The Republic of Korea has invested $28 million in Official Development Assistance to Ghana this year.  The intervention, which covers 25 various projects including agriculture, forms part of the Republic of Korea's aim to strengthen the economic and bilateral relations between ... Read More

Elon Must Zimbabwe has become the eighth African nation to authorize Elon Musk's Starlink to provide satellite internet services.  President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the licensing on Saturday, detailing a partnership between Starlink and IMC Communications (Pvt) Ltd, a local company owned by Wicknell ... Read More

Rishi Sunak Eighteen-year-olds will have to perform a mandatory national service if the Conservative Party is voted back to power in the United Kingdom’s July 4 election, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced. The UK has “generations of young people who have ... Read More

For years, the African National Congress rose above politics in South Africa. It was a movement dedicated to freeing Black people from the oppression of white minority rule and to the lofty principle of democracy, equality and a better life ... Read More

Burkina Faso's military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks' chairman said. "The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from ... Read More

Extreme weather events have hit parts of Africa relentlessly in the last three years, with tropical storms, floods and drought causing crises of hunger and displacement. They leave another deadly threat behind them: some of the continent's worst outbreaks of ... Read More

A Member of the Togolese Parliament, Mrs Maimunatu Ibrahima, has been sworn in as the first female speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) says the speaker was sworn in at ... Read More

Sue Katherine Brown - Former United States Deputy Chief of Mission to Ghana A former United States Deputy Chief of Mission to Ghana, Sue Katherine Brown, has passed on. She passed away peacefully at her home in Arlington, Virginia, on May 14 ... Read More

Jacob Zuma South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday that he will fight for his rights, after the country's top court ruled that he was not eligible to run for parliament in next week's election. The constitutional court ruled on Monday that ... Read More

The impact of the calamitous rains that struck East Africa from March to May was intensified by a mix of climate change and rapid growth of urban areas, an international team of climate scientists said in a study published Friday. The ... Read More