An 18th Century Ethiopian crown has been returned home after being hidden in a Dutch flat for more than 20 years. Ethiopian Sirak Asfaw, who fled to the Netherlands in the late 1970s, found the crown in 1998 in the suitcase of a visitor and real... Read more
Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, 80, is to be charged with the murder of his estranged wife Lipolelo Thabane, police have said. Mr Thabane announced he would be stepping down in July because of old age, without commenting about the... Read more
Roger Stone, long-time adviser and ally to President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to 40 months in jail. Stone, 67, was found guilty in November on seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. He is the sixth Trump ai... Read more
Six young budding local athletes have been named to join the 2019/ 2020 GNPC Speedsters Club. They are Abdul Rasheed Samini, Grace Obuor, Latifa Ali, Edwin Gadayi, Kate Agyeman and Afaxoe Harry Remember. They were mentioned and some were introdu... Read more
A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing inside a central London mosque. The victim, who is in his 70s, was found seriously injured after emergency services were called to the London Central Mosque in Park Road,... Read more
Rwanda and Uganda have swapped prisoners as the presidents of both nations prepare to meet on Friday to resolve a diplomatic row that has led to the closure of their shared border. Some 20 Ugandan nationals detained in Rwanda were released on We... Read more
An Ethiopian woman disfigured after her estranged husband attacked her with acid in 2017 says that despite her suffering she has reasons to be thankful. “There are more good people in the world than there are bad people,” Atsede Ngus... Read more
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar have agreed to form a unity government by Saturday’s agreed deadline. This latest development follows a meeting at State House in the capital, Juba, on Thursday. President Kiir h... Read more
Tunisia is the latest country to officially submit a bid to host this year’s Confederation of African Football (Caf) Champions League final. The announcement from the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) came on 20 February (Thursday), the d... Read more
A high-profile businessman in Mozambique has been abducted in the second such case in a fortnight. Kidnappers seized Manish Cantilal on Tuesday as he was walking towards the front door of his house in the capital, Maputo. Maputo police spokesman... Read more
Samsung has apologised after it accidentally sent an alert to thousands of devices overnight. Affected devices received a notification from Find My Mobile in the early hours of Thursday morning. Some customers complained on social media that it... Read more
Jacob Teye Partey, father of Thomas Teye Partey has donated Atletico Madrid replica jersey on behalf of his son to the Eastern Regional Football Association (RFA) Chairman, Linford Asamoah Boadu. The high flying RFA chairman was dashed with a re... Read more
We duly welcome you to this press briefing and thank you for your continuous indulgence and dedicated contributions to free expression in Ghana. We, constituting the Minority in Ghana’s Parliament have convened this press interaction to pu... Read more
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he is working together with the Chinese government to put measures in place order to ease their people from the coronavirus. According to him, it is his responsibility to help maintain securit... Read more
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