters of the Niger River basin reached critical levels.
The country's minister for humanita…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Thursday not to open a dialogue with Iran, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he may meet his Iranian counterpart to resolve a crisis over Tehran’s nuclear project and san…
The Birim Central Municipal Assembly has confirmed the President's nominee, Ms Victoria Adu as the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE).
All the 26 members of the Assembly voted yes and after the confirmation, the new MCE was sworn into offi…
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to kick off what is in effect an election campaign casting parliament as the enemy of Brexit was overshadowed on Thursday when his younger brother quit the government, citing the national interes…
Mr Amoako Obuadabang Larbi, a former Member of Parliament has called on Ghanaians to see themselves as one people and not to allow politics to divide them.
He also urged various political parties to ensure that their functionaries refra…
The Chiefs and people of Diare and its environs in the Savelugu Municipality in the Northern Region have appealed to government to create a new constituency in the area.
They said "the creation of this new constituency will ease the pre…
Hajia Mrs Samira Bawumia, Wife of the Vice President, has called on Muslim youth to be courteous and exhibit high moral uprightness, which are the core values of the Islamic Faith.
She said immorality and indiscipline among other unacce…
Abuom is a laywoman in the Anglican Church of Kenya
This is the first in a series of interviews with Thursdays in Black ambassadors who are playing a vital role in increasing the impact of our collective call for a world without rape an…
The drills indicated an urgent need for a review and reclassification of the standards for each facility
A wooden boat sways idyllically in a marsh of the Malagarasi River where it begins from an eastern mouth of the great Lake Tanganyi…
President Filipe Nyusi, dancers and a guard of honour greeted him at the airport in the capital, Maputo.
Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi and Pope Francis walking past a guard of honour at the airport in Maputo, Mozambique
The str…
South Africa has temporarily closed its diplomatic missions in Nigeria following reprisal attacks by Nigerians triggered by xenophobic violence in South Africa.
Since Sunday, mobs have looted and destroyed shops, many of them foreign-ow…
housands of women and girls in Ituri Province have been subjected to gender-based violence
We estimate that the humanitarian community needs $91.7 million US dollars
Several weeks ago, a woman brought her 11-year-old da…
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Banda in the Bono Region, Madam Mary Konneh, has encouraged People Living With Disabilities (PWDs) not to let their conditions discourage them from pursuing their dreams and aspirations since they h…
Thai delegation headed by H.E. Mrs. Pornpimol Kanchanalak, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended the 7th Tokyo International Conference on African Development
On 25 August-1 September 2019, an official Thai delegation hea…
The number of people in need of humanitarian assistance and protection in Central African Republic (CAR) has jumped from 2.5 million to nearly three million
“Spikes of violence” in previously unaffected areas of the Central African Repu…
Democratisation of energy is necessary to enable Africans to move into the digital age
By Sabine Dall’Omo, CEO of Siemens Southern and Eastern Africa
Without technological constraints, more people from across Africa are free …
Aid workers in Somalia have been warning for weeks that the additional counterterrorism sanctions could scare donors into suspending emergency funding
Laetitia Bader
Senior Researcher, Africa Division
Security Council Bloc…
Four mayors and six deputy mayors - all elected officials - have resigned in Rwanda in the last 24 hours.
Following their resignation, Interior Minister Anastase Shyaka tweeted: “They have failed to deliver what they have promised citiz…
Cocaine traffickers often use the many uninhabited islands off Guinea-Bissau's coast to land their shipments
The authorities in Guinea-Bissau have arrested eight people following the seizure of more than 1.8 tonnes of cocaine.
The haul…
The police in South Africa have said they are "concerned about a campaign of fake news on social media" relating to the recent outbreak of violence and looting targeting foreigners.
Videos and images of attacks and looting unrelated to …
Police in Italy have arrested a 46-year-old man suspected of using his young son to take part in drug trafficking in the far south-west.
The eight year old was talked into helping the gang, believed to be led by his father, which showed…
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she will withdraw the highly controversial extradition bill which triggered months of protests.
The proposal, introduced in April, would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland Chin…
Dan Botwe, the Minister of Regional Reorganisation and Development, has postulated that his ministry is not redundant but a justified ministerial portfolio created by the administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a vital componen…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Gomoa East Constituency in the Central Region, Mr Kojo Asemanyi, has said the government will do everything possible to ensure that the people living in and around the Buduburam camp are safe to go a…
The opening of the high-level segment of Asia-Pacific Climate Week (to 6 September) took place in Bangkok on Wednesday, with speakers warning of the dire consequences of low levels of ambition to tackle climate change for the region and po…
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa remains small by global standards, but prominent in relation to Gross domestic products (GDP)
Africa’s growth remains uneven, with East Africa out-pacing the rest of the continent; The contine…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has described the recent hikes in fuel prices as insensitivity on the part of the Akufo-Addo led government to the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian.
According to the party, the increase …
Rescuers have begun to reach areas of the northern Bahamas devastated by Hurricane Dorian, with aerial images showing a trail of destruction.
PM Hubert Minnis said some areas had been "decimated" and expected the current death toll of s…
Africans have come out to boycott South Africa after days of looting and violence targeting foreigners in which five people died.
Nigerian singers and Zambia's football team are among those in the boycott.
South Africa's Minister of …
The health authorities in Liberia have announced that there is an outbreak of Lassa Fever, which they say has killed at least 21 people, including one healthcare worker, since January this year.
Liberia's Deputy Health Minister and Chie…
Former President John Dramani Mahama, the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has indicated his willingness to construct a bridge over River Oti if voted back to power in 2020.
He said a feasibility study was done prio…
The Minority in Parliament has taken a swipe at the Bank of Ghana for its decision to spend GH¢23 billion to clean up the banking sector when it says a fraction of that amount could have been used to pay off the energy sector debts and con…
Four political parties have called on the government to turn its attention to the implementation of the various social intervention programmes and remove the bottlenecks that are making the programmes unable to achieve their full benefits.…
The Minority in Parliament has taken a swipe at the Bank of Ghana (BoG) for its decision to spend GH¢23 billion to clean up the banking sector when a fraction of the money could have been used to pay off the energy sector debts and contr…
The UN chief has promised to strengthen the operational capacity of the peacekeeping force in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo where attacks on health workers and Ebola facilities have undermined efforts to stop the spread of t…
Celebrated Nigerian writer Wole Sonyinka has called on Commonwealth member countries to send a fact-finding mission to the UK following last week's decision by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to suspend - or prorogue - parliament.
Mr Johns…
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Volta Chapter has called on political parties to come out with policies on protection of journalists in the country.
The Association said such a policy had become necessary ahead of the 2020 gene…
Twenty-five bodies have been found after a boat was destroyed by fire off the coast of California, reports say.
Citing the US Coast Guard, media reports said nine people were missing, while five crew members had survived.
The fire st…
Iran's president has ruled out ever holding bilateral talks with the US.
"There have been a lot of offers for talks but our answer will always be negative," Hassan Rouhani told MPs.
But he said Iran would agree to resume multilateral…
The Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) has completed its regional congress in five regions as the party intensifies preparations towards the 2020 election.
So far, the party has held congresses and elected regional executives in …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Monday called on the Songhai Community in Ghana to ensure that the "challenges" in Mali and the Sahelian region are not exported into the country.
He held that the links that the community had estab…
The Afigya-Kwabre South Constituency Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, has called on Ghanaians to provide maximum support to the police to help fight crime in the country.
He said the recent attacks on t…
The Tema West Constituency Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party has called recent incursions into public conversation by the 2020 Flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress as Communist inferior tactics that will not…