Tarik Nesh-Nash Mr Tarik Nesh-Nash, the Coordinator of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in Africa and the Middle East, has urged Ghana to accelerate efforts to institutionalise OGP in Ghana, Parliament, and other sectors.  He explained that the consultations, through the OGP,, ... Read More

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has congratulated the United Kingdom’s (UK) Labour Party on its recent electoral successes, and asserted Ghana’s commitment to work closely with the incoming government.  The country, he said, was conscious of the ... Read More

A humanitarian truce is in effect in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo but the situation remains arlarming given the rebels territorial gains. Updating the Security Council on her mandated activities, the Head of the UN Stabilization Mission ... Read More

Migrants crossing the English Channel arrived at the port in Dover, southeast England, on Monday. British broadcaster Sky News aired footage of the migrants, marking the first arrivals since the new government took office on Friday. On Saturday, British Prime Minister ... Read More

West Africa's fractured regional bloc on Sunday urged Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to engage with the three military-led member states to try to reunite the region whose stability has been threatened since they decided to leave the group in ... Read More

The German army will end operations at its air base in Niger by August 31 following the breakdown of talks with the Sahel country's ruling junta, Germany's defense ministry said Saturday. All Bundeswehr soldiers stationed at the base will be withdrawn ... Read More

U.S. troops have completed a withdrawal from their base in Niger's capital of Niamey and will fully depart from Agadez in the north before a Sept. 15 deadline set by the country's military rulers, both countries said Sunday. Niger's military leaders ... Read More

The European Union (EU) has awarded a grant of €3.2 million to support vaccine manufacturing and the pharmaceutical industry in the country. The grant was made possible through the government, under a Special Measure on Manufacturing and Access to Vaccines, Medicines ... Read More

The Council of the Arab League has tasked its group at the UN with studying steps to freeze Israel's participation in the body's General Assembly. The bloc which held an extraordinary session in Cairo Thursday (Jul. 4), said Israel failed to ... Read More

Authorities in the central African nation say technical issues made it impossible for the country to keep its commitments by June 30. In an undated statement, the ministry of public accounts said arrears were paid back to the World Bank. This comes ... Read More