U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with China's top diplomat Wang Yi, right, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, June 19, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Monday with ... Read More

Mali has called on the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, who is part of Mali’s interim military authorities, told a UN Security Council meeting ... Read More

The United States has imposed travel restrictions on Ugandan officials in the wake of an anti-LGBTQ law signed by President Yoweri Museveni last month. The law has been condemned as one of the harshest in the world. Among other provisions, it instated the death penalty ... Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – who is in Russia as part of a peace-seeking delegation – told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine must stop. Ramaphosa laid out the 10 points of the African peace initiative that is ... Read More

Boris Johnson MPs will decide later whether to endorse a report that found Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over lockdown parties in No 10. A year-long inquiry from the Commons privileges committee said the former prime minister committed repeated offences with his ... Read More

Mochizuki Hisanobu – Japan Ambassador The Japanese government says it remains steadfast in its mission to provide the needed aid to Ghana for sustainable growth. This is done through the Japan Development Cooperation Charter – which espouses cooperation aiming at self-reliant development ... Read More

Ghana’s economy is showing signs of stabilisation nearly a month into the implementation of the country’s $3 billion loan-support programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). That was the preliminary findings of the IMF Mission team led by Stéphane Roudet, during their ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaian envoys to work effectively to aid the implementation of Africa’s common development agenda. They should strengthen diplomatic ties, liaising with the host governments, towards achieving the goals of the continent’s sustainable development agenda. They ... Read More

A catastrophic food crisis looms in Sudan if fighting doesn't stop, said Freydoun Borhani, team leader with aid organization Mercy Corps in Gedaref state, on the Ethiopian border. "Right now, it's planting season in Gedaref state, for example. People there must ... Read More

Ghana is privileged to be the first country to receive training on the United Nation’s toolkit for sport, development, and peace. The toolkit was validated in Zimbabwe in November 2022 after a series of preparatory workshops were held in Ghana, Kenya, ... Read More