Social Issues
NGO Launches Child Right, Women Empowerment Initiative
Plan International Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization working to promote child rights and ensure women empowerment,...
UN Warns Against Refugee Returns To Nigeria From Cameroon
The UN voiced alarm Wednesday at the many Nigerian refugees returning from Cameroon to Banki, a border town clouded by...
My Mother Advised Against Marrying Gloria – Odartey Lamptey
Former Ghanaian international footballer, Nii Odartey Lamptey, says he regrets not listening to his mother when she...
Refugees From War-Torn S.Sudan Find ‘safety’ In Darfur
Together with her husband and seven children, a hungry and thirsty Shadiya Ibrahim fled war and famine in South Sudan...
Migrant Death Truck Trial Opens In Hungary
Eleven men went on trial on Wednesday over the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly two...
1000s In Slavery In Fishing Communities Along Volta Lake
The Director for Association of People for Practical Life Education (APPLE), Mr. Jack James Dawson, has revealed that a...
Kenya’s Films Board Bans Six TV Programs ‘for Promoting Homosexuality’
The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) on Thursday morning banned several children programs on the pay television,...
Church Donates To Visually Impaired Residents
The Latter Day Saints Church last Friday donated white canes for the visually impaired in the Upper East Region. The...
New Management Commissions Audit of SSNIT’s Operations
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has begun processes to audit the Trust to improve its...
Desperate Rohingya Seek New Escape Routes From Bangladesh
In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in...
New York Outlaws Child Marriage Under 17
New York, the fourth most populous state in America, updated antiquated legislation on Tuesday to outlaw children as...
Kofi Annan Calls For Fight Against Snakebites
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a global fight against snakebites and the need to reduce impact...
World Refugee Day Takes On New Meaning In Ghana
The UN High Commission of Refugees today , June 20, 2017, released the world’s first satellite for distance...
‘Thousands Dead’ In Violence
More than 3,300 people have been killed in the violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region since last...
Italy Arrests Nigerian Torturer Dubbed ‘Rambo’
A Nigerian human trafficker known as "Rambo" has been arrested in Italy on charges of torturing and killing migrants...
War Leaves No Winners, Only Rubble In S.Sudan Oil Town
What was once Bentiu, the gateway to South Sudan's oil fields, is now a cluster of bullet-riddled buildings and piles...
Minority Dares YEA Boss To Publish Ghost Names
Minority in Parliament has dared managers of Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to publish ghost names which they claimed...
US Supreme Court To Hear ‘gerrymandering’ Case
The US Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear a case about possible gerrymandering in the drawing up of...
Nearly 130 Migrants Feared Dead In Mediterranean After Shipwreck
At least 126 migrants were feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of Libya while trying to make the perilous...