After days of uncertainty, Joe Biden has won the US presidential election, BBC projections show. During Donald Trump’s four years in office, America’s relationship with the world changed profoundly. BBC reporters across the globe, from Beijing to Berlin, explain how news of Mr Biden’s victory is being received and what it could mean for key US relationships. Joe Biden’s victory …

Ghana’s President and Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has tasked the President, Commissioners and Staff of the ECOWAS Commission to work in building a united, economically prosperous, politically stable, and secured Community that meets the aspirations of the citizens of ECOWAS. According to …

Ghana’s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, has admonished the new leadership in Mali to use the transition period to exhibit exceptional leadership for the country and usher her into a prosperous era. The former President made the call when a four-man delegation of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP) led by its Chairman, Colonel Assimi …

President of the Republic of Ghana and Chairman of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the political stalemate in the West African state of Mali cannot continue beyond the deadline that was set by ECOWAS heads of state at their last meeting on the 28th of August 2020 in Niamey, Niger and that …

Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has been elected as the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He was elected in Niamey, the capital of Niger, on Monday, September 7, 2020, at the 57th extraordinary summit of the sub regional bloc. President Akufo-Addo departed Ghana today for the summit. Mr Akufo-Addo takes over from President Muhamadou Issoufou …

Renowned Kenyan pan-Africanist Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba has acknowledged the leadership qualities of President Akufo-Addo by saying the Ghanaian president will make his list of exclusive African leaders. Speaking to Kweku Sakyi Addo in an exclusive interview on Assase Radio’s Sunday Night Live, the renowned Kenyan orator named the creme de la creme of visionary African leaders in what …

The government of Ghana has expressed condolences to the government and people of Lebanon over the lives lost in Beirut following an explosion at a warehouse near a seaport. Some 154 persons lost their lives and 5,000 others we’re injured in the ammonium nitrate explosion that occurred last Tuesday evening in Beirut. Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, …

The Winneba District Magistrate Court, presided over by His Worship, Isaac Oheneba Kuffuor, has ordered Kofi Annan, the Effutu Constituency Parliamentary Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), to deposit an amount of GH¢100,000.00 to the Court as a condition for aligning same to his bail. The Court on April 21st, 2020 admitted Kofi Annan to a self-recognisance bail …

When US Democrats in Congress proposed legislation to reform the police following weeks of protests over the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of a white officer, commenters on social media only wanted to talk about one thing: what they were wearing. Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and other Democratic lawmakers were draped …

The funeral of George Floyd, an African American whose death in police custody spawned global outrage, has heard impassioned pleas for racial justice. Speakers in the church in Houston, Texas, lined up to remember a man whose “crime was that he was born black”. Mr Floyd died in Minneapolis last month as a white police officer held a knee on …