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Ghana backs Jamaica’s slavery reparations petition as Mahama pledges AU push for diaspora right of return

Ghana has expressed support for Jamaica’s planned petition to King Charles III seeking legal guidance on the country’s slavery reparations claim against Britain. President John...

Mahama eyes AfCFTA expansion to Caribbean nations

President John Dramani Mahama says he will champion the inclusion of Caribbean countries in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) when he assumes...

Gabon President pays tribute to Jerry Rawlings with wreath-laying ceremony

Visiting Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has paid tribute to Ghana's late former President Jerry John Rawlings by laying a wreath at his...

Oprah Winfrey to close her school for girls in South Africa

US talk-show host Oprah Winfrey says the school for girls that she launched in South Africa nearly 20 years will close next year. At the...

Ghana and Gabon sign two agreements to strengthen bilateral relations

Ghana and Gabon have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening bilateral ties with the signing of two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) aimed at enhancing diplomatic...

President of Gabon arrives in Ghana for official visit

President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema of the Republic of Gabon has arrived in Ghana for an official visit aimed at strengthening bilateral relations between...

Annoh-Dompreh urges Africa to convert vast natural resources into real economic development

Minority Chief Whip and Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, has urged African leaders to convert the continent’s vast natural resources into real economic development rather...

Africa’s pharmaceutical manufacturing vision becoming a reality – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has declared that Africa's vision of building a strong pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is steadily becoming a reality, urging leaders across...

Mahama to make reparations a key priority when Ghana chairs AU in 2027

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana will make the campaign for reparations for historical injustices against Africa a key priority when the...

Ramaphosa sends delegation to Mahama over xenophobic attacks in South Africa

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently sent a delegation to Ghana to discuss recurring xenophobic attacks against...

Deputy Health Minister urges Africa to boost domestic health financing

Deputy Minister of Health, Professor Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has called on African countries to increase domestic investment in healthcare, warning that the continent can no...

AU Health Commissioner pushes for stronger domestic financing of Africa’s health systems

African Union (AU) Commissioner for Health, Ambassador Amma Twum-Amoah, has urged African countries to reduce their dependence on external donor support and build resilient...

ECOWAS backs $25bn Nigeria–Morocco Gas Pipeline as Africa pushes energy integration

West African leaders have endorsed the legal and institutional framework for the ambitious Nigeria–Morocco African Atlantic Gas Pipeline, moving the project closer to implementation. The...

Senegal President Bassirou Faye elected new ECOWAS Chairman

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has been elected Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and...

Minority demands briefing from Foreign Affairs Minister on Ghanaian killed in South Africa

The Minority in Parliament is calling on the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to appear before the House to brief lawmakers on...

Xenophobia attacks: Zimbabwe rules out retaliatory expulsion of South Africans

The Zimbabwean government has ruled out calls to expel an estimated 25,000 South Africans living in the country, saying it will not adopt retaliatory...

School bus crash kills at least 20 pupils in Uganda

At least 20 schoolchildren and one adult have been killed after a bus carrying pupils on a study trip crashed in eastern Uganda, local...

Special police team to investigate killing of an anti-migrant leader in South Africa

A special police team has begun investigating the killing of a provincial leader of an anti-migrant group in South Africa. Police confirmed that Andile Mvuyelwa...

Kenyan court rejects Rastafarians’ bid to legalise cannabis for religious use

Kenya's High Court has dismissed a bid by a Rastafarian group seeking to legalise the use of cannabis for religious purposes. The Rastafarian community had...

Physically challenged man arrested for concealing drugs inside prosthetic leg

A physically challenged man has been arrested after customs officers allegedly discovered 1,590 ecstasy pills concealed inside his prosthetic leg during a routine operation...

Sierra Leone drops treason charge against ex-president over attempted coup

Sierra Leone's government has dropped its charges, including treason, against ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma, who was arrested in connection with an attempted coup nearly...

South Africa says more than 53,000 foreigners deported in migration campaign

The South African government says more than 53,000 foreign nationals have been deported or repatriated since launching a "migration management" campaign five weeks ago. Most...

‘We live in fear every day’ – Stranded Ghanaian in South Africa

A Ghanaian woman stranded in South Africa has described the difficult conditions at the Pretoria West camp, where dozens of Ghanaians are awaiting evacuation...

Zambia Vice President escapes injury after helicopter accident

Vice President of Zambia Mutale Nalumango escaped injury after a Zambia Air Force helicopter carrying her was involved in an incident during takeoff in...

Sierra Leone introduces mandatory health declaration for Ghanaian travellers

Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has advised citizens travelling to Sierra Leone to complete a mandatory online health declaration before embarking on their journey. In...

GSS survey reveals wide variations in non-standard food measurements across Ghana

A new survey by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that non-standard measurement units such as olonka, cups, buckets, bundles and heaps remain...

Zimbabwean football star survives gun attack in South Africa

Zimbabwean footballer Divine Lunga has survived a gun attack in Johannesburg, South African police have said. The football star, 31, was driving in the inner-city...

Ghana declines Ramaphosa state visit over xenophobic attacks

Ghana has declined a request for a state visit by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa amid concerns over recent xenophobic attacks targeting Ghanaian nationals...

Nigerian student dies after suffering injuries in Russian airstrike

A 23-year-old Nigerian medical graduate, Nnani Adaobi Marian, has died after sustaining critical injuries in a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, just days before...

Why Ghana and other African nations are turning down Trump aid money

After dismantling the main US body for delivering foreign assistance last year, the Trump administration is again offering hundreds of millions of dollars to...

Ugandan gov’t evacuates 424 citizens from South Africa

The government of Uganda has evacuated 424 Ugandan nationals from South Africa following weeks of anti-migrant protests and xenophobic violence. The first batch of returnees,...

Nigeria says two nationals killed in South Africa amid rise of anti-migrant attacks

Nigeria says two of its citizens have been killed in South Africa "at a time when foreigners are being unduly targeted" there. A statement from...

International Criminal ​Court confirms Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger move to leave court

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have initiated a year-long process of withdrawing from the International Criminal ​Court (ICC), the court said in a statement. The...

Xenophobic attacks: South Africa rejects Ghana’s claim over Ghanaian’s killing

The South African government has disputed claims by Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that a Ghanaian national was killed during anti-immigrant demonstrations in Cape...

Google has exceeded $1 billion Africa investment target

Google has exceeded a five-year target to invest $1 billion in Africa, it said on Wednesday, ​as it made public initiatives on infrastructure and...

Floods in Ivory Coast kill 59 people, government says

Floods in ‌the Ivory Coast have killed 59 people, ​government spokesman Amadou ​Coulibaly said after a cabinet meeting ⁠on Wednesday. The ​search is continuing, and...

Gov’t condemns killing of Ghanaian in South Africa, demands justice

The Government of Ghana has strongly condemned the killing of a Ghanaian national, Mr. Bashiru Isak, during anti-immigrant demonstrations in South Africa, describing the...

Xenophobic attacks: Nigeria to seek compensation for property abandoned by citizens fleeing South Africa

Nigeria has stated that it will seek compensation from South Africa for its citizens who have left the country following recent protests targeting undocumented...

South Africa: One Ghanaian shot dead during mass xenophobic protests

A Ghanaian tailor has been shot dead in his shop in Cape Town, South Africa, during violent protests targeting foreign nationals, the Ghana High...

South Africa’s anti-migrant protesters march nationwide, after thousands flee violence

Anti-immigrant protesters draped in flags and wielding wooden weapons marched ​across cities in South Africa on Tuesday to mark a deadline they had set...