Prison Officer Shot Dead By Robbers
A prison officer was shot and killed while another was fatally injured when suspected robbers accosted their vehicle at Atebubu/Amantin in the Brong Ahafo region Sunday. According to reports, the...
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Boeing Developing New Mid-Range Plane To Rival Airbus
Boeing is in talks with potential clients about developing a new plane to fit into a niche category now dominated by rival Airbus, a Boeing executive said Tuesday. The new plane, known as the 737 MAX...
Zanetor Rallies Parliament Support To Tackle Flooding
The Member of Parliament for Klottey Korley Constituency, Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, has appealed to the Speaker of Parliament to constitute a joint committee of the House to tour the capital...
Storm Destroys Properties At Dormaa-Ahenkro
PROPERTIES running into thousands of Ghana cedis have been destroyed in Dormaa Ahenkro in the Dormaa Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region following a storm that hit the community late night at the...
Cyclone Enawo Batters Madagascar, Threatens Capital
Tropical cyclone Enawo struck Madagascar on Tuesday, buffeting the island with powerful winds, heavy rain and high seas and threatening to cause chaos in the capital, the country's weather agency...
UN Chief Urges ‘massive Response’ To Avert Somali Famine
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the international community to take action to avert famine in Somalia where a biting drought has left three million people going hungry. Somalia...
Atebubu: Prison Officer Shot Dead By Robbers
A prison officer was shot and killed while another was fatally injured when suspected robbers accosted their vehicle at Atebubu/Amantin in the Brong Ahafo region Sunday. The deceased Nana Yaw Antwi...
Prison Officer Shot Dead By Robbers In Atebubu
A prison officer was shot and killed while another was fatally injured when suspected robbers accosted their vehicle at Atebubu/Amantin in the Brong Ahafo region Sunday. The deceased Nana Yaw Antwi...
UN Chief Guterres In Somalia To Discuss Famine Threat
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Somalia Tuesday to discuss a hunger crisis which has pushed the country to the verge of famine with new President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed. "The...
Desilt Accra Gutters To Prevent Flooding
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ledzokuku Constituency, Dr. Oko Boye, has said that collective effort is needed to deal with the perennial flooding problems in the...
Madagascar Braces For Cyclone Enawo
Madagascan authorities on Monday issued a warning of severe floods and storm damage as tropical cyclone Enawo bore down on the island's northeast coast. With the cyclone due to hit land on Tuesday...
4 Students, Military Personnel Collapse
Four students and several military personnel have reportedly collapsed at the parade ground in the ongoing independence day celebration anniversary in Accra. The collapsed persons received medical...
Windstorm Renders Scores Homeless At Nkwanta
Several residents of Kwamipong Nkwanta have been rendered homeless after a two-day windstorm ripped off the roofs of their homes and collapsed some structures. Affected residents have converted...
Four People Dead In Breman Nkontwima Fire Outbreak
At least four people have died in a fire outbreak at Frafra line in the Breman Nkontwima suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti region. It is unclear what started the fire which was detected around 1am...
Articulated Truck Crashes Into NDC Chairman’s House
The articulator crashed into the house of Alhaji Sumani Zakari An articulated truck with registration number GT 3277-09 on Sunday morning crashed into the home of a former Northern Regional Chairman...
Air India Claims Record With All-Female Round-World Flight
India's national airline claimed Monday to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women. Ai India said its Boeing 777 travelled from Delhi to San Francisco...
Nine Dead In Japan Helicopter Crash
All nine people aboard a helicopter that crashed during a mountain rescue drill in Japan over the weekend were killed, police said Monday. Six bodies were found in the morning inside the wreckage in...
Traders Escape Death After Truck Crash Into Wares
Some porridge and coconut sellers at Sapeiman Junction in Accra, narrowly escaped death on Sunday, when two articulated trucks zoomed into their wares in a horrific crash. One of the articulated...
Nigerian Women Displaced By Boko Haram Hold Protest
Thousands of Nigerian women forced from their homes by Boko Haram jihadists held a protest on Sunday to demand better conditions as UN Security Council envoys visited their camp, an AFP journalist...
Somalia Reports 110 Deaths From Drought Over 48 Hours
Somalia's prime minister said Saturday that at least 110 people had died from drought and drought-related illnesses on Thursday and Friday, the first reported deaths since the country declared a...