You don’t have to be diagnosed as obese to be at risk of dying from illnesses related to excess weight, a global study suggests. Of the 4 million deaths attributed to being overweight in 2015,...
China's central government has allocated another 30.7 billion yuan to fund people living in poverty China's central government has allocated another 30.7 billion yuan (about 4.52 billion U. S....
In Benin City, Nigeria's capital of illegal migration, no one says the word "prostitution". The word on the street for the young girls who leave for Italy or France is "hustling". About 37,500...
Ghana’s former Deputy Head of Mission to Saudi Arabia, Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba, has lent credence to speculations that government heavyweights and influential persons in society are behind the...
The migrants pouring into Europe have changed routes: the crossing between Turkey and Greece is practically closed, but ever greater numbers are risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean between...
It was Efrem Desta's yearning for freedom that made him flee his home country of Eritrea and enter Sudan illegally, hoping that he could later make it to Europe. But he and a group of fellow migrants...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released this year's Essential Medicines List (EML), adding new treatments for HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), tuberculosis, and leukemia. The list, which is...
Uche's real journey had yet to begin but he had already spent four days in the northern Nigerian city of Kano after travelling on public buses and potholed roads from Imo state in the southeast. He...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished African leaders to assume responsibility for the transformation of their economies, and depart from the mindset of aid, dependency and charity and...
Afro Soul singer Efya has said she does not do drugs. She told Lexis Bill on Drive Time on Joy FM on Monday, 12 June when asked by a caller to clear the air about whether or not she uses drugs, that:...
Iraqi Christians in the US are expressing alarm over the arrests of Chaldean immigrants in the Detroit area for deportation back to the war-torn nation, where they could face persecution. A number of...
The Civil Society Coalition on Youth Development (CSCYD) has commended the new Management of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) for taking bold steps to rid the agency of corruption. According to a...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged African leaders to assume responsibility for the transformation of their economies, and depart from the mindset of aid, dependency and charity. “If...
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has admonished African leaders to assume responsibility for the transformation of their economies, and depart from the mindset of aid,...
Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement following the murder of a young student that shocked the country. Capital...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished African leaders to assume responsibility for the transformation of their economies, and depart from the mindset of aid, dependency and charity and...
Hundreds of people gathered at dawn Monday in the Florida resort city of Orlando to pay their respects to the 49 people killed by a gunman one year ago at the Pulse gay nightclub. The shooting spree...
Member of parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has disagreed with Hanna Tetteh on whether dual citizens should be allowed to serve in government. In a swift rebuttal to a suggestion that dual...
Following the growing dependency of the Ghanaian market on smart mobile technology as well as the poor access to quality healthcare, Kaiser Global Health Limited, has developed an innovative...
The founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Flt Lt. Jerry John Rawlings has lambasted his party faithful for their insatiable desire to amass wealth. He attributed this as a cause for the...
