The United States Embassy in Accra has announced a change in its visa services operations.  Effective August 26, 2024, the Embassy will transition to a new visa services provider which will be made known on the US Embassy website.  Consequently, access to ... Read More

Rosemary Mbabazi (left), Rwandan High Commissioner to Ghana, and Vincent Ekow Assafuah, Deputy Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, proposing a toast The Rwandan High Commission in Ghana has commemorated the 30th anniversary of Rwanda’s liberation from discrimination and ... Read More

Guinea's transitional authorities on Monday presented a draft of a new constitution that will reduce and set presidential term limits and potentially allow current military leader Mamady Doumbouya to participate in the next presidential election. The junta that took power in ... Read More

France has backed Morocco's autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-old position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to align with Morocco as a United Nations-mediated peace process remains stalled. In a letter to King ... Read More

The African Union (AU) has endorsed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision for a continent-wide financial institution and the acceleration of mobile money interoperability across the continent.  The adoption came during the AU Mid-Year Coordination meeting held in Accra last week. ... Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) has appointed a Ghanaian health expert, Dr. Khalifa Banda, to its prestigious Technical Advisory Group on Emergency Preparedness and Response (WHO EPR-TAG). Dr. Banda, a global health expert, is the only Ghanaian and youngest member of ... Read More

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been expelled from his longtime political home, the African National Congress, after throwing his support behind a rival political party and campaigning for it ahead of May's game-changing elections. Zuma was a member of ... Read More

Ethiopia has secured an agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a new financing program worth $3.4 billion, the IMF said on Monday. Ethiopia's central bank floated the country's birr currency on Monday, a key step to secure IMF support, and to make ... Read More

King Mohammed VI Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Monday pardoned three journalists detained for years, as hundreds of prisoners saw their sentences commuted to mark the monarch's 25th anniversary on the throne. Omar Radi, Soulaimane Raissouni and Taoufik Bouachrine, as well as ... Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders in Senegal during World War II, as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over historical ... Read More