The arrival of Israel's Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday is a landmark moment for his country and the Arab world.
Mr Lapid is the first Israeli minister to pay an official visit to the Gulf state sinc…
A former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugre Naabu, says it will be an act of discrimination if the party fails to endorse Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the party’s flagbearer for the 2024 polls.
Accordin…
A New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Youth Organiser hopeful, Prince Kamal Gumah has paid a courtesy call on former President John Agyekum Kufuor at his residence.
The visit was to formally introduce himself to the astute statesman and …
South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months by the highest court in the country.
He has been given five days to hand himself in to police. Failing that, the police minister must order his arrest.
The ja…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that he is encouraged by the continuing vibrancy and diversity of the Ghanaian media.
He explained that these were the very foundation of the nation’s growing democracy and open society a…
The Northern Regional Secretariat of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) says Vice President Dr Mahammudu Bawumia has the potential to lead the party to victory in 2024 when given the opportunity.
According to the regional leadership of the p…
South Africa’s constitutional court is on Tuesday expected to issue a verdict on whether or not former President Jacob Zuma is guilty of contempt of court.
The court is to decide whether Mr Zuma should be punished for defying a summons …
Bars, taverns and casinos in Zambia have been closed as the government enforces new measures to prevent further spread of coronavirus.
The health ministry had last week said that starting Monday, these entertainment spots would only ope…
The security forces in Eswatini - formerly known as Swaziland - have clashed with protesters, who are demanding major constitutional reforms.
Protests by mainly young people intensified over the weekend, despite a government ban on all …
The United Nations Human Rights Council has urged global action including reparations to "make amends" for racism against people of African descent.
Its new report also urges educational reform and apologies to address discrimination.
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Mexico's Supreme Court has decriminalised the private recreational use of cannabis by adults, calling the current prohibition unconstitutional.
In an 8-3 decision, the court ruled that adults would be able to apply for permits to cultiv…
Mr Sammy Gyamfi, National Communications Officer, National Democratic Congress (NDC), says negligence on the part of Government officials led to Ghana incurring $170 million judgement debt awarded to Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC).
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Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has urged all residents of Ghana to partake in and cooperate with Census Enumerators and their Field Officers as the Ghana Statistical Service undertake the two-week-long 2021 Population and Housing Censu…
Burkinabe President Roch Kaboré has called on opposition and civil society groups to cancel planned nationwide protests against rising insecurity in the country.
In a televised address to the nation, Mr Kaboré said the protests schedule…
The UN said that the world should honour George Floyd, who was murdered last year by a policeman, by addressing racismImage caption: The UN said that the world should honour George Floyd, who was murdered last year by a policeman, by addre…
The UK government is holding talks with Denmark over whether they could share a processing facility for asylum seekers in a third country, the London Times newspaper reports (paywall).
Earlier this month, Denmark passed a law allowing f…
Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Volta Regional Minister, has said that the accelerated growth the Region is yearning for could be achieved through a collaborative effort, urging all to come onboard.
He said "we are in this business together, …
Dr. Freda Prempeh, a Minister of State in-charge of Works and Housing has joined Ministers of States from Africa, attending the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Symposium of the Shelter Afrique, underway in Yaounde, capital of Cameroon.
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The People's National Convention (PNC) has lined up a series of events to mark its 29th anniversary which falls on July 27, 2021.
According to the party, the anniversary was an opportunity to assess its progress and think about future c…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has called for the creation of an institutional memory bank to help enhance the transfer of knowledge in the public service.
He said there was a pressing need for state instit…
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced tough new restrictions to limit the impact of a third wave of the coronavirus.
For the next two weeks alcohol sales are banned and all gatherings - including political and religious…
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has called out "vaccine selfishness" in the world but said it will "wake up" Africans to be self-sufficient.
President Museveni said what Africa needs is raw materials to produce its own Covid vaccines…
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Beni on Sunday declared a curfew following two bomb blasts in a day.
"I don't want to see anyone in the street," the mayor of the city, Col Narcisse Muteba, said, warning…
France has held its second round of regional elections, with Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) again failing to take power anywhere.
It had hoped Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur would be its first regional victory but it was won …
The US has carried out air strikes against Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border region.
Sunday's strikes hit "operational and weapons storage facilities", in response to drone attacks on US forces, the Pentagon said in a …
Australian leaders will hold an emergency meeting on Monday after a spike in Covid infections.
An outbreak in Sydney linked to the highly contagious Delta variant has grown to 128 cases.
