The United States Embassy in Accra has announced a change in its visa services operations. Effective August 26, 2024, the Embassy will transition to a new visa services provider which will be made known on the US Embassy website. Consequently, access to the current visa service provider’s website and services will cease on August 16, […]
The Rwandan High Commission in Ghana has commemorated the 30th anniversary of Rwanda’s liberation from discrimination and injustice against Tutsis post-independence. The anniversary marked at the Rwanda High Commission in Accra last Friday evening, welcomed scores of Rwandese in the country and members of the diplomatic community. It was dubbed: “Kwibohora” which translates as “Liberation” […]
Guinea’s transitional authorities on Monday presented a draft of a new constitution that will reduce and set presidential term limits and potentially allow current military leader Mamady Doumbouya to participate in the next presidential election. The junta that took power in a coup in 2021 proposed a two-year transition to elections in 2022 after negotiating […]
France has backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a United Nations-mediated peace process remains stalled. In a letter to King Mohammed VI, France’s President Emmanuel Macron called the plan that Morocco proposed in 2007 […]
The African Union (AU) has endorsed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision for a continent-wide financial institution and the acceleration of mobile money interoperability across the continent. The adoption came during the AU Mid-Year Coordination meeting held in Accra last week. This signals a major step towards enhancing financial inclusion and economic integration across Africa. […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed a Ghanaian health expert, Dr. Khalifa Banda, to its prestigious Technical Advisory Group on Emergency Preparedness and Response (WHO EPR-TAG). Dr. Banda, a global health expert, is the only Ghanaian and youngest member of the elite group. He joins experts from other parts of the world on the […]
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been expelled from his longtime political home, the African National Congress, after throwing his support behind a rival political party and campaigning for it ahead of May’s game-changing elections. Zuma was a member of the African National Congress, or ANC, for 65 years. The octogenarian politician joined the […]
Ethiopia has secured an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a new financing program worth $3.4 billion, the IMF said on Monday. Ethiopia’s central bank floated the country’s birr currency on Monday, a key step to secure IMF support, and to make progress on a long-delayed debt restructuring. The Horn-of-Africa nation, which is struggling with high […]
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on Monday pardoned three journalists detained for years, as hundreds of prisoners saw their sentences commuted to mark the monarch’s 25th anniversary on the throne. Omar Radi, Soulaimane Raissouni and Taoufik Bouachrine, as well as historian and rights advocate Maati Monjib, were among the 2,476 people pardoned, a government official said […]
France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders in Senegal during World War II, as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over historical memory, the government said on Sunday. Six of the African soldiers — four from Senegal, one from Ivory […]
