Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has issued a public apology to Kenya, asking forgiveness for tweets by his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba. The tweets on Monday joked about Uganda invading Kenya. But Museveni promoted his son from lieutenant to general while removing him as commander of the army’s land forces, saying there were many positive contributions he […]
The deaths of dozens of children in Gambia from kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the U.N. agency was investigating along with Indian regulators and the drugmaker, New Delhi-based Maiden […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Wednesday to formalize Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions, a move widely condemned as illegal and one that comes as Ukrainian forces advance in a counteroffensive to take back areas under Russian control. The Russian measure, approved earlier this week by the country’s parliament, claims Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, […]
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has set out plans for new powers which would ban refugees who cross the English Channel from claiming asylum and said it was her “dream” to see a government flight deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. The government has been under pressure to deal with the rising number of people making dangerous […]
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has promised that his country will do all it can to send more grain to Africa as he began his African tour this week in Senegal. After meeting with Senegal’s president and foreign minister in Dakar on Monday, Kuleba said his country would be sending “boats full of seeds for […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, says the country will in the next seven months transition from the current biometric to chip embedded passports. She said the chip embedded passport is being issued by most sovereign states because of its high security features. She made these known after an unannounced […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has been promoted to general, the Uganda Defense forces spokesperson announced Tuesday. The move comes a day after Kainerugaba posted a series of tweets where he joked about invading Italy and neighboring Kenya. He said on Twitter that his country’s land forces could capture Nairobi in two weeks, […]
King Charles III will welcome South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the United Kingdom for three days of high-level talks next month, the first such visit since the monarch succeeded his late mother Queen Elizabeth II last month. In a statement on Monday, Buckingham Palace announced that Ramaphosa has accepted Charles’s invitation for a state […]
The Ghanaian media has been applauded for its leading role in sustaining Ghana’s democracy over the years, making the country one of the most stable in the sub-Region. The United States of America’s Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia E. Palmer, who made the commendation, said the media in Ghana had done a great job in the […]
Mr Irchad Razaarly, the European Union Ambassador, says there is no ban on Ghana’s cocoa into the European market as speculated in the media space. “We want more cocoa, and we are supporting Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire to produce cocoa and other commodities in a socially and environmentally sustainable manner,” he said. The Ambassador said […]
