Participants in a stakeholders review workshop on the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections have said although a lot of accomplishments and positive lessons were learnt, there are still gaps which needed to be addressed in the electoral process. They have, therefore, underscored the need for the lessons learnt in the last election to be applied to future elections.

Members of Parliament (MPs) have called for measures to be put in place to prevent the recurrence of the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster in which about 20 students lost their lives. They also called for a probe into the incident to establish the facts surrounding the tragedy.

A Kumasi High Court has held that it will give its ruling on a suit filed by the Founder and National Chairman of the United Front Party (UFP), Nana Agyenim Boateng aka Gyataba, over the seizure of his two pickups, on April 12, 2017. This was the second sitting of the court over the suit and the Presiding Judge, Justice Nicholas Mensah Cudjoe Abodakpi, said he did not understand why a person or a group of persons could seize someone's property, in this case two vehicles, without a

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has condemned the attack on the Circuit Court in Kumasi by a group known as the Delta Force. The party has, therefore, called on the Interior Minister, the Minister of National Security, the Inspector General of Police and the National Security Coordinator, who the party said had shown complete failure in dealing with this matter, to resign their positions with immediate effect. 

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has appealed to the government to freeze small-scale mining because it is not different from illegal mining (galamsey) that is destroying water bodies and the environment generally. Describing small-scale mining as official galamsey, he said: “There is no way we can deal with galamsey if we allow small-scale mining to subsist. Small-scale mining must be banned alongside galamsey.”

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bawku Central, Mr Mahama Ayariga, has rendered an unqualified apology to Parliament to purge himself of the contempt charge against him, but the Speaker cautioned him not to go on that tangent again.

The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference (GCBC) has condemned the attack on the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Circuit Court by some members of the Delta Force, a political vigilante group, describing the act as lawlessness that only goes to discredit the country’s hard-won democratic credentials. The bishops said they had noted with dismay the disregard for the rule of law exhibited by the vigilante group.

Following acts of lawlessness by some members of the Delta Force in Kumasi last Thursday, the Inspector-General Police (IGP), Mr David Asante-Apeatu, has declared war on the activities of vigilante groups, mass disorder and disturbances in the country. He said acts of lawlessness by those vigilante groups had the propensity to cast a slur on the hard-won image of the country, adding: “As a nation, we have come very far in our democratic pursuit and we cannot afford to slip."

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead.

WAFA continued their sensational form in the Premier League with a third successive away win at Elmina Sharks to open a four-point lead on the top of the Premier League table.