U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Thursday with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in Indonesia, discussions the United States said were part of the ongoing effort to ease relations between the two superpowers. Blinken met with Wang on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) talks in Jakarta. His goal was […]
Sierra Leone has overtaken Ghana as the most peaceful country in West Africa in the latest Global Peace Index published on June 28, 2023. Ghana has also slipped as the second most peaceful country in Africa in the 2022 index to the 4th position this year. Commenting on the latest index, the Chairman of the […]
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice (CCJ) has thrown out a suit against the Government of Ghana (GoG) challenging the propriety of a Gold Royalties Monetisation Transaction arrangement, popularly referred to as the Agyapa deal. Three anti-corruption groups — Transparency International, Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) and the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition (GACC) — dragged the government […]
Mr Ali Redjel, Algerian Ambassador to Ghana, Tuesday called at the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Accra to strengthen cooperation and promote partnership in information sharing and communication. The visit was to forge stronger ties with Ghana’s only wire service, and to discuss collaboration with the Algerian Press Service (APS) through the Embassy of the People’s Republic of […]
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has received a red carpet welcome from Kenyan counterpart William Ruto as he began a three-country tour of Africa on Wednesday that Tehran has touted as a “new beginning” in relations with the continent. Raisi’s trip to Africa, which will also take him to Uganda and Zimbabwe, is the first by […]
Volodymyr Zelensky may or may not be a Rolling Stones fan – but after this Nato summit, he is probably familiar with their song entitled You Can’t Always Get What You Want. Ukraine’s president came to Vilnius, Lithuania, with high expectations. He was looking for an assurance that his country would join Nato after the […]
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will kick off his Africa tour a day late on Wednesday, the foreign ministry in Nairobi said after he failed to appear at a press event. The rare visit to Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe marks the latest diplomatic effort by the Islamic Republic to forge new alliances and ease its international […]
South African business groups are pushing the government to make strong diplomatic efforts to ensure the country is not stripped of its duty-free access to the U.S. market. A group of U.S. senators recently questioned South Africa’s status under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, citing Pretoria’s ties with Moscow. South Africa has invited Russia […]
NATO leaders are set to meet Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they close a summit in Lithuania’s capital that has included emphasis on supporting Ukraine in its fight against a Russian invasion and discussion of Ukraine’s future within the alliance. “We will be in a position to extend an invitation to Ukraine to […]
Ghana took a significant step towards strengthening its cybersecurity infrastructure by signing the Council of Europe’s Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention). Ghana ratified the Budapest Convention in April 2019 and is one of six African countries to do so. Last Wednesday, the Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, signed […]
