Israel has become the first country to formally recognise Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent nation.

As part of efforts to enhance Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education, two smart classroom projects have been commissioned at the Battor Senior High Technical School (BASEC) and Aveyime-Battor Senior High School (ABAST), all in the North Tongu constituency of the Volta Region, by the Member of Parliament for the area, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has condemned the theft of food supplies meant for students of the Awaso STEM Senior High School in the Western North Region.

The Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) on Wednesday responded to a distress call involving a multiple-vehicle accident near the Kintampo Waterfalls.

As the year draws to a close, there is little sense of comfort in the world. Instead of relief, there is tension. Wars continue, global rivalries are sharpening, and trust between nations is thinning. For many people, the concern is no longer whether instability will grow, but how far it might spread, and how long it might last.

Three suspected robbers were killed during a shootout with the police in a bush between Anwiankwanta and the Jacobu Junction in the Ashanti Region on Christmas Eve.

The three were part of a gang of five who reportedly opened fire on the police when they saw them.

A police operation to clamp down on illicit drug dealers and criminal gangs in the East Legon enclave has led to the arrest of 120 suspects, including six women.

A Ghanaian financial institution was hit by a major ransomware attack that encrypted vast volumes of data and disrupted critical services, INTERPOL has disclosed.

A total of nine people got injured on Friday morning after some masked armed men stormed the Ho Central Mosque in the Volta Region, amidst sporadic shooting.

Nigeria provided the US with intelligence on jihadists before the strikes that took place in the country on Christmas Day, its foreign ministry, Nigeria’s foreign minister, Yusuf Tuggar said on Friday.

On Thursday, the US president, Donald Trump, said the US military had carried out strikes against Islamic State militants in north-west Nigeria, after spending weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.

Christmas cheer filled the maternity ward of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) as MTN Ghana extended love and support to 25 babies born on Christmas Day, December 25, 2025, with the donation of hampers.

The gesture, which formed part of MTN Ghana’s corporate social responsibility, brought smiles to the new mothers. 

The Volta Regional House of Chiefs (VRHC) has renewed its call on the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) to remove the inland barriers at Sogakope and Asikuma.

“Those barriers are not serving the national interest; they are only there, demeaning and harassing travelers for no reason,” the President of the house, Togbe Tepre Hodo IV said at the last meeting of the house for the year 2025, at Ho, on Tuesday (Dec 23, 2025).

Boxing was organised as a sport in Accra in the early twentieth century, influenced by both Western boxing and the indigenous Ga sport, asafo atwele.

The Ga state rose to prominence in the sixteenth century, controlling Akwamu, until it was defeated in wars from 1677 to 1681, leading to its decline.

The Nigerian government has confirmed the attacks but dismisses US President Donald Trump’s assertions, saying armed groups target both Muslim and Christian communities in the country, and US claims that Christians face persecution ‌do not represent a complex security situation and ignore efforts by Nigerian authorities to safeguard religious freedom, reports AlJazeera.

As part of police operations to ensure a smooth festive occasion, with minimal criminal activities, a number of targeted operations are underway across the country.

In the Savannah Regional, the Police command has arrested 27 suspects.

“How much was stolen?” That is the question Pan-Africanism now confronts directly. Studies estimate that when unpaid labor, looted resources, and lost development opportunities are combined, Africa’s losses stretch across centuries and continents, accumulating into an enormous $130 trillion, marking one of the greatest economic crimes in human history.

President Donald Trump has said the US launched a "powerful and deadly strike" against the Islamic State (IS) group in north-western Nigeria.

The US leader described IS as " terrorist scum", accusing the group of "targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians".

The Government and the African Export Import Bank, Afreximbank, have announced the resolution of a three year dispute over a US$750 million loan facility.

Pope Leo has urged Ukraine and Russia to find the "courage" to hold direct talks to end the war during his first Christmas remarks to crowds in St Peter's square.

He called for an end to conflicts around the world during his Urbi et Orbi address, which is traditionally delivered by the pontiff on Christmas Day to worshippers gathered in Vatican City.

The Archbishop of Wales has said that some parishioners have chosen to leave the Church in Wales in protest over her sexuality and gender.

The Most Reverend Cherry Vann, who is also Bishop of Monmouth, became both the UK's first female Archbishop as well as the first openly gay Archbishop in the world, in July.

Two staff members of a STEM senior high school at Awaso in the Western North Region have been arrested by the police over an alleged theft of large quantities of food items meant for students.

Four people lost their lives in a tragic road traffic accident on Christmas Eve at Twifo Ntafrewaso along the Cape Coast–Twifo Praso road.

The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has approved the admission of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger as non-ECOWAS members of the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA).

The Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) has removed Alhaji Seidu Abagre from Bawku following recommendations contained in the mediation report by the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, on the long-running chieftaincy dispute in the area.

Enayat Qasimi, lead counsel for former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, has accused Ghana’s investigative authorities of politicising the high-profile GRA–SML case, insisting that his client is not evading justice even as the government moves to extradite him from the United States.