The number of people listed as missing after the collapse of a 12-storey building in the US city of Miami has risen to 159, officials say.
Four people are known to have died.
The mayor of Miami-Dade says they "still have hope" of fin…
The Minority in Parliament says it’s own investigations have established that Russian authorities have at all times been willing to deal directly with Ghana contrary to what the government has claimed in relation to the purchase of Sputnik…
The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has inaugurated a nine-member management committee of the Parliamentary Friendship Associations (MCPFA) of the Eighth Parliament of Ghana.
The cross-party association, chaired…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) will this year hold a special national delegates’ congress to deliberate on policy issues and make constitutional amendments.
The novel congress is a requirement of the party’s constitution and wil…
Former Nhyiaeso Member of Parliament Kennedy Kwasi Kankam has no case to answer neither has he done any wrong according to the Ashanti Regional Minister, Mr Simon Osei Mensah.
Speaking to reporters in Kumasi over allegations that Kenned…
The Minority in Parliament is worried about government’s agreement to pay US$19 per jab of Sputnik V through middlemen instead of paying under US$10 for the vaccine.
According to them, other countries and multilateral agencies like the …
KITSHANGA, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 22 (Reuters) - Dozens of militia fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have laid down their weapons and surrendered, the first to do so since President Felix Tshisekedi announced martial…
President Joe Biden has unveiled a plan that includes funding more police to combat a nationwide surge in homicides, which he blamed on lax gun control.
He said officials in high crime areas can hire more law-enforcement personnel using…
Egypt is trying to strengthen its diplomatic and military clout in Africa amid an escalating dispute with Ethiopia over the building of a huge dam on a tributary of the River Nile, writes Egypt analyst Magdi Abdelhadi.
The Egyptian Geog…
Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has hailed Tuesday's deployment of a nanosatellite that was designed and made by the country's experts.
“[It's] undoubtedly a technological advancement for the country and reflects our vision of…
A priest has been arrested in Athens after he threw acid on seven bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church, police say.
The attack took place during a disciplinary hearing against the 36-year-old priest on Wednesday afternoon, according to …
Social Democrat Prime Minister Stefan Lofven is Swedish voter's most trusted leader, a poll showed on Thursday, despite a crisis that saw parliament pass a vote of no-confidence in him at the start of the week.
The Novus poll showed 38%…
The African Union observer mission to Ethiopia has described Monday's general election as "credible and peaceful".
The mission said it had observed preparations for the election as well as the voting process in the capital, Addis Ababa,…
A former Minister of state and a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Richard Anane, has denied some media reports suggesting that he has endorsed the Vice President, Dr.Mahamudu Bawumia to succeed President Akufo-Addon and lead the NP…
Islamist insurgents have been involved in renewed clashes near Mozambique's northern town of Palma, military sources have told the AFP news agency.
It came as southern African countries approved the deployment of a standby force to help…
Mr Samuel Abu Jinapor, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has opened the Seventh Round of the Joint Ghana-Togo Maritime Boundary Negotiations Meeting in Accra.
The three-day meeting aims at resolving, amicably, the outstanding iss…
The Paramount Chief of the Kusaug Traditional Area in the Upper East Region, Zugraan, Naba Asigri Abugrago Azoka II, has called for the need to maintain the peace in the Bawku Municipality.
He said the area had enjoyed a considerable …
Ms Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, Member of Parliament (MP) for La Dadekotopon, is soliciting a response from the government on how it is resolving issues of a land dispute between the Military and the La Traditional Council and the youth of La.
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Parliament has approved the third batch of Deputy Ministerial nominees vetted by the Appointment Committee of Parliament.
Mrs Gifty Twum Ampofo, Deputy Minister for Education, is among the 12 nominees, who were approved by consensus fro…
Brazil's environment minister has quit ahead of a criminal investigation into claims he obstructed a police inquiry into illegal logging in the Amazon.
Ricardo Salles is accused of vouching for the legal origin of a vast haul of timber …
Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges.
The Catalan justice department said medics had tried …
Former Ivorian prime minister Guillaume Soro has rejected a verdict that sent him to prison for life.
"I totally reject these unfair verdicts, which have been handed down in violation of all the rules of law, and which are solely based …
An indigenous group in Canada says it has found hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan.
The Cowessess First Nation said on Wednesday that the discovery was "the most significantly substant…
Namibia recorded its highest ever daily increase in Covid-19 deaths on Wednesday.