Cases have also been recorded in the Northern…
Madam Fati Koray, the Wa Municipal Coordinating Director has been installed as the maiden Queen mother of Chansah community in the Jonyuohi clan of the Sing Traditional Area in the Upper West Region.
Madam Fati Koray, now known as Pogna…
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has called on the Russian Ambassador-Designate to Ghana, Mr Sergey Berdnikov, to assist in ensuring the speedy delivery of the Sputnik V vaccines to Ghana to help fight again…
Dr. Divine Ayivor, the Election 2020 Vice-Presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) on Thursday entreated Nkrumahist political parties and associated groups to unite to explore ways of funding the CPP to win general ele…
Several thousand supporters of a leftist party demonstrated outside the offices of South Africa's health regulator on Friday to protest against the slow coronavirus vaccine roll-out in Africa's worst-hit country.
The protesters from the…
U.S. President Joe Biden meets Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his former political foe, Abdullah Abdullah, on Friday to discuss Washington's support for Afghanistan as the last U.S. troops pack up after 20 years of war and government fo…
A National Stakeholder meeting of the Open Governance Partnership (OGP) has been held to validate the priority areas outlined in the draft of the 4th National Action Plan (NAP).
The meeting is also to agree on the commitment areas that …
In an open space near Châtelet in central Paris, lanky young men - their knees and elbows folded around BMX bikes - dodge skateboarders out practising their moves.
For some of them, France's regional elections this month are their first…
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan urged the public on Friday not to ignore a third wave of COVID-19, after her predecessor, the late John Magufuli, alarmed the world with his sceptical approach to the pandemic.
Since Hassan took …
Uganda will be added to the UK's travel "red list" of high-risk Covid countries from 30 June.
This means travellers from Uganda will not be able to enter the UK unless they are returning nationals or residents - and they would have to f…
President Emmanuel Macron defended on Friday a failed attempt by France and Germany to hold an EU summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after eastern European leaders shot down the initiative they said would send the wrong message …
Ambassador Abdal Fatah Ahmed Khalil Alsattari, Palestinian Ambassador to Ghana has called on United States to be fair and balanced in their intervention to resolve the issue between them and Israel to facilitate the peace in the Middle Eas…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Friday received letters of credence from five envoys at the Jubilee House, Accra.
They are the ambassadors of Russia, Sergei Berdnikov; Carl Michael Grans from Sweden; Ethiopia’s Hadera Abera Adm…
Reverend Frimpong Boadu, the Chairman of the Bechem Local Council of Churches, has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to maintain most of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs).
He said most of…
Israel has reintroduced a requirement to wear masks indoors amid a rise in coronavirus cases, just days after it lifted the measure.
Concern has grown after the country recorded more than 100 new daily cases in successive days after reg…
A massacre in northeast Burkina Faso in which more than 130 people were killed this month was carried out mostly by children between the ages of 12 and 14, the government said.
Armed assailants raided the village of Solhan on the eveni…
Police have deployed in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, ahead of a vote on a controversial anti-terrorism law that the opposition fears would be used to ban protests and criminalise dissent.
The Movement for the Defence of Democracy - an…
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is due to travel to London "for a scheduled medical follow-up", a statement from his office says.
This is the second time this year that he will have travelled to see doctors in the UK's capital. He …
China's foreign ministry on Friday rejected comments by U.S. President Joe Biden that the closure of Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper signaled intensifying repression by Beijing in the semi-autonomous city.
Also on Friday, China approv…
Parliament will not sit on Friday, June 25, 2021, to enable Members of Parliament (MPs) to travel to their constituencies to take part in the upcoming Population and Housing Census (PHC).
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has schedule…
Three constituencies in Zambia will not have their parliamentary elections on 12 August as the electoral commission has called for fresh nominations.
The nominations calls come after one parliamentary candidate from one of the constitue…
A new port has been officially opened in the self-declared republic of Somaliland which should help boost exports between the Horn of Africa and the Gulf Region.
The container port is also potentially of huge benefit to land-locked Ethi…
Medical professionals in South Africa are having to choose who to save as the system is under huge pressure because of a third Covid wave, local media reports.
Bayanda Gumede a Chief Nephrology Technologist at a renal clinic for kidney …
A tornado has swept through several villages in the Czech Republic, killing five people and leaving more than 150 others injured.
Thursday night's storm blew the roofs off buildings in the south-eastern Breclav and Hodonin districts, up…
The US Senate has struck an agreement for a $1.2tn (£860bn) infrastructure bill in what could herald a legislative victory for President Joe Biden.
"We have a deal," said the president after meeting the cross-party group of senators at …