Former Ivorian President, Laurent Gbagbo has expressed regret that he did not have the opportunity to extend his gratitude to former President Jerry John Rawlings, before he passed away in November last year. President Gbagbo who called on Ghana's former First Lady ... Read More

Joe Biden US President Joe Biden is urging Americans to get vaccinated or boosted amid a surge in cases linked to the Omicron coronavirus variant, warning of a “winter of severe illness and death” for those who are yet to get ... Read More

The United States and three other countries voiced encouragement Thursday over a political deal to reinstate Abdalla Hamdok as Sudan’s prime minister. Sudanese military leaders struck a deal with civilian political forces on November 21 to return Hamdok to power after ... Read More

Katsiaryna Andreyeva and Darya Chultsova, Belarusian journalists, stand inside a defendants' cage during a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, Feb. 18, 2021. In a record year of journalist jailings, the number of female reporters being detained for their work rose by ... Read More

The Israeli government on Wednesday said it was donating 1 million coronavirus vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX program. The Foreign Ministry said the AstraZeneca vaccines would be transferred in the coming weeks, a decision that was part of Israel’s strengthening ties ... Read More

The Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading at a rate not seen with previous variants, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned, adding that the tendency to dismiss it as mild is concerning. Speaking during a news conference on ... Read More

French colonel Faivre hands over the symbolic key of Camp Barkhane to the Malian colonel during the handover ceremony of the Barkhane military base to the Malian army in Timbuktu, Dec. 14, 2021. French troops have left a military base in ... Read More

South Africa's High Court has ordered former President Jacob Zuma back to jail, to serve out the remainder of his 15-month sentence for contempt of court.It called the decision in September to release Zuma on medical parole unlawful. There is no ... Read More

The president of the European Commission is warning that the omicron variant could become the dominant coronavirus variant across the 27-nation bloc by mid-January. Ursula von der Leyen told members of the European Parliament Wednesday in Brussels that many member nations ... Read More

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pledged continuous support to Ghana to make the country the most preferred investment destination. This will be done through the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Investor map, a digital tool that provides market intelligence on ... Read More