Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a woman who divorced her husband and remarried, officials say. The killing took place in north-western Badghis province. There are some reports that...
African states narrowly failed on Monday for a second time to halt the work of the first U. N. independent investigator appointed to help protect gay and transgender people worldwide from violence...
The people of Gambia went to the polls on December 1, 2016. And as a result, incumbent President Yahya Jammeh lost the election to his main opponent, Adama Barrow. Initially, he accepted the outcome...
Protesters gathered in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital and at least one other city, defying a ban on demonstrations against the president's plans to stay in office past the end of his term on...
Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s final term in office expires on Monday, with no election to choose a successor and amid a surge in popular anger over what opponents say is an attempt to cling...
The National Trust Holding Company (NTHC) has announced its commitment to increasing its corporate social responsibility initiatives in 2017. This decision is part of the company’s strategies for...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has raised concern about increasing reports of Ghanaian female migrants being abused in the Middle East. The organisation says 2,000 women departed...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and seven key Ghanaian Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have issued a joint statement aimed at protecting migrants at home and abroad....
One hundred and forty-two gender and disability-friendly sanitation facilities have been constructed in six districts in the Northern and Upper East regions. The facilities are expected to support...
Nigeria’s Intersexual, bleaching advocate, born Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky has opened up on his real sexuality. The controversial SnapChat king in his latest post said he loves...
The Sekyere Central District Health Directorate has taken delivery of items costing GHȼ155,000.00 to support quality healthcare delivery. These included five motorbikes, weighing scales,...
Hundreds of US gymnasts have come forward to say they were sexually abused by adults in the sport. A nine-month investigation by the Indianapolis Star finds 368 gymnasts allege abuse over 20 years,...
Greece defied its creditors and approved plans on Thursday to give its battered pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus after France’s president said it was wrong to prevent the country from taking...
The death toll from last weekend's bombing of a Coptic church in Cairo has risen to 26 after an elderly woman died of her injuries, Egypt's health ministry said Friday. Odette Saleh Mikhail, 70, was...
Five districts in the Northern Region have recorded the highest rate of child marriage considered as a major human right abuse. The identified districts are Sagnarigu, Nanumba North, Gusheigu, Saboba...
The Australian High Commission in Ghana in partnership with Friends of the Nation, a socio-economic advocacy NGO in the Western Region, have provided some 65 illegal miners livelihood empowerment and...
Scores of women in the Upper East region have taken to the streets, saying they have had enough of shouldering unpaid household jobs alone and clamouring for their husbands to share the domestic...
British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has congratulated President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on his “hard fought campaign” to win the December 7 Presidential election with a landslide...
The Child Rights International (CRI) has tasked Ghana’s Electoral Management Body to improve on conditions at polling stations for the vulnerable in society to participate unhindered in future...
A white supremacist has been convicted of killing nine black worshippers in a church in South Carolina in a racially motivated attack. It took the 12 jurors just over two hours to convict 22-year-old...
