The International Olympic Committee on Thursday imposed a freeze on grants to the Kenyan Olympic committee in a move which would affect the running of national sports activities in the country. The...
Hospitals have begun the process of sacking striking doctors and evicting them from the premises. Kenya's public hospitals have been paralysed by the industrial action, which started in December,...
Kenyan authorities said Wednesday they would hire foreign doctors to get public hospitals running again after talks failed to end a strike that has crippled healthcare for 94 days. The government has...
South Africa has formally revoked its controversial decision to leave the International Criminal Court following last month's High Court ruling that such a move would be unconstitutional. Notice of...
The top five is made up of Switzerland, Canada, Britain, Germany and Japan The US fell from fourth to seventh, as a result of Trump entering the White House Ghana has been named as the 68th best...
Rapper M.anifest over the weekend joined DJ Edu on BBC 1Xtra for a Ghanaian Independence Day special. M. Dot spoke about his career, upcoming projects and also dropped a fire freestyle. M.anifest...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the international community to take action to avert famine in Somalia where a biting drought has left three million people going hungry. Somalia...
I have always wanted to pen down this letter right after you lost the December 7, 2016 elections but my numerous travels have always been a stumbling block. Luckily, I have had some hiatus as a...
Hong Kong authorities have seized more than a tonne of shark fins as activists warn traders are sneaking the sought-after delicacy into the city by mislabelling shipments to get around bans by major...
US President Donald Trump's love-hate attitude towards predecessor Barack Obama goes back a decade, a volatile mixture of admiration and scurrilous disrespect that helped launch the provocative...
SPEECH DELIVERED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, NANA ADDO DANKWA AKUFO-ADDO, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 60TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, AT THE INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, ON MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017...
One of Africa's oldest and largest elephants was killed by poachers in Kenya on Monday, according to a conservation group that protects the dwindling group of giant "tuskers". Richard Moller of the...
The National Insurance Commission (NIC) has appealed to the Ministry of Finance to help remove challenges that hinder insurance companies from insuring imported goods. According to the commission the...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has urged Ghanaians to be proud of the country as it marks its 60th anniversary on Monday, March 6. According to him, "we will achieve these goals when we move...
Our founders chose this day, March 6, as the date of our independence, in order to repudiate the Bond of 6th March 1844, which led to our land becoming a British colony, the President, Nana Addo...
President Akufo-Addo is calling for unity among Ghanaians as the country forges forward to development. He says Ghana must pride itself in its diversity and rise above ethnic or sectional interest....
President Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghana no longer has an excuse to remain an underdeveloped country after 60 years of independence from colonial rule. In a nine-page speech and in 2,757 words, he...
President Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghana no longer has an excuse to remain an underdeveloped country after 60 years of independence from colonial rule. In a nine-page speech and in 2,757 words, he...
A former British army officer has been shot dead in Kenya, police in the country have said. Tristan Voorspuy was killed by pastoral herders on Sunday in Laikipia while inspecting some of his lodges,...
The Germans were latecomers to the scramble for Africa. Even if there may have been individual Germans scouring the coasts of Africa (as slave traders?), it was only after the Berlin Conference of...
