Human geography
ECOWAS Threatens Politically-Tensed Guinea-Bissau With Sanctions
West African regional bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday it was ready to impose targeted sanctions against those it deems...
Almost 30 Die In Senegal and Gambia Boat Accidents
Almost 30 people have died in two boat accidents in Senegal and The Gambia, neighbouring west African nations with poor...
UN Seeks $65 Mn For DR Congo Emergency
UN officials launched a bid Tuesday to raise $65.4 million (59.75 million euros) in emergency funds for hundreds of...
20 Dead After Boat Capsizes In Senegal
At least 20 people, the vast majority of them women, were killed when a wooden boat capsized off the coast of central...
After Two Years, No End In Sight To Burundi’s Deadly Turmoil
Two years after Burundi's president plunged the central African country into turmoil, the regime shows no signs of...
Europe Migrant Centres ‘concentration Camps’
Pope Francis has described some of Europe's holding centres for migrants and refugees as concentration camps. The Roman...
Population Council Wants Sex Education For Adolescents Intensified
Dr Leticia Adelaide Appiah, the Executive Director of the National Population Council has called for intensified sex...
Prioritise Irrigation In Agric Mechanisation
The agric sector remains one of the pillars of Ghana’s economy. More than 60% of the workforce is engage in...
Software Developers Have No Reason To Flop
Technology is the future of all development across the world. With new inventions being made every day, it is almost...
Cameroon Denies Forcibly Repatriating Nigerian Refugees
A two-day-old baby boy cries as his parents take seats in a Cameroonian military truck in the border town of Fotokol....
Fresh Surge of Refugees Return To Afghanistan From Pakistan
A fresh surge of undocumented refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan this month, a humanitarian group said...
South Sudan War Strains Uganda’s Generous Refugee Policy
Ugandan motorbike taxi driver Sadiq Agotre grumbles as he waits for a rare client among thousands of South Sudanese...
World’s Oldest Person Dies At 117
The world’s oldest person has died in Italy at the age of 117, reports say. Emma Morano was born on 29 November 1899...
Sri Lanka Garbage Mountain Buries 40 Homes, Kills Six
At least six people were killed and 10 others injured in Sri Lanka's capital Friday after a massive rubbish dump buried...
General Strike In Tunisia City Over Jobs
More than a thousand people demonstrated Tuesday in the southern Tunisian city of Tataouine during a general strike to...
DR Congo Police Arrest Dozens At Banned Protest Rallies
Police detained several dozen people accused of violating a ban Monday on protests against DR Congo President Joseph...
Lessons of War –Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings Writes
This week marks the 23rd anniversary of the Rwanda genocide and our prayers are with the people of Rwanda whose...
DR Congo Anti-Government Protests Banned
Mr Kabila (C) was supposed to step down at the end of 2016 but the vote to replace him was not held Police have banned...
Morocco Jails Man For Throwing Himself At King’s Car
A Moroccan court sentenced a man to three years in jail for trying to throw himself on King Mohammed VI's car to give...