Govt Promises Navy More Investments
Vice-President has assured the Ghana Navy that government will continue to protect the country’s offshore assets, fishing industry and external trade by investing heavily in both material and human...
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Bawumia’s Speech At Coastal & Maritime Surveillance Africa Conference
Vice president Mahammudu Bawumia on Tuesday 28th March delivered a keynote address at the 2017 Coastal and Maritime Surveillance Africa conference and defence exhibition. Dr. Bawumiah addressed...
Dr. Bawumia Delivers Address At CAMSA 17
Vice president Mahammudu Bawumia on Tuesday 28th March delivered a keynote address at the 2017 Coastal and Maritime Surveillance Africa conference and defence exhibition. Dr. Bawumiah addressed...
Six Aid Workers Killed In An Ambush In South Sudan
Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in famine-hit South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday, without specifying what organisation they worked for. The victims were attacked on Saturday...
South Sudan Aid Workers’ Families Await Release of Bodies
Families of aid workers killed in an ambush in South Sudan on Saturday have been at the morgue in the capital, Juba, waiting to collect the bodies of their loved ones. The UN has called it the worst...
Finland Allocates $20 Million To Famine-Hit African Countries
The Finnish government has allocated over EUR 18 million (over $20 million) to five famine-hit African countries at risk of death and starvation caused by drought and conflict. The countries are...
Nigerians Stuck In Libya Return Home With A Song
More than 150 Nigerians, some of them in tears, broke out in song as they touched down on home soil, after months stuck in Libya waiting to try to get to Europe. "I don't leave Nigeria again-o! I...
UN’s South Sudan Inquiry Gets Wider Powers To Pursue Abuses
The United Nations commission of inquiry for South Sudan now has broader powers to pursue human rights abuses in the country's civil war. The U. N. Human Rights Council on Thursday gave the...
UN Security Council Again Eyes Sanctions On South Sudan
The UN Security Council voiced alarm about the deepening humanitarian crisis and famine in South Sudan, with the United States, Britain and France raising anew the idea of sanctions and a weapons...
How Poetry Is Taking On State Censorship In Sudan
In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir looks at how Sudan's young poets are reviving the nation's tradition of lyrical resistance. President Omar al-Bashir's government...
CEPS Impounds Three Trucks of Smuggled Cooking Oil
Drivers are devising means of beating the tracking system to evade tax according to ACP Ahiakpor Ashanti Regional Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has impounded three articulated...
New Generation Ghanaian Police Only Interested In Money
A retired superintendent of the Ghana Police Service Mr. Batong Luri aka ‘Magani’ has revealed that the current crop of persons joining the service are not doing so because they are interested in...
Ghana 131st Happiest Country In the World – Report
Ghana has been ranked the 131st happiest country to live in, according to the new report. Dubbed “World Happiness Report 2017’, the report ranked 155 countries in the world based on key...
Ghana 131st Happiest Country In the World
Ghana has been ranked the 131st happiest country to live in, according to the new report. Dubbed “World Happiness Report 2017’, the report ranked 155 countries in the world based on key...
Tanzania To Send 500 Doctors To Kenya To Help Cover Strike
Tanzania will send 500 doctors to Kenya to help overcome the effects of a strike in public hospitals, the Tanzanian president's office said on Saturday,18th March 2017. Kenya's doctors went on strike...
South Sudan Keeps Buying Weapons Amid Famine
The government of South Sudan is spending its oil revenue on weapons, even as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential United...
South Sudan Buys Weapons Amid Famine
South Sudan's government is spending its oil revenue on weapons as the country descends into a famine largely caused by Juba's military operations, according to a confidential UN report. The report...
[Photos From Mauritius] Bawumia’s First Official Travel
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia returned from his maiden official visit last Monday. He was the Special Guest at this year’s National Day celebrations in Mauritius. While in the East African...
Sudanese Have Had Enough
By: Rhulani Thembi Siweya The controversial government of President Omar al-bashir of Sudan has pardoned jailed fighters from Darfur who have been in prison for many years through exchange deal with...
Ho High Court Adjourns Western Togoland Separatist’s Case
The Ho High Court has adjourned a case involving seven members of a separatist group calling for the restoration of the Western Togoland from Ghana, Tuesday. Three out of the seven members of...