The Indian government has blocked plans to promote and sell a herbal-based product that claims to "cure" coronavirus.
Patanjali Ayurved, a big consumer goods company in India set up by a popular yoga guru, said that it had found the "cu…
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo have used tear gas and fired shots to disperse protesting supporters of President Félix Tshisekedi.
Hundreds of them arrived - many on motorbikes - to demonstrate outside parliament in the capi…
Russia is celebrating its biggest public holiday, Victory Day, with a military parade in Moscow that was meant to be held on 9 May.
It is 75 years since the then USSR defeated Nazi Germany. World War Two cost more than 20 million Soviet…
A plane crash that killed 97 people in Pakistan last month was a result of human error by the pilot and air traffic control, according to an initial report into the disaster.
They failed to follow protocol, Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarw…
America's top infectious disease expert has told lawmakers that the US is seeing a "disturbing surge" in coronavirus infections in some states.
A panel of health officials, including Dr Anthony Fauci, said the next few days will be cruc…
The Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has stated that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is poised for a resounding victory in the December General Election.
“Victory is on the way coming, because, the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administr…
A Civil Society Group, Mass Action Committee has condemned former President Mahama’s warning that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will not accept the results of any “flawed election" come the December 2020 polls.
The former pres…
The Tema Metropolitan Officer of the Electoral Commission of Ghana has briefed the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA) on the Commission's preparations towards the registration of voters, commencing on June 30 nationwide.
Mr Manasseh Ofosu…
Odeneho Kwaku , Afigya-Kwabre South Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, has commended party members for their continued support and cooperation which had ensured peace and unity in the party.
He said through understanding and cooperati…
Infrastructure Symposium “is laying a path for South Africa after coronavirus, but also way into the future.” - President Ramaphosa
The symposium follows weeks of consultations to garner support for the revised Infrastructure Investment…
Coronavirus - Africa: COVID-19 compounds families’ painful search for missing and disappeared migrants
Due to COVID-19, more people are dying away from home and away from their families
Often, bereaved families have no opportunity to…
Dozens of activists and students gathered peacefully in Bangkok early this morning to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the 1932 Siamese Revolution, which ended nearly 800 years of absolute monarchy, defying a ban on public gatherings am…
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has apologised to Nigeria for the demolition of a building at its High Commission in the capital, Accra, the Nigerian presidency said
The Ghanaian leader told President Muhammadu Buhari in a telephone c…
EU ambassadors meet on Wednesday to plan reopening external borders on 1 July, and travellers from the US could be among those not allowed in.
A number of European countries are keen to open up to tourists but others are wary of the con…
The sale of bushmeat - or wild animal meat - at markets continues in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, despite calls for a ban by the UN biodiversity office.
At Olowu market in Epe, one of the most popular bushmeat markets in the city,…
The Adentan constituency of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has congratulated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a successful and peaceful parliamentary primaries, which saw the election of more youth.
A statement signed by Mr Abdul …
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama, has stated that the party will respect the verdict of the Supreme Court on the issue of the voters registration exercise.
He said the party was awaiting …
Health authorities in Brazil have registered the second-highest daily death toll since the pandemic began.
The health ministry said on Tuesday that 1,374 deaths had been registered in the previous 24 hours.
The highest daily number o…
Liberia’s education minister is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 as his ministry prepares to reopen schools next week.
Ansu Sonii and his deputy Latim Da-thong are both in hospital.
The deputy minister was flown to Ghana after his c…
Coronavirus - Morocco: Kingdom of Morocco gives more than 600 000 pieces of medical supplies to the African Union for the COVID19 response
The supplies were received by the Commissioner for Social Affairs H.E. Mrs Amira Elfadil, and the…
Merck Foundation together with Liberia First Lady raced to respond to Coronavirus pandemic through community support, awareness and training doctors
Merck Foundation partners with Liberia First Lady to support livelihood of casual worke…
Voting was peaceful in Malawi as people took part in a re-run poll five months after President Peter Mutharika's disputed 2019 victory was annulled.
There were long queues in some places indicating a high level of enthusiasm, reports jo…
Police in Nigeria have rescued more than 100 people they say were locked in a rice-processing factory and forced to work throughout a coronavirus lockdown.
From the end of March the men were allegedly not allowed to leave the mill in th…
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma appeared in court on Tuesday to face multiple charges of racketeering, fraud, corruption and money laundering, as a decade-old trial delayed by procedural bickering resumed.
