The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, says a thorough consideration of the 2022 budget can help restore the lost confidence in Ghana’s parliament.
According to the Speaker, politicians have become endange…
Libya's interim prime minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah registered as a candidate for the presidency on Sunday despite having vowed not to do so as a condition of taking his current post and despite contested election rules that may prevent …
A pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth group, Alpha Patriots, has pledged to mobilize its 16,000 members across Ghana to enable the party to achieve its ‘Breaking the Eight’ target.
The group indicated its resolve to campaign massively a…
Sudan's ousted Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has been reinstated following last month's coup when he was put under house arrest.
He has appeared on TV to sign a new power-sharing agreement with coup leader Gen Abdel Fattah a…
A Ranking Member on the Finance Committee in Parliament, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson says the 2022 budget shows that the Akufo-Addo government is not in tune with the realities of Ghanaians.
According to him, the budget fail…
The People’s National Convention (PNC) has expressed mixed feelings about the 2022 Economic Policy and Budget which was presented to Parliament by Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance.
It said the party received the budget with mix…
Assembly members of the Birim Central Municipality, have raised concern over low rent charges for occupants of assembly buildings and called for an upward review.
They said the tenants were mostly heads of departments and assembly sta…
The Executive Director of the Centre for Greater Impact, Reverend DrWorlanyo Mensah, has observed that internal political processes for selection of executives, parliamentary candidates and presidential candidates have alleged influence.
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Hundreds of inmates have fled a prison in Matadi, a port city in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Two armed men arrived at the jail, subdued the guards and then broke open the main gate, local media reported.
Security of…
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he is "encouraged" by the deal to reverse the military takeover in Sudan.
It comes after the reinstatement of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday, following last month's coup when he was…
France asked the president of Burkina Faso to intervene after a French military convoy was held up for nearly three days by protesters in the city of Kaya.
The foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said those he called "manipulators" ha…
Austria has returned to a full national lockdown as protests against new restrictions aimed at curbing Covid-19 infections spread across Europe.
From midnight, Austrians have been asked to work from home and non-essential sh…
Women have been banned from appearing in television dramas in Afghanistan under new rules imposed by the Taliban government.
Female journalists and presenters have also been ordered to wear headscarves on screen, although th…
At least five people have been killed and more than 40 injured after a car ploughed into a parade in the US state of Wisconsin, police say.
Footage shows a red SUV driving through a Christmas parade in the city of Waukesha, …
The late Mother of Ogyeahohoo Yaw Gyebi II, Paramount Chief of Sefwi Anhwiaso Traditional Area and President of the National House of Chiefs was laid to rest at Sefwi-Anhwiaso in the Western North Region.
The late mother, Obaapan…
Tributes are being shared on social media to mourn and eulogies the late Captain Kojo Tsikata (rtd), a former head of national security, who died on Saturday, November 20, at 85.
Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliame…
The Member of Parliament for Karaga Constituency in the Northern Region, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, popularly known as Amin Anta, has promised to sponsor 20 best students out of the 770 students who sat for th…
The construction of constituency offices for all 275 Members of Parliament is expected to start in 2022 in phases.
This is contained in the 2022 budget presented by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.…
The Minority caucus in Parliament has vowed to kick against the government’s proposal for a 1.75% tax on all electronic financial transactions.
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, reiterated this during…
The US has ended sanctions imposed against Burundi six years ago, citing reforms in the country.
A US statement noted that President Joe Biden had revoked an executive order that authorised the sanctions.
It acknowledged last year’s…
The government of Djibouti says the year-long war in neighbouring Ethiopia has had a drastic impact on its economy.
Over 90% of Ethiopia's goods pass through the port of Djibouti and both nations have invested billions of dollars to bui…
African girls are appealing to their leaders to guarantee their right to education and to protect them from early marriages.
They have been expressing their views at the African Girls Summit in Niger's capital, Niamey.
According to A…
There is "serious intent" in the EU to solve post-Brexit difficulties over the Northern Ireland border, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has said.
Speaking to the BBC, he said the "mood music" surrounding EU-UK negotiations had impro…
The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), has urged political party leadership, agents and assigns to bury their differences and work together for peace and security of the state.
It called on the citizenry no matter their pol…
Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Thursday he was working non-stop on a timetable for reforms to defuse growing criticism at home and abroad since he dismissed the cabinet, suspended parliament and took personal power four months ago.
