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Ghana Deputy Minister Resigns after Breaching Virus Measures

FILE PHOTO: A security personnel from town council wears a face mask while he controls traffic in Madina neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
FILE PHOTO: A security personnel from town council wears a face mask while he controls traffic in Madina neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
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Ghana Deputy Minister Resigns after Breaching Virus Measures

FILE PHOTO: A security personnel from town council wears a face mask while he controls traffic in Madina neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko
FILE PHOTO: A security personnel from town council wears a face mask while he controls traffic in Madina neighborhood of Accra, Ghana, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Ghana's deputy trade and industry minister Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah has resigned for violating coronavirus self-isolation measures after testing positive for the virus, President Nana Akufo-Addo said in a statement on Friday.

"This follows the admission by the deputy minister of his breach of the COVID-19 protocols, when, as a person certified to be positive of the virus, he visited a registration center in his constituency before the period of self-isolation was complete," the statement said.

The West African nation has recorded one of the highest number of coronavirus cases in the continent since the outbreak at 18,134, with 117 deaths.

Last month, Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu tested positive for the virus.

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Israel Arrests 2 Citizens on Suspicion of Working for Iran

Iranians walk past an anti-Israel billboard bearing a sentence in Farsi reading "Palestine is victorious", at Tehran's Palestine square on January 22, 2025. (AFP)
Iranians walk past an anti-Israel billboard bearing a sentence in Farsi reading "Palestine is victorious", at Tehran's Palestine square on January 22, 2025. (AFP)
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Israel Arrests 2 Citizens on Suspicion of Working for Iran

Iranians walk past an anti-Israel billboard bearing a sentence in Farsi reading "Palestine is victorious", at Tehran's Palestine square on January 22, 2025. (AFP)
Iranians walk past an anti-Israel billboard bearing a sentence in Farsi reading "Palestine is victorious", at Tehran's Palestine square on January 22, 2025. (AFP)

Israeli authorities say they have arrested two Israeli citizens for allegedly conducting missions on behalf of Iran, the latest in a string of similar cases announced in recent months.

A statement from the Israeli police and the Shin Ben internal security agency on Monday said that Yuri Eliasfov and Georgi Andreev, residents of northern Israel, were in contact with an Iranian agent and carried out various missions under his instruction.

The missions included passing on classified military material obtained during Eliasfov’s military service in an air defense unit. It said the suspects also spray-painted graffiti and hung banners with pro-Iranian messages in various locations across the country, all allegedly in return for financial compensation.

The prosecution is expected to file an indictment against them in the coming days.

In September, an Israeli citizen was indicted for involvement in an Iranian assassination plot against top Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One month later, authorities arrested another Israeli who was allegedly involved in an Iranian plot to assassinate an Israeli scientist.

The Shin Bet says Iranian agents are known to use social media and promises of cash to try to enlist Israelis to carry out such missions.

Israel and Iran’s long-running shadow war has burst into the open over the past year, with the two countries directly exchanging fire in April and again in October.