Mr Rockson Ayine Bukari, the Upper East Regional Minister, has called on the Region’s House of Chiefs to make greater efforts to ensure that chieftaincy disputes are resolved. He urged them to...
Government says it is considering payment of monthly salaries to all gazetted chiefs and queen mothers across the country as part of efforts at getting them to desist from releasing their lands to...
Military and police personnel have been deployed to the Bole District of the Northern Region over possible chieftaincy clashes. Tension has been mounting as arrangements are being made to lay to rest...
He was of the view that there ought to be land available to make it easy for the project to take off The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has ordered all traditional rulers in Asanteman to make land...
The Minister of Regional Reorganisation and Development, Mr Dan Kweku Botwe, has stated that the government’s move to create four new regions is based on the numerous petitions it received from...
Being accused of witchcraft is no laughing matter in Africa -- but movie director Rungano Nyoni decided a dose of humour was just what was needed to tackle a problem rampant in parts of the...
The government has increased by 100 per cent monthly allowances paid to paramount chiefs and queenmothers across the country, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, has...
Almost 400,000 children risk dying of hunger in DR Congo's troubled Kasai region where months of violence has driven over a million people from their homes, UNICEF said Wednesday. The UN children's...
The government has increased by 100 per cent monthly allowances paid to paramount chiefs and queenmothers across the country, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, has...
The Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Kofi Dzamesi, has hinted of outfit’s plans to resolve 40 percent of the outstanding chieftaincy disputes in the country by close of 2017....
An attack on an airbase in south Libya has killed 141 people, mostly soldiers loyal to military strongman Khalifa Haftar, a spokesman for his forces said on Friday. Members of the Third Force militia...
Spiralling violence in DR Congo's central Kasai region has killed 390 tribal militia fighters and 124 government troops since the end of March, the army said Monday. "DRC's armed forces have been...
Mr Paul Essien, the Deputy Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, has appealed to the chiefs and people of the Nkonya-Alavanyo Traditional areas in the Volta Region to smoke the peace pipe....
The Lepowura and Director of the Otumfuo Centre for Traditional Leadership at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA), Alhaji M. N. D. Jawula, is proposing that the government pays chiefs to...
An average of 4,600 people flee their homes every day in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Monday, warning of a dramatically deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country. A full...
Mr Dan Kwaku Botwe, Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Development, has met with Paramount Chiefs and Queen in the Western Region to engage them in the creation of a new region out of the...
Government has increased the GHC500 sitting allowance for each member of the various Houses of Chiefs to GHC1,000, Minister for Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Kofi Dzamesi, announced Thursday....
UN officials launched a bid Tuesday to raise $65.4 million (59.75 million euros) in emergency funds for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence in Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai...
The UN said Wednesday it had found a further 17 mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo's central Kasai region, an area plagued by violence between tribal militias and security forces....
The United Nations said Wednesday that the bodies of two of its researchers, found in a mass grave in the Democratic Republic of Congo, had been flown home for burial. US citizen Michael Sharp and...
