Namibia’s health minister said on Tuesday it had recorded its first case of listeriosis, the biggest recorded outbreak of which has killed over 180 people and infected almost 970 in neighboring South Africa.
Bernard Haufiku told Na…
Doctors at public hospitals across Zimbabwe have gone on strike and will not return to work until the government meets their demands for better pay and working conditions, a spokesman for a doctors’ unions said on Tuesday.
The action is…
The Argentine navy has rescued four US scientists and a contractor from an Antarctic camp after the US icebreaker due to pick them up could not reach them because of thick sea-ice.
The five were carrying out research on Joinville Island…
US President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter, naming CIA Director Mike Pompeo as his replacement.
Mr Tillerson's spokesman said he only learned he was out of a job when he saw the president's tweet th…
Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament has warned that President Akufo-Addo’s newfound slogan – Ghana Beyond Aid – is a dangerous rhetoric that could retard progress.
“He was my very good friend in parliam…
Mr Douglas Kirk Wagba, a Telecommunication Engineer, has said he is poised to rebrand the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Volta Region and make the Party more attractive ahead of the 2020 general elections when elected chairman for the Re…
Though the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is yet to open nominations for members to contest for various regional executive positions, aspirants vying for the positions in the Brong-Ahafo Region have started their campaigns.
The candid…
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has given the assurance that the Government would continue the infrastructural projects started by the previous governments to ensure Ghanaians enjoy the full benefits.
He said the Nana Addo Dankwa Aku…
The government has given strong indication that it would work to ensure equitable distribution of the country’s resources for the benefit of all.
The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia who stated this said government was committed to …
Sulemana Moro the New Patriotic Party(NPP) Chairman of the Biakoye constituency, has retained his position with 508 votes beating his challenger, Moses Kwasi Oduro who polled 126 votes .
Joseph Bediako polled 220 votes to win the Vice C…
A youth organiser aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Brong-Ahafo Region has pledged to ensure that the Party wins at least 26 parliamentary seats in Election 2020.
Currently, the NPP has 20 out of the 29 parliamentary seat…
Pope Francis on Sunday expressed concern over national policies dictated by fear, speaking only one week after Italy’s general elections which brought populist and anti-immigrant parties to the forefront.
The pontiff, who has made the d…
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday that Washington was considering lifting a travel ban on Chad, offering an olive branch to an ally in the fight against Islamist militant groups in West Africa.
The top U.S. diplomat f…
Exiled Democratic Republic of Congo opposition leader Moise Katumbi said on Monday he would return home by June to lodge his candidacy for a presidential election in December to succeed Joseph Kabila.
The ballot was originally scheduled…
A Ugandan MP has been told to apologise to victims of domestic violence after saying men should "beat" their wives.
Onesimus Twinamasiko said on Ugandan television channel NTV "as a man, you need to discipline your wife.
"You need to…
The Russian president faces a backlash after suggesting minority groups, including Jews, may be responsible for meddling in the 2016 US election.
Vladimir Putin made the comments during a US TV interview with Megyn Kelly.
US lawmaker…
US President Donald Trump's plan to deter school shootings does not include his repeated calls to raise the age for buying semi-automatic rifles to 21.
But he is moving ahead with his controversial proposal to provide firearms training …
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has underlined the government’s unswerving determination to build a society that works for everybody. They would go the extra mile to bring efficiency into the management of the nation’s resources …
Some Organisers of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are making a special request to the echelon of the party to allow Mr Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin to go unopposed in the party’s approaching flagbearership race.
“So …
Dr. Nii Adjei Kraku ll, Paramount Chief of Tema Traditional Area has called on government to honour an outstanding politician, warning, it will be hypocritical to wait until his passing before posthumous praise is heaped on him.
“Hon. B…
Nene Ofoe Teye, Incumbent Constituency Chairman of the Tema East branch of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), declaring that former President John Dramani Mahama was finished politically.
“The things that we have discovered from his…
Rating’s agency Moody’s warned on Monday the water crisis affecting Cape Town would cause the city’s borrowing to rise sharply and the provincial economy to shrink the longer the situation lasted.
Sand blows across a normally submerged …
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has been named "Eternal Supreme Guide" by his political party.
The move means no one in the governing CNDD-FDD is allowed to disagree with his choices, secretary-general Evariste Ndayishimiye said.
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The people in Chereponi District have complained about what they say is the attempt to exclude them from processes leading to the creation of the proposed North East Region.
