Soldier Lynched At Denkyira Boase
A soldier has been killed at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West district of the Central region. The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of...
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Armed Forces Begins Investigation Into Murder of Captain Mahama
The Ghana Armed Forces have commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The solider, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have...
Armed Forces Begins Investigation Into Murder of Capt. Mahama
The Ghana Armed Forces have commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The solider, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have...
Syria War Takes Role In Ramadan Television Dramas
The sound of the blast in Syria's capital Damascus brought worried residents running, but rather than carnage they found a crew filming one of the country's famed television drama series. Moments...
No Compensation For Farmers Affected By Army Worms
The Deputy Minister said what the government is doing now is to assess the damage caused A Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, William Agyapong Quaito, says the ministry has not thought of any...
Our Personnel Were At Mining Site Legally
The Ghana Armed Forces has defended the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company, a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, found to be...
Our Personnel Were At Mining Site Legally – Armed Forces
The Ghana Armed Forces has defended the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company, a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, found to be...
‘Galamsey Soldiers’ Were Deployed Upon Request
The Army personnel found protecting an illegal mining site in the Ashanti Region were deployed there in 2014 upon a request from the former Deputy Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin. The Ashanti...
Compensate Farmers For Losses Arising Out of Army Worm Havoc – Fmr. MP
Former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central in the Greater Accra Region, Theophilous Tetteh Chaie, has called on the government to put in place adequate compensation package for farmers whose...
Secession Fears Cloud Myanmar Peace Talks
Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater autonomy, which the military fears could break the...
Myanmar Must Investigate ‘army Beating’ Video
Myanmar authorities must investigate a video showing men in military uniforms viciously beating handcuffed detainees suspected of being ethnic rebel fighters, rights groups said Sunday. The video's...
Better Times? Hong Kong’s British Nostalgia Trip
From its rattling trams and racecourses to its legal system and the ubiquitous consumption of Spam, Britain's colonial legacy still resonates through Hong Kong. But almost 20 years since the city was...
A Painful Chapter In Nigeria’s History
Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal civil war that left about one million people dead. On May 30, 1967,...
Philippines’ Duterte Under Fire For Second Rape Joke
The president of the Philippines has come under fire for joking about rape in a speech to soldiers. While speaking at a military camp after imposing martial law across the south of the country, he...
Cold-Blooded Desert Massacre Leaves Egypt’s Copts In Shock
The masked gunmen first ordered the Christians travelling to the Egyptian desert monastery to get down from the buses they were in -- and then to recant their faith. The mix of faithful visiting the...
Major Attacks On Mideast Christians
Friday's attack on a bus carrying Egyptian Copts, which killed at least 28 people, was the latest in a wave of massacres of Christians and attacks on churches in the Middle East. - January 1, 2011:...
Egypt’s Targeted Christian Copts
Egypt's Copts, targeted by gunmen Friday as they travelled in a bus to a monastery south of Cairo, are the Middle East's largest Christian minority and one of the oldest. Making up about 10 percent...
India Opens Its Longest Bridge
India has inaugurated a 9.15km (5.68-mile) bridge over the Lohit river, easily its longest ever, which connects the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh with the north-eastern state of Assam. China...
Syria Army Takes Control of Damascus-Palmyra Road
The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since 2014 after driving out jihadists, a monitor said on Friday. Since troops recaptured Palmyra...
New Taliban Attack On Afghan Base Kills At Least 15 Soldiers
At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defence ministry said Friday, in the second such assault on...