More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of bodies have been found in areas of Iraq that were once controlled by the Islamic State (IS) group, a UN investigation has found.
The graves were found in the north and western governorat…
Six people have been arrested in France on suspicion of planning to carry out a "violent" attack on President Emmanuel Macron, officials say.
The individuals, reported to be five men and a woman, were picked up by the French security se…
Police in Uganda will decide today whether to charge Ugandan academic and feminist activist, Stella Nyanzi, with crimes concerning an "offensive" post on Facebook.
She made offensive statements against President Yoweri Museveni and his …
The 85-year-old, who has ruled the country for 36 years, pledged to uphold the "integrity" and "unity" of the country in a ceremony overseen by parliamentary speaker Cavaye Yeguie Djibril.
Mr Biya secured 71% of the vote in the 7 Octobe…
Trade unions in Nigeria have suspended a general strike planned to take place on Tuesday.
They say they have reached a last-minute agreement over the national minimum wage.The Nigerian Labour Congress said a committee set up with the go…
The Prince of Wales, Prince Charles on Monday urged Ghana to leverage its active role in the Commonwealth and its influence in Africa to lead the fight to mitigate the effect of the climate change phenomenon.
Noting the frightening stat…
The Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG) will on November 7, 2018 launch the “IDEG Advocacy Document,” to educate, mobilise informed, and support the subsequent establishment of a multi-party local governance system in the country.
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Flagbearer hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Goosie Tanoh is set to take the three regions of the north by storm with a new wave of campaign as he takes his ‘’rising together campaign tour’’ to the door steps of the p…
Dozens of people, mostly school pupils, have been kidnapped from a boarding school in the west of Cameroon.
At least 79 students and three others, including the principal, were seized early on Monday morning in Bamenda, the capital of t…
France flexed its muscles in West Africa on Monday granting millions of euros in aid to Gambia to support its democratic transition amid fears of regional instability and took aim at Russia over its “opportunist” role in Central African Re…
Child suicides in Japan are the highest they have been in more than three decades, the country's education ministry says.
In the fiscal year 2016/7 up to March, 250 children from elementary to high school age were recorded as having tak…
Golar LNG said on Monday it was in talks with Nigerian authorities about setting up a power project that could use one of its vessels to import liquefied natural gas (LNG).
The company wants to expand beyond its core LNG shipping and te…
The Kadjebi District Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr Daniel Agbesi Latsu, has appealed to Ghanaians to shun corruption in all its forms since it impedes business growth, escalates costs and pose serious l…
New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Jirapa Constituency have mounted fierce resistance against a petition by some Assembly members to President Akufo-Addo to remove Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) Christine Bonbanye Amadu from office over allegat…
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki says Eritrea and Ethiopia have built trust since signing a peace deal in July, but need to iron out further elements of their ties to make their cooperation sustainable.
The neighbors had been bitter en…
Americans are voting in nationwide elections that are being seen as a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency.
Polling stations opened at 06:00 (11:00 GMT) on the East Coast, as Republicans and Democrats battle for control of the two ho…
Barrick Gold (ABX.TO) shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Canadian miner’s $6.1 billion acquisition of Africa-focused Randgold Resources (RRS.L), three people familiar with the preliminary vote count told Reuters on Frid…
Saudi Arabia sent a toxicologist and a chemical expert to its consulate in Istanbul after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, a senior Turkish official has told the BBC.
The Saudis admit the journalist was killed there last month, bu…
The US mid-term election campaign is entering a frenzied final day in a vote seen as a verdict on Donald Trump's presidency.
The opposition Democrats are hoping to retake control of the House of Representatives, while Republicans seek t…
The Chiefs and People of the Pusiga District have pledged support for government policies, which they say will improve their living standard.
The people said the recent government policies including the planting for Food and jobs, Natio…
Mr Ignatius Assah Mensah, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Mpohor, has said approval has been given to two entrepreneurs to establish cocoa and oil palm factories under the ‘One District, One Factory initiative’(1D1F) in the District…
The first migrants from a large group of people travelling through Mexico towards the United States have arrived in the capital, Mexico City.
About 450 people, mostly men and boys, have been given temporary shelter at a sports stadium.
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The only female national chairperson hopeful of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mrs Betty Mould-Idrissu, has stressed the need for the branches and constituencies of the NDC to be strengthened and made more effective to …
China, dubbed ‘the workshop of the world’ for its sprawling supply chains and huge export capacity, is hoping to manufacture something new next week at a huge trade fair in Shanghai next week: import orders.
The Nov. 5-10 China Internat…
The exploration is still in its early stages but the cash-strapped government is anxious to raise the hopes of a nation.
Zimbabwe is rich in platinum and diamonds but little of that wealth has trickled down to the ordinary person.
