A bill allowing President Robert Mugabe to appoint senior judges sparked outrage Wednesday from Zimbabwean opposition and activists who said it marked a new power-grab by the authoritarian...
Beijing issued a warning to Botswana Wednesday over its plans to host the Dalai Lama next month, asking the African nation to respect China's "core interests". The Tibetan spiritual leader, who lives...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday welcomed Israel's removal of metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site but said it was "not enough". Israel installed metal...
A high powered government delegation has been tasked by the president to assess the disaster situation in some parts of the Northern region following Tuesday night downpour. At least two persons have...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's government plans to abolish the agency tasked with recovering the billions of dollars plundered by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his allies, a cabinet...
Hala Gamal looks at a pile of rubble on Cairo's Warraq island -- all that's left of her house after a police operation to evict residents accused of squatting on state land. Gamal, 31, said she had...
The US House of Representatives has voted to impose fresh sanctions on Russia, despite President Donald Trump objecting to the legislation. Senior officials will be targeted in retaliation for...
Ghanaian football legend, Abedi Ayew Pele, has described as absurd, the decision to reveal the machinations and manoeuvrings that led to his transfer from Lille to Olympique Marseille in 1987 by the...
A tense standoff was underway between Israel and Muslim worshippers at a Jerusalem holy site Wednesday despite the removal of metal detectors, with concerns of major unrest later this week if a...
The Philippines tried Wednesday to reassure Southeast Asian neighbours about its proposal to partner with Beijing in oil exploration in the disputed South China Sea, promising to consult them on any...
A Ghanaian fishing community at Akpakpadodome in Benin is facing eviction following the government’s decision to develop the area. The community made up 860 Ghanaians who survive on small-scale...
China said Wednesday it would move to transform all state-owned companies into corporations by the end of this year, as part of efforts to reform the sclerotic industrial giants. China has pledged...
Lawyer Dr Maurice Ampaw, has called on the police to immediately arrest 19-year-old Rashidatu Mohammed, popularly known as ‘Rashida Black Beauty’, and Christabel Ekeh for indecent exposure....
President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran would respond in kind to any breach by the United States of the 2015 nuclear deal after the House of Representatives passed a new sanctions bill....
Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, has sued the lawyer of the so-called staff of the Electoral Commission who are seeking her removal from office by the President. In a...
Residents of Tamale and its suburbs were thrown into a state of panic Tuesday afternoon as a heavy down pour that lasted for over two hours culminated in life threatening flooding in the area. The...
IT might now dawn on us as a people that the war we have waged on galamsey is far from over. At least we now have a fair idea of the kind of people we are dealing with and how far they are...
The National Peace Council has now called for a probe into the allegations surfacing at the Electoral Commission as a result of a public dispute between the EC Chairperson, Charlotte Osei, and her...
The Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhaji Mohammed Murtala Ibrahim has described the National Democratic Congress(NDC) as having lost focus and in total disarray thus...
Nana Akufo-Addo is being set up to be embarrassed by some faceless persons who clandestinely introduced some clauses into the special prosecutor’s Bill to limit the prosecutor from investigating...