A statement by US President-elect Donald Trump that Nato is "obsolete" has caused "worry" in the alliance, Germany's foreign minister has said. Frank-Walter Steinmeier said it was a contradiction of...
Ivory Coast's government has struck an agreement with mutinous soldiers, shortly after talks were interrupted by gunfire. Shots were heard in the second-largest city, Bouake, late on Friday, and at...
Heavy gunfire broke out in Ivory Coast's second-largest city, Bouake, late on Friday, as tensions flared following last week's army mutiny. Shots were also heard at the main army barracks in the...
'IMANI' Centre for Policy and Education, an African think tank, has described the additional ministries by the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo as questionable. In an...
President Nana Akufo-Addo's wish for the Appointments Committee of Parliament to vet his ministerial nominees as quickly as possible may just be granted. By Parliamentary procedures it will take two...
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has dismissed the heads of the army, police and paramilitary gendarmes following a two-day army mutiny that paralysed the country. Disgruntled soldiers...
A rebellion in Ivory Coast over soldiers' pay appears to have passed. Residents and correspondents in the second city, Bouake, described calm on the streets - a day after troops briefly seized the...
A rebellion in Ivory Coast over soldiers’ pay appears to have passed. Residents and correspondents in the second city, Bouake, described calm on the streets – a day after troops briefly seized...
France says it was the subject of 24,000 cyber-attacks against defence targets last year. Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said such attacks were doubling every year and this year's presidential...
Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast have released the country’s defence minister after detaining him for two hours in a standoff over pay. Alain Richard Donwahi was held in the city of Bouake by...
President Alassane Ouattara of Ivory Coast says he has reached an agreement with soldiers who have mutinied. He said he had taken into account their demands over pay and conditions and asked troops...
Mutinying soldiers in Ivory Coast's second largest city Bouake opened fire on a local official's house where the defence minister was staying shortly after he appeared to have brokered a deal to end...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a pardon for a soldier convicted of manslaughter for killing a wounded Palestinian. Elor Azaria, 19 at the time, shot Abdul Fatah al-Sharif,...
Saudi Arabia is determined to prevent external "interference" in neighbouring war-torn Yemen, King Salman said in an annual address on Thursday. He did not explicitly refer to the kingdom's regional...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has sent out a thunderous message to Ghanaians to eliminate all forms of threat to the prosperity of the country by rejecting President John Mahama in Wednesday's polls....
Thailand's parliament invited Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn to be the new king on Tuesday, completing a formal step for the apparent heir to take the throne following the death of his father last...
There is a media hype of a supposedly tribally-inspired rhetoric coming from Nana Addo. It bothers on a statement attributed to Nana Addo and some leading personalities in the NPP by Messr Haruna...
The Former Defence minister in the erstwhile Kufuor administration, Dr Addo Kufuor has visited the Manhyia Palace to mourn with the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II following the demise of the...
A pre-dawn muslim call to prayer has provoked the main backlash from Israeli Jews Palestinian politicians in Israel have found an unexpected ally inside the government against a new bill banning...
Australian, Canadian and US warships are heading to the New Zealand town of Kaikoura to help with evacuations after a series of powerful earthquakes. Two people were killed when two simultaneous...
