A former spokesman for the government of Ghana named Palgrave Boakye-Danqah, joined by security analyst Emmanuel Kotin, has submitted a petition to the International Criminal Court asking it to investigate xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa.
Ghana battled the heavily favored English to a scoreless draw during World Cup action on Tuesday, in a shocking result few predicted.
The Nigerian government on Monday summoned South Africa’s top diplomatic envoy to complain about “xenophobic” anti-migrant protests, following in the footsteps of a similar complaint from Ghana and Mozambique.
Speaking at an event on slavery reparations at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama accused President Donald Trump of “slowly normalizing the erasure” of black history in America and inspiring other governments to do the same around the world.
The Japanese government struggled this week to convince a public nervous about demographic decline that its “African Hometown” program is not a backdoor scheme to set up mass migration from Africa to Japan.
Google said on Monday it has taken down almost 11,000 channels on YouTube for spreading propaganda. It allegedly linked 7,700 of them to China, and another 2,000 to Russia.
The African nation of Ghana accuses Chinese nationals of running illegal gold mines in addition to the billions China has invested.
Nigerian boxer Gabriel Oluwasegun Olanrewaju, 40, collapsed and died suddenly during a bout at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra, Ghana.
During a portion of an interview with NBC Los Angeles on Thursday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stated that “There is no question” that her Africa trip at the outset of the firestorm in the state was a mistake. NBC
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had been attending a cocktail party at the U.S. Embassy in Ghana when the Pacific Palisades fire erupted.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has taken criticism for being in Africa at the beginning of the destructive wildfires – something she had previously pledged to avoid.
California Governor Gavin Newsom used an emergency press conference Tuesday to thank Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass for her leadership “in absentia” during the wildfire crisis now enveloping the state after she phoned it in from Ghana, Africa.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass spent Tuesday in Africa as part of a taxpayer-funded delegation attending the inauguration of John Dramani Mahama as Ghana’s president. The Democrat was there as her city battled wildfires and thousands of residents fled for their lives.
The latest demographic data from Canada showed the male population increasing by 3.4 percent, while females grew by only 2.9 percent, the widest disparity between the sexes in almost half a century.
Ethiopia on Tuesday became the third African nation in three years to default on its sovereign debt, following Zambia and Ghana.
Foreign nationals from around the world are flying to northern Mexico to wait for President Joe Biden to end Title 42, one of the few remaining border controls, on May 11 so they can rush the United States-Mexico border.
Ghana on Wednesday became the first country to approve use of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University.
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday mocked the Biden administration for trying to compete with China for the affections of Africa by spending a fraction of the money Beijing has invested in the continent.
Vice President Kamala Harris visited Ghana on Monday. She praised the “democratic principles” of President Nana Akufo-Addo and pledged $139 million in assistance for the coming fiscal year, plus a share of various regional initiatives, including economic support and counter-terrorism programs.
The German government has announced a new migration scheme in Africa to recruit supposedly qualified migrants to do jobs in Germany – despite its Turkish “guest worker” programme being a historic disaster.
Christian Atsu, the Ghana international forward who played for Premier League clubs Chelsea and Newcastle, has died in the earthquake in Turkey. He was 31.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday observed a moment of silence for the passing of former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, the leader who guided China into global influence after the atrocity of Tiananmen Square.
Black Americans who are “tired” of American hostility can relocate to Ghana and be “free from White America’s psychic violence,” according to a recent Washington Post piece that suggests, “Sometimes, leaving is the most powerful form of resistance.”
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), a London-based non-governmental organization, this week published a report on the destructive, largely unregulated, and often illegal operations of China’s immense deep-water fishing fleet.
Nigerian soccer fans reacted to their team’s failure to reach the World Cup on Tuesday by storming the field and wrecking property before being tear-gassed by police.
Govt advisors in Brussels suggested a statue of controversial Belgian King Leopold II should be melted down and turned into a memorial.
The British government’s latest plans to tackle illegal migration have faced staunch criticism from Nigel Farage as well as Conservative MPs.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – A suspected pirate wounded during an exchange of gunfire last month with the Danish navy off West Africa has been transferred to a hospital in Ghana, authorities said.
Ghana’s government announced Monday it will fine airlines $3,500 per passenger if the traveler in question arrives in Ghana without proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus, Africa News reported Tuesday.
An editorial in the government-owned newspaper Ghanaian Times published Monday accused President Joe Biden and other Western leaders of “mak[ing] Africa their whipping boy” by banning African travelers from entering their countries in response to the discovery of the “Omicron” variant of Chinese coronavirus.
The Israeli Mossad spy agency foiled an attack against Israeli tourists and businesspeople on behalf of Iran, resulting in the arrest of several people in African nations, an Israeli TV network reported Sunday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said he is “gravely concerned” by proposed legislation in Ghana, which reiterates a ban on same-sex marriage while prohibiting LGBT indoctrination.
The Associated Press (AP) published a story Wednesday lamenting African Christians’ ongoing opposition to same-sex marriage.
President Joe Biden and the European Union have agreed to try to reduce global methane emmissions by 2030 mainly by targeting fossil fuels.
An Italian police officer has been placed under investigation after shooting a knife-wielding Ghanian migrant in the legs who was threatening passersby.
Elite donors have forced a “Green Revolution” upon Africa in recent years that has failed to improve local agriculture sectors as promised and instead “increased farm input costs, farmer indebtedness, and inequalities among farmers,” environmental experts writing for the non-profit media outlet The Conversation reported on Monday.
LGBT activist Father Daniel Horan has accused the nation of Ghana of “homophobia” for its anti-sodomy laws and failure to legalize same-sex marriage.
Bishop Richard K. Baawobr of Wa, in northwest Ghana, has urged Parliament to enact laws to defend traditional values against the pressures of the LGBT lobby.
An African migrant threatened to slit the throats of Italian police officers in Como after being stopped for harassing locals.
Ghana’s Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) has urged the government not to succumb to efforts to impose the LGBT agenda in the African country.
