Myanmar on Saturday rejected the UN rights council's decision to investigate allegations that security officers have murdered, raped and tortured Rohingya Muslims, saying the probe would only...
It was a meeting of nerds and sharks. The self-described "biotech nerds" and "robotic nerds" were seven high school students from Washington, D. C. The eight teens who call themselves "sharks" and...
The team will be led by the chairman of the GTF Para-Taekwondo Committee, Mr. Lawrence Osei-Boateng The Ghana National Para-Taekwondo team would leave for Rwanda next Monday, March 27, 2017 to...
Students of a vocational school in the Daffiama-Bussie-Issa District of the Upper West region have beaten up the school's bursar in a demonstration last night over food. Bismark Amponsah who is the...
A plague of crop-destroying fall armyworm caterpillars has spread to East Africa where officials confirmed their presence for the first time in Uganda on Friday. An outbreak of the caterpillars in...
A third of Yemen's 22 provinces are on the brink of famine, the UN said Friday, warning that 60 percent of the war-ravaged country's population was going hungry. Yemen, long one of the world's...
Claressa Shields said she knew when she was 15 years old that she was going to be the best female boxer in the world. Two years later, when the American won middleweight gold at London 2012, she...
Bilal Abduljabbar clambers onto the back of an Iraqi army truck with his two teenage children to start the final stage of their escape from war-torn west Mosul. "Where we came from, there was no...
Three nominees of the Season 3 of the MTN Heroes of Change (HOC) have been aired on television. The three nominees were Joseph Asakibeem, Rev. Monsignor Alex Bobby Benson and Dr. Michael...
President of the Ghana Association of Bankers (GAB) and Chief Executive Officer of Stanbic Bank, Alhassan Andani, says the real impact of the recent tax cuts by government would be felt only if it...
1 Clothes that don’t fit – Overly baggy clothes will make you look you’re wearing sloppy hand-me-downs. If your body type makes it hard to find well-fitting clothes off the rack, make your...
Evangelical preacher Emmanuel Momoh prayed for five years that he would discover the diamond he needed to pull his family out of poverty in eastern Sierra Leone. The 39-year-old pastor obtained his...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commissioned an earth observation data receiving satellite in Accra as part of measures to ensure sustainable use of fisheries resources in...
Roua Ahmed's classes ended abruptly when her school in Yemen was bombed, but she still clings to her dream of getting an education. She is one of hundreds of thousands of young Yemenis forced out of...
The United Nations has warned that Uganda is at a "breaking point" as almost 3,000 refugees pour into the country every day from South Sudan, fleeing violence and famine in the world's youngest...
Somalia's president said on Thursday almost half his country's people are facing acute food shortages and about 15 percent are facing famine. He urged the world to help. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed...
The Magistrate court hearing the case of assault against a manager of Marwako fast food, has set March 28, 2017, to rule on an application by the defence for the prosecution, to furnish them with all...
About 600,000 people remain in the areas of west Mosul held by the Islamic State group, including 400,000 who are "trapped" in the Old City under siege-like conditions, the UN said Thursday. "They...
A recent court case in Nigeria has highlighted concerns that locally made soft drinks may be considered unsafe for human consumption elsewhere, as Ijeoma Ndukwe explains. There has been uproar in...
The president of Ghana Bankers Association, Alhassan Andani has cautioned that until the fundamentals of Ghana’s economy are strengthened, the cedi will continue to depreciate in value. Mr. Andani...
