Category: World

Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled on Wednesday that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be...

 Ghana and Jamaica have reaffirmed their historic bonds and charted new paths for cooperation following the Ministerial Session of the Third Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC), held in Accra on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. The session was co-chaired by Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Honourable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs...

The sole airport providing humanitarian organisations access to the epicentre of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo reopened on Tuesday, when the reported number of suspected cases declined. The country of 100 million people declared on May 15 that it was battling a major epidemic of the highly contagious haemorrhagic fever, prompting...

At least eight people have been killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, according to the war-torn country’s National News Agency (NNA), hours after US President Donald Trump announced an agreement to de-escalate fighting that neither Israel nor the Lebanese group Hezbollah has publicly accepted. Two Syrians were killed in an Israeli attack on a plant nursery...

 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a nationwide initiative to provide employment opportunities for Ghanaian nationals being evacuated from South Africa in the wake of recent xenophobic attacks. In a public statement, the ministry invited Ghanaian CEOs and entrepreneurs to partner in offering jobs to returnees. The Delivery Unit, led by Ambassador Alexander Grant...

 Ghana and South Korea have signed a landmark Visa Waiver Agreement covering holders of Diplomatic and Service Passports, marking the first such accord between the two nations in nearly five decades of formal bilateral relations. The agreement was signed today by Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and his South Korean counterpart,...

 President John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed government’s commitment to accountability, inclusive governance, and national development during a Town Hall Meeting with members of the Ghanaian community in the United Kingdom. The engagement formed part of activities surrounding the Ghana–UK Investment Summit, which seeks to strengthen bilateral trade relations, deepen economic cooperation, and attract strategic investment...

Israel has intercepted 22 out of the 58 aid ships travelling through international waters and bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. The ships make up part of a second Global Sumud Flotilla to try in recent months to break an Israeli blockade by carrying humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza. They sailed from the Spanish port of...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the United States is being “humiliated” in its war with Iran, warning that Washington lacks a clear path out of the conflict as Tehran gains the upper hand. Speaking to students in the German town of Marsberg on Monday, Merz said the situation has exposed a deeper strategic problem for the...

Iran has captured two foreign commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and moved them to its coast, in a further escalation that comes hours after United States President Donald Trump said he would extend a ceasefire with Tehran. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the vessels had violated maritime regulations and entered the...