Th…
Norway summoned the Saudi ambassador on Thursday over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Norwegian Foreign Minister said on Friday.
“We have raised the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and presented our point of view to the Saudi am…
The Effutu Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), John Ninson has appealed to occupants of government accommodation facilities to honour their financial obligations to enable the assembly to accelerate development projects.
According to him, …
The Director of the Centre for European Studies at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has raised concerns over the usefulness of the 1992 Constitution in its current state insisting there is the need to develop a new one.
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A former al-Shabab commander has been cleared to run for public office in Somalia in this month's regional election.
He left the militant group in 2012 and surrendered in August last year.
Mukhtar Robow, also known as Abu Mansoor, wa…
The German state of Hesse has voted to finally scrap the death penalty from its constitution, amending a 69-year-old legal anomaly which allowed it.
The western state is the last in Germany to amend its local legal code, after the natio…
“Chancellor Merkel your name is written in gold in Africa”: African Development Bank’s Adesina to stakeholders at G20 Investment Summit, Germany
On an official visit to Germany, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Ad…
Multiple regions of the country see rise in fighting in October, pushing thousands of families into crisis. Many flee to makeshift camps, surviving in flimsy shelters with little protection from the rains.
“We are alarmed that fight…
Stock markets in China gained on Friday after US President Donald Trump said trade talks with Beijing were "moving along nicely".
Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 3.9%, Shanghai Composite rose 2.4% and the yuan firmed.
The moves also fol…
The Director in-charge of Payroll at the Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD), Mrs Elizabeth Osei, has charged heads of ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that it is their responsibility to delete the names of per…
Australian energy company Invictus has said it has not found oil and gas deposits in northern Zimbabwe, reports Reuters news agency.
On Thursday, Zimbabwe's information ministry tweeted that oil had been discovered.
But in a statemen…
A top Turkish official, presidential adviser Yasin Aktay, has said he believes Jamal Khashoggi's body was dissolved in acid after being cut up.
The "only logical conclusion", he said, was that those who had killed the Saudi journalist i…
President of Senegal, H.E. MACKY SALL presides Merck Foundation conference “Merck Africa Asia Luminary” to build Healthcare capacity in Africa and Asia
Merck foundation also celebrated 350th Anniversary of Merck and the 1st anniversary …
South Africa's state-owned airline should be shut down, the country's new finance minister has said.
"It's loss-making, we are unlikely to sort out the situation, so my view would be close it down," Tito Mboweni told an investor confere…
An estimated 360,000 Congolese have crossed the border from Angola and back into DR Congo during October. Most of them are arriving to Kasai, where the influx aggravates an already dire humanitarian crisis and risks fuelling new conflict…
Japan's cabinet has approved draft legislation to loosen the country's immigration rules.
The relaxed laws would create two new visa categories to allow foreigners in sectors with labour shortages to enter the country.
Japan has rest…
The Speaker of Parliament, Prof Aaron Ocquaye has stated that it is a matter of discretion for the President to consult a substantive Minister before nominating his Deputy, but not mandatory.
He said the President could create any minis…
Parliament has given approval for the appointment of Mr Kojo Oppong Nkrumah as Minister for Information.
Also approved to be appointed as Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection is Cynthia Morrison and four others as minis…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit Italy, seen as one of the European countries most likely to press for a thaw in relations with Moscow and a lifting of EU sanctions.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who…
Initial examination of bones found at the Vatican's embassy in Rome suggest they belong to a woman, reports say, heightening speculation that the discovery could solve a 1980s mystery.
An almost complete skeleton as well as other bones …
Islamist protesters blocked roads in Pakistan’s major cities for a second day on Thursday, opposing a Supreme Court decision the previous day to acquit a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations, media said.
Knots of prote…
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr Benjamin Agordzor, the Director of Transformation Programmes Office, said the current constitutional arrangement of appointment and removal of the police leadership did not embolden police chiefs t…
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has implemented a series of reforms, has called on Ethiopians living abroad to help build the nation and bring new ideas to the country.
He was addressing Ethiopian expatriates at a stadium in t…
Madagascar’s President Hery Rajaonarimampianina faces two main challengers in Nov. 7 elections - both key players in the island’s past political turmoil who have promised to put that behind them and keep the economy’s recovery on track.
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The body of a retired Nigerian army general, who mysteriously disappeared on 3 September, has been found in a well.
Gen Idris Alkali went missing while travelling alone from the capital, Abuja, to his hometown in Bauchi state.
His ca…
The man at the centre of Sri Lanka's political crisis has told the BBC he has the support of parliament and will not leave the grand mansion reserved for the island nation's prime minister.
Last week the president sacked PM Ranil Wickre…
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