Ghana international midfielder Kwadwo Poku scored to help Miami FC to draw2-2 with Tampa Bay Rowdies in the American second-tier league on Friday. The 24-year-old scored in the 21st minute to cushion the lead for Miami at the FIU Stadium. However despite taking a convincing 2-0 lead, Miami succumbed to a draw at the end of the game. Poku has scored 6 times in 18 games for Miami since the start of the season....

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union will prepare economic sanctions on the Democratic Republic of Congo unless its ruling coalition, which has delayed next month's elections, holds a fresh vote early next year, diplomats say.

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has accused the state-owned media, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation of favoring the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the allocation of airtime and space for political party campaigning ahead of this year’s election.

JUBA (Reuters) - Heavy fighting around the town of Malakal in South Sudan killed dozens of people over the weekend, a military spokesman said on Sunday, after rebels said they would try to seize control of the town.

ABUJA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Islamic State-allied faction of Boko Haram which last week freed 21 of more than 200 Chibok girls kidnapped in April 2014 in northeast Nigeria is willing to negotiate the release of 83 more of the girls, the president's spokesman said on Sunday.

At least 25 inmates have been killed in clashes between two rival factions in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil, local media report. Seven of the dead were beheaded and six others burned to death, a police official reportedly said...

Twenty-one schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok have been reunited with their families...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali security forces shut down a newspaper and arrested an editor, the Somali journalists' union said on Sunday, the latest crackdown in what reporters say is a climate of intimidation.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia imposed curbs on its opposition, travel restrictions on diplomats, and a dusk-to-dawn curfew around major projects in new measures announced on Sunday that follow the declaration of a six-month, nationwide state of emergency.

ACCRA (Reuters) - An attempt by Ghana's ruling party to make fun of the main opposition candidate in the presidential election by posting a photograph of him sipping from a small carton of Kalyppo fruit juice has backfired, with his supporters adopting the brand to rally support.

President John Mahama will begin his campaign tour of the Volta region today. He is expected to address supporters of his party and also visit some traditional authorities in the region...

Dutch-born Ghanaian veteran defender Carlos Opoku netted a double to help Koninklijke draw 3-3 with Barendrecht in the Dutch third-tier league on Saturday. The 30-year-old central defender scored in the 81st and 84th minutes to restore parity for his side. Opoku has now netted 6 times in 10 games for Koninklijke so far this season....

A €380,000 EU grant has been signed with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) after ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly committees met in the European Parliament premises today. The funded action aims at improving coordination and implementation of trade facilitation reforms in Central Africa countries. The EU grant will support the countries of the […]

Policy think tank, IMANI Ghana has praised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the contents of its 2016 manifesto describing some aspects of the document as “noble.

Former world champion sprinter Tyson Gay's 15-year-old daughter has been killed in a shooting in the US state of Kentucky, police say. Police in Lexington said Trinity Gay was hit in the neck during an exchange of fire between two vehicles in a restaurant car park...

The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has expressed the need for consensus building among all the Arms of Government, and cautioned that one constitutional body should never be allowed to attack another. Mr Adjaho also reminded Members of Parliament to uphold the dignity of House. Equally, the nation must do more to identify its ...

Not too long ago, we profiled two major scientific publications on Nkrumahism by the eminent economist, mathematician, philosopher, historian, logician, management scientist, financial and policy analyst, and statistician Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere. We gave our readers the following information: 1) “The Theory of Philosophical Consciencism: Practice Foundations of Nkrumaism” (http://adonisandabbey.com/book_detail.php?bookid=231) (ISBN: 978-1-909112-66-7) 2) “The Theory […]

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to give him the chance to lead the country and he would relieve them from the current economic hardship. He said he wants Ghanaians to try him, by voting massively for him in the upcoming general elections with the assurance that he ...

Work has commenced on a 28km road which connects the Akatsi North and South districts of the Volta region. The project, being executed by GHACOS construction firm under the Department of Feeder Roads, is expected to be ready in 6 months’ time...

Didier Drogba refused to play for Montreal Impact after being told he would not be starting against Toronto, says to his coach.