A row has broken out at COP29 climate talks as leading countries said a draft deal risked going back on a historic agreement to reduce the use of planet-warming fossil fuels.
"Standing still is retreat and the world will rightly judge…
John Dramani Mahama has been Ghana's president once before - and now he is back for another punt at the top job.
The 65-year-old led Ghana from 2012 to 2017 and is one of the West African country's most experienced politicians. He has…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has urged residents of the Afram Plains North and South Constituencies to avoid voting “Skirt and Blouse” in the upcoming elections.
The …
The First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has called on the electorate not to allow Ghana to retrogress economically by voting the wrong party into power.
According to her, the country will suffer economically if another party apart from the N…
Mrs Lordina Dramani Mahama has successfully organised the first free health screening programme for members of the Assemblies of God Retired Ministers and Spouses Association in Accra.
The programme, financed by the former First Lady th…
The Hohoe Chapter of the Ghana Blind Union (GBU) has organised a training on the use of tactile; a voting device that enables visually impaired persons to mark a ballot paper in secret.
The training, ahead of the Election 2024, was to e…
US President Joe Biden has called an International Criminal Court war crimes arrest warrant for the Israeli prime minister “outrageous”.
The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu's now sacked defence minister Yoav G…
William Ruto, who became Kenya’s president two years ago riding on the crest of the Christian vote, has been visibly shaken to find that over the last few months church leaders of all creeds are losing faith in him - seeing him less as a…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has expressed satisfaction with the directive from the Inspector General of Police (IGP) that no firearms will be permitted at polling stations during the 2024 general elections, i…
Four Parliamentary candidates contesting the December 7 general elections, to represent the Ashaiman Constituency, have participated in the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE)’s Parliamentary Candidates’ Dialogue, to sell the…
Presidential candidate of the opposition NDC, John Dramani Mahama, has accused Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the NPP’s candidate, of complicity in the failed Power Distribution Services (PDS) – Electricity Company of Ghana concessio…
Independent presidential candidate George Twum-Barimah-Adu has announced his intention to include both the Majority and Minority Leaders of Parliament in his cabinet if elected in Ghana's 2024 presidential elections.
Speaking during his…
Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Centre, a non-profit research group based in the UK.
The oil …
Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’) (www.ICC-cpi.int), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued a warrant of arrest for Mr Mohammed…
As Ghana heads to the polls in December 2024 for the 9th consecutive time since 1992, FOSDA is concerned about the rising cases of gun violence and proliferation of the small arms in the country. Election related gun violence is set to pos…
A fugitive Zambian lawmaker with a bounty on his head has been arrested in Zimbabwe, Zambian authorities have said.
Emmanuel "Jay Jay" Banda, who was facing robbery charges, is accused of having escaped from custody in August as he aw…
The Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, has said the party is confident of a resounding victory in the 2024 general election.
With about 18 days to the election, he said the party was 100 per cent…
Dr Louisa Hannah Bissiw, the National Women Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has urged the electorate to vote for the former President, John Dramani Mahama, the 2024 flagbearer of the party, on December 7.
She said …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed claims of hatching a plot to rig and perpetrate violence in the 2024 elections.
The National Organiser of the NPP, Henry Nana Boakye, assured that Ghanaians are committed to peace and will …
The Central Regional Police Command has cautioned politicians against engaging "macho men" as security in and around polling stations during the December polls, vowing to deal ruthlessly with such elements.
DCOP Charles Kofi Adu, the Re…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has destroyed defective ballot papers originally intended for the Ahafo and Volta Regions following the discovery of serialization errors.
The destruction took place on Thursday, Novembe…
Kenya's President William Ruto has cancelled two major deals involving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, after the tycoon was indicted for fraud by US prosecutors.
In his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday, Ruto said the deals had…
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated veteran prosecutor Pam Bondi as his new pick for attorney general, hours after Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration.
