The UK government has amended its foreign travel guidance to clarify that the Indian-made version of the AstraZeneca vaccine is an approved jab.
But it is not clear whether people from India can travel to the UK without having to self-i…
The Minister for Local Government, Regional Reorganisation and Development, Dan Botwe has defended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s choices of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs).
Mr. Botwe insists Pre…
A professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has called for stiffer punishment for citizens who use their affiliations with political parties to commit crime.
That, he said, would serve …
Mr Kofi Amankwah Omane, Assistant Secretary of Trobu Constituency, says Mr Simons Sekyim was their best bet to occupy the Ga North Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) position.
"The news of Mr Sekyim's appointment never surprised us because…
Mr Alfred Obeng-Boateng, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bibiani- Anhwiaso- Bekwai Constituency, has congratulated Mr Alfred Amoah for his nomination as the MCE of the Bibiani- Anhwiaso- Bekwai Municipality.
Mr Amoah, the nominee, whe…
Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle,Mr. Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah has asked African leaders to apply Dr.Kwame Nkrumah's all-time, tried, and tested vision of African liberation backed by political and economic freedom.
He said the c…
A protest has taken place in the Namibian capital Windhoek against an agreement made with Germany after it apologised for a genocide in the southern African country in the early 20th Century.
Various political parties and traditional ch…
Two Tunisian MPs have been jailed by a military court amid concerns over human rights in the country.
The two MPs are from the Islamist Karama party.
Five lawmakers have now been imprisoned since July when President Kais Saied took o…
The United Nations is urging “caution” over people returning to the restive northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado.
It says it is still unclear whether the ongoing military operation has reduced jihadist groups’ capacity to stage …
A 5.9 magnitude earthquake has rattled southeast Australia, damaging buildings in the city of Melbourne.
The earthquake happened about 09:15 local time (23:15 GMT) on Wednesday at Mansfield, not far from the Victorian state capital.
…
The Taliban have asked to address world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week in New York City.
A UN committee will rule on the request but it is unlikely to happen during the current session of the body.
The Talib…
Former US President Donald Trump is suing his niece and the New York Times over a 2018 article that alleged he was involved in "dubious tax schemes".
The lawsuit, filed in New York, accuses Mary Trump and newspaper reporters of being "e…
A youth wing of the New Patriotic Party(NPP) in the Evaloe Adjomoro-Gwira constituency has expressed its deepest gratitude to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for nominating Madam Dorcas Elizabeth Amoah as the first female Municipal C…
“Nkrumah never dies”, “Forward ever, backwards never” and “Freedom” were some of the chants that reverberated when the Convention People’s Party (CPP) marked the 112th birthday of the country’s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, y…
The People's National Convention (PNC) has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo to appoint more women into political office.
It has, therefore, asked the President to review the list of people nominated to fill the position o…
A former chief of staff under the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Kwadwo Mpiani, says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) can win the 2024 polls, but the conduct of its officials will determine if that will happen.
He said indiscipline and o…
The United States has started flying migrants out of a Texas border town that has seen an influx of mostly Haitian migrants over the past week.
Three flights landed at Haiti's Port-au-Prince airport on Sunday, each carrying 145 people, …
Burundian rebels say they launched an overnight attack on the airport in the commercial capital Bujumbura.
The RED-Tabara group said it fired mortars and fought the military for more than an hour.
Airport staff said they heard shelli…
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema is earning some praise online for travelling with a “lean team” for the UN General Assembly in New York.
Mr Hichilema travelled to the UN meeting on a commercial Qatar Airways flight from the main ai…
Ghanaians have been urged to strive for peace and unity at all cost.
This is because no matter what challenges might pertain, the country could only develop, when there was political stability.
Madam Lucille Hewlett Annan, Greate…
Mr Joseph Korto, National Dean of Presiding Members on Sunday commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Mr Dan Botwe, Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development for their diligence in settling on the fin…
The Convention People’s Party (CPP) has called on Ghanaians to rise above partisan politics and seek the development of the nation as the country marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day today.
According to the party, entrenched partisanship in…
The country needs the political will that will transfer administrative power, authority and resources to the metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs), a former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Mr Akwasi Op…
There is a "six out of 10" chance of getting other countries to sign up to financial and environmental targets ahead of November's key COP26 climate change conference, the UK PM has said.
Boris Johnson is in the US for a UN meeting wher…
A forum was organised as part of the 10 years celebration of Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), in Takoradi, in the Western Region, last Friday.
It was attended by traditional rulers, civil society organisations and re…
The funeral of Algeria's former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has taken place in Algiers, without the fanfare accorded to previous leaders.
