Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has launched the country's first ever dry port in the northern city of Kaduna. The container facility is linked by railway to the giant sea port in Lagos, more than 700km (430 miles) away, and will open…
Polling Station officers of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Ejisu Constituency have called for the immediate removal of the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Beatrice Serwaah-Derkyi, from office for non-performance and pettiness.
Th…
Alhaji Sulemana Alhassan, Upper West Regional Minister, has called on the public to commit themselves to stated objectives knowing that with dedication and hard work the goals for the region would be attained.
He pledged his commitment …
Patients undergoing surgery in Africa are more than twice as likely to die following an operation than the global average, researchers say.
But they say the most worrying revelation was just how few Africans have access to elective surg…
A passenger train has caught fire in South Africa after colliding with a truck, killing four people and injuring 40, rescue workers have said.
Video footage showed a fire blazing through at least one carriage, near an overturned truck a…
US President Donald Trump's lawyers have written to his former strategist Steve Bannon, saying he has violated a non-disclosure agreement.
The cease-and-desist notice accuses Mr Bannon of defaming the president in speaking to author Mic…
A former Senior Lecturer of the University of Ghana and the Chief Convener of the Coalition for Democratic Governance (CDG), a pressure group, Dr Ebenezer Kofi Hayford, has described President Akufo-Addo’s government as a “new monarchical …
Berlin authorities are the target of ridicule and disbelief after nine prisoners escaped or absconded from one prison in the space of five days.
Six remain on the run from Plötzensee jail after four separate incidents.
Last Thursday,…
Zambia's foreign minister has announced his resignation in a scathing Facebook post, denouncing the country's "path of insatiable greed and shame".
Henry Kalaba said his decision was prompted by the "swelling" levels of corruption "perp…
Ethiopia's prime minister has announced the release of all political prisoners and the closure of a notorious detention centre which allegedly used torture to extract confessions.
Hailemariam Desalegn told a press conference charges wou…
North Korea has reopened a hotline to South Korea, almost two years after it was disabled on the orders of leader Kim Jong-un.
South Korea confirmed it had received a call from the North at 15:30 local time (06:30 GMT) on Wednesday.
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The Mampong Municipal Assembly has taken steps to recycle and reduce waste in the area through the construction of a ‘waste-to-energy’ plant.The project is a partnership arrangement between the assembly and a foreign company, Renergen Limi…
The Ghana beyond Aid philosophy by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, should be seen as a challenge to all.
“For this reason those in the helm of affairs should evolve schemes for their subordinates to work towards propelling Ghana…
Police in Brazil say 77 inmates are on the run after escaping amid a riot at a jail in the central state of Goias.
The authorities say nine prisoners were killed and 14 injured when a group of armed inmates invaded a wing controlled by …
German doctors have spoken out against proposals for young asylum seekers to undergo mandatory medical tests to ascertain their age.
The German Medical Association (Bundesärztekammer) said the checks were ethically wrong and unreliable.…
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, has advocated the institution of June 4th and 31st December as national days.
He says ideals of those epochs have affected national governance more…
Two German far-right politicians are being investigated by police over anti-Muslim messages on New Year's Eve.
Beatrix von Storch, deputy leader of the AfD party, had her Twitter account temporarily suspended on Monday after posting an …
Iran's supreme leader has accused the country's enemies of stirring days of protests that have claimed at least 22 lives.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was speaking for the first time since people protesting at Iran's economic troubles clashed…
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says the festive period is "going to kill the players" after they beat Watford 3-1 in their 10th game in a month.
Gabriel Jesus is out for one to two months with a knee problem he suffered two days ear…
Former President John Dramani Mahama has said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would rise again to win political power in 2020. He said the Party had learnt lessons in the 2016 general elections, which were shaping it to win power b…
Felix Mensah Nii Annang-La, Tema Metropolitan Assembly has called on all Ghanaians to emulate President Akufo-Addo’s sense of national love which entails the forgiveness, temperance and tolerance of opponents.
He urged Ghanaians to be m…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called for unity among the global community to tackle overwhelming challenges and defend values shared by all, in his New Year Mesasage.
“On New Year's Day 2018, I am not issuing an …
Parliament has been recalled to attend an emergency sitting on Friday to consider a motion for a parliamentary probe into the purported sale of seats at an event for participants to sit close to the President.
A statement signed by the …
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the 36th Anniversary commemoration of the 31st December Revolution which came off in Ho on Sunday, says President Mahama was not late to the event.
Former President Jerry Rawlings, lead celebrant,…
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, says he is at a loss why President Akufo-Addo has not yet signed the Special Prosecutor bill into law.