The country's health ministry announced 45 deaths, which represents one of the worst current death rates in the continent - given Namibia's small populati…
The European Union and the United States have condemned an airstrike said to havebeen carried out by the Ethiopian air force leaving dozens of civilian casualties at a village market near Tigray's capital, Mekelle.
The EU has called the…
The Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, has explained that DCOP Opare Addo (rtd), a former Ashanti Regional Security Liaison Officer's refusal to hand to over to his successor led to his ejection from office.
Mr Kan Dapaa…
The government is working hard to find a lasting solution to the power cuts being experienced in parts of the country, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.
He explained that the recent power outages were as a result of ongoin…
The Minority Members of Parliament on Wednesday evening staged a walk out over the approval of some nominees for deputy ministerial positions.
They argued their members on the Appointments Committee of Parliament did not take part in th…
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Mr Isaac Adongo, has advised the government to resist any temptation to request for additional funds to spend at the upcoming mid-year budget review.
…
Eighty years ago on Thursday, British lawmakers driven from their debating chamber by World War Two Nazi bombs secretly set up a new home less than 100 yards away, from where Prime Minister Winston Churchill ran the country's wartime gover…
Several people were killed and others injured in an airstrike in a town in Togoga, about 25km (15.5 miles) south of Mekelle in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
An eyewitness told the BBC from Aider referral hospital that he was struck in the h…
The World Food Programme is warning that the worst drought in southern Madagascar for four decades is causing hunger and famine-like conditions.
Its director, David Beasley, who has just visited the region, said that without immediate a…
Sudan's foreign minister has written to the UN Security Council to intervene on the row over Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam (Gerd) on the Nile River.
Sudan wants the council to meet and discuss the dam's "impact on the safety and secu…
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told visiting junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with Myanmar, Russia's RIA news agency reported.
"We are determined to continue our…
Australia's largest city of Sydney re-introduced "soft touch" COVID-19 curbs on Wednesday to contain a widening outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant, mandating masks in offices while neighbouring states closed their borders.
…
The Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD) has called on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to consider all the people living with disability (PWDs) who have applied for the positions of district chief executives in the c…
There is no problem with the Chief Justice, Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah filing a disciplinary complaint against legal practitioner and Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine at the General Legal Council (GLC).
…
Stakeholders at a workshop on post-election violence have called on government to address the high rate of youth unemployment in the Odododiodoo Constituency in Accra to curb political violence in the area.
The constituency was one of t…
The former president of Mauritania, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, has been jailed by a judge in charge of a corruption investigation.
He had previously been under house arrest.
Mr Aziz, who led the West African state from 2008 to 2019, ha…
US Republicans have torpedoed a Democratic bid to implement nationwide election rules, a cherished priority of President Joe Biden's party.
The huge bill - which sought to make it easier for Americans to vote - ended up deadlocked 50-50…
The Namibian president Hage Geingob has said he delayed getting a Covid-19 vaccine because doctors had advised him against taking the AstraZeneca jab that was available locally.
He said he had to request for the Johnson & Johnson vaccin…
A video of South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa that shows him asking where his missing iPad is has been shared widely online.
A seemingly distraught Ramaphosa kept saying it had been stolen, adding "this is the problem of always ha…
Zimbabwe has postponed the reopening of schools and other learning institutions by two weeks following a surge in new Covid-19 cases.
The schools were set to reopen on Monday.
Teachers' unions and health professionals had called for …
Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy paper Apple Daily has announced its closure, in a blow to media freedom in the city.
The tabloid's offices were raided last week over allegations that several reports had breached a controversial nation…
The Overlord of Mamprugu, the Nayiri, Naa Bohogu Mahami Abdulai Sheriga, has applauded President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for seeing to the construction and completion of several projects which had been on the wish list of the chiefs a…
“I want to end by saying a big thank you to the people of the North East Region, especially to the people of Walewale. You have given me a first-class assistant in the form of the Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia. He has been of great help …
The head of the World Trade Organization says Africa is working with the European Union and other partners to create regional hubs to produce vaccines.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said facilities would be established in South Africa, Senegal an…
A private plane belonging to Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi has landed in the capital Tripoli after nearly a decade in France for safekeeping and maintenance, domestic and pan-Arab outlets have reported.
The giant plane, an Airbus …
The formation of a unified national army is a “critical element” in South Sudan’s transition to peace, head of the UN peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Nicolas Haysom has said.
Mr Haysom told the UN Security Council in New Yo…
Reported deaths from COVID-19 in Colombia passed 100,000 on Monday, the country's health ministry said, amid warnings of potential scarcity of treatment drugs and oxygen in hospitals during a long and brutal third peak of infections and de…