They said they totally disagreed with any move to take them ou…
The expert, who visited the country at the invitation of the Government of Liberia, met with Government authorities, including the President
Liberia needs to lock in and expand the gains made in the years since the civil war, in parti…
A lightning strike killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more at a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Rwanda on Saturday, an official said.
Most of the victims died instantly when lightning hit the church in the southern district of…
A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew has crashed on landing at Nepal's Kathmandu airport, killing at least 40 people. At least 22 survived.
Rescuers pulled bodies from the charred wreckage of the plane, operated by Bangladeshi airlin…
Former Vice-President Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has dismissed claims that former President Jerry John Rawlings is showing disloyalty to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Mr Rawlings' continued criticisms of the party and the p…
At the occasion of the 2018 Munich Security Conference, Kofi Annan released the following remarks on the threats and opportunities technology poses to democracy. The article has since been published by over ten publications in four langu…
A Turkish court has sentenced 25 journalists to jail for alleged links to a group the government blames for a failed coup attempt in July 2016.
Twenty-three of them were convicted of membership of an armed terrorist organisation and wer…
The Assin North Municipal Assembly (ANOMA), on Monday, began a demolition exercise to de-congest the municipality of all unauthorised structures.
This is to pave way for construction works to begin on the much awaited first-class ring …
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has launched a Professionals Forum to discuss issues of importance to the party and help to implement the recommendations of the 2016 Election Report to ensure victory for the party in 2020.
The Pr…
Members of Parliament in Somalia have voted to reject a controversial deal involving the port of Berbera in Somaliland. The authorities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland recently entered an agreement to manage the port with a Dub…
Pope Francis will visit Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in September in the first papal visit to the Baltic states in 25 years, the Vatican said on Friday.
Pope Francis arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Paul VI hall at the…
Doctors from the Canadian province of Quebec have shocked the world by turning down a pay rise.
Why would anyone turn down a pay rise?
For doctors from Quebec, the answer is simple: patient care.
An eight-year, retroactive deal st…
A coalition of Volta Youth, an emerging pressure group in the Volta Region has kicked against the creation of a new region out of Volta, saying what was needed was “development, not division of the Region.”
It said instead of creating n…
Russia has said it will support Africa’s push to have a permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council.
Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast are the current African members of the council, but they occupy non-permanent sea…
Alhaji Abdallah Otito Achuliwor, one of the aspirants seeking the Regional Chairman position of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Upper East has affirmed his determination to make the party more vibrant in the region.
He said there …
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo departed Ghana yesterday (March 8) to attend the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Summit, being held in New Dehli, India, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of India, Narend…
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on the Maltese government to bring its rich expertise in the services sector and financial resources to bear on Ghana through investment for the mutual benefit of the peoples of both countri…
Mr Dennis Armah-Frempong, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Agona East, has inspected a number of feeder roads being constructed by the assembly to facilitate transportation of goods and services in the district.
The DCE was accompa…
A UN aid convoy has managed to enter the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta in Syria which has been under intense bombardment, officials say.
For the first time since Monday, food supplies got into the town of Douma, the Red Cross said.
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The largest ever Winter Paralympics were officially opened in freezing conditions at the Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
Forty-eight different nations, plus a national Paralympic athletes team consisting of Russian competit…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump are to meet in person by May, it has been announced, an extraordinary overture after months of mutual hostility.
News of the meeting was delivered by South Korean officials a…
The Minority Members in Parliament Wednesday staged a walk out over what they said was the Speaker's continuous refusal to recognise their leaders.
Their concern was that the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, did not c…
Women workers in Spain are marking International Women's Day with an unprecedented strike targeting gender inequality and sexual discrimination.
Work was being halted as part of a 24-hour strike organised by the 8 March Commission and b…
The UK is to pay for a new wing in one of Nigeria's largest prisons to help expedite the transfer of offenders from British jails.
Up to £700,000 will be spent on a 112-bed annex in Kiri Kiri prison in the country's largest city Lagos.
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The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, swore in three new Ambassadors, who are to safeguard and promote the image and interests of Ghana outside her shores in Japan, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
They are Mr. Frank Okyere, G…
Erratic rains and rising cereals prices intensify hunger risks around Eastern Africa
High levels of food insecurity persist in the world, due largely to conflicts and to adverse climatic shocks that are taking a toll, particularly in …
Ezimakor was released unconditionally from DSS custody in Abuja around 10:30 p.m. local time
The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the release today of Tony Ezimakor, Abuja bureau chief of the privately owned Daily Independent…
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