African nations have prepared a draft resolution at the U.N.’s top human rights body that singles out the United States and would launch intense international scrutiny of systemic racism against people of African descent in the wake of recent high-profile killings of blacks by American police. The draft text, a copy of which has been […]
Ghana has been ranked as the third most peaceful African country and the 43rd most peaceful country in the world by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). This was contained in the 14th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Ghana […]
U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie S. Sullivan joined Ghana’s Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, in launching the Ghana Learning Radio: Reading Program. Developed in response to the closure of over 25,000 primary schools nationwide due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the radio program will engage parents, caregivers, and students through daily broadcasts to support and […]
Burundi will seek constitutional interpretation on how to proceed over the power vacuum created by the death of president Pierre Nkurunziza on June 8. The First Vice-President, Gaston Sindimwo, today (June 11) chaired an extraordinary Council of Ministers – cabinet – meeting which agreed to refer the issue to the apex court. Cabinet wants the […]
Ghana’s High Commission in London will on Wednesday, June 17, supervise the evacuation of Ghanaians who are willing to bear the cost of travel from the UK to Ghana. The evacuees upon arrival in Ghana will undergo a 14-day mandatory quarantine. A notice published by the High Commission on Wednesday, June 10, said interested persons would cover […]
Paul Kagame, born 23 October 1957, is President of the Republic of Rwanda. He is now a constitutional political leader but had a stint as military leader earlier in his life. He took presidential office in 2000 after the resignation of his predecessor, Pasteur Bizimungu. He is known to have commanded the rebel force that […]
When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white officer, commenters on social media only wanted to talk about one thing: what they were wearing. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and […]
Democratic US presidential candidate Joe Biden has said the late George Floyd will “change the world.” Following a private meeting with Mr Floyd’s family in Houston, Texas, to offer his sympathies, Mr Biden told CBS news his death was “one of the great inflection points in American history”. The killing of African American George Floyd […]
New Zealand has lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country. At midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system. Under new rules, social distancing is not required and there are no limits on public gatherings, […]
“Ghana is my second home. I will forever love Ghana”, those were the final words of the outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Shi Ting Wang, who, on Friday, June 5, 2020, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional integration, Mrs Shirley Ayorkor Botchway to bid farewell to the government and […]