Zuma is being trie…
The headmaster of Eton said he wants to apologise in person to Nigerian author Dillibe Onyeama, one of the first black students to complete his studies at Britain’s most elite school, for the racism he experienced there which he detailed i…
India is expelling half the staff at Pakistan's high commission (embassy) in its capital Delhi, accusing diplomats of spying and dealing with terrorists.
India will also reduce staff by the same number at its high commission in the Paki…
A judge in Brazil has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when he is in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia, and the surrounding federal district.
The far-right president has been criticised for belittling the …
In one of the world's most congested shanty towns, social distancing is not a luxury people can afford. And density is a friend of the coronavirus.
Imagine more than 500,000 people spread over 2.5 grubby sq km, less than a square mile. …
German authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have reimposed lockdown restrictions in two districts after a spike in cases, with more than half a million people affected.
One area is home to a meatpacking plant where more th…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s Constituency Chairman for Tema West, Dennis Amfo-Sefah, has rebuffed NDC’s Sammy Gyamfi’s argument that the losing of 40 sitting Parliamentarians reflects the voters’ verdict that President Akufo-Addo has pe…
The massive loss of experienced legislators in the just-ended New Patriotic Party (NPP) primaries would negatively affect the quality of parliamentary discussions and laws passed, Dr Eric Oduro-Osae, a Governance Expert, has observed.
H…
Mr Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, the Deputy Attorney General, has called for the amendment of some provisions of the Local Government Act and Legislations to ensure that the election of a Presiding Member for District Assemblies is based on a sim…
Some 300 bicycles distributed to delegates by one of the parliamentary aspirants in the Assin North Constituency, ahead of the New Patriotic Party primary at Assin Bereku, have been retrieved after the defeat of the aspirant.
Mr Eric Am…
The Ashanti Regional Executive of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has constituted a monitoring team to assess the parliamentary primaries held at the weekend.
Mr Sam Pyne, the Regional Secretary of the Party, said the team would tour all …
The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has stated that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was poised for a resounding victory in the December General Election.
“Victory is on the way com…
Mr. Alfred Obeng-Boateng, the 2020 NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai constituency has expressed gratitude to the constituents for the confidence reposed in him to lead the party in the December polls.
In a press re…
A post has been circulating falsely claiming that 2018 Nobel laureate Dr Dénis Mukwege resigned from Covid-19 response teams in DR Congo because he had been ordered to declare illnesses and deaths to be coronavirus-related even when they w…
Zimbabwean authorities say people who cannot explain where their wealth came from are in danger of having their assets seized even if courts clear them of a corruption allegation.
The new operation was "an intensive lifestyle audit" of …
The chairman of the African Union commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has urged President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and opposition groups to work together to end the political crisis in the west African country.
Opposition groups are calling …
Tens of thousands of South African commuters have been left stranded following a strike by minibus drivers in Gauteng province, the country's commercial hub.
Minibus taxis blocked major roads in the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, …
Thousands of people gathered across France on Sunday to celebrate an annual music festival, defying coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Revellers ignored social distancing rules and danced in the streets for the Fête de la Musique, known…
A bronze statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt is to be removed amid an ongoing backlash against symbols of racial bias and imperialism.
The statue outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York shows Roosevelt on…
Health officials in South Korea believe the country is going through a second wave of coronavirus, despite recording relatively low numbers.
The country had been a success story in dealing with Covid-19, but now expects the pandemic to …
Twelve of the 35 women who contested the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary primaries last Saturday, won their bid to represent the party in the December 7 polls.
Of the 47 women who filed to contest, 12 went unopposed. The victo…
Some New Patriotic Party (NPP) polling station executives in Effiduase-Asokore have challenged the outcome of the primary which retained the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP), Dr Nana Ayew Afriyie.
They served notice of petitioning th…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma West Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, who has been acclaimed as the parliamentary candidate for the New Patriotic Party(NPP), has expressed optimism of her chances o…
According to Egypt's Doctors Syndicate, at least 68 frontline health care workers died and more than 400 tested positive since the outbreak of the coronavirus in Egypt
The Egyptian authorities must immediately stop their campaign of har…
On June 5, in a bid to show his support for the Black Lives Matter movement, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian announced that he would step down from Reddit’s board to make room for a Black director to join the social media company’s all-whi…
More men are dying from Covid-19 than women around the world, data shows.
In Italy, China and US, for example, more men have been infected, and a higher proportion of men have died.
Sabra Klein, a scientist who studies sex difference…
The Senate confirmed Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown Jr. as the next chief of staff of the Air Force on Tuesday, setting the stage for the veteran fighter pilot to become the first black service chief in U.S. military history.
Brown, the comman…