Nigeriens participate in a march called by supporters of coup leader Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani in Niamey, Niger, July 30, 2023. Thousands of supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup last week marched Sunday through the streets of ... Read More

Visitors to the 'PMC Wagner Centre', operated by founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin, in St Petersburg, Russia, in November 2022 The head of the Wagner mercenary group says it will continue its activities in Africa and ... Read More

The United States (US) has signed a multilateral agreement to support Ghana’s goal of achieving Universal Health Coverage.   The Memorandum of Cooperation, involving two Asian giants, the Republic of Korea and Japan, was signed at an event hosted by Ghana’s ... Read More

At the end of 2022, there are 4.8 million persons living with HIV in West Africa, with 160,00 new infections and 120,000 AIDS-related deaths recorded.  ECOWAS member-States have therefore been urged to collectively rise above national borders, transcend political differences, and ... Read More

President Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin told leaders and officials from African countries on Thursday that Moscow would provide grain for sale or free to the neediest countries to avert the uncertainty in the global food supply caused by Russia’s ... Read More

Mohamed Bazoum Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum is in good health after being taken captive by his own presidential guard, the French foreign minister has said. Catherine Colonna told AFP news agency the coup was not "final". She said Mr Bazoum had spoken to ... Read More

Donald Trump Former US President Donald Trump is accused of pressuring an employee to delete security footage at his Florida estate to obstruct the investigation into the classified documents case. The new charges relate to Mr Trump's alleged handling of government documents ... Read More

Allies: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop in Moscow last year The Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation after emails containing classified information were sent to a close ally of Russia in a typing error. The ... Read More

The Ambassadors of the United States, Japan, and the Republic of Korea to Ghana, have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation ( MOC) with the Ministry of Health (MoH) to support the country’s universal health coverage goal. The MOC seeks to improve primary health care ... Read More

Dr Dirk Aßmann Dr Dirk Aßmann, a techanical, energy and system engineering expert, has been appointed the new Country Director for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Ghana. The appointment is contained in a statement sent to the Ghana News Agency (GNA). It ... Read More