The African Union-led peace talks proposed for this weekend to try to end a two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have been delayed for logistical reasons, two diplomatic sources told Reuters news agency on Friday. Ethiopia’s government and rival Tigray regional forces said on Wednesday that they accepted the AU’s invitation to talks in […]
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been freed following the expiry of his prison sentence for contempt of court, the government said on Friday. Zuma received a 15-month sentence last year after he ignored instructions to participate in a corruption inquiry. He handed himself in on July 7 last year to begin his sentence, triggering […]
Ghana has hosted the first hybrid and the third Learning and Development Africa Conference on the theme: “Leaving No One Behind in Learning and Development-The Practicalities.” The conference explored possibilities to empower the corporate world to use Learning and Development practitioners in Africa to achieve an all-inclusive programme and use dialogue and experience sharing to […]
The World Health Organization says Africa has the highest rate of people dying by suicide in the world. In a statement, the agency said Africa is home to six of the 10 countries with the highest suicide rates globally. The continent is said to have one psychiatrist for every 500,000 inhabitants – 100 times less […]
Germany’s foreign minister is calling for European Union entry bans and asset freezes against those responsible for what she described as brutal repression against anti-government protesters in Iran. The most sustained protests in years against Iran’s theocracy are now in their fourth week. They erupted Sept. 17 after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a […]
The United Nations mission in Libya condemned Sunday the “heinous killing” of 15 migrants near the Mediterranean coastal city of Sabratha, accusing smugglers and demanding justice. The bodies were found on a beach on Friday morning, most of them burned inside a charred boat, according to the U.N. and the Libyan Red Crescent. “While the […]
Thousands of mourners gathered in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday for the funeral of 27 soldiers killed in an ambush last month that triggered the country’s second coup this year led by a military unit fed up with rampant insecurity. The coffins were wrapped in the Burkina Faso flag and sided by portraits of the […]
Madam Claudia Turbay Quintero, the outgoing Colombian Ambassador to Ghana, has paid a farewell call on Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, and expressed gratitude to the Government and People of Ghana for the support she received during her tenure. Madam Quintero, who was also the Dean of the […]
The World Health Organization’s four identified substandard medicinal products in The Gambia are not registered in Ghana, says the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA). The medicines are Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Cough Syrup and Magrip N Cold Syrup. The FDA in a statement issued in Accra on Thursday following the […]
Ukraine plans to establish an embassy in Ghana in future as part of efforts to expand its presence in Africa. This was disclosed by Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba when he held talks with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, in Accra. The visit of the […]
