About 23 migrants were missing after setting off in a boat from Tunisia towards Italy, the country’s national guard said on Saturday. Tunisia is facing a migration crisis and has replaced Libya as a main departure point for people fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East in the hope of a better […]
The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview […]
South Africa’s top court says graft-tainted former president Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run for parliament in the country’s May 29 general election. Zuma left office in 2018, dogged by corruption allegations, and was briefly jailed for contempt. He has since founded a party to challenge his successor Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC). […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials were found dead Monday at the site of a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran, state media said. Search crews found the wreckage Monday, a day after the helicopter crashed in bad weather near Varzaqan in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. The Iranian officials were returning […]
South Africa’s Department of Tourism has said that discussions were ongoing with some airlines and other relevant stakeholders to aggressively market Ghana as a tourism and investment destination to South Africans. The move, which is being championed through the South Africa-Ghana Bi-national Commission (BNC), is to help create a win-win situation to promote tourism in […]
The Ghana government has called for strengthening of collaboration between media, civil society organisations, governments and international bodies to promote press freedom and environmental sustainability in Africa. It said the harsh conditions of climate change on the continent required concerted efforts by all stakeholders to tackle it head-on. Mrs Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, the Chief of […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ghana is embarking on a nationwide scout for young innovators from across the country to join the Young Africa Innovates (YAI) programme. The YAI aims to identify and empower atypical innovators, especially between ages 18 and 35. These are innovators who are often marginalized include women, people living […]
South Africa urged the United Nations’ top court on Thursday to order a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip during hearings over emergency measures to halt Israel’s military operation in the enclave’s southern city of Rafah. It was the third time the International Court of Justice held hearings on the conflict in Gaza since South Africa […]
The World Food Program warned Wednesday that the threat of famine is growing for 5 million Sudanese in parts of the country affected by war. “Commitments made by all parties to facilitate humanitarian access urgently need to be translated into realities on the ground,” Carl Skau, WFP’s deputy executive director, said in a statement. Skau […]
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has strengthened its transformative partnership with Ghana by committing to inject $200 million into the Ghanaian economy. The facility is being offered by EBID to Ghana through strategic alliances with the Ghana Export-Import Bank (GEXIM) and GCB Bank PLC. A statement issued by EBID and copied to […]
