Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has defended his government's response to the Mocoa landslide, saying rescue agencies were brought together just hours after the disaster. Mr Santos has faced...
The Minority in Parliament says government’s economic policies are failing to improve the living conditions of Ghanaians following reports of 15% increase in transport fares. They point to an...
Sometimes I write based upon recent events, but I also write about things I see and hear and things relating to my educational or professional back ground. This time I write out of frustration. I...
Interior Minister, Hon. Ambrose Dery, has given a new double cabin pickup vehicle to the Nandom district police command in the Upper West Region. It was in fulfilment of his 2016 campaign promise to...
Parliament has passed the Energy Sector Levies Amendment Bill which will review the two components of the Levies downwards. While the national electrification scheme levy goes down from 5% to 2%, the...
Mediators at the Ashaiman Central Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre (ADR) has appealed to Parliament to fast-track the amendment of the country’s Rent Law Act 1963 and Act 220 to conform to...
In fresh evidence about the dangers of coal pollution, a scientist on Monday said a switch to coal-fired power in a southern US state after a nuclear accident in 1979 led to a sharp fall in...
Constructed on the occasion of Ghana’s 50th Anniversary to salute the man who is officially recognized as the one who brought cocoa into the country, the chocolate factory which was earmarked to...
Colombia's Farc rebel group has offered to help rebuild a town devastated by landslides that killed at least 254 people. But their involvement in efforts in Mocoa, in the country's south-west, has to...
Armenia's pro-Russian ruling party has won the first legislative elections held since the adoption of constitutional reforms that are transforming the country into a parliamentary republic, official...
The economy of Ghana is still developing and the need for export earnings to support national expenditure which is substantially denominated in convertible currency is so overwhelming. The unbridled...
A massive clean-up was in full swing Monday as floodwaters receded across parts of Australia devastated by a cyclone, with residents and business owners returning to thick mud, piles of debris and...
Australia is surveying the devastation wrought by Cyclone Debbie, which has flooded vast tracts "almost the size of Texas" and left at least three dead. Debbie has now blown out over the Tasman Sea...
Colombia's security forces say they are searching for hundreds of missing people after heavy mudslides left at least 254 dead. About 1,100 soldiers and police are involved in the rescue effort. Heavy...
Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks,...
Naa Widaana-Nanga II, Paramount Chief of Takpo Traditional Area, has said the provision of farm machinery and extension officers are vital to the development of a community. The Paramount Chief said...
Floodwaters were still rising in eastern Australia on Sunday as emergency workers battled to restore water and electricity supplies in regions hardest hit by a powerful tropical cyclone. At least two...
Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks,...
Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks,...
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. The name Kumbungu, a township of some three communities in the Northern Region of Ghana, reminds me of the name of the legendary independent African Christian...
