Social Issues
IOM Says 600 Migrants Saved From Niger In Three Months
Some 600 West African migrants heading for Europe have been saved since April from the Niger desert after being...
Republicans Scramble To Revise Faltering Health Care Bill
US Senate Republicans, facing potential collapse of their "Obamacare" repeal effort, were making last-gasp changes...
Nigerian Camps Under Strain From Returning Refugees
An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks and returnees from Cameroon are stretching camps for those made homeless by the...
Cambodian Five Freed On Bail After A Year In Jail
Five prominent Cambodian rights activists have been released on bail after more than a year in jail, a court official...
Tanzania Football Federation President Detained Over Corruption
The president of the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF), Jamal Malinzi, has been arrested by the country’s Prevention...
Killing People Over Cows ‘not Acceptable’, Says India’s Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned on Thursday a string of murders targeting minorities under the pretext of...
India’s Modi Condemns Killings In Name of Cow Worship
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday condemned murder in the name of protecting cows, which are worshipped...
Indian Police Arrest Four Over Muslim Teen’s Murder
Indian police said Thursday they have arrested four people over the murder of a 15-year-old boy on a train, the latest...
Follow Laid Down Procedure – Minority To Gov’t
The Minority in parliament has cautioned the Akufo- Addo-led government to stop acting illegal and follow laid down...
Italy Threatens To BAN Migrant Vessels Amid ‘unsustainable’ Influx
Italy has threatened to close its ports to aid groups rescuing migrants off Libya's coast as it struggles to cope with...
Human Trafficking Report Rates Ghana Favourably
Ghana has been ranked a Tier 2 Watch List country in the 2017 Trafficking in Persons report released on Tuesday by the...
Trump Travel Ban To Take Partial Effect
US President Donald Trump's order to block arrivals from six mainly Muslim countries takes partial effect Thursday...
Year of Fear, But No Quick Win In Philippine Drug War
Meth addict Reyjin is still able to score on the frontlines of the Philippines' drug war, living proof that a year of...
For Chinese Gays, ‘coming Out’ Is A Family Affair
When Piao Chunmei's son told her he was gay, she reacted the way many Chinese parents do, sleepless and crying for days...
Asians Stuck In Saudi After Qatari Bosses Ordered Out
Asian migrants working as domestic staff and farmers are stranded in Saudi Arabia -- potentially illegally -- after...
Ethiopia Asks For Extension of Saudi Amnesty Deadline
Thousands of Ethiopians are still stuck in Saudi Arabia after a 90-day amnesty for undocumented migrants expired on...
Africa Gets Generic Version of Most Effective HIV Drug
The generic version of the most advanced drug against HIV has been introduced in Kenya, a first in Africa where more...
Kenya’s Ngugi Dumps Swedish Book Fair Over Far-Right Newspaper
Kenyan literary icon Ngugi wa Thiong'o, often tipped for the Nobel literature prize, has pulled out of an annual...
Kenyans Are ‘first In Africa To Get Generic of Latest Aids Drug’
Kenya is the first African country to start using a new generic Aids drug that can improve and prolong the lives of...