The United States has warned pilots that planes operating out of Ethiopia’s main international airport – one of busiest in Africa – could be “directly or indirectly exposed to ground weapons fire and/or surface-to-air fire” if the country’s spiralling conflict nears the ... Read More

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters Thursday that six U.N. staff members had been released but five others, along with one of their dependents, remain in detention in Addis Ababa. At least 16 U.N. staff and dependents were detained earlier this ... Read More

A group of US states is investigating how Instagram targets children, despite it posing potential risks to them. The group - made up of both Democrat and Republican states - is investigating Instagram and Facebook's parent company Meta to determine if ... Read More

Switzerland Embassy in Ghana has pledged to support celebrated Ghanaian Presenter, Doreen Avio, to empower female Disk Jockeys in Ghana. Earlier, the radio and TV personality had announced her intentions to fight the gender imbalance in Ghana’s music industry during a ... Read More

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a civil society roundtable in Nairobi, Kenya United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Wednesday that the worsening conflict in Ethiopia risks “peace and stability” in the wider Horn of Africa. Blinken ... Read More

Aguila Saleh has led the country's House of Representatives since 2014 The speaker of Libya’s eastern-based parliament has said he will run for the presidency in next month’s election. Aguila Saleh’s announcement on Wednesday follows that of several other prominent Libyans ... Read More

The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Ghana Ministry of Industry will host the Ghana Agribusiness Investment Summit November 16-18, 2021.  The virtual summit, which opens today, will bring together over 400 stakeholders in the agribusiness ... Read More

Queues were reported as Germans responded to calls to get vaccinated Germany is in the grip of a "dramatic" fourth Covid wave, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said on the eve of a crisis meeting with regional leaders. Daily infections hit a new ... Read More

Ghanaian student Samuel Kojo Osei studies at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.  He is a member of the university’s Chancellor Science Scholars program The United States continues to be a top destination for international studies among Ghanaian students.  ... Read More

Mr Albert Kofi Owusu, the General Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), has urged the European Union to provide technical assistance to aid the Agency’s digitisation and capacity building agenda. That, he said, would enable the Agency to satisfy its ... Read More