Former President Jacob Zuma Former president Jacob Zuma can contest upcoming national elections in May, a South African court ruled Tuesday. Zuma had appealed a ban by the electoral commission, which said last month that Zuma couldn’t compete for a seat in ... Read More

At least 38 migrants, including children, have died in a shipwreck off the Djibouti coast, the United Nations migration agency said on Tuesday. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said at least six other people were missing and presumed dead, and ... Read More

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called for the development and implementation of specific and deliberate actions that would help guarantee the right to good health for the most vulnerable people in the Ghanaian society.  According to the UN Agency, ... Read More

The Ghana Boundary Commission and its counterpart in Burkina Faso are to come up with a permanent plan to address the distorted international boundaries between the two countries in the Upper East Region. In line with that, a major stakeholders’ meeting ... Read More

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame on Monday said he was concerned by what he saw as the failure of the United States to characterise the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country’s minority Tutsis. His comments came after US Secretary of ... Read More

David Cameron - British Foreign Secretary British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is set to meet Tuesday with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington as part of a trip to push U.S. officials to support a new aid for Ukraine. Cameron’s ... Read More

Italian President, Sergio Mattarella with Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo. Ghana and Italy have promised to play a critical role in promoting an ECOWAS-EU cooperation to tackle the economic, security and political challenges in the sub-Region. Issues concerning piracy, terrorism, violent extremism, illicit ... Read More

Ghana has awarded Kenyan President William Ruto the country’s The Companion of the Order of the Star of the Volta honour. Conferring the honour at a State banquet on Wednesday evening, President Nana Akufo-Addo said President Ruto was an “example of ... Read More

Rwandan President Paul Kagame lights a memorial flame during a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, in Kigali, Apr. 7, 2024. Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international ... Read More

Education and immigration advocates say African students face high denial rates when seeking visas to study in the United States, and they are pushing for changes. Visa rejection rates are higher than elsewhere in regions of the Middle East, South America ... Read More