UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged the government in the Maldives to lift a blockade of parliament where troops have barred the opposition from taking their seats. Guterres...
A group of former separatist rebels in Mali killed "dozens" of members of a pro-government armed group before a UN helicopter monitoring the fighting crashed in the country's north, sources told AFP...
Closing arguments got underway Thursday in the securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical executive label "The Most Hated Man in America." The...
A top leader of the Boy Scouts of America apologized on Thursday for the political nature of a controversial speech that President Donald Trump delivered to a scouts gathering earlier this week. "I...
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has rejected accusations the party is scheming to remove the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei for their political advantage. President...
French president Emmanuel Macron has announced his country will set up processing 'hotspots' in Libya for asylum seekers trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean. He said France will 'go to...
The White House has not yet decided how it will implement the president’s ban on transgender people serving in the US military. Mr Trump’s surprise Twitter announcement on Wednesday has been met...
A 32-year-old prison inmate and Muslim convert from Massachusetts has been sentenced to three years behind bars for threatening to kill then Barack Obama when US president, prosecutors announced....
President Donald Trump is pretty handy with a golf club, but his prowess appears to have just received a significant upgrade courtesy of the official White House transcript. When top aide Anthony...
The US military's top officer directed military heads on Thursday not to implement any changes to current policy on transgender personnel, a day after President Donald Trump tweeted they would be...
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions headed to El Salvador on Thursday for meetings on law enforcement cooperation, traveling far from Washington after days of bearing humiliating online scorn from...
Elections are the vehicles that drive a democracy. Getting them right is an indication that your democracy is on course. Getting them wrong puts the democracy in harm’s way with dire...
Office of the Special Prosecutor will not be described as a witch-hunting unit by political opponents if the prosecutor has credibility in the eyes of all the political parties and the general...
Nigeria’s next general elections might still be two years away but there’s already a good reason for young citizens to be excited. In a session on Wednesday (July 26), the Nigerian senate voted...
This was announced when officials of the Musician Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) visited the family of the late musician yesterday in Accra. Officials who were present at the meeting included Alhaji Sidiku...
President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Kwasi Nyantakyi, cannot contest the next Confederation African Football (CAF) Executive Committee election following a new decision by the...
President Robert Mugabe's wife Thursday urged her 93-year-old husband to name his chosen successor, fuelling renewed speculation about the race to take over from the world's oldest national leader....
A clinical pharmacologist and pharmacist, with extensive experience in drug safety, vaccine safety, harmonisation initiatives, Professor Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo is the new head of the Ghana Standards...
Fast-talking Anthony Scaramucci's appointment to a top White House post looks set to transform the balance of power in Donald Trump's faction-riven administration -- if he can survive. Last week...
Some Members of Parliament are divided over a proposal calling for removal of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission and her two deputies for investigations into their activities at the...
