Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama said his government rejected a proposed US health compact "in record time", calling some of its conditions "humiliating" and raising concerns over medical data and Ghana's control over imported health products.
The death of veteran liberation struggle icon Helao Joseph Shityuwete has left family, friends, and fellow veterans mourning the loss of a historic giant.
The former People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) commander and Robben Island political prisoner died at his home on Saturday.
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa demanded arrests and prosecutions over the killings of two Ghanaian nationals in South Africa as a flight in the latest phase of a voluntary repatriation operation landed in Accra on Monday.
The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago, but its scars continue to shape societies across Africa and the diaspora.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has used the High-Level Consultative Conference on the Next Steps for the Landmark UN Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Accra, Ghana, to draw parallels between its legacy and Namibia's ongoing pursuit of reparations for the genocide committed against the Herero and Nama
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah departed for Accra, Ghana, to attend the High-Level Consultative Conference.
The conference is on the Next Steps to the Landmark United Nations Resolution on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans.
Ghana and Tanzania will be the focus of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah's diplomatic engagements from 17 to 22 June.
At least three people were killed, and dozens were injured after a three-storey building used as a temporary church collapsed within a school compound in Accra, Ghana, on Sunday.
Ghana is celebrating 69 years of independence, marking the country's freedom from British colonial rule. The West African nation became the first in sub-Saharan Africa to break free from colonial rule when it gained independence on the 6th of March, 1957.
Ghanian video journalist Ernest Dele Aglunu scooped top honours in the Global South Video News Awards, held in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi.
The inaugural awards were aimed at recognising journalists of the Global South whose work is reshaping the narrative around the south.