His body was carried by a tank for burial at El-Alia cemetery, where his predecessors and other…
A volcano eruption on La Palma in the Spanish Canary Islands has destroyed houses and forced about 5,000 residents to evacuate.
Lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano has been pouring downhill since Sunday's eruption, devastating everything…
A court in Rwanda has found the former hotel manager who's credited with saving hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide guilty of terror-related crimes.
Paul Rusesabagina - whose actions inspired the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda - b…
Some current chief executives of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) will not be returning to their roles following the release of nominees for the various MMDAs in the country.
Key among the casualties are the chief…
Nii Ayikwei Osaman I, the newly outdoored Abofu Mantse(chief) on Saturday swore his oath of allegiance to the Gbese Stool at the Gbese Mantse’s Palace, and was subsequently admitted to the Gbese Stool Council as a member.
The short cere…
Mr. Augustine Akusa-Am, District Magistrate, Kwahu Afram Plains North District has noted that the rights to freedom of Assembly and Association are essential pre-requisites to the realization of any democratic system of government.
H…
A court in Rwanda is due to deliver its verdict in the case of the former hotel manager who's credited with saving hundreds of people during the genocide in 1994.
Paul Rusesabagina - whose actions inspired the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwan…
Guinea new junta arrested a former minister on Sunday and ransacked his home before releasing him hours later.
Armed men in uniform raided Tibou Kamara’s apartment in the capital Conakry in the morning and took him to an unidentified lo…
Several African presidents have arrived in New York for the UN General Assembly.
Tanzania's Samia Suluhu, Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema, Ghana's Nana Akufo-Addo, Botswana's Mokgweetsi Masisi and Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari have so far conf…
A gunman has killed six people at a university in the Russian city of Perm, officials say.
The assailant walked on to the campus on Monday morning and started shooting.
Students and teachers barricaded themselves inside the universit…
Rabia is cradling her newborn baby, just days after giving birth at a small hospital in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan's east. "This is my third child, but the experience was totally different. It was horrible," she says.
In a matter…
President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party looks set for another big win in the country's parliamentary elections, despite a drop in support.
The party claimed victory a few hours after the polls closed on Sunday evening.
Putin's…
France's defence minister has cancelled talks with her UK counterpart amid the row prompted by a new security deal between Britain, the US and Australia.
Paris is angry after Australia signed the Aukus pact to build nuclear-powered subm…
Madam Mary Asante, 64, who has been a rice farmer for 25 years says the knowledge and technical knowhow that comes to smallholder rice farmers in the communities as a result of an initiative, the Rice Value Chain Improvement (RVCI) Project…
The Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Mr Dan Botwe, has released the list of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) nominees by President Akufo-Addo.
Mr Botwe released the much…
The Chief Executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah has condemned protests against the reported nomination of a new Mayor.
In a statement denouncing any form of protest in his name, Mr Sowah urged all …
The Acting National Chairman of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Mr Kenneth Nana Kwame Asamoah, says many Ghanaians are not paying taxes because of President Akufo-addo.
According to him, when President Akufo-Addo was in opposition, …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo last Friday left Accra for the United States of America (USA) to attend the 76th Session of the United Nation’s General Assembly.
During the trip he is billed to hold bilateral engagements with some…
Former Central Regional Minister, Ama Benyiwa Doe, has passed on. She was 71.
Former President John Dramani Mahama in a tribute has described her as not only a "politician, but also a gender activist and champion of women's rights."
…
In the home stretch of Canada's federal election, the Conservative Party is within striking distance of Justin Trudeau's Liberals. Tacking to the centre under a new leader, they hope they can topple the two-term prime minister.
A few da…
World Bank leaders, including then-Chief Executive Kristalina Georgieva, applied "undue pressure" on staff to boost China's ranking in the bank's "Doing Business 2018" report, according to an independent investigation released Thursday.
…
The United Nations says the human rights situation in Burundi has deteriorated since current President Evariste Ndayishimiye took office last year.
UN investigators said conditions had worsened for opposition parties, journalists and ci…
Guinea's health ministry has said that the outbreak of Marburg disease, announced at the beginning of August, is now over.
The country confirmed West Africa's first case of Marburg, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the …
Former President John Dramani Mahama has maintained that the perception of hardships in the country is not the creation of him and his National Democratic Congress government.
“The perception that the creation of hardships in the countr…
Italy is to make it compulsory for all workers to have a Covid "green pass" - proof of vaccination, a negative test or recovery from the virus.
The measures are a first for Europe and some of the strictest in the world.
Anyone withou…