Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, further eroding a heavily criticized male guardianship system at a time of heightened scrutiny over its human rights recor…
Japan will remove South Korea from its list of trusted trade partners, deepening a bitter row between the two countries.
The decision to strike South Korea off its so-called "white list" puts fresh trading restrictions on the country.
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Adams Mutawakilu, the Minority Spokesperson on the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, has accused the government for being unfair to the citizenry by not adhering to earlier concerns raised about the Power Distribution Services (PDS…
The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has indicated his intention to re-contest the Suame constituency seat in 2020 contrary to speculations that one of the longest-serving Members of Parliament was exiting.
In a …
Mr. Leo Nelson Adzidogah, the District Chief Executive for Akatsi South has underscored the need for citizens’ participation in local governance to ensure transparency and accountability in the management of public resources.
He said ac…
Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament has launched the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) report on proceedings on "Election 2016: Promoting Policy-Issue Debate at the Constituency Level".
It woul…
Senegal aims to obtain sufficient energy sources while reaching a triple objective that includes providing reliable electricity for its citizens
Africa is leading the liquefied natural gas (LNG) global race as it will receive one-third …
Libya plans to shut down three of its biggest migration detention centres, the country's Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has announced.
The centres in question are in Misrata, Tajoura and Khoms.
Organisations that monitor the situat…
The US has formally withdrawn from a key nuclear treaty with Russia, raising fears of a new arms race.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 19…
The Asutifi South Constituency of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is leaving no stone unturned to defeat the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2020 parliamentary election.
“We think the NPP is in a better position this ti…
Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has reaffirmed Government’s determination to fulfill the campaign pledge of facilitating year round farming in the regions in the north through the construction of dams under the ‘One Village One Dam’ p…
One year into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, city of Goma faces risk of spread
The city of Goma has seen its second confirmed death as the result of infection which could lead to the first active transmission of…
Bureau Veritas Southern Africa, the global leader in Testing, Inspection and Certification, continues to set the pace in the empowerment and social responsibility terrains of corporate South Africa. The company, renowned for services and …
Hamza Bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden, died in an air strike, US media outlets report, citing intelligence officials.
The place and date of death were unclear. The Pentagon did not comment.
Bin Laden, thought t…
Where does the Bank of England go from here? Mark Carney says there are a “wide range of paths”.
He says the Bank has been working with institutions since the June 2016 referendum to ensure they are ready for Brexit “whatever form it ta…
Mozambique's President and the main opposition leader have signed a peace deal to end military hostilitiess, the BBC's Jose Tembe reports from the capital Maputo.
President Filipe Nyusi and Ossufo Momade - the leader of a Renamo, a form…
MTN has tens of millions of subscribers in Nigeria
Nigeria's largest telecoms operator, MTN, has been granted a licence to allow it to provide financial services, reports Quartz news site.
Quartz journalist Yomi Kazeem reports that i…
Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed claimed asylum in the US when the civil war broke out
Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi "Farmajo" Mohamed has officially renounced his US citizenship, a statement from his office says.
Although…
A group calling itself Agenda for Development in the Hohoe Constituency of the Volta Region has declared support for and called on Mr John Peter Amewu, Minister for Energy to contest the Hohoe Constituency Parliamentary seat in the 2020 ge…
Mrs Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives and her team have ended their visit to Ghana describing the trip as a successful one.
In her view, Ghana was a true friend of US and ranked Ghana, as a peaceful country assuri…
Congressman John Lewis, a renowned Civil Rights Movement Activist in the United States, has urged the world community to work towards ending injustices in the world.
This will also end the treachery of slave trade in any form in human r…
Dr William Boateng, Head of Sociology and Anthropology Department of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has advised politicians to desist from taking entrenched political positions on issues of national development.
He indicated that i…
A container that should have been full of computers donated by China to Kenya’s parliament has arrived empty.
Officials are mystified by the disappearance as the seals on the container had not been broken.
“I can’t understand how an …
Watch the testimony of soldier Omar Jallow at the Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission on how the controversial massacre of a number of Ghanaians in The Gambia in 2005 was carried out during Yahya Jammeh's leadership.
The …
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo yesterday swore in Mr Kofi Mensah Demitia as Ghana’s Ambassador to Togo.
After administering the oaths of office, allegiance and secrecy, the President expressed the hope that Mr Demitia would bring…
With only five months to the referendum on the election of metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs), Parliament is yet to pass the amendment bill of Article 243(1) which is currently before it.
