2019 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT SAYS BUSINESS AS USUAL WILL NOT SOLVE NEW GENERATION OF INEQUALITIES
The demonstrations sweeping across the world today signal that, despite unprecedented progress against poverty, hunger and disease, many …
The global security and investigation industry continues to experience growth fuelled by increased awareness of safety concerns and consumers’ willingness to spend on solutions. With nearly 6,000 companies and 180,000 employees providing…
On Friday (6/12), a second fishing boat carrying between 150 and 180 migrants was intercepted by the Mauritanian coast guard
Mauritanian authorities in coordination with the governments of The Gambia and Senegal today began returning th…
Young women and girls in Kibera, one of Africa's largest informal settlements, are writing their street harassment experiences on roads and canvasses to highlight the damaging nature of sexual harassment.
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The FBI says it is treating Friday's deadly attack on a Florida navy base as a presumed terrorist attack.
The Saudi gunman - who was training at the Pensacola site - killed three sailors before he was shot dead.
Special agent Rachel …
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has extended its heartfelt felicitations to former President John Agyekum Kufuor, who turned 81, on Sunday, December 8.
It said former President Kufuor would always be remembered for decriminalising free sp…
The South African Minister for Tourism, Ms Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has indicated that South Africa was committed to ensuring the full implementation of the visa waiver arrangements with Ghana to enhance travels between the two countries…
The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Mrs Jean Mensa, has said the members of the commission are not in office to do the President’s bidding.
According to her, they were in office to serve the nation, adding that in doing so…
John Kieti always made sure that the windows of his apartment were shut tight and all the curtains closed.
It was his way of keeping out the stench and polluted air in Syokimau, a neighbourhood close to Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
The …
Ivorian cocoa farmers have grown more concerned about the 2019/20 main crop as diseases known as black pod and swollen shoot spread in cocoa plantations, farmers and exporters told Reuters on Thursday.
While the October to March main cr…
Reconnaissance flights over New Zealand's White Island volcano have not identified any survivors there after Monday's eruption, police say.
Almost 50 people were believed to be on the island. Five people are known to have died and 23 we…
A European Union mission is visiting Malta to "investigate the rule of law", as the fallout continues from the investigation into the killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The murder of Ms Caruana Galizia in 2017 has rocked the …
Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah, a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, has denied reports that he and former New Patriotic Party (NPP) stalwart, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe are forming a new political party.
He e…
A Moroccan social media influencer has appeared in court after he posted criticism of both King Mohammed VI and the general public.
Mohamed Sekkaki, whose YouTube commentaries attract tens of thousands of viewers, had said that the king…
The Electoral Commission has starting mounting platforms for aspiring Assembly members and Unit Committee members for the electoral areas in the Hohoe Municipality of the Volta region.
The exercise, which began on Tuesday saw aspiring A…
The Majority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has cautioned Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), which fail to implement recommendations made by the Public Account Committee (PAC) and Auditor General's Report, saying they stand n…
Two Nigerian students, who were in Croatia for a table tennis tournament, were mistakenly deported to a refugee camp in neighbouring Bosnia, the UK-based Guardian newspaper has reported.
Three weeks ago, the day before Abia Uchenna Alex…
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has chastised Parliament, accusing it of failing in its oversight mandate in the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP).
It bemoaned that the…
Prisons officers at a stakeholder engagement organised have urged the Electoral Commission to provide adequate logistics to enable them to carry out their monitoring and supervisory roles more effectively towards ensuring free and fair ele…
Ghana has been commended for her long standing friendship and support for the people of Palestine.
"We thank the President and government of Ghana for the unwavering historical support to the Palestinian people, which include your vote …
Hong Kong authorities granted protesters permission to march this weekend, organizers said on Thursday, giving the green light to a rally seen as a gauge of the pro-democracy movement’s support following its sweeping victory in local elect…
A premature newborn baby found buried alive in a clay pot in northern India has fully recovered, her doctor says.
She was brought to hospital in a critical condition, suffering from septicaemia and a dangerously low platelet count in mi…
The Chief Executive Officer of the Middle Belt Development Authority (MBDA), Mr Joe Danquah, has said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s commitment to the delivery of his campaign promises, including the One-constituency, One-millio…
Prominent Nigerian senator Orji Uzor Kalu has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being found guilty of 39 fraud charges amounting to $19.6m (£14.9m).
Kalu is a member of President Muhammadu Buhari's All Progressives Congress and…
The Asutifi North District Assembly has completed a number of infrastructural projects in some first and second cycle institutions within the district.
