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Agriculture Could Be Bait For Economic Development In Africa
Mr. Kofi Annan, former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, has said agriculture could be a powerful bait in the...
More Than 1,500 Children Dead In Two Years of Yemen War
The conflict in Yemen has killed nearly 7,700 people, including at least 1,564 children, since a Saudi-led coalition...
Syria Opposition Agrees Final Evacuation From Homs District
Syria's government and opposition said Monday they had agreed a Russian-supervised deal to complete the evacuation of...
‘Fighting Extremism’ Top Priority
Syria's future will be decided only after "getting rid of extremists" and achieving political reconciliation, the...
Two Foreign UN Experts Kidnapped In DR Congo
Two experts from the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been kidnapped in the...
Myanmar May Be Trying To ‘expel’ All Rohingya
Myanmar may be seeking to "expel" all ethnic Rohingya from its territory, a UN rights expert said Monday, pushing for a...
Chinese Ships Allowed To Survey Philippine Territory
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he had agreed to allow Chinese surveillance ships into Filipino...
Displaced Hit By Water Shortages In NE Nigeria
Tens of thousands of people who fled Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria are facing a severe lack of water, compounding...
Syria Rebels Will Not Attend Astana Peace Talks
Syrian rebel factions will not attend a new round of negotiations with government figures in the Kazakh capital, an...
Iraq Forces Advance After Jihadists ‘trapped’ In Mosul
Iraqi forces said Monday they had taken more territory from the Islamic State group as they press