Amnesty International (AI), Ghana, has called on government to adopt and enforce a ban on shackling and to invest in appropriate community-based services to support people with mental health conditions. It also called on the government to fully implement the Mental ... Read More

Five police officers and a soldier have been shot dead during a raid on their station in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. In a statement, the South African Government News Agency said three officers were killed instantly. The off-duty soldier was shot ... Read More

Cyril Ramaphosa - South African President South African members of parliament have begun debate over the country’s new President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first state of the nation address last Friday. While others want the works of predecessors duly recognised, other members demanded ... Read More

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice will on Tuesday, February 20, deliver Judgment in a suit filed by Yoda Yacouba, a Burkinabe for alleged violation on his right to property and protection of law by Togo government. Mr Yacouba alleged that ... Read More

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations with financial support from the United States government has presented veterinary laboratory equipment, reagents and consumables to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The equipment, which are for the Veterinary Services ... Read More

Young survivors of Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida have announced a national march on Washington to demand political action on gun control. Student organisers told US media that they were determined to make Wednesday’s shooting a turning point in the national ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the African Union (AU) to urgently find a lasting solution to the perennial conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He said the depressing news of the continuing and deepening crisis in ... Read More

Gambian President Adama Barrow on Sunday announced a moratorium on the death penalty as the West African country rebuilds its international standing following the removal last year of its longtime authoritarian ruler Yahya Jammeh. Capital punishment is on the decline across ... Read More

The Gambia has re-joined the Commonwealth almost five years after ex-President Yahya Jammeh took the country out of the organisation, which he described as “neo-colonial”. He said he was not happy with the Commonwealth for accusing his government of human rights ... Read More

South Africa’s embattled President Jacob Zuma has resigned after intense pressure from his own party. In a televised statement he said he was quitting with immediate effect but said he disagreed with his ANC party’s decision. The ANC had told him to ... Read More