Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, according to residents and vigilantes. In the first attack on Thursday, the jihadists raided the...
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has rejected accusations that moves to consolidate his power in the crisis-hit country violated the constitution. Maduro's opponents accused him of staging a coup...
Flags were lowered to half-mast and mourners lined the streets outside Westpark Cemetery on Wednesday morning. Many embraced tearfully as the white hearse, escorted by a fleet of police motorcycles...
Boko Haram Islamists have abducted 22 girls and women in two separate raids in northeast Nigeria, residents and vigilantes told AFP. In the first attack on Thursday, the jihadists raided the village...
The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD) has embarked on a campaign to promote the cultivation and consumption of local food crops and vegetables. The campaign is to...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has urged the government to tackle the issue of illegal mining in the country to protect the environment and save lives. The organisation noted that...
Students of Kumasi Academy, a mixed senior high school at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region, have demonstrated against school authorities over what they term as mysterious death of students. The...
Students of Kumasi Academy, a mixed senior high school at Asokore Mampong in the Ashanti Region, have demonstrated against school authorities over what they term as mysterious death of students. The...
Kwame looks completely normal, bouncing around the compound of the orphanage at Kwao Bondzie, a sprawling neighbourhood in the outskirt of Kasoa in the Central Region. With thick-black hair, white...
Occupy Ghana has declared the month of April as #REDAPRIL in the fight against “Galamsey”. According to the group, the month of April will be dedicated to educating and raising awareness on the...
The US Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation continued its upward rise in February, beating a four-year record set the month before, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The Personal...
This is the last of a three-week blog series on digital financial services for agriculture. This series showcases mSTAR and the Digital Development for Feed the Future team’s recently released...
INMATES at Ankaful Prison in Cape Coast, the Central regional capital, have embarked on a demonstration against prison authorities over the poor quality of foods they are served. According to the...
Two Nigerians, Ify Mba, and Ammanda Eze Chioma, both unemployed on Thursday appeared before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly trafficking six women from Nigeria to Ghana for commercial sex work....
Adrift and alone in the Pacific Ocean, Rolando Omongos prayed to live long enough to bring home news of the death of his uncle, whose corpse he had cast off at sea. The 21-year-old Filipino fisherman...
Pressure group OccupyGhana has called on government to take immediate steps to, among other things, stop the unlicensed and unregulated mining in the country. It says the menace, popularly referred...
Inflation in Europe's largest economy Germany has fallen back sharply over the past four weeks, after overshooting the European Central Bank's target in February. This makes a change in monetary...
Every week, Huynh Nha An faces the same dilemma: spend her paltry salary on food, or buy the black market hormones she needs to keep her facial hair from growing back. Born male but desperate to...
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) has identified more than 100 commercially viable businesses profiled to kick-start the One District, One Factory (ODOF) policy of the government. The...
Daughter of a dictator and later head of state herself, South Korea's Park Geun-Hye has spent nearly two decades living in Seoul's sprawling presidential palace. Now she will be locked in a cell,...
