Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his support for Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Monday, praising her courage in governing the Chinese-ruled financial hub in these “most difficult” times after months of often violent anti-government pro…
The authorities in South Africa's coastal city of Cape Town are investigating how dozens of decapitated sharks were dumped at a beach where they were found on Sunday morning.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said the…
Somalia's government has installed surveillance cameras on major roads in the capital, Mogadishu, to deter more attacks from the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
This is the first time that the government has installed surveillance ca…
Mali's former leader who was ousted in a coup in 2012 has returned to the country after living in exile in neighbouring Senegal.
Amadou Toumani Touré was met by large crowds at the airport and outside his home on Sunday, RFI reports.
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Two district level election aspirants for the Kasadjan Electoral Area in the Tema West Municipality have justified their candidature as the best persons to champion development in the area.
Mr Eric Kwame Boakye, is contesti…
The incumbent assembly member for Oklor Kofi Electoral Area, Tema Newtown, has debunked the assertion that he promotes social vices in the area.
Some electorates in the area accused him of befriending drug addicts, a situation they in…
An aspirant in the upcoming District Level Elections says most electorates in the Kpone-Katamanso Municipality think the elections have been cancelled alongside the abortive referendum.
Mr Isaac Newton Tetteh, an aspirant for the Saki-N…
More than 57,0000 candidates are contesting the nationwide District Assembly and Unit Committee elections scheduled for Tuesday, December 17.
Of the figure, 18,519 are vying to become assembly members, while 38,520 want to be in the Uni…
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed have formally committed their organisations to work more closely together.
The two leaders signed a Memorandum of Understa…
The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement already has ongoing operations on food insecurity in Eswatini, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Hunger is threatening the lives of 11 million people in Southern Africa due to deepening…
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed for calm as violent protests against a new law on illegal migrants entered a fifth day.
Large demonstrations are taking place in the capital Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata (formerl…
Marry Mubaiwa, the estranged wife of Zimbabwe's Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, will on Monday appear in court to face charges of money laundering and fraud.
The fraud charges arise from an alleged attempt to forge a marriage certi…
Two Ghanaian women have been elected MPs, winning their seats on the ticket of the Labour party.
Abena Oppong-Asare won the Erith and Thamesmead Constituency with 48 per cent of the votes and a majority of 3,758.
She basked in …
A three-day global gathering aimed at transforming the way the world responds to refugee situations starts today in Geneva, Switzerland.
The first-ever Global Refugee Forum brings together refugees, heads of state and government, UN lea…
The Chairman of the Old-Tafo Municipal Assembly branch of the Persons With Disability ( PWD), Mr. Frank Prempeh has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo for providing their members with items of their choice to help improve the…
The Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Old-Tafo, Mr. Fred Obeng Owusu has said that, it was the aim of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government to ensure that all the new municipal assemblies have a new administration block that wil…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has welcomed the invitation by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for dialogue on the amendment to the provisions regarding the elections of district chief executives on political party lines and t…
Scotland’s nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday it was now time for the country to decide its future and that her administration would make the case next week for full legal powers to call an independence referendum.
“The p…
Hope Mwanake understands the plastic pollution crisis facing Kenya better than most.
An environmental scientist who ran a waste collection service in Kenya’s central town of Gilgil, she witnessed first hand the mountains of plastic buck…
West Africa’s top court on Thursday ordered Sierra Leone to revoke a ban on pregnant girls in school, a move activists hope could lead to challenges against similar laws across Africa.
The continent has the highest adolescent pregnancy …
European Union leaders meeting in Brussels have agreed to make the currently 28-member bloc carbon neutral by 2050.
However Poland, which is heavily reliant on coal, remains opposed and has been exempted for the time being.
European …
The 2012 presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Abu Sakara Foster, has expressed disappointment in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s fight against corruption.
Dr Foster, who is also the founder of the National Inter…
Parliament on Thursday expressed concern over mass failures at the Ghana school of Law entrance examinations and delay in completing that Law House project which started about nine years ago.
The issues came up as the House debated the …
Abdelmadjid Tebboune has won Algeria's presidential election with 58% of the vote, the national electoral body says quoting preliminary results.
It also confirmed that voter turnout was just 40% - the lowest ever for a multi-party elect…
OccupyGhana, civic society group has commended the constitutional independence the Auditor-General, Daniel Yao Domelevo is using to save the country from dissipation of its resources.
The group in a release Thursday said it had monitor…
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says there was the need to strip away the hypocrisy in local partisan elections.
To him, it was continuously baffling that "at the national level party politics seem to be working. Ghana has a histo…
The landslide election victory of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party has been met with varied responses by leaders and citizens in African countries.
Brexit and Boris Johnson trended on social media Friday morning…
The Chairman of the National Peace Council, Most Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has called on Christians to take keen interest in political and national issues.
At the maiden edition of “Conversations in the Cathedral” at the Holy Spirit…
Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party have won a decisive majority in the UK's general election.
First reactions from world leaders have stressed the importance of shaping future relations with the UK.
US President Donald Trump co…
Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, has made an urgent appeal to Government to open fresh probe into the killing of 44 Ghanaians in Gambia in 2005.
"Parliament must urge the …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says he disagrees with IMANI's assessment of his government based on his manifesto promises.
To him the 48 per cent accorded to his government by IMANI is inaccurate and therefore disagrees with it.…
The wife of Sudan's ousted President Omar al-Bashir, Widad Babiker, has been summoned for questioning over possession of land and bank accounts, Arabic-language website Baj News reports.
Mrs Babiker who has been under house arrest since…
The US House Judiciary Committee has postponed a vote on two impeachment charges against President Donald Trump to later on Friday.
The decision was taken by Democratic committee chairman Jerry Nadler, after two days of acrimonious deba…
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has written to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo requesting fresh talks on the constitutional provision that bars political parties in local level elections.
Article 55(3) of the 199…
The Member of Parliament for the Ningo-Prampram and a ranking Member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Communications, Mr Samuel Nartey George, is wondering why the state would award a US$180 million worth of contract to a company…
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…