First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo says she was troubled after watching Joy News documentary about avoidable deaths at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. She said the harrowing story of mothers losing...
The Ministry of Health has constituted a National Quality Technical Committee to ensure the implementation of the National Quality Healthcare Strategy within the respective agencies of the Ministry...
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...
Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia have issued an unprecedented fatwa against child marriage. The fatwa, which is not legally binding but will be influential, was issued after a three-day congress...
Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia declared a series of fatwas Thursday, including one to tackle child marriage, a rare example of women taking a leading religious role in the Muslim-majority...
Maiduguri has in the past been the scene of many attacks North-east Nigeria has been hit by its third suicide attack in as many days. In the latest incident Nigerian officials say four suicide...
The Bolgatanga Magistrate Court presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, has begun an exercise to prosecute landlords who do not have toilet facilities attached to their buildings. This follows a directive...
The Syrian army and allied forces have advanced against rebels in western Syria near Hama city, building on recent strategic gains in the area, a military source and a monitoring group said....
Paramount Chief of Katiu, Pe Ayikode Zangbeo Atoge IV, one of the chiefs addressing the durbar Many Anthropologists who study the cultural variation among humans have identified Culture as a powerful...
Issues of the child marriage and teenage pregnancy have become foremost in the fight for equality for women in society. According to UNICEF’s State of the World’s CHILDREN 2016 Report, 21% of...
Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof. Emmanuel Debrah has warned politicians to desist from politicizing government initiatives during elections just to win favour from...
Victoria Beckham arrived with her family at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, where she was made an OBE by the Duke of Cambridge. The Spice Girl turned fashion designer, who celebrated her 43rd...
The Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program has been extended to benefit 350,000 households captured under the extreme poverty index, Vice President, Dr. Bawumia has revealed. The...
Nigerians rallied Friday to mark the third anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, as their parents cling to the hope that they can be safely returned. Parents of the...
Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in “slave markets” in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Victims told IOM that after being detained by...
An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the first months of 2017, UNICEF said Wednesday. The Islamists have increasingly been using...
Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016. This shows a dramatic increase compared with the 80 million in...
The UN children's agency UNICEF has called on Myanmar's government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping military campaign in Rakhine state. More than 600 people were arrested...
The Syrian foreign minister has set out conditions for any UN investigation into the deaths of dozens of people from a chemical agent on Tuesday. Walid Muallem told the BBC it would have to be...
In just a few years water, oil and money would flow. Roads, schools and hospitals would follow. Turkana's generations of poverty and neglect in Kenya's arid north would end. But it was not to be:...
