More than 4,000 people, including leaders from across the continent, have attended President Yoweri Museveni's swearing in ceremony in Uganda's capital, Kampala.
Mr Museveni won a highly contested election in January, which main challen…
A new law that tightens patriotic loyalty tests for Hong Kong politicians will take effect later this month after being passed by the city's legislature on Wednesday, local media reported.
The law is widely expected to further stifle de…
The Covid-19 pandemic was preventable, an independent review panel has said.
The panel, set up by the World Health Organization, said the combined response of the WHO and global governments was a "toxic cocktail".
The WHO should have…
The Leader of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), Dr Henry Herbert Lartey, has called on the government to identify and prosecute sponsors of illegal mining in the country.
According to him, while the youth were engaged in ille…
Discussants at a post-election stakeholders’ review workshop of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, have called on the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to develop a Legislative Instrument (LI) to guide the implementa…
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Local Government and Rural Development has expressed worry about the continuous award of contracts by the government for the implementation of capital projects at the local level.
The Committee said…
The island nation of Madagascar has launched its Covid-19 vaccination programme after receiving Astra Zeneca vaccines last week.
The country recently registered for the global vaccination initiative Covax.
Health Minister Jean Louis …
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has taken the oath to officially begin a sixth term in office.
A local newspaper has been sharing updates:
He won re-election in a disputed poll in January.
Security had been increased in the cap…
US Republicans are to vote on whether to oust one of their leaders, Liz Cheney, over her repeated criticism of former President Donald Trump.
The Wyoming lawmaker, daughter of ex-US Vice-President Dick Cheney, is expected to lose her th…
The deadly exchange of fire between Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military has escalated significantly, with the UN fearing a "full-scale war".
More than 1,000 rockets have now been fired by Palestinian militan…
The Krachi West and Jasikan District Assemblies in the Oti Region have been upgraded to the status of Municipalities.
Mr Joshua Gmayenaam Makubu, the Oti Regional Minister, announced this when the Parliamentary Select Committee of Local…
A Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of Ghana, Dr Alidu Seidu, has said the adoption of a ‘one man, one vote’ system by political parties to elect their flag bearers will help deepen internal party d…
Stakeholders at a high-level post-elections review workshop to assess the conduct of Ghana’s 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections have reiterated the need for the Electoral Commission (EC) to set up an enforcement unit to enforce …
Experts believe the spread of new coronavirus variants in Africa has contributed to an increase in both cases and deaths reported across the continent.
There's also concern that these variants can't easily be tracked because the testing…
Three journalists and two activists who fled from Myanmar are set to go on trial in Thailand on charges of illegally entering the country.
If found guilty they are likely to be deported back to Myanmar, where they say their lives would …
A 20m-long (65ft) underground escape tunnel has been discovered at an immigration detention centre in Australia, refugee campaigners say.
The tunnel, at the Yongah Hill detention centre near Perth, was reportedly within five metres of t…
A new bridge over the Zambezi River linking Botswana and Zambia has been officially opened and should boost trade in the region.
At a cost of more than $250m (£177m), the Kazungula road and rail bridge was paid for by the African Develo…
The Nigerian presidency has confirmed an attempted break-in by burglars into the official residence of the president’s chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari.
President Muhammadu Buhari's chief of staff’s residence is located next to the heavi…
A former head of security for late Ugandan President Milton Obote, who was presumed dead, he has returned to home to Uganda after 50 years.
Vincent Obodo, 81, who had once headed the VIP protection unit at the president's office, was re…
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has paved the way for the appointment of new MPs by reconstituting parliament after dissolving it on Saturday.
The names of the appointed MPs were announced on the national broadcaster, South Sudan Bro…
A Catholic Priest, Very Reverend Father Professor Peter Nkrumah Amponsah, the Dean of Graduate Studies, Catholic University College of Ghana (CUCG) has condemned the '#Fixthecountry' campaign, and called for bottom-up attitudinal change to…
The NDC Professional Forum has call on Government to work hard to develop the country by fixing the enormous challenges confronting the country.
A statement issued by Dr S. Koma Jehu-Appiah of the Forum, copied to the Ghana News Agency,…
Kenya has banned all flights from neighbouring Somalia just a week after the two countries announced they had restored ties following months of diplomatic row.
A notice issued from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said only medical em…
The Nigerian government has reintroduced stricter lockdown conditions amid concerns about the fragility of the country's health system and disruption of vaccine deliveries.
Face masks are now mandatory in all government buildings, bars …
The G7 group of wealthy countries has pledged £276 million ($389 million) to assist millions of people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in north-eastern Nigeria.
