Trump’s Travel Ban Faces New Test
President Donald Trump's amended travel ban will face a key test on Monday, when a US appeals court is set to take on a case that has stymied the administration's controversial efforts to bar...
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Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana
Female genital mutilation is truly a controversial subject and an abhorrent practice We continue from Part 1 (Note: In New York, this author sat in a class with a Guinean/Senegalese/Sierra Leonean...
Ghana Library Association Calls For Creation of National Library
Mr Samuel Bentil Aggrey, the President of the Ghana Library Association, has called on the Government to create a national library to help keep relevant national information. He said a national...
Al-Shabab Allegedly Beheads 2 Captured Somali Soldiers Near Mahaday
Al-Shabab insurgents in Somalia have beheaded two government soldiers they captured on Saturday near the town of Mahaday, 35 kilometers north of Jowhar, and the provincial capital of Middle Shabelle...
US Soldier Killed In Mission Against Somalia’s Al-Shabab
A US soldier has been killed in Somalia during operations against al-Shabab militants, the American military says. Two other US servicemen were injured in Thursday's incident, about 40 miles (64km)...
Dr Mbiah Steps Down As Chair of the IMO Legal Committee
Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Mbiah, the sixth Chair of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal Committee and the first black man to hold that position, has stepped down as Chair,after nearly two...
Africa Can Be A Leader In Renewable Energy
Mr Bill McKibben, Co-Founder of 350.org, says African countries could be great leaders in the use of renewable energy sources globally if they commited to using their resources. He said countries...
US Military Member Killed In Somalia During Mission Against Al-Shabab
A United States service member was killed Thursday in Somalia during an operation against the extremist group al-Shabab, the US military said Friday. The mission was part of US efforts to step up its...
US Soldier Killed, Two Wounded In Fight With Shabaab In Somalia
An American soldier was shot dead and two others wounded in Somalia during a joint operation with Somali forces against Shabaab militants, the US military said Friday. "On May 4, one US service...
Somalia Sacks Senior Official Over Minister’s Shooting
The Somali government sacked the country's auditor-general on Friday, after his bodyguards were accused of shooting dead the minister of public works, apparently by accident. Abbas Abdullahi Siraji,...
Charity Warns S.Sudan ‘man-Made’ Famine Could Kill 6 Million
The famine ravaging South Sudan and its neighbours could claim six million lives, a charity warned Friday, as the international community struggles to raise the $4.4 billion needed to avert a...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana? 1
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just...
Female Genital Circumcision In Ghana?
WHO should monitor countries identified with the practice of female genital mutilation “Clitoridectomy and female circumcision, practices often labeled as female genital mutilations, are not just...
‘Troops Mistakenly’ Kill Somali Minister
Somalia’s security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist, officials have said. He was killed in his vehicle near the presidential...
‘Troops Mistakenly’ Kills Somali Minister
Somalia's security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant Islamist, officials have said. He was killed in his vehicle near the presidential palace...
South Korea Warship Sails To Somalia
A South Korean warship is heading for Somalia to hold an anti-piracy drill in waters off the country’s coast. The 4,400-ton destroyer Daejoyoung left the South Korean port of Busan yesterday, with...
1.4 Million Children Acutely Malnourished In Somalia This Year
Somalia, hit by drought and on the verge of famine, will count 1.4 million acutely malnourished children by the end of the year, up 50 percent from late 2016, the UN said Tuesday. The United Nations...
US Jails Somali Pirate For Life
The skiff of the pirates was set ablaze A Somali man has been sentenced to life in prison by a US judge for his role in an attack on a US Navy ship seven years ago. Mohamed Farah and five other...
Famine Fuels Resurgence of Somali Piracy
Drought and famine seem to be fuelling a resurgence of piracy off the coast of Somalia, the United States' top military chief in Africa said Sunday. Half a dozen pirate attacks have been reported in...
Roadside Bomb Kills Six Soldiers In Somalia’s Puntland
A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, killing at least six soldiers and wounding another eight. The al-Qaeda linked group al-Shabab claimed...