A Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini is alleging that President Akufo-Addo is against the return of Radio Gold and Radio XYZ back on air.
According to him, the President is int…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is urging the Akufo-Addo led government to withdraw the 50 per cent increase in the Communication Service Tax (CST).
Similarly, the NDC also wants the government to look into the trade-o…
Environmentalists and observers have been barred from UN climate talks in Madrid after a protest inside the conference.
Around 200 climate campaigners were ejected after staging a sit in, preventing access to one of the negotiating hall…
Nigeria says it will give all African travellers visas on arrival from January, dropping the requirement that they apply in advance.
President Muhammadu Buhari said it showed Nigeria's commitment to "free movement of Africans within Afr…
France's President Emmanuel Macron has sent the head of the army to Niger following a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed at least 73 Nigerien soldiers.
Mr Macron, along with Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou, have also an…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is poised to give Ethiopia a loan of $2.9bn (£2.2bn), as long as it is approved by the board.
The loan has been agreed by the fund's staff team and the Ethiopian government who had been in discussio…
Madam Janet Adade, a farmer and aspiring Assembly Member for Akpafu Odomi in the Jasikan District of the Oti Region has called on women to participate in local governance to help tackle issues affecting women in the electoral areas.
She…
Three patients died when hundreds of lawyers attacked a hospital in Lahore during a furious dispute with doctors.
Video showed the lawyers ransacking wards at the cardiac hospital, beating up staff and smashing equipment.
As panic sp…
The Senior Minister, Mr Yaw Osafo Maafo and four other officials from the Ministry of Finance have initiated a court action against the Auditor General, Mr Daniel Yaw Domelevo to clear their names in relation to what is said to be breaches…
The Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday met four technology firms to demonstrate their biometric solutions, to enable it select a suitable and robust Biometric Voter Management Solution for the country's electoral processes.
The four h…
Participants at a forum to commemorate this year's International Anti-corruption Day in Tamale have expressed concern on the high levels of corruption in the country and called for drastic measures to fight the canker.
They said corrupt…
The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has said he wants to meet the President of Eritrea soon, in what is likely to be an effort to kick start the stalled reconciliation process.
Mr Abiy was speaking on his return to Ethiopia where he…
Rescue workers in Chile have found human remains after an air force plane with 38 people on board went missing on Monday, a regional governor said.
Magallanes Governor José Fernández said relatives of those missing had been informed of …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will hold a media encounter on Friday, December 13, 2019 to account for his three-year stewardship to Ghanaians.
This is coming at a time when some think tanks have evaluated and scored the governme…
Also urges government and Habitat Agenda Partners to make provisions to increase resources for affordable housing and housing-related infrastructure
The Lagos Secondary Schools Model United Nations (LASSMUN) conference has called upon g…
The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Receives Support to Strengthen Continental and Regional Infectious-Disease Detection and Response Systems
The World Bank provides $250 million to Ethiopia, Zambia, and the African Un…
The US has grounded hundreds of Saudi military aviation students at bases across the country in the wake of Friday's deadly shooting in Florida.
All flying will be paused, though classroom studies will continue.
It comes after Defenc…
A police officer and at least five other people have died in a series of gun battles in Jersey City, in the US state of New Jersey.
Two other police officers were wounded during the incident, which ended in a shootout after two gunmen b…
A tax on sanitary pads has been scrapped in Rwanda to make them more affordable, the ministry of gender has announced.
https://twitter.com/RwandaGender/status/1204502197632929792
Previously, an 18% value added tax was placed on the p…
Members of the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) have reiterated the call on the citizenry to report corrupt acts they witnessed towards realising gains in on-going anti-corruption campaign.
Members of the Coalition together with s…
Former President John Mahama deserves every credit for indigenous gas utilisation and its associated savings and not President Nana Akufo-Addo, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, former Minister of Energy has stated.
According to him ENI proj…
The West Africa Centre for Counter Extremism (WACCE) has embarked on sensitisation workshops and seminars on inclusive and peaceful electoral participation in four areas in Northern Ghana.
The two-day workshops each in Saboba and Cherep…
Former President, Mr. John Dramani Mahama has lauded the rich experiences and contributions of Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi and Dr. Callistus Mahama in promoting and sustaining Ghana's decentralisation system.
