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32,000 South Sudanese Already Entered Sudan In 2017

About 32,000 South Sudanese have entered Sudan since the start of the year, with tens of thousands more expected to...

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KNUST Police Not Satisfied With Suicide Claim In Death of First Year Student

The KNUST district police have begun investigations into the alleged suicide by a first year chemical engineering...

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Nearly 10 Attacks A Day On Migrants In 2016

Nearly 10 attacks were made on migrants in Germany every day in 2016, the interior ministry says. A total of 560 people...

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Five Ghanaians Rescued

Five Ghanaians have been rescued in South Africa as the xenophobic attacks on immigrants in that country worsen....

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Bawku Hospital Records 20 Maternal Deaths In Two Years

The Bawku Presbyterian hospital in the Upper East Region has recorded 20 maternal deaths in the past two years....

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MP’s Daughter To Be Buried March 4

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) student who committed suicide on campus will be buried...

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Anxiety, Tears and Prayers In California’s Immigrant Community

For the past three decades, Emilio Lopez Bautista has risen before dawn and headed to work in the farm fields of...

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India Demands ‘strongest Action’ From US After Kansas Killing

India Sunday demanded the "strongest action" from the US government after an Indian man was killed and another wounded...

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Sri Lanka Slams Lawyers Over ‘Snowden Refugee’ Claims

Sri Lankan police Sunday formally denied hunting nationals who sheltered fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong...

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Iran’s Ahmadinejad Writes Open Letter To Trump

Iran's ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad published Sunday an open letter to Donald Trump, welcoming his criticism of the...

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Solidarity In US Indian Community Over Shooting Death of Engineer

The Indian community in the United States reached out over the weekend in solidarity with the victims of an apparent...

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Russia Frees Opposition Activist Jailed For Protesting

Russia on Sunday released a prominent opposition activist from jail, after a court quashed a sentence that made him the...

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NGO Trains Teens On Menstrual Hygiene

Touching the Lives of Girls Foundation (TLGF), a non-governmental organization, has organized a day’s workshop on...

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Civil Servant’s Death Highlights World’s Lowest Birth Rate

Trying to raise the world's lowest birth rate is among the missions of South Korea's welfare ministry -- a challenge...

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Nelson Mandela and Black History Month

By Joe Kingsley “A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making...

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Refugees Make Up Bulk of Crossings From US To Canada

Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from...

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Buffett Tackles Trump In Defending Value of Immigrants

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett used his annual letter Saturday to laud immigrants and their contribution to the...

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I Have Not Been Suspended

The Central Regional Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Bernard Allotey Jacobs, has...

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Ghana Health Service Pilots Verbal Autopsy Project In Bongo

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) with funding from the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative (BDHI) has launched a one...