Ghana's Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has been elected as the next Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. She was selected at the 27th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (#CHOGM2024) in Apia, the capital city of the Pacific Island nation of Samoa. Currently the Minister of ... Read More

Mr Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in-charge of Political and Economic matters, has congratulated the United Nations (UN) on its 79th anniversary celebration.  Speaking at the UN Day parade and flag raising ceremony at the ... Read More

As the globe marks World Polio day, Africa has recorded 134 new polio cases in at least seven countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced. The regional director of the WHO for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, stated that the circulating variant of ... Read More

Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed who is attending his first BRIC summit as a member nation met Russian president Vladimir Putin for a bilateral meeting on Wednesday (Oct. 23). The Russian leader called Ethiopia's integration into the group an 'important step', ... Read More

Britain's Queen Camilla talks with Prime Minister of Samoa Naomi Fiame Mataafa during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Women's Forum side-event in Apia on October 24, 2024. The leaders of the Commonwealth group of nations will meet at a welcome ... Read More

Tunisian President Kais Saied was inaugurated for a second term following a tumultuous first term in which he suspended parliament, jailed his critics and rewrote the country's constitution. In his inaugural address Monday before parliament, Saied called for a "cultural revolution" ... Read More

The IMF projects that Ghana will end 2024 with a growth rate of 3%, according to the World Economic Outlook Report released in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday during the IMF/World Bank meetings. This aligns with the Government of Ghana’s forecast of ... Read More

The South African Minister of International Relations and cooperation spoke positively about bilateral relations between Moscow and Beijing, ahead of the BRICS summit of emerging economies that kicked off on Tuesday in Russia. Ronald Lamola described the relationship between the two ... Read More

Gabon is set to conduct a referendum on November 16 regarding a proposed new constitution, marking an important move towards restoring a civilian government, as promised by the military junta following a coup, according to the transitional government. The final draft ... Read More

Mr. Dintie Tayiru Sule, Director of Sustainable Aid through Voluntary Establishment (SAVE)-Ghana, has won the prestigious award of the 2024 United States Secretary of State’s Award for Global Anti-Racism Champions (GARC).  He is one of six awardees from around the world ... Read More