The chairperson of Ghana’s Electoral Commission Charlotte Osei has been shortlisted for the Chatham House Prize award in the United Kingdom. The EC boss was nominated by the award committee for her...
President Trump’s Executive Order on Climate Change will have far reaching impacts on many developing countries, especially in Africa, that are already bearing the brunt of the negative impacts of...
Worries over the health of South Africa's economy continued on Monday, as comments by the new finance minister failed to stem a fall in the rand. The value of currency fell 1.5% to a two-month low,...
Worries over the health of South Africa's economy continued on Monday, as comments by the new finance minister failed to stem a fall in the rand. The value of currency fell 1.5% to a two-month low,...
For decades, United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accused of sexual exploitation and abuse have operated under an umbrella of impunity. Last week, Christian Saunders, the UN director of the Office of the...
Some Jewish parents in Umea were said to be too scared to send their children to school A Jewish community association in northern Sweden has decided to close following a series of far-right threats,...
Three months after a landmark UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, the measure has changed little on the ground and some analysts question whether it ever will. Security Council Resolution...
More than $260 million has been pledged in humanitarian aid for Syria following a meeting in Doha on Sunday involving the UN and 25 non-governmental organisations from across the region. Qatari state...
South Africa needs to "radically transform" its economy, the country's new finance minister has said. The treasury has been seen for too long as belonging to "big business, powerful interests and...
The Chinese community in Kenya on Friday donated 20,000 U. S. dollars to the Kenya Red Cross (KRC) to strengthen life-saving interventions for drought victims in the country. Representatives of Kenya...
The backlash against South African President Jacob Zuma's shock reshuffle has intensified pressure on him to resign ahead of the 2019 general election. Here are four of his possible successors: Cyril...
Beheadings, mass graves, kidnapped foreigners, child soldiers: a tribal insurrection in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region has killed hundreds of people and risks further destabilising...
The Palestinians and the United Nations on Friday condemned the Israeli cabinet's approval of the first officially sanctioned new settlement in the occupied West Bank in more than 20 years. The...
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Wednesday they have launched a probe into the killing of two UN researchers in an attack that has thrown the spotlight on surging violence in the...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has submitted the names of two ministerial nominees to the Senate, the upper house said on Wednesday, moving to reassert his authority after returning from seven...
Arab leaders gathered for an annual summit in Jordan Wednesday looking to overcome divisions on regional crises including the devastating wars in Syria and Yemen. A show of unity was expected on the...
The Badminton Association of Ghana (BAG), has scheduled, Saturday April 29, for its Third Electoral Congress at the Accra Sports Stadium. The Association has therefore called on all qualified persons...
The number of Kenyans needing emergency food aid has doubled in the past three months to three million, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as the impact of a devastating drought worsens. Kenya is one of...
The Minister of Aviation, Ms Cecilia Abena Dapaah, says Ghana is not ready to fail for the third time in its bid to own a national airline. “Ghanaians are yearning for a national carrier in the...
President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that achieving excellence in girls’ education is a must if the country is to shed off the evils of poverty, ignorance and disease,...
