A new targeted treatment for ovarian cancer has shown “very promising” results in women in the advanced stages of the disease. It shrunk tumours in around half of women who took part in a small...
The United Nation's top humanitarian co-ordinator has said Yemen is facing "total social, economic and institutional collapse." Stephen O'Brien was speaking directly to the UN Security Council,...
Singing great Olivia Newton-John revealed Tuesday a return of breast cancer, 25 years after her first successful battle made her an advocate for fighting the disease. The British-born star said she...
Yemen is descending into total collapse, its people facing war, famine and a deadly outbreak of cholera, as the world watches, the UN aid chief said on Tuesday. Speaking to the UN Security Council,...
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since the declaration of an independent republic of Biafra sparked a brutal civil war. In Onitsha, the...
Shops, schools and businesses were shut in southeast Nigeria on Tuesday, 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, sparking a brutal civil war. In Onitsha, the...
Delegates at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Assembly have requested for the development of a five-year global strategic blueprint for public health preparedness and response to epidemic...
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...
The United Nations has posthumously conferred its highest awards, the Dag Hammarskjold Medals on two Ghanaian Peacekeepers who paid the ultimate sacrifice in their line of duty. They are: Lance Cpl....
Gabriel Ukuwagi was only 14 when he joined the Biafran army in 1967 to fight against Nigeria in a combat that was a foregone conclusion. "They had jet fighters, we had machetes," he recalled. The...
Nnamdi Kanu walks slowly across the courtyard of his family home in Umuahia, southeast Nigeria, as a crowd of supporters in the red, black and green of the Biafran flag hail him as their saviour....
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has paid glowing tribute to the leadership shown by Africa’s first female president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Having assumed the reins of government in...
President Nana Akufo-Addo wants Ghana and Liberia to continually search for ways to co-operate, stressing that it is important that the two countries forge a new, strong partnership for cooperation...
President Nana Akufo-Addo wants Ghana and Liberia to continually search for ways to co-operate, stressing that it is important that the two countries forge a new, strong partnership for cooperation...
With five months to the holding of Liberia’s next presidential election, signalling the beginning of the end of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s tenure of office, the President of the Republic,...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has paid glowing tribute to the leadership shown by Africa’s first female Head of State, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, five months to Liberia’s next presidential...
Deaths from Alzheimer's in America have soared 55 percent since 1999, as the burden of this fatal form of dementia grows and the population ages, a CDC report reveals. The study, published on...
The man behind the massively successful ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is facing major financial hurdles in his own fight against ALS. Pete Frates lies on life support in the bedroom of his house with his...
Deaths from Alzheimer's in America have soared 55 percent since 1999, as the burden of this fatal form of dementia grows and the population ages, a federal health report said Thursday. The study in...
Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid organisation warned Monday the outbreak could become a "full-blown epidemic". The WHO...