Bondi has a long track record in law enforcement and previou…
The Minister for Works and Housing and Vice Chairman of the NPP Manifesto Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has emphasized that the commissioning of infrastructure projects ahead of the 2024 general elections reflects the…
The Chairperson of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Kathleen Addy, has urged parliamentary candidates contesting the 2024 general election to participate in the ongoing parliamentary dialogues being organised by the co…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, has accused the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of deception, pointing to the unfulfilled promise of giving each constituency US$1 million each year.
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Former President and flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has pledged to establish an Agricultural University in Afram Plains if elected in the 2024 general elections.
Speaking to party supporte…
Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza.
Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and children, when several houses sheltering disp…
Mali's military leader has sacked the Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, and his government.
It follows rare criticism by Maïga of the junta's lack of clarity about a once-promised return to democracy.
A decree read on state te…
The Greater Accra Regional Coordinating Council has reported significant progress under the government’s District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP), with approximately 80 kilometres of roads across five district assembl…
THE flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, says the next NPP government will introduce and implement affordable housing scheme for all the districts across the country.
He said the introduction of the scheme …
Political parties and their supporters have been asked to conduct their campaigns in a peaceful manner devoid of violent sentiments ahead of the forthcoming Presidential and parliamentary elections.
Amid heightened tensions characteris…
The Presidential candidate of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama, has entreated the youth in the country to consider next month’s elections as one that has implications for their future.
In his view, the youth are the ones who would bear th…
Patrick Awuah Jnr, the President and Founder of Ashesi University, has strongly opposed any consideration of cancelling Ghana’s Free Senior High School (SHS) programme.
Speaking on The Point of View with Bernard Avle on Channel One TV, …
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war crimes.
Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud led a…
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been charged with fraud in the US, which has accused him of orchestrating a $250m (£198m) bribery scheme and concealing it to raise money in the US.
The criminal charges, filed on Wednesday in New Y…
Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, founder and leader of the Movement for Change and Presidential Candidate of the Afrafranto Alliance, has taken his transformative campaign to the Western North Region, pledging to establish a Tra…
The spokesperson for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Joyce Bawah Mogtari, has expressed strong confidence in former President John Dramani Mahama’s chances of winning the December 2024 elections.
She noted th…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), of plotting to incite chaos in the Ashanti Region ahead of the 2024 elections.
The NPP claims this is part of a broader strategy by the NDC…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate, John Dramani Mahama, says he will go after government officials and individuals who have misappropriated state funds through acts of corruption and mismanagement of Ghana’s e…
Kenya’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto.
He offered the money towards the building of a priest’s house and as a gift to the choir during Mass on Sunday at the Soweto Ca…
Israel’s prime minister says it hit part of Iran’s nuclear programme last month, despite pleas from the US not to do so during the strikes it carried out in response to a missile attack.
“It’s not a secret. It was published,” Benjamin…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it will petition Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II over an alleged rigging plot in the Ashanti Region involving the General Officer Commanding the Central Command of the Ghana Armed Forces…
The Member of Parliament for Juaboso in the Western North Region, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has raised concerns over recent actions by the Electoral Commission (EC) in his constituency.
Akandoh accused the EC of appointing 26 polling …
The running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has declared that Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is Ghana’s best option in the upcoming December elections.
Speaking to me…
An independent parliamentary candidate for Amenfi Central, Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah, has withdrawn from this year’s parliamentary contest.
Mr Kwakye-Ackah, who is the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for the …
A Senior lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Rev. Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, has called on religious organisations and other groups to commit to zero tolerance for el…
The wife of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye says he has been kidnapped in neighbouring Kenya and sent back home where he is being held in a military jail.
In a post on X, Winnie Byanyima wrote that her husband had been seized …
Los Angeles, the second largest US city, is setting itself up for a standoff with President-elect Donald Trump over immigration.
On Tuesday, its city council passed a "sanctuary city" ordinance to bar using local resources to help fed…
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has accused the Jubilee House of orchestrating a campaign of fake news on social media aimed at undermining him and his political efforts.
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