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…
World Health Organization (WHO) conducts an Emergency Medical Teams awareness and Capacity Building Workshop for Zambia
One of the outputs of the workshop was an action plan for the development of Zambia’s Emergency Medical Teams Initia…
Conflict resolution moves led by the government have restored relative peace in parts of Ethiopia
Since April 2019, conflict resolution moves led by the government have restored relative peace in parts of Ethiopia that have suffered unr…
The National Health Accounts is a process through which countries monitor the flow of money in their health sector
Over 34 participants were trained on national health account from 26 to 30 August 2019 at the National Confederat…
Somalia Ministry of Petroleum: His Excellency Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed,Building a prosperous and free Somalia through the Rule of Law
Building a prosperous and free Somalia through the Rule of Law As Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “The cl…
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has not been admitted to hospital in London, but is on a private visit to the UK capital where he will undergo routine medical checks, a statement from the presidency says.
The 60-year-old is recovering from …
Following the outbreak of violence in South Africa, which has seen some foreign-owned businesses targeted, a number of other African countries have expressed their concern and issued warnings.
Ethiopia's embassy in South Africa has advi…
Residents of the northern Bahamas, some trapped on the roofs of homes, have sent out pleas for help after Hurricane Dorian stalled over the area.
Dorian fell in strength on Tuesday to category three, but Grand Bahama island faced at lea…
A former Director of the Social Development Policy Division of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Professor Takyiwaa Manuh, has argued that in spite of all the praises showered on Ghana for its democratic progress, successive governm…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson summoned ministers to a meeting on Monday, stoking speculation he could call an election if parliament defeats the government over a Brexit plan opponents fear could push the United Kingdom into a rui…
An enumerator in Kenya is being celebrated on Twitter after being filmed dancing with children who were shouting at him: "Mtu wa census" - which means "census official" in Swahili.
Collins Kiprono, who was going to count people at a reh…
Forty-one people have been arrested in South Africa after incidents of "looting and torching of buildings and vehicles", the police have said in a statement.
The violence was mainly in the area of Jeppestown, which is close to the centr…
Kenya's Finance Minister Ukur Yatani has announced a three-year freeze in hiring civil servants as a way of reducing the country's wage bill, The Star newspaper reports.
Mr Yatani, who took office in June after his predecessor was charg…
Mr Alfred Kwame Agbesi, former Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, says the country's legislative house needs more experienced brains.
Mr Agbesi, who was the deputy majority leader of the Sixth Parliament of the fourth republic, express…
The Senior Minister, Mr. Yaw Osafo-Maafo, has asked Ghanaian workers to make punctuality a cherished value and a tool for national development.
Mr. Osafo-Maafo says, "I wish to emphasize that with a strong attitudinal change among pu…
Six bodies have been recovered after a tour group was swept away by a flash flood in a Kenyan national park.
The incident at Hell's Gate National Park on Sunday involved five Kenyan nationals, a local tour guide and a "foreigner", offic…
The most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began has torn off roofs and caused severe flooding.
The slow-moving, category five Dorian - the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record - is now packing sustained winds of …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) last Saturday held additional primaries in three of the four constituencies where elections were to have taken place.
Last Saturday’s [August 31, 2019] primaries which had been placed on hold due…
The British Ambassador to Japan today threw the spotlight on Azuri Technologies and on next-generation off-grid energy being key to economic development in Africa, during his visit to TICAD7, the long-standing Japanese summit aimed at driv…
Bangkok (_ESCAP news_) – Governments across Asia and the Pacific this week endorsed a set of collective recommendations and initiatives,
including scaling up regional cooperation to complement national efforts in reducing disaster risk, i…
Mr Isaac Ashai Odamtten,the National Democratic Congress (NDC)'s Parliamentary Candidate for the Tema East Constituency, has sold the NDC's 2020 Presidential Candidate to Chiefs of Tema as the best option that voters have in presidential m…
Mr. Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu, the Western North Regional Minister has congratulated Mr Stephen Donkor, National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate elect for the Bibiani-Anhwiaso Bekwai constituency.
''I congratulate Mr Stephen D…
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, of Zimbabwe has declared that his government will ratify the Protocol establishing the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
President Mnangagwa declared: "We will act...we do not want to be left behi…
Goats are valuable possessions in Ethiopia
The goats of an opposition politician in northern Ethiopia have been taken hostage as part of a ploy by local officials to get him to leave politics, the head of the Arena Tigray party has told…
The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs is strategising to ensure experienced Members of Parliament (MPs) are retained in Parliament to avoid the situation where activities of the House are not affected, especially legislation.
Such situa…
Mr Osei Bonsu Amoah,a Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has paid a working visit to the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) to deliberate on the Metropolis' developmental issues.
Mr Amoah, who is also the Member of…
Mohammed Abass, Political Science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has intimated that Parliament must have processes to train new entrants in order to flaw arguments that new faces will not be bes…
Hurricane Dorian is expected to strengthen into an "extremely dangerous" storm as it heads towards the US mainland, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned.
Dorian is currently a category two hurricane but is expected to become a…
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, will begin a two day trip to Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of World War Two (WWII).
Mr Khan will attend a special ceremony at 04.45 on Sunday, the exact time German battleships fire…
Mr Mark Fuachie-Sobreh, a banker and an entrepreneur, has been cleared to contest the forth coming primaries of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Kpone Katamanso.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Mr. Fuachie-Sobreh said the …
People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government's chief environment scientist has warned.
Prof Sir Ian Boyd said the public had litt…
Several prominent Hong Kong democracy activists have been arrested in less than 24 hours amid a police crackdown.
Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow of the political party Demosisto were arrested on Friday for illegally organising a protest, be…
The Asuogyaman District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Samuel Kwame Agyekum, has assured traders that the assembly will not discriminate against any kind of business but will rather ensure that they are supported for their businesses to grow to…
The Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Ms. Josephine Nkrumah, has posited that Ghanaians require a new consciousness on value systems as part of efforts to combat corruption in the country.
She said the s…
The office of former President Jerry Rawlings has denied assertions that he has gone silent on the many ills of the society because of government support for his charity works.
A statement issued by Kobina Andoh Amoakwa, Secretary to …
Nigeria has been trying to boost local rice production since 2015Image caption: Nigeria has been trying to boost local rice production since 2015
Japan has pledged to help Africa double its rice production by the year 2030 at a conferen…