Chris Brown scored a W in court this week when his stalker was ordered to stay away from him, TMZ reports. A woman named Danielle Patti has been showing up randomly to his house over the course of a...
In this industrial northern state, you can buy footage of a woman being raped for the price of a cheap meal. Al Jazeera found several videos that appeared to depict rape for sale across the state....
The Accra High Court hearing the case involving, Gregory Afoko, who is alleged to have murdered Mr Adams Mahama, the former New Patriotic Party Chairman of the Upper East Region, on Tuesday ordered...
Electoral violence over the years has been seen as one of the key things likely to alter the success chalked in the practice of democracy in many African countries. Sierra Leone, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire...
I am Ivan Kyei Innocent (Nana-Kyei), l preach peace and harmony ahead of the December 7 elections to my fellow youth, it's has become imperative l help create on-top of the mind awareness to obviate...
A 22-year-old commercial sex worker has been arrested at the Madina Market in Accra for allegedly creating the conditions for a client to be attacked. The young woman, who claims to be a hairdresser...
A man was shot dead after stabbing a policeman guarding the perimeter wall of the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi and trying to take his gun, a Kenyan police official said Thursday. The policeman who had...
The youth of Northern Region have become more vulnerable to violence in 2016 than any other year, a report by the West Africa Network for Peace-building (WANEP) has said. According to the...
Punishment is a popular pastime for humans. Parents punish children. Teachers punish students. Employers punish workers. Courts punish lawbreakers. People punish each other. Governments punish...
A 49-year-old nursing home worker in Ontario has been charged with eight counts of first-degree murder spanning several years. Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ontario, appeared in court...
A group of sailors who were held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly five years survived in part by eating rats, one survivor has told the BBC. Filipino sailor Arnel Balbero said they were also only...
The Netflix drama, Narcos, about the infamous Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, cites a shocking statistic on the human cost of the drugs trade. But is it true? Agent Steve Murphy is in an...
Prisons have been in existence since the Stone Age. Until the institutionalization of the prison system in Ghana, our colonial masters in the Gold Coast era housed offenders in dungeons and cells...
About 70 persons are reported to have died as a result of frustration in their attempts to retrieve the investments from defunct Ponzi Micro Finance Company DKM according to the Member of Parliament...
The eras shall be over By Isaac K. Nyamekye The era of thievery, the era of incompetence, the era of corruption, the era of insecurity, the era of youth unemployment, the era of misappropriation of...
Indonesia could "wipe out" paedophilia with its new policy of chemical castration, President Joko Widodo has told the BBC. He said Indonesia respected human rights but there would be "no compromise"...
Europol, the EU's police intelligence unit, estimates that around 10,000 unaccompanied children have gone missing in Europe over the past two years. The BBC World Service Inquiry programme asks why...
Eight men were found guilty on Monday of waging what prosecutors called an "utterly abhorrent" campaign of sexual violence and intimidation against young girls in the Rotherham area of northern...
Police have arrested a Nigerian national for allegedly raping a 25-year-old Kenyan woman over a period of three months. According to the police, the complainant is a student of a private university...
By Bright Simons I'm wondering if corruption in these parts can be examined through the combined lens of: prospect theory and base error neglect. And whether that might yield any insight for...