In its current state…
The National Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Sammy Awuku, has advised the youth of the party to go beyond campaigning on social media and let the people feel their presence in the communities.
He said the 2020 general ele…
An attempt by Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to have his trial halted by the Accra High Court has failed.
His application for stay of proceedings has been dismissed by th…
A Senior lecturer at the Department of Basic Education of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Dr Hans Kweku Anderson, has said the relationship between politicians and musicians over the years has undeniably given politicians an av…
China has announced that it will stop issuing individual travel permits for Taiwan.
The country's tourism ministry said its decision, in effect from Thursday, was spurred by "the current cross-strait situation".
Solo travellers from …
Goma is the main trading centre in eastern DR Congo
Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say they do not believe a second case of Ebola in the eastern city of Goma is linked to the first.
In a BBC Newsday interview, D…
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched the 20th anniversary of the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with a call on the youth of the party to close their ranks and forge ahead in unity f…
A court in Sudan has postponed deposed President Omar al-Bashir's corruption case, BBC Arabic reports.
The reasons are still unclear. Earlier, Sudan's privately owned Baj News reported that the detained ex-president's lawyers had asked …
Nancy Pelosi looks on during her visit to the palace used by Paramount Chief of Cape Coast traditional area, Osaabarima Kwesi Atta II, after her tour at Cape Coast Castle which was used as a trading post from where slaves would be taken to…
Ms Mavis Ama Frimpong, a former Eastern Regional Minister has joined the race for the selection of a parliamentary nominee for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Abirem constituency for the third time
She is one of six women …
The Special Criminal Court (SCC) in the Central African Republic (CAR) is making slow progress, as it struggles to deliver justice for war crimes and other serious offences committed during armed conflicts in the country since 2005, accord…
The Free Senior High School (Free-SHS) programme initiated in 2017 by government has been touted as the country's most vital national policies ever.
It is said to have touched all in the society, having created access to second cycle ed…
Mr Martin Lucas Nyune Kombanpuo, a National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary aspirants for Nadowli- Kaleo has advised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop having wild dreams about the Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency seat.
"That seat …
In the first six months of the year, a record number of more than 200 women victims of trafficking have been assisted to return to Madagascar
“Now that I am back home, I will be able to start my life again,” states a Malagasy woman upon…
Traditionally, the wild leaves are pounded into a green paste and used as a side dish but in times of extreme poverty it becomes the main meal
For several weeks, thousands of Mundari people – mostly women and children – have been surviv…
Brexit, Bolsonaro, and the ongoing anti-government protests in Hong Kong are all contributing towards a significant spike in interest in the Portugal Golden Residence Permit Program and the Greece Golden Visa Program, according to Henley…
Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls have clashed in a televised US debate that laid bare the party's deep divisions over how best to win in 2020.
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the most liberal candidates in the crowded field, ca…
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Constituency Chairman for Afigya-Kwabre South, Odeneho Kwaku Appiah, has stated that the party’s bid to capture all the 47 parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region calls for hard work and not mere rhetoric.
…
Former US President Ronald Reagan described African delegates at the UN as “monkeys” in 1971 when he was governor of California in newly released tapes published by The Atlantic.
He made the racist comment on the telephone to then-Presi…
At least 18 people were killed and several injured when a small military plane crashed into a residential area near the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi.
Five crew members and 13 civilians were among the dead, rescue services said.
The a…
Photos and videos showing a man dressed as Jesus Christ have been widely shared on social media across Africa.
But who is the man and what was he doing?
One tongue-in-cheek tweet, shared more than 8,000 times and retweeted by among o…
Police in Tanzania say top investigative journalist Erick Kabendera was forcefully arrested at his home on Monday afternoon because he declined to come in for questioning.
At a press conference in Dar es Salaam, the city’s police chief …
Three electoral areas in the Ho Municipality are without the National Identification Authority (NIA) registration centres, five days after the exercise began in the Volta region.
The situation is causing some agitation in the areas, wit…
Flagbearer of the National Democratic Government (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, says he will scrap the newly created ministerial positions by the Akufo-Addo-led administration when he wins power in 2020.
According to him, the newly creat…
Mr Stephen Ashitey Adjei, an executive Member of the Tema East Constituency branch of the NDC has called on the Northern Philadelphia Branch Chairman of the party to forgive over his disqualification from running for Parliamentary ticket o…