The former Afghan president fled the country on Sunday - but it is unclear where he went or where he currently is.
In the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, there was speculation he had travelled to a neighbouring nation like U…
Mr Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, has congratulated Mr Hakainde Hichilema on his election as President-Elect of Zambia following the successful conduct of Elections held on August 12, 2021.
The AU C…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has scheduled Saturday, August 21, 2021, to Friday, August 27, 2021, to hold its Constituency Annual Delegates Conferences across all 275 constituencies of the country.
The conferences will be hel…
The parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo has voted to extend the state of emergency in Ituri and North Kivu - the two eastern provinces that have been rocked by insecurity.
The state of emergency imposed by President Félix Tsh…
The trial of former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaoré and 13 co-accused over the 1987 assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara will start on 11 October.
The trial will be conducted in public, military prosecutors in Burkina …
There are reports that the Taliban's political leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and other leaders are expected to arrive in the capital Kabul either today or tomorrow.
Baradar was among several members of the Taliban's senior leadershi…
At least 1,941 people are known to have died in Haiti in Saturday's powerful earthquake - a rise of more than 500 on the previous figure, officials say.
Nearly 10,000 people have been injured, and many are still missing after the the 7.…
Two days after the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, female presenters have returned to at least some TV channels, after briefly going off air as the militants took over the country.
Tolo TV, the private channel which p…
Former President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, says he will not be surprised if the country goes back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) due to the manner in which the current administration is managing the economy.
He explained that f…
The General Secretary of the Socialist Movement Ghana (SMG), Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has said the group will be a vehicle that will support rapid growth, development, depth and impact in the country.
He said the group, which is an activist …
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law an oil bill first introduced in parliament nearly 20 years ago.
The Petroleum Industry Act - which amalgamates some 16 previous laws - overhauls nearly every aspect of oil and gas…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the president-elect of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, on his victory in the country’s just concluded presidential election.
President Buhari has also praised Zambians for coming out in …
Ivory Coast has begun a vaccination programme against Ebola after the country confirmed its first case since 1994, the health ministry says.
It said the family of the infected teenager and health workers involved were the first to be gi…
Soldiers are to spend another month on the streets of South Africa, after the widespread unrest and looting that followed ex-President Jacob Zuma's jailing in July.
In response to the violence 25,000 troops were deployed - the biggest n…
The UK is looking at a "bespoke arrangement" for Afghan refugees, with full details to be set out in due course, the foreign secretary has said.
A new resettlement scheme will be aimed at helping those most in need - including women and…
The Biden administration has increased the amount of government-provided food assistance distributed to approximately one in eight Americans each month.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Monday announced an increase of over 25%…
New Zealand has announced a snap lockdown after a man tested positive for Covid, the first case in six months.
The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown fo…
The Director-General of the State Interests and Governance Authority (SIGA), Mr. Stephen Asamoah Boateng, popularly known as Asabee, has urged members of the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON), which is the student wing of the New Patr…
The Volta Development Forum (VDF), has extolled Dr. Archibald Yao Letsa, the Volta Regional Minister for the successes of the Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC).
The Local Government Service has ranked the VRCC the best performing for…
Mr. Dan Botwe, Minister for Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development has said individuals should be held accountable for public disservice and not always the government.
He said the central government had been placed at …
Two police officers have been suspended after two brothers died in custody after their arrest in central Kenya earlier this month.
The move follows public outcry by Kenyans online using the hashtag #JusticeForKianjokomaBrothers.
Insp…
Nigeria's Plateau state government has extended a curfew in the state capital Jos and surrounding areas after signs of increasing tension in the city.
It follows the killing of at least 23 Muslim travellers returning from a religious ce…
Venezuelan opposition politician Freddy Guevara has been released from jail two days after the government of President Nicolás Maduro and opposition representatives met in Mexico.
Mr Guevara had been arrested in July and charged with tr…
Protesters attacked the home of Lebanon's prime minister-designate after a petrol tank explosion killed 27 people and injured 79 others on Sunday.
Dozens of demonstrators demanded Najib Mikati's resignation, threw stones at his house an…
Rescue workers are rushing to locate survivors of the deadly earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday as a tropical storm is heading towards the Caribbean nation.