He recounted how his administratio…
For more than two decades now, Ghana has been recognized by the international community as a beacon of hope for Africa because of the country’s democratic credentials. However, over the last few years, political vigilantism and electoral v…
Hammed Kayode Alabi [1]is the leader of Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative a Not-for-Profit Organization based in Nigeria with the aim to empower children and young people to develop life-skills through Education for Sustainable…
Development institutions present digital guide to help African countries fast-track SDGs, Paris Agreement and AU’s Agenda 2063 implementation
Three leading development partners have presented a digital application at the COP 25 cl…
Mobilizing sufficient financing remains a major challenge to effectively pursue the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, underscored high-level delegates at a UN conference today. Although interest in conventional and innovative financ…
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against allegations of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate responded to widespread claims that Myanmar (formerly Burma) commi…
Egypt, Eritrea and Cameroon are among the worst nations in the world for jailing journalists, a list published on Wednesday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said.
The CPJ listed 26 journalists jailed in Egypt - most of whom…
If presidential elections were held today, no candidate would have the required 50+1 per cent needed to claim a one-touch victory.
Also, majority of the youth aged between 18 and 35 years say they will not vote at all, while 42 per ce…
Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir was summoned by prosecutors on Tuesday over the 1989 coup that brought him to power, his lawyer has said.
The legal team did not attend the summons that lasted an hour amid chants from protesters …
Despite significant increase in birth registration, a quarter of the world’s children remain ‘invisible’ – UNICEF
UNICEF works on Birth Registration in Liberia in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and the generous funding of the S…
The “Child Soldier Reintegration” project of the organization Grassroots Reconciliation Group (GRG) in Uganda was selected as one of ten global grassroots initiatives to receive the prestigious Intercultural Innovation Award from the Unite…
Heavy rains have battered parts of South Africa, submerging whole neighbourhoods and flooding coal mines and power stations in a nation already hit by electricity blackouts.
At least 700 homes have been washed away near the capital, Pre…
A gunman has killed six people in a hospital waiting room in the Czech city of Ostrava before shooting himself in the head, police say.
Armed police found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a vehicle three hours later.
…
A group of Eritreans living in Scandinavia have taken to the streets of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, to protest against Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed being awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
The award ceremony is due to start…
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), in the quest to promote a free, fair and successful District Level Elections (DLEs) on December 17, 2019, has called on electorates and the media to promote the success of the exercise.
A stateme…
The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced the cancellation of the referendum to amend article 55, clause 3 of the 1992 Constitution.
Mrs. Jean Mensah, the Chairperson, in a signed statement said this followed the notification from the…
Justice Mariama Owusu, an Appeal Court Judge appearing before the Appointments Committee of Parliament on Monday, during vetting to the Supreme Court, pledged to hold the tenets of the law in her rulings at the apex court and not on faith.…
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has pardoned more than 5,000 prisoners in a move aimed at reducing congestion in prisons.
The president made the announcement on Monday as the country marked its 58th anniversary of independence.
He …
Nana Obiri Boahen, a Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP has stated that the decision of President Akuffo Addo to suspend the referendum was legally, morally and politically right.
Nana Obiri Boahene said those peop…
Judges of the African Court on Human and People's Right led by its President, Justice Sylvain Oré, has paid a courtesy call on the President of Zanzibar, Dr Ali Mohamed Shein, at State House, Zanzibar City.
The courtesy call by the Afri…
Ms Grace Asantewaa Okyere, an aspiring Assembly member for Asaman Oyoko Electoral Area in the New Juaben North Municipality, has pledged to improve sanitation when given the nod come December 17 this year.
She described the sanitation s…
The Santrokofi and Akpafu traditional councils of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Lolobi and Likpe (SALL) communities of the Oti Region have put in a joint bid for the siting of the District Capital for the proposed SALL District at Santrokofi-Gbo…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has rallied the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States to remain united and fight for a fairer world economic order.
He said with the wealthier nations not eager to seeing an equitable…
International Organization for Migration (IOM) Nigeria Partners with Google to Train Returnees in Digital Skills
The training drew 93 participants, including returning migrants, interested in setting up small-scale businesses as well as…
The LEGO Foundation awards US$100 Million Grant to the International Rescue Committee to bring Learning through Play to children impacted by crises in Ethiopia and Uganda
Through this initiative, IRC and its partners will work in Ethiop…
Rwanda has launched its first large-scale vaccination campaign against the Ebola virus.
At least 200,000 people will be vaccinated over the next year in areas bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda's health minister Diane Ga…
The US embassy in Liberia has been hit by the worsening financial crisis in the West African state, forcing it to temporarily withdraw Peace Corps volunteers from 12 of the country's 15 counties.
An embassy spokesperson in the capital, …
There's nothing like 15,000 Christmas trees to get you into the holiday mood, as for many of us, picking out a festive fir signals the start of the holiday season.
Unsurprisingly it's the busiest time of the year for Alastair and Diane …