Ghana is privileged to be the first country to receive training on the United Nation’s toolkit for sport, development, and peace. The toolkit was validated in Zimbabwe in November 2022 after a series of preparatory workshops were held in Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda. However, Ghana was chosen as the first country to benefit […]
Fighting rocked several vulnerable cities in western Sudan on Wednesday in an expansion of the country’s almost two-month-old war as the number of people who have fled their homes rose above two million. The conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a humanitarian crisis in Khartoum, as well as major […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to China on Friday, a trip that was rescheduled from February after a suspected Chinese spy balloon flew through U.S. airspace. But expectations are low that Blinken’s trip will reset the two countries’ fraught relationship. Blinken is the first secretary of state to visit Beijing since 2018. […]
Survivors from a fishing boat that sank off southern Greece in one of Europe’s worst migrant disasters say up to 100 children may have been aboard. At least 78 people have already been confirmed dead in the disaster. But scores more could still be missing at sea, with reports suggesting that up to 750 people […]
A group of US lawmakers has called for a US-Africa trade summit planned for later this year to be moved from South Africa in response to what they said was the country’s “deepening military relationship” with Russia. In a letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, they also suggested South […]
Ghana has recorded 247,834 international tourist arrivals in the first quarter of this year. It represents a 45.19 per cent increase over the 170,696 arrivals for the same period last year. Although higher than last year’s arrivals, the figure is still below the record 256,457 arrivals for the same period in 2019 during the implementation […]
Former President Donald Trump appeared before a federal magistrate in Miami on Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he illegally retained dozens of classified national security documents after he left the White House and obstructed government efforts to retrieve them. Trump became the first former U.S. president to face a federal indictment when […]
Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant billionaire and former Italian prime minister who once described himself as the “Jesus Christ of politics,” has died at a Milan hospital at the age of 86, his press office confirmed on Monday. Berlusconi, who had a recent history of health issues, had recently been diagnosed with leukemia, Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital […]
Donald Trump is spending the night in Miami, Florida, before he appears in court there on Tuesday charged with mishandling national security files. The former US president flew from his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, to his Trump Doral resort near Miami. Mr Trump is facing dozens of charges of illegally retaining classified information, […]
The United States is providing up to $325 million in additional military aid for Ukraine, a U.S. defense official tells VOA. The package is expected to include Stryker and Bradley armored vehicles that can replace those damaged and destroyed in the Ukrainian counteroffensive currently underway, according to two Defense officials, who spoke to VOA on […]
