Concerns are growing over the whereabouts of sacked Tunisian Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, who has not appeared in public or spoken to the media since his dismissal on 25 July.
Some media outlets say he has also not been in contact wi…
A group of fishermen looking for a catch in Kenya’s Lake Victoria got the shock of their lives when they instead netted a heavy metallic box with six mortar bombs inside.
The fishermen in the western Mbita town, who had thought they had…
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has called on the leadership of the country to honour the significance of the Founders’ Day celebration by improving the living conditions of the citizenry.
The Party, in a release issued and signed …
Former President John Dramani Mahama and the Volta Region caucus of the National Democratic Congress in parliament on Wednesday, August 4, 2021, visited the Ketu South Constituency in the Volta Region and commiserated with the residents af…
The People's National Convention (PNC) has disclosed intention to institute an event to commemorate the achievements of former President Dr Hilla Limann of the Third Republic.
Dr Limann, touted as the incorruptible leader in Ghana’s dem…
Alhaji Collins Dauda, a former Minister of Works and Housing, accused in the $200 million Saglemi Housing Project saga, has been granted self-recognisance bail by a Criminal Court (High Court Division) in Accra.
The Court, presided over…
About 4.4 million people in north-eastern Nigeria may face acute hunger because of the attacks by the Boko Haram militant group that have forced farmers from their land, the UN has said.
Farmers have been targeted in the insurgency and …
Former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has called on the government to consider dialogue with the armed groups operating in the conflict-hit Cabo Delgado region.
He says there are “certain types of terrorism” that have ended throu…
The speaker of parliament in Mauritius has spoken out after criticism for shaming an MP with vitiligo, a condition which causes patches of skin to become lighter.
The speaker said it was a "joke", regarding his remarks against an opposi…
The US will eventually require almost all foreign visitors to be fully vaccinated, a White House official has said.
The unnamed official told several news agencies that the Biden administration had tasked inter-agency groups with creati…
The Mexican government has sued some of the biggest US gun manufacturers, accusing them of fuelling bloodshed through reckless business practices.
The lawsuit alleges that the companies knew they were contributing to illegal arms traffi…
Fully vaccinated passengers returning to England, Scotland and Northern Ireland from France will no longer need to quarantine after Sunday.
Under widespread changes to the traffic light system for travel, France is being moved from ambe…
Ghana marks Founders Day today. It is the third to be marked since it was promulgated into law in 2018. Because it is being marked during the COVID-19 global pandemic, just a few activities have been planned to mark the day which has been …
President Akufo-Addo is rallying the entire nation to work to free ourselves from the shackles of colonial economic arrangements that continue to bind us as a people.
On the occasion of Founders’ Day, the President says “We must make co…
The Jubilee House has described as 'premature', the petition to have the Chief Justice of Ghana, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah removed from office over a $5 million bribery allegation.
The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA…
The Africans Rising Coordinating Collective, the governing body of the movement for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity, has constituted a new leadership.
The new leadership has Mr. Deji Adeyanju, a human rights activist, as …
The Government together with the Government of Korea will Fund the Regional Maritime University’s (RMU) Modernisation project within the Economic Development Cooperation Fund Framework Arrangement.
The project earmarked for the 2020 –…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a message to mark Founders' Day, rallied citizens to work relentlessly to free the nation from the non - productive neo-colonial structure of the raw material producing and exporting economy.
He…
The UK and Iran have summoned each other's diplomats in a row over last week's deadly attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman.
The UK, US and Israel blame Iran for the attack, in which two crew members - a Briton and a Romanian - …
Dozens of bodies have washed up on a river that marks the border between Ethiopia and Sudan, residents on the Sudanese side have reported.
Some of the bodies had gunshot wounds and others had their hands bound, witnesses told news agenc…
Kenya's deputy president was on Monday made to wait for clearance for hours before he was stopped from flying to neighbouring Uganda.
William Ruto was set to attend to private matters in Uganda when Kenyan immigration officers said he n…
A Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Joseph Atsu Ayee, has said the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) should be institutionalised to enable it to play its role effectively as a major stakeholder…
Ghana and Angola Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to hold consultations to boost political and economic ties between both nations.
By the MoU, the two nations have established a consultative mechanism that would enabl…
Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan will begin testing its entire population, after a handful of positive coronavirus cases were detected there.
Wuhan has recorded seven locally transmitted cases - the first local infections in mor…
Rights groups and social media users have raised concerns about freedoms in Tunisia as more critics of President Kais Saied have been arrested.
"Two members of parliament from El Karama and Ennahdha parties, Maher Zeid and Mohamed Affes…
Morocco is introducing new coronavirus restrictions, including a night curfew, as infection rates rise.
