The killing of a Pakistani investigative journalist in Kenya was a “planned assassination”, a team of Pakistani investigators has said in a report released on Wednesday. Arshad Sharif, who was critical of Pakistan’s powerful army, was killed when police shot at his car on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital Nairobi in late October. Nairobi police later expressed […]
After a blaze of publicity and controversy, Netflix’s Harry & Meghan series is beginning on Thursday with three episodes. It promises to reveal the inside story of how the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down from royal duties. Trailers refer to a “war against Meghan”, with Prince Harry speaking of the “leaking and… planting […]
Peru has a female president for the first time, after ex-president Pedro Castillo was impeached – hours after he tried to dissolve parliament. Dina Boluarte – previously the vice-president – was sworn in after a dramatic day in Lima on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Mr Castillo had said he was replacing Congress with an […]
Vladimir Putin has said the threat of a nuclear war was rising, but insisted Russia had not “gone mad” and would not use its nuclear weapons first. The Russian president insisted that his country would only use weapons of mass destruction in response to an attack. Speaking at Russia’s annual human rights council meeting, he […]
THE Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has committed to invest about €82 million in grants into critical sectors of the Ghanaian economy next year. The German government made the commitment in Berlin last week after the end of bilateral negotiations on development cooperation between the two countries. The grants are to be channeled […]
Mr Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Minister of Health, says the Government is working on a bilateral agreement with the British government to send Ghanaian-trained nurses to the United Kingdom (UK) in exchange for financial considerations. That, he explained, would be similar to an already existing arrangement with Barbados, where Ghanaian nurses are excelling. Mr Agyeman […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that it is not part of ongoing discussions with the government and Ghana’s creditors to restructure its debt. It said the nature of such negotiations were purely the decisions of the country. The country requested support from the fund in July this year after strong debt build-up combined […]
Exuberant Moroccans poured into the streets of their capital and in cities across Europe on Tuesday, waving flags and honking horns to celebrate their national soccer team’s historic victory over Spain at the World Cup. Morocco defeated Spain in a penalty shootout, making the Atlas Lions the only team from outside Europe or South America […]
Rights groups are pressuring Spain’s government over the deaths of at least 23 people after thousands of migrants forced their way through the European Union’s only land border with Africa between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. In the worst tragedy on a European frontier in recent years, the migrants died in a crush, […]
“Humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” the head of the United Nations has warned at the start of a high-level nature summit in Canada. Governments are meeting in Montreal to agree targets to reverse the loss of nature. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said we have a chance to stop the “orgy of destruction” […]
