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UK Starts Screening For Ebola At Airports for People Traveling From Ebola Hit Countries.

People arriving in the UK from areas hit by Ebola face "enhanced screening" for the virus at Heathrow, Gatwick and...

Feature

How The “Inherited Sate” Destroys Africa

Over the past five decades, Africa has had – and continues to deal with a number of issues affecting its development...

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Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah Sworn In As Trade Minister

President John Dramani Mahama has sworn in Dr. Ekow Spio Garbrah as the new Trade and Industry Minister. This follows a...

Feature

Agbogbloshie: A Local Solution For A Global Tragedy

While old electronics pile up and turn Accra’s neighborhood Agbogbloshie into the most polluted place on earth,...

Africa & World

South Sudan: MSF Reduces Cholera Activities after Treating 3,300 Cases

(South Sudan,Médecins Sans Frontières) A significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in...

Politics

President Mahama-Sovereignty Resides in the People, Not the Courts

(Accra, The Presidency) President John Mahama says the August 29, 2013 Supreme Court judgment on a petition brought...

Health

Health Warning Against the Use of Ciprofloxacin as a Vaccine Against Cholera

(Ho, GNA) - Dr Atsu Seake-Kwawu, Ho Municipal Director of Health Services on Wednesday warned the public against taking...

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Ivorian Photographer Joana Choumali Photo Series on Scarification (Tribal Marks) in West Africa – Hââbré

In a photo series called 'Hââbré, the last generation', Ivorian Photographer Joana Choumali documents the last...

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The Current State of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.

Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but experts...

Africa & World

Over 100 African Migrants Drown Off Libyan Coast

At least 100 African migrants trying to reach Europe have drowned off the coast near the capital, Tripoli, an official...

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Six Feared Missing in Boat Accident at Daboya

At least six people have gone missing after a canoe on which they were travelling capsized in the Daboya River in the...

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First Cases of Ebola In Congo, Two Deaths Confirmed

Congo’s health minister Felix Kabange Numbi said today that two deaths have been confirmed to be caused by Ebola, the...

Feature

Re-Awakening Of The Ghanaian Republicans

A group of people in a suburb of Kaulak, Senegal, had a culture of living with their teeth stained red. Everyone in the...

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‘Who said Tweaa?” The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South is Back

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti Region, Gabriel Barima, who was sacked for...

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Here’s How Many People Have Died From Cholera So Far

Cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others in an outbreak that...

Africa & World

Boko Haram Seizes Another Nigerian Town

Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into the armed group's hands in the...

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Liberia Riot Police and Soldiers Use Scrap Wood and Barbed Wire to Seal off 50,000 People To Contain Ebola

Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people...

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This Might Have Just Completely Worsened The Ebola Epidemic In Liberia, 50,000 People May Be In Danger Now

There are conflicting reports over the fate of 17 Ebola patients who vanished after a quarantine centre in the Liberian...

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Jerry John Rawlings Charges President, John Mahama To Check “Unprecedented Levels of Corruption” In Ghana

Former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, has charged his country's President, John Mahama, to check what he...