Bombs went off near cemetery in Bab Masala area of the city, state media reports.Join GhanaStar.com to receive daily email alerts of breaking news in Ghana. GhanaStar.com is your source for all Ghana...
A member of Parliament’s local government committee, O. B. Amoah, has attributed Accra’s continuous flooding challenges to the failure of the Mahama administration to implement the CONTI project....
Kenya must still clear several regulatory hurdles before direct or nonstop flights to the United States can begin, officials in Washington have indicated. The Category 1 designation awarded last...
Japan paused Saturday to mark six years since a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster devastated its northeastern coast, as more than 100,000 people remain unable or unwilling to return...
The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nation's humanitarian chief said as he pleaded for help to avoid "a catastrophe". Stephen O'Brien said more than 20 million...
Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the Western Region, has started a regional consultative stakeholder engagement seeking to promote the use of new technologies in place of...
The death toll has risen in Madagascar. Pictured: Flooding in the capital At least 38 people are now known to have died when Cyclone Enawo struck Madagascar this week. Another 180 people were injured...
Cyclone Enawo killed 38 people, injured 180 others and displaced 53,000 after it slammed into Madagascar earlier this week, the national disaster management agency said Friday. The toll issued by the...
More than half of schoolchildren have quit class in some parts of Niger due to drought which is forcing entire families of farmers to move to seek better pastures, the UN said Friday. Some 33,000...
A former Youth Organiser of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan, has been named as Deputy Director-General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO). A letter dated...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Eric Nana Agyeman-Prempeh as the acting Director General of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO). The letter of appointment read:...
Investigators probing a bus crash in Taiwan which killed 33 people in one of the island's worst ever road accidents said Friday the driver was travelling at double the speed limit. The group of local...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday a plan to pull the nation's engineering troops from South Sudan in May after five years of a peacekeeping mission. "As South Sudan's...
Film buffs with the hottest ticket in town were left running for safety after a giant model of King Kong went up in flames at the sizzling Vietnam premiere of the rebooted horror classic. The blaze...
Illegal mining activities along the Black Volta River is threatening potable water supply in Wa in the Upper West Region, the Community Water and Sanitation Agency has said. The continuous activities...
Satsuki Sekine's home was destroyed in Japan's 2011 tsunami disaster and her family fled in the nuclear panic that followed. But crueller still were the insults and stigmatisation she faced in the...
A senior Japanese politician criticised last year for being carried over flood waters while inspecting deadly typhoon damage was out of a job Friday after joking about the incident. Shunsuke Mutai,...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing an unprecedented second straight year of mass coral bleaching, scientists said Friday, warning many species would struggle to fully recover. The...
At least five people have been injured in an axe attack at the main railway station in the western German city of Duesseldorf, police say. The attack happened at about 21:00 local time (20:00 GMT) on...
The aftermath of the bridge collapse in Ancona A motorway bridge has collapsed near the north-east Italian city of Ancona, killing two, Italian officials say. The victims were in a car below the...
