Botswana has declared three days of national mourning after the death of former President Sir Ketumile Masire, aged 91. Mr Masire, who led the country from 1980 to 1998, is credited with being the...
EU countries have fallen far short of their duty to an African economic development fund designed to help discourage mass migration to Europe, Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker charged Friday....
The acting Director General of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority, Paul Asare Ansah, has inaugurated a nine-member committee to develop modalities for the Port Infrastructure Development Fund in...
The Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Ablema Afeku, has said that her Ministry is working on a new legislative instrument which will restructure the profit sharing...
Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC) wants government to consider hedging a portion of Ghana’s share of crude oil exports. Although the committee is recommending this to cushion the...
The management of Ice TV has threatened a court action against the National Media Commission for restraining it from airing pornographic movies. They say they would want the court to give...
Tanzania President John Magufuli said students who become pregnant should not be allowed to finish their studies after giving birth, sparking outrage from women's rights campaign groups. "I give...
The Osu Government Maternity Home has been forced to suspend medical care after the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) disconnected power to the facility. The facility is currently catering for about...
Zimbabwe's Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday pledged that next year's elections will be peaceful, "free and fair" despite opposition concerns about electoral interference. Speaking on the...
Gitmo 2 Case… the Ghanaian government has agreed to comply with the Supreme Court’s order… The Supreme Court described as unconstitutional the decision by former President John Mahama to accept...
An angry mob beat a police officer to death outside a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir as tensions ran high in the volatile Himalayan region. Witnesses said the mob attacked Mohammad Ayub...
There may yet be another chapter in the quest to end the General Legal Council’s (GLC) interviews and examinations of Ghana Law School applicants as the plaintiff in the case may head back to the...
The CIA had top-level intelligence last August that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally ordered an operation to help Donald Trump win the US presidential race, the Washington Post reported...
A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen will probably have infected more than 300,000 people by September, up sharply from the current tally of nearly 193,000 cases, the United Nations said Friday....
Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lower Manya Krobo Constituency, Michael Teye Nyaunu, has described as disrespectful, the US government’s decision to...
Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Friday any move to shut it down was an attack on media freedom, following demands by Gulf neighbours for the channel to be taken off air. The closure of the...
A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday among civilians fleeing the Old City of Mosul, where increasingly desperate jihadists are mounting a bloody last stand. The carnage came just over a day after...
A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Tema West, Mr Dennis Amfo-Sefa, has downplayed reconstruction and unity talks in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) as...
World football governing body Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has placed a one-year ban on Ghanaian international, Samuel Inkoom. The player was banned for cheating on his...
Multiple blasts killed at least 24 people in two Pakistani cities on the last Friday of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, as officials warned the toll could rise. Authorities said 11 people were killed...