At least 1,297 people are known to have died in the 7.2-magnitude quake a…
Some youth of the National Democratic Congress in the North-East Region are pushing former Member of Parliament (MP) for the Yagaba-Kubori constituency, Alhaji Abdul-Rauf Tanko Ibrahim to contest for the chairmanship slot of the party in …
The Founder and President of the Atta Mills Institute, Mr Samuel Koku Sitsofe Anyidoho, has called for reforms in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to re-position it for power in 2024 and beyond.
“The NDC needs to review its consti…
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said he will keep pushing for peace in Ethiopia.
He said the country was reaching out to all sides to reach a compromise and end the conflict.
The nine-month conflict in Ethiopia’s northern T…
While the Taliban's taking of Kabul sparked the US and its allies to evacuate from the capital, China and Russia have indicated they have no plans to close their embassies.
China warned its nationals to “stay indoors” and alert to the s…
Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) within the Tema Administrative Region performance have been adjudged among the best in the 2020 Annual Local Government Service (LGS) Performance Evaluation report which ranked the 1…
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, the Taliban has issued a statement saying it has finally broken the resistance at Kandahar airport and that thousands of Afghan special forces have surrendered to them.
The troops had been surrounded by Taliban…
The Tanzanian government on Wednesday suspended a local newspaper for running what it called a false story saying that President Samia Suluhu Hassan would not vie for office in 2025, the first newspaper suspension in Hassan's tenure.
Th…
The partial closure of one of China's biggest cargo ports due to coronavirus has raised fresh concerns about the impact on global trade.
Services were shut on Wednesday at a terminal at Ningbo-Zhoushan port after a worker was infected w…
Population shifts revealed by the 2020 Census herald changes to come in US politics as the country becomes more diverse, experts say. The number of Americans who identify as white has fallen below 60% for the first time and population grow…
The Internal Audit Agency, at the Office of Government Machinery on Thursday awarded the Tema Metropolitan Assembly as the ''best head of covered entity that supports internal Audit Unit" MMDA/RCC Category.
The citation of the award, wh…
Afghanistan is "heading towards civil war" as the UK prepares to withdraw its citizens, allies and troops, the defence secretary has said.
Ben Wallace told BBC Breakfast that it was likely that poverty and terrorism would increase in th…
Kenya's oxygen production firm Hewatele is doubling production this year to keep up with surging demand from hospitals that are treating critically ill COVID-19 patients, the company said.
Demand for the commodity has more than doubled …
North Korean state television has aired its first coverage of the Tokyo Olympic Games - two days after the closing ceremony.
According to local news reports, Korean Central Television aired 70 minutes of a women's football match between…
A militia commander who had been leading the fight against the Taliban has been detained by the militants after they seized the city of Herat, local officials say.
Mohammad Ismail Khan, nicknamed the Lion of Herat, is one of Afghanistan…
Mr Dan Botwe, Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development has said a decentralised system of local government based on the Constitution remained the vision and quest of the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo.
…
A huge search and rescue operation is under way in northern Turkey after flash floods along the Black Sea coast killed at least 27 people.
Kastamonu province is the worst-hit area, accounting for 25 of the deaths. Two others died in Sin…
Sudan will not decide before next week at the earliest whether to hand over former President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face charges of atrocities in the Darfur conflict, the ICC chief prosecutor said on Thursday…
Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been released from a South Korean prison and is now on parole.
He served 207 days in jail - just over half the sentence he received after being convicted of bribery and embezzlement in January.
The case …
Germany's interior minister has said his country must act quickly to help Afghans who work for its military.
"Whether charter flights or issuing visas after arrival in Germany, I support all measures that enable our local support staff …
Mr Godfred Dame, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice has eulogised the late Justice Samuel Marful-Sau describing him as an excellent Common Law judge with immense intellectual strength.
According to him Justice Marful-Sau posses…
Prosecutors in Libya have issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, over suspected ties to Russian mercenaries.
A BBC World Service investigation has revealed links between th…
Vote counting is under way in Zambia, where millions of people cast their ballots in closely contested general and presidential elections.
Large queues formed outside many polling stations, suggesting turnout has been high.
President…
Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche has been sentenced to eight months in prison for his reporting on protests, his newspaper Liberte said.
M Kareche was handed a one-year-term, with four months suspended. He has already been in prison si…
The British and Russian ambassadors to Iran have angered the country by recreating a World War Two image of Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, when Iran was under Allied occupation.
The Russian embassy posted a photo of the two diplom…
The UN has urged Afghanistan's neighbours to keep their borders open as the number of civilians fleeing the Taliban onslaught swells.
Thousands of those internally displaced have been arriving in Kabul, seeing the capital as their last …