Category: World

 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...

 In a neonatal unit at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, newborn babies are fighting for their lives against severe congenital anomalies linked to the harsh conditions of Israel’s genocidal war. Two-month-old Osama was born with a hole in his heart and enlarged ventricles in his brain. His mother, Najia Zurub, has not left the hospital...

 Senior officials from Ghana and Sierra Leone convened in Accra on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, for the Technical Session of the Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC), reaffirming their commitment to strengthening bilateral relations. Delivering her remarks, Ambassador Khadija Iddrisu, Chief Director of Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Co-Chairperson of the session, recalled the...

Hamas has rejected the disarmament plan of a top figure in President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace efforts, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations has told the BBC. He accused Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza on the US-led Board of Peace, of bias towards Israel. Last month, Mladenov outlined a framework for...

At least six people have been killed in a new wave of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, state media reports, as the Israeli military claims to have surrounded a main town there. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said one person was killed and nine others injured when fighter jets attacked the town of Bazouriyeh. Elsewhere, Israeli...

 Iran has announced it will observe a two-week ceasefire, paving the way for negotiations to begin Friday in Islamabad, Pakistan. The move follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that American attacks would be suspended if Tehran agreed to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Foreign Minister confirmed that safe passage through the vital waterway...