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A migrant camp on the Belarus-Poland border that became a temporary home to some 2,000 people has been emptied, border guards have confirmed.
The migrants who had been camping there in freezing conditions, hoping to cross into the EU, h…
Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, the former Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development, has stated that she never anticipated to lose the Krowor Constituency Parliamentary seat in the Greater Accra Region although there were a lot of challen…
Two Ghanaian citizens have sued the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice over a number of protections the Speaker of Parliament, a Member of Parliament (MP) and the Clerk to Parliament enjoy under the 1992 Constitution.
In the writ,…
The West African country of Togo has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday.
The outbreak near the capital Lome killed 1,105 o…
The Kremlin on Friday denounced a resolution proposed by two U.S. congressmen to end recognition of President Vladimir Putin when his current term ends in 2024 as an unacceptable and aggressive demonstration of official U.S. meddling in Ru…
Special envoys from the African Union and the US have returned to Ethiopia in a bid to revive talks for a ceasefire and find ways to end the year-long conflict.
Both the US' Jeffrey Feltman and Olusegun Obasanjo, the AU’s special repres…
Days after Austria imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated, it has announced a full national Covid-19 lockdown starting on Monday.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said it would last a maximum of 20 days and there would be a legal requi…
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Asiedu Nketia, has maintained that, an NDC government will not have scrapped toll levy rather broaden the tax net for more revenue to accelerate socioeconomic development.
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Deputy Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Isaac Adongo, has taken a swipe at the government following the introduction of new taxes and revision of fees as announced in the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy.
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The Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Kobina Annim, has stressed the need for Parliament to rely on credible data to perform its oversight responsibility functions for the benefit of the citizenry.
He said the use of credible da…
The District Chief Executive (DCE) nominee for Akatsi North, Mr Paul Agbesi Ayrah, has for the second time failed to gain the nod as the district head.
Mr Ayrah's second confirmation bid saw 11 out of 18 members of the assembly vote ‘ye…
Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, says the Speaker’s directive to the Roads and Highways Minister to reverse the cessation of the collection road tolls is an error.
He insists the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, does not ha…
The Roads and Highways Ministry has clarified that the recent directive by the sector minister for the cessation of the collection of tolls on public roads was not to set aside the laws for toll collection.
According to the Ministry, th…
Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye has dismissed Commerce Minister Capitoline Niyonizigiye.
She has been accused of "undermining government's aspirations and orientations...and for tarnishing the image of Burundi".
Iwacu news …
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential palace in Abuja on Thursday.
He is visiting Nigeria as part of his tour of Africa which began in Kenya earlier in the week.
Mr Blink…
The UN says six of its staff have been released in Ethiopia, leaving five in detention.
UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said one dependant was also being detained.
The UN employees were among 16 detained earlier this month.
No r…
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has hit its highest level in over 15 years, official data shows.
A report by Brazil's space research agency (Inpe) found that deforestation increased by 22% in a year.
Brazil was among a nu…
Indian PM Narendra Modi has announced the repeal of three controversial farm laws after a year of protests.
Thousands of farmers had camped at Delhi's borders since last November and dozens died from heat, cold and Covid.
Farmers say…
President Akufo-Addo has said that everyone should be concerned about governance infractions as when they arise, they exact enormous costs that affect the entire society.
“The cost of poor governance can be enormous,” he stressed in rem…
The US has removed Nigeria from the list of religious violators, ahead of the visit by the Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the country.
The US government last year placed Nigeria on its special watch list of states that had engaged…
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen lauded military cooperation with Washington on Thursday as she commissioned the first combat wing of F-16 fighters upgraded with U.S. help to bolster the island's defences during rising tensions between Taipei…
West African military chiefs on Wednesday began a three-day summit in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to discuss the escalating jihadist insurgency in the Sahel region.
The senior officers from the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowa…
In a major shift for a country long closed to immigrants, Japan is looking to allow foreigners in certain blue-collar jobs to stay indefinitely starting as early as the 2022 fiscal year, a justice ministry official said on Thursday.
Und…
Two men convicted of the murder in 1965 of the US civil rights leader Malcolm X are to have their convictions quashed.
Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam did not get the justice they deserved, the Manhattan District Attorney said.
Prosec…
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has tasked Members of Parliament (MPs) to realise themselves as the hope of the citizenry and work to lift their spirits to contribute meaningfully to nation building.
He observed that the spirits of…