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Botswana’s Former President Ketumile Masire Dies

Botswana's former president Sir Ketumile Masire, the southern African country's second post-independence leader and who...

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Frustration and Hope

Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a...

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GLI Donates To 37 Military Hospital

GHANA Life Insurance (GLI) Company has donated blood and some food items worth hundreds of cedis to the 37 Military...

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Best Country In the World To Live In Is Switzeland

The top five is made up of Switzerland, Canada, Britain, Germany and Japan The US fell from fourth to seventh, as a...

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Xenophobic Attacks and the Challenges of African Solidarity

The tension between Nigeria and South Africa reached its crescendo last Monday when Nigerian youth occupied the streets...

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Xenophobic Attacks and the Challenges of African Solidarity

By Juliana Agbo and Omonu Yax Nelson The tension between Nigeria and South Africa reached its crescendo yesterday when...

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Why Does the Capture of Syria’s Al-Bab Matter?

The Syrian town of Al-Bab was for three years a key jihadist stronghold in northern Syria, whose capture Ankara hopes...

International

$100,000 Reward For Information On Car Bomb Plots In Somalia

Somalia’s new President, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed ‘Farmajo,’ has placed a $100,000 reward on information leading...

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Damascus Denies Accusations of Chlorine Use In Aleppo

Syria's government on Wednesday fiercely denied accusations by Human Rights Watch that it used chemical weapons in its...

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Pakistan Mourns Lahore Victims of Taliban Attack

Pakistanis Tuesday mourned the victims of a Taliban-claimed suicide bomb in Lahore, as the death toll rose to 15 and...

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Blast Kills At Least 11, Injures 60 In Pakistan’s Lahore

At least 11 people have been killed and 60 were wounded after a Taliban off-shoot attacked a demonstration in Lahore,...

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Blast Kills At Least 10, Injures 60 In Pakistan’s Lahore

A powerful explosion killed at least 10 people and injured 60 when it ripped through a protest in Pakistan's Lahore...

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Blast Kills At Least One, Injures 22 In Pakistan’s Lahore

An explosion killed at least one person and injured 22 in Pakistan's teeming eastern city Lahore Monday, officials...

International

German Officials Condemn Sexual Abuses At Training Center

German military and government officials condemned sexual abuse and other violence at a special operations training...

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Owusu Bempah’s 17 Prophecies For 2017

Call him what you may; a soothsayer, a pastor, a politician on a pulpit, or a prophet of doom. Isaac Owusu Bempah,...

Entertainment

2016 Explosion of Joy Concert Held In Accra

It was a moment of joy as guests were served with great performances Many people thronged the National Theatre...

International

13 Off-Duty Soldiers Killed By Car Bomb

A suicide car bomb in central Turkey has killed 13 soldiers aboard a bus and wounded 56 more, officials say. The blast...

International

Germany Bomb Suspect Strangles Himself To Death

A Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack "with Islamist motives" on a Berlin airport has strangled himself...

International

Who Wants To Be President of Somalia?

As far as presidential positions go, Somalia must rank as one of the toughest in the world. The Horn of Africa country...