Mr Anthony Adjei-Mensah, the District Chief Executive (DCE), who disclosed this to t…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday cut the sod for the commencement of work on the Ningo-Prampram Coastal Protection Project.
The project, to be undertaken by Messrs Bridge Global Consolidated Limited at a contract sum o…
Angola Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition returns to Talatona June 16-17, 2020
Africa Oil & Power supports Angola with year-long FDI campaign in 2020 to promote capital inflow into bankable projects; Angola Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibit…
The main opposition party in Botswana, the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), says it has proof that October's general election was rigged.
Party leader Duma Boko told a press conference in Johannesburg that the High Court in Botswan…
A group calling itself Concerned Youth of Agona Swedru (COYS) have staged yet another protest against the poor state of roads in Agona Swedru.
The protesters have given the government a month’s notice to take immediate steps to fix al…
The Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amotia Ofori-Panin has called for inclusion and empowerment of traditional authorities in local governanace to enable chiefs play a leading role in economic emancipation and development of their communities.
He…
South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday called on President Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House, Accra.
Mr Ramaphosa, who arrived in Ghana last night for working visit, and to attend the South African Business Forum opening in Accr…
BankyW, Niniola, Cobhams and business leaders debate how to advance Nigerian children’s rights
Leaders from Nigeria’s private sector and entertainment industry today joined Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka for a reading of his poem A C…
A 23-year-old alleged rape victim is fighting for her life after she was set on fire while going to court in northern India.
The woman was on her way to a hearing in the case she filed against two men in March, in Uttar Pradesh.
She …
A nationwide strike has severely disrupted schools and public transport across France.
Workers are angry at being forced to retire later or face reduced pensions.
School and transport workers have been joined by police, lawyers, and …
Ghana’s biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says the latest Afrobarometer survey report that the Akufo-Addo government has performed abysmally is no surprise at all.
The party says the report corroborates …
The authorities in northern Nigeria have suspended a bride-price levy imposed by a village chief following a public outcry.
Residents of Kera village in Kano state complained that the 137,000 naira ($375; £300) levy, to be paid by the g…
Former President John Mahama has denied claims by President Akufo-Addo that a consensus was reached in a meeting with former presidents on allowing party politics in the election of Metropolitan Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMD…
Gunmen killed six people, including the head of a Japanese aid agency, on Wednesday in an attack on their vehicle in Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, officials said.
The ambush comes a week after a grenade attack on a United Nations ve…
China warned on Wednesday that the U.S. House of Representatives bill calling for a tougher U.S. response to Beijing’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority will impact bilateral cooperation, clouding prospects for a near-term deal to en…
An 11-year-old Swedish boy who has adopted aspects of the culture of Maasai people in Tanzania has attracted both joy and criticism from the community.
Oscar Magwaya moved to Tanzania with his mother, Suzan, when he was four years old. …
A bomb squad in Madrid has safely destroyed a grenade that police believe was thrown over the wall of a migrant centre for children.
The grenade was found on Wednesday morning on the patio of the centre, in the Hortaleza area of Spain's…
Kpone residents have commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo for suspending the December 17 referendum because they did not understand it.
In a survey conducted by the Ghana News Agency, they said it was time they made decis…
Nii Emanuel Tetteh Oglie II, Chief of Saki in Greater Accra Region, has called on political authorities to allow the police and other security setups to appoint their own top officials.
He made this remarks during the fifth anniversary…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has welcomed Ghana's growing partnership with the People's Republic of China in the area of education.
"I use this occasion to extend my warmest appreciation to President Xi Jinping for this partner…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Monday inspected the progress of work on the USD 60 million four-tier Pokuase Interchange in the Trobo Constituency, Greater Accra Region.
The inspection formed part of activities to familiarise h…
Rescuers have retrieved the body of a Kenyan teenage girl who drowned as she tried to save a man who was drowning in a swollen river in Kenya.
Nineteen-year-old Ann Nduku fell into a River Kandisi in Ongata Rongai, on the outskirts of t…
Evidence for impeaching US President Donald Trump for misconduct in office is "overwhelming", according to the panel leading the impeachment inquiry.
The president placed personal political interests "above the national interests of the U…
Roughly a quarter of Zimbabwe's population will receive food aid from the UN to avert a hunger crisis.
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it will provide 4.1 million Zimbabweans with cereal, pulses and vegetable oil.
Around a half o…
Nato leaders are meeting near London, as tensions between members threaten to overshadow a summit marking the military alliance's 70th birthday.
The three-hour talks are expected to cover issues such as cyber-attacks and the strategic c…
The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has described as laudable, the decision to put on hold the referendum which was slated for December 17.
According to him, one could see clearly that Gh…