Ghana Commemorates Day of the African Child
Ghana on Friday joined the rest of the world to commemorate the Day of the African Child. The Day, which was initiated by the Organisation of African Unity, now the African Union, had been...
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Nationwide Sensitisation On Truth Commission Kicks Off
A workshop launching a nationwide sensitization process aimed at increasing awareness and generating public opinion on the formation of a Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing (CTRH)...
Children Raped In DR Congo Militia Violence
The United Nations has documented dozens of cases of serious child abuse including rape and kidnap in five days of violence by Congolese militias, it said Wednesday. The UN's mission in DR Congo,...
Children Raped In DR Congo Militia Violence
The United Nations has documented dozens of cases of serious child abuse including rape and kidnap in five days of violence by Congolese militias, it said Wednesday. The UN's mission in DR Congo,...
Constituency Cries For Dev’t Help
The Salaga North constituency in the East Gonja District of the Northern Region perhaps is the most deprived constituency among the 275 constituencies in Ghana. The constituency, one of the infant...
Villagers Fear S.Sudan Famine
South Sudan's northwest is untouched by civil war, yet hunger still wreaks havoc: here food shortages are cyclical and the annual "hunger gap" is about to begin. About 800 kilometres (500 miles) from...
Tired, Traumatised Mosul Mothers Unable To Breastfeed
Wazira rocks her tiny baby pleadingly but he is inconsolable, crying for the milk his mother can neither produce herself nor buy in a camp near the Iraqi battleground city of Mosul. "He's been crying...
Congo Fighting Keeps 150,000 Children From School
Tens of thousands of children in central Democratic Republic of Congo can’t go to school because of the violence between militia fighters and security forces, and attacks against civilians, the...
US-Backed Force Advances In Fight For IS Syria Bastion
US-backed Syrian fighters Friday seized part of a district on the western edge of the Islamic State group's Raqa bastion and battled to advance inside the city's east, a monitor said. The...
Heavy US-Led Strikes As Fighters Battle IS In Syria’s Raqa
US-led coalition forces launched heavy raids into Friday morning in support of Syrian fighters battling to oust the Islamic State group from its bastion of Raqa, a monitor said. The Kurdish-Arab...
NCCE Appeals For More Support To Perform
The acting Ashanti Regional Director of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), Mr. Arthur Wilson, has called for increased support to enable it efficiently perform its constitutional...
PPP Demands BECE Cancellation
The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) has questioned the relevance of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), demanding it to be scrapped. According to the party, the Examination has...
PI Rules Out Foul Play In Death of Ghanaian UNICEF Executive
A top private investigator has described how he located the body of a woman who went missing on Table Mountain nearly two months ago. The private investigator could also reveal that Ghanaian national...
Up To 100,000 Children At Risk In Iraq’s Mosul
Up to 100,000 children are in danger as Iraqi forces battle to retake west Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said Monday. Nearly eight months...
‘Tragic’ Measles Vaccine Blunders Kill 15 Children In South Sudan
Fifteen children died in South Sudan after receiving contaminated measles vaccines that had not been properly refrigerated, and were mixed using the same syringe for four days. In addition to the...
Decomposed Body of Woman Discovered On Table Mountain, Where Ghanaian Disappeared Months Ago
The decomposed body of a woman was discovered on Table Mountain in Cape Town on Tuesday morning, Western Cape police confirmed. Captain FC van Wyk said that the provincial detectives’ team and park...
Trying To Help Egypt’s Street Kids
Barefoot and wearing shabby clothes, the two-year-old wanders through the dirty streets of Cairo alongside her mother, who has also spent all her life without a home of her own. For Egypt's...
Wiyaala Tours Europe
Afro-pop singer Noella Wiyaala will this month embark on a musical tour to some selected European countries to entertain her fans and promote her works and brand. The tour will kick off with a live...
400,000 DR Congo Children At Risk In Violence-Hit Kasai
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...
Wiyaala Returns To the Road For 2017 European Tour
Wiyaala, the charismatic songbird from the Upper West Region of Ghana, is back in Europe again in 2017 following her critically acclaimed 2016 debut tour. After performing in Berlin last week at the...