The West Africa Network for Peace Building WANEP, is advocating a strict implementation of the West African Biometric Identity cards to help fight cross-border crimes in the sub-region. According to...
Plan International Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization working to promote child rights and ensure women empowerment, has started a five-year advocacy program aimed at getting various stakeholders...
The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by Boko Haram violence and already struggling with overstretched supplies and...
Former Ghanaian international footballer, Nii Odartey Lamptey, says he regrets not listening to his mother when she advised against his marriage to ex-wife Gloria Lamptey. Odartey Lamptey recently...
Together with her husband and seven children, a hungry and thirsty Shadiya Ibrahim fled war and famine in South Sudan and says she has found safety in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur. "This was the...
Eleven men went on trial on Wednesday over the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly two years ago, in one of the most disturbing cases marking Europe's migration...
The Director for Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE), Mr. Jack James Dawson, has revealed that a total of 10,000 children are still in bondage in fifty (50) fishing communities...
The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) on Thursday morning banned several children programs on the pay television, DSTV and GOTV that are said to promote homosexuality. KFCB chief executive...
The Latter Day Saints Church last Friday donated white canes for the visually impaired in the Upper East Region. The 120 white canes are to facilitate the movement of persons with visual impairment...
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has begun processes to audit the Trust to improve its operations. The exercise is among others expected to inform the managers of SSNIT on the...
In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in neighbouring Myanmar dream of a better life abroad -- and rely on increasingly high-tech...
New York, the fourth most populous state in America, updated antiquated legislation on Tuesday to outlaw children as young as 14 from getting married. Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed...
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a global fight against snakebites and the need to reduce impact especially in the tropical areas. Mr. Annan explained that snakebite is a burden...
The UN High Commission of Refugees today , June 20, 2017, released the world’s first satellite for distance learning, to be used by children in refugee camps. The satellite will enable two-way...
More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region since last October, the Catholic Church says. The figure, reported by Reuters, is from...
A Nigerian human trafficker known as "Rambo" has been arrested in Italy on charges of torturing and killing migrants held captive in Libya, Italian police said Tuesday. The suspect named John Ogais,...
What was once Bentiu, the gateway to South Sudan's oil fields, is now a cluster of bullet-riddled buildings and piles of scrap metal, its ghostly avenues abandoned. Residents of the town have long...
Minority in Parliament has dared managers of Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to publish ghost names which they claimed existed on the payroll of the YEA. The minority caucus at a press conference on...
The US Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear a case about possible gerrymandering in the drawing up of Congressional district boundaries, a running sore point between Republicans and...
At least 126 migrants were feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of Libya while trying to make the perilous crossing to Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said...
