The European Union (EU) and the Government of Ghana have commissioned 670 kilometres of feeder roads in the Upper West Region, constructed at €35 million, to improve access to farmers and healthcare facilities in the local communities. About 235km of the roads connect the Wa Municipality to Wa West and Nadowli-Kaleo districts (235 km), 210km […]
South Africa’s third largest political party has asked the nation’s top court to block the sitting of the newly elected parliament later this week, saying the May 29 election was marred by fraud. The National Assembly is scheduled to meet Friday for lawmakers to be sworn in to office and to elect a new speaker, […]
The United Nation’s secretary-general has included Israel’s military and Hamas on the annual blacklist of perpetrators who harm children. “I am appalled by the dramatic increase and unprecedented scale and intensity of grave violations against children in the Gaza Strip, Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” Antonio Guterres said in the report, […]
The International Organization for Migration said at least 49 people died and another 140 remain missing after a boat carrying 260 migrants originating from Somalia capsized Monday off the coast of Yemen. In a statement Tuesday, the U.N. agency said the boat departed from Bossaso at around 3:00 a.m. local time Sunday, carrying 115 Somali […]
New polling data from the Pew Research Center shows that U.S. President Joe Biden has received more positive ratings globally than former President Donald Trump. Conducted from January 5 to May 21, a survey of 40,566 people in 34 countries — not including the United States — showed a 43% median in confidence that Biden […]
Travellers planning trips to Europe’s Schengen Area will face slightly higher costs starting today, June 11, 2024. The European Commission has announced a 12% increase in visa application fees for short-stay Schengen visas (type C). The European Commission says the increase is down to “general Union-wide inflation rate and the weighted average of the salaries […]
Malawi’s Vice-President, Saulos Chilima, was among 10 people killed when a small military plane crashed in a mountainous region in the north of the country, the president said in a live televised address on Tuesday. Air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane on Monday after telling the pilot to turn back to the capital, […]
China has urged the BRICS bloc of nations to take on greater responsibilities and establish itself as being inclusive to the world, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday, in the wake of Western sanctions and trade restrictions imposed on the country. Many Chinese companies have faced Western sanctions over their support for Russia’s war […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held bilateral talks with his counterparts from Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Laos, Thailand and Ethiopia on Monday on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers’ summit in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. The two-day summit held on 10-11 June comes ahead of a major BRICS summit in October, when leaders of the […]
The Deputy European Union (EU) Ambassador to Ghana, Jonas Claes, has called on Ghanaians to protect the environment to help consolidate the gains of the Green Ghana Day initiative. He said practices such as deforestation, illegal logging and illegal mining were some of the human activities that could erode the gains so far made […]