According to General Mosquito as Asiedu Nket…
The election of a new Presiding Member of the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Assembly has ended inconclusively as neither of the two candidates for the position was able to cross the two-thirds majority votes’ threshold after two rounds of voting.…
Guinea’s government has approved a more than $2.8 billion investment by Chinese company TBEA Co Ltd in a new bauxite mine, an aluminum refinery and an aluminum smelter, the mines ministry said on Friday.
Guinea has about a third of the …
U.S. President Donald Trump targeted online retailer Amazon(AMZN.O) on Friday in a call for the country’s postal service to raise prices of shipments in order to recoup costs.
“Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many …
No-one really enjoys a long airport stopover, but for one Zimbabwean family, Bangkok's main airport has been home for nearly three months.
According to the Thai immigration bureau, the four children under 11 and four adults arrived in B…
The Sekyere East District Assembly has received high marks for transparency and accountability in its capital projects implementation. It scored 98 per cent in the area of project contractor selection and contracting, 74 per cent, when it…
The Minority in Parliament has stated that findings by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) against the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta over US$ 2.25 million bond vindicate the minority’s position that the bon…
Organisers of Berlin's New Year's Eve celebrations are to set up a "safe zone" for women for the first time.
The new security measures planned for the Brandenburg Gate party come amid concerns about sexual assaults.
A large number of…
Twelve people have died in twin attacks on Coptic Christians in the Helwan area south of Cairo, officials say.
Ten people died when gunmen tried to storm a church south of Cairo, but were intercepted by police.
About an hour later, a…
South Korea has revealed it seized a Hong Kong-registered ship last month suspected of supplying oil to the North in breach of international sanctions.
Officials said the Lighthouse Winmore had secretly transferred 600 tonnes of refined…
Government would from next year vet all small-scale miners across the country to regularise and monitor their activities.
The move would ensure that small-scale mining is done in a responsible, environmentally-friendly and sustainable m…
The General Assembly of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) on Thursday suspended the Assembly Member for the Asokwa New Town, Mr Oscar Riches alias Ghana Beyeyie, for one year for assaulting the Deputy Coordinating Director of the KMA,…
Liberia’s vice president Joseph Boakai conceded defeat in a presidential election run-off to former soccer star George Weah on Friday, easing the country further towards its first democratic transition of power in decades.
Boakai’s conc…
A massive late-night fire that broke out at a Mumbai complex has killed at least 15 people, officials said.
The blaze erupted just after midnight at a building in the popular Kamala Mills restaurant and shopping compound. It engulfed th…
A judge in Cameroon has ordered the release of a US-based author and academic who was detained for allegedly threatening President Paul Biya's life.
The judge ruled that Patrice Nganang should be expelled from the central African state,…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said a bomb blast in a St. Petersburg supermarket on Wednesday was an act of terrorism, and that security forces whose lives were threatened by terrorist suspects should shoot to kill if necessary.
Putin…
Togbe Afede XIV, President of the National House of Chiefs and Agbogbomefia of Asogli has charged the citizenry to “unite behind the vision of Ghana beyond aid” to confront challenges of the country in 2018.
He said Ghana’s slow economi…
The UN children's fund says the scale of attacks on children in the world's conflict zones reached "shocking" levels in 2017.
In a new report, Unicef said there was widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to pro…
A senior UN official says he fears children waiting to be evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the Syrian capital, Damascus, are being used as bargaining chips.
The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator, Jan Egeland,…
Zimbabwe's former army chief, Constantino Chiwenga, has been appointed as one of the country's new vice-presidents.
Mr Chiwenga led the military takeover in November that resulted in the overthrow of President Robert Mugabe.
He recen…
Two Reuters journalists working on coverage of the Rohingya crisis in northern Myanmar have been remanded in custody for two more weeks.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were detained on 12 December after meeting police officers offering them in…
Ukraine and separatist rebels in the east of the country have exchanged hundreds of prisoners, in one of the biggest swaps since the conflict began in 2014.
Some 230 people were sent to rebel-held areas in return for 74 prisoners who ha…
Danquah Institute founder Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko says it is “unfortunate” that budgetary estimates are being misrepresented as actual expenditure in the ongoing controversy surrounding allocations to the Ministry for Special Development…
Mr. Kenneth K. Essuman, Mfantseman Municipal Chief Executive, has appealed to Assembly Members who intend to ‘cut corners’ in the execution of projects to eschew the notions to safe guard the good reputation of the Assembly.
He urged th…
The Tema East Constituency members of the New Patriotic Party have appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to reward Mr Ben Ashitey by giving him an appointment for his loyalty and resourcefulness.
There is a common adage that…
The African Union, has lauded the late Libyan President Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's role in maintaining peace and security in Africa.
"The collapse of the state of authority in Libya, created and brought in its wake other problems we did…