It’s expected to support efforts by the UN and other aid agencies in …
Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, officials say.
Twenty-one other people, mostly children, were injured. A 19-year-old suspect was detained.
The attack happened in …
At a mosque in Lahore last week, hundreds of worshippers crowded together during Friday prayers. The vast majority wore masks, but they prayed shoulder to shoulder.
"You're right, there should've been gaps between us," said one man a li…
China's population grew at its slowest pace in decades, according to government data released on Tuesday.
The average annual growth rate was 0.53% over the past 10 years, down from a rate of 0.57% between 2000 and 2010 - bringing the po…
The Council on Foreign Relations-Ghana (CFR-Ghana), has expressed shock over the assassination of President Idris Deby of Chad and recent developments in the Central African nation.
Mr Daniel K. Osei, President, CFR-Ghana, said the whol…
Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar has hailed Monday as a "day of freedom" for the Republic of Ireland as Covid-19 restrictions were further eased.
The Republic had been at the highest level of restrictions - level five - sin…
Kenyans online are sharing an image of a vehicle that has been stuck in a ditch on a major road in the capital, Nairobi.
The Uhuru Highway, which runs across the central business district, is under construction and a section of it has b…
Kenya's health ministry plans to redistribute at least 200,000 doses of unused Covid-19 vaccines.
The country's Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe says the vaccines would be taken to cities or counties where the uptake was high to prevent was…
More than 100 former United Nations peacekeepers from Ethiopia have sought asylum in Sudan.
The group was part of a recently closed UN mission in Sudan's Darfur region, and had been due to return home.
A local refugee official said t…
A new open letter has been published in France warning of the threat of civil war and claiming to have more than 130,000 signatures from the public.
The message, published in a right-wing magazine, accuses the French government of grant…
The former head of the Russian hospital that treated Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last year has emerged from a Siberian forest, having been missing.
Teams using a helicopter and drones spent the weekend searching the swampy area in the…
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called for a total overhaul of the government’s leadership style.
This call comes on the heels of a social media protest by a group of Ghanaians who are unhappy with …
The immediate past Awutu Senya West MP, George Andah has bemoaned the decision of his constituents not to retain him as MP.
Mr. Andah, who lost the seat in his bid for re-election to the National Democratic Congress’ Gizella Tetteh, sai…
The Birim Central Municipal Assembly has gotten its second share of the Ghana Secondary Cities Support Programme (GSCSP) to commence works on the Old Premier Market at Akim Oda this month.
In September 2020, sod was cut at Oda Nkwantanu…
The leadership of the Concerned Voters Movement (CVM) has urged Ghanaians to be patient with President Akufo-Addo, as he is committed and determined to fix the socio-economic challenges that he inherited from former President John Dramani …
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the Eastern Region has urged Ghana's security services to be vigilant against threats posed by vigilantism, fundamentalism, and secessionism.
The Commission said these threats of vio…
The military in Chad has claimed victory against northern rebels following weeks of fighting.
The conflict against Libya-based rebels threw the country into a crisis when President Idriss Déby died after being wounded on the frontline l…
Ghanaians have taken anti-government protests online after a court ruling barred them from participating in an in-person gathering.
People have been sharing photos of themselves holding placards listing the changes they want in the coun…
Lawyers representing the alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have requested that charges against him be dropped on the grounds that he is unfit to stand trial due to ill health.
Félicien Kabuga, 84, was arrested a year ago …
There have been clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police outside the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, ahead of a planned Jewish nationalist march.
More than 200 people were injured, as crowds threw stones and officers fired stun gren…
Afghan families have been burying their children who were killed in explosions outside a secondary school in the capital, Kabul, on Saturday.
More than 60 people, mostly girls, are now known to have died in the attack that hit students …
The US government issued emergency legislation on Sunday after the largest fuel pipeline in the US was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack.
The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day - 45% of the East Coast's supply of diesel,…
Discussants at a post-election stakeholders’ review workshop of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, have urged the Electoral Commission (EC) to review the close of poll time from 5p.m. to 4p.m.
They also entreated the com…
Roland Affail Monney, the National Council and the Election Committee of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) have been sued for staying in office illegally.
The plaintiff, Ms Caroline Boateng of the Graphic Communications Group Limi…
The African Union (AU) has appointed former Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama as its High Representative to Somalia, to help mediate between stakeholders towards a mutually acceptable compromise for the holding of elections in the cou…
The newly compiled 2020 voters register should be the last register to be compiled from scratch, participants in a high-level Post-Elections Stakeholders Review Workshop to assess the conduct of Ghana’s 2020 presidential and parliamentary …
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