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Heavy Downpour Sinks Kano Town of Gwarzo

Not less than 100 houses have been submerged and destroyed on Tuesday following a heavy downpour in Gwarzo local...

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Galamsey Still In Operation At Patriensa Despite Gov’t’s Order

Illegal miners at Patriensa near Konongo in the Asante-Akim Central Municipality have largely ignored the...

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Amazon River Under Threat of Environmental Damage

New research had indicated that The Amazon basin will suffer significant and irreversible environmental damage if...

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Ghana Named In Top 10 Environmentally Negative Countries

A new study from MoneySuperMarket reveals how people impact their environment, from different countries around the...

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Minister Calls On Investors To Exploit the Full Potential of Agriculture In Upper West Region

Mr Sulemana Alhassan, the Upper West Regional Minister, said the region has comparative advantage in cotton, sheabutter...

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India: Supreme Court Notifies Government On Cattle Trade Restriction

India’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice to the central government, seeking its response to the recent ban...

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Water Resources Commission To Establish A Unit For Dam Safety

The Water Resources Commission (WRC) is to establish a Dam Safety Unit that will inspect and ensure that dams and...

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Zambia Mulls Subsidizing Electricity For Production Sector

Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Tuesday said his government will find a way of subsidizing electricity on production...

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US Ally Marshall Islands Urges EU To Help Trump Change Climate Course

Marshall Islands president on Wednesday appealed to the European Union to help persuade President Donald Trump to...

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Bangladesh Rescuers Battle To Reach Landslide Victims

Rescue workers were Wednesday battling to reach remote areas of Bangladesh hit by landslides and heavy rains that have...

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Indonesia Seizes Pangolins, Scales Worth $190,000

Indonesian authorities have seized hundreds of critically endangered pangolins and scales in a haul worth $190,000...

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Villagers Fear S.Sudan Famine

South Sudan's northwest is untouched by civil war, yet hunger still wreaks havoc: here food shortages are cyclical and...

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Giant Flying Turkey Once Roamed Australia

A giant, flying turkey as tall as a kangaroo once roamed Australia, palaeontologists said Wednesday, after an analysis...

Entertainment

VOA Interviews Okyeame Kwame On Hepatitis B Project

Kwame Nsia-Apau, popularly called Okyeame Kwame has talked about his Hepatitis B project on the Voice of America...

Business

Reviewed Power Purchasing Agreements Will Save Ghana $700m Annually – Boakye Agyarko

Power purchasing agreements signed by the erstwhile Mahama-led administration would have cost Ghana an annual extra...

Business

AfDB Funded Projects To Benefit 20 Million Africans

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Transport projects financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB)...

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DRCongo Seeks Joint Chinese-Spanish Offer To Build Dam

The Democratic Republic of Congo said Tuesday it has asked Chinese and Spanish bidders of a colossal dam project to...

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Garbage Dumped In Sea Off Lebanon Sparks Outrage

A "mountain of garbage" dumped at sea off Beirut under a deal between the government and a company has sparked outrage...

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‘Green Police’ To Battle Tunisia Trash Scourge

Tunisia on Tuesday launched a special "green police" unit aimed at dealing with the proliferation of waste, a scourge...