The prime minister's office tweeted that the curfew would begin Tuesday night and would last from 21:00 to 05:00 local time.
The …
Mr Isaac Manu, the Central Regional Communications Director of the Ghana Union Movement (GUM), has expressed the Party's determination to convincingly win the Assin North Parliamentary seat which had been declared vacant by a Cape Coast Hi…
A former Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, NDC, Koku Anyidoho, is demanding a formal letter of his expulsion from the opposition party.
“I am please requesting for the expulsion letter for my perusal to enabl…
An Afghan general has warned of "devastating" consequences for global security if the Taliban win in their fight against government forces.
General Sami Sadat is leading the battle against the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand…
The head of a group helping people who have fled Belarus has been found dead near his home in neighbouring Ukraine.
Vitaly Shishov's body was found hanged in a park in Kyiv, a day after he failed to return from a jog. Police have opened…
Nigeria has received a donation of four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine from the US government.
The US embassy in Nigeria says the donated vaccines are part of the "US pledge to initially provide at least 25 million of the 80 million …
Tanzania's Defence Minister Elias Kwandikwa died on Monday night while being treated in Dar es Salaam.
Mr Kwandikwa had been been in hospital for 14 days.
The MP's secretary, Julius Lugobi, confirmed his death.
President Samia Sul…
Ethiopia's national carrier Ethiopian Airlines has denied reports that it shipped arms to the conflict-hit region of Tigray.
The airline said that after the airspace was reopened it only gave "commercial essential service by transportin…
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Kigali on her first official visit to Rwanda.
She is expected to hold talks and have a joint press conference with President Paul Kagame later in the day.
Tanzania is the second…
Algerian students in France have raised more than €600,000 ($713,000; £513,000) to buy medical equipment and supplies for hospitals battling coronavirus in their home country.
The Algerian Medical Network launched a fundraiser on 20 Jul…
The UK has been asked to apologise and compensate members of two communities in western Kenya whose land was taken away during the colonial era and who suffered horrific abuses.
The petition by indigenous Kenyans who had settled in the …
The death toll from the floods in China's central Henan province last month has risen sharply to at least 302, officials have confirmed.
About 50 people remain missing after the region was engulfed by severe flooding caused by heavy rai…
The commander of the rebel group in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray has told the BBC they will continue fighting until their terms for a ceasefire are met.
Gen Tsadkan Gebretensae said the group aims to force the federal government…
At least eight people have been killed in wildfires that have ripped through southern Turkey, ravaging coastal resorts and forcing tourists to flee.
The blazes have been raging for six days as Turkey grapples with its worst fire crisis …
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has called for urgent reconsideration of the constitutional provisions on asset declarations made by public office holders to the Auditor-General (A-G) to make the fight against…
Many residents in the Assin North Constituency have called on the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana and other state institutions to ensure a free, fair and transparent election in the impending by-election to deepen Ghana's democratic cre…
The 2020 parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Assin North, Mr James Gyakye Quayson, has appealed the High Court ruling which annulled his election as Member of Parliament (MP).
Mr Quayson in an appeal fi…
Tunisia's parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi was discharged from hospital on Sunday hours after he was admitted.
Mr Ghannouchi's admission came days after he called out President Kais Saied's move to suspend parliament and sack the pr…
Zambia's President Edgar Lungu has ordered the deployment of the military to suppress electoral violence ahead of the 12 August general elections - amid criticism by the opposition and other groups.
“I have allowed the Zambia Army, Zamb…
An Israeli court is to decide the fate of Palestinians facing eviction in East Jerusalem in a case which has become the focus of international attention.
The long-awaited hearing concerns four of more than 70 families appealing against …
Doctors in Nigeria's public hospitals are set to begin an indefinite strike over poor pay after the government failed to respond to their grievances.
The National Association of Resident Doctors (Nard) said its members would begin the s…
A fresh Covid outbreak in China has spread to more locations, raising concerns in local media over the country's vulnerability to the highly contagious Delta variant.
More than 300 cases have been detected within a span of 10 days.
L…
A sprinter from Belarus who refused her team's order to fly home early from the Olympics is seeking asylum in Poland, activists say.
Krystina Timanovskaya spent the night secured in a hotel under protection from Japanese police, after s…
The Chief of Kwapia in the Adansi District of the Ashanti Region, Nana Gyamena Kwabena Oyiakwan II, and his Krontihene, Nana Anokye Ababio, have sued the Minerals Commission, Obuasi and two others at the Obuasi High Court for assisting fou…
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has called for the strengthening of unity and promotion of cooperation between Muslims and Christians to ensure a more impactful development in the country for citizens.
Speaking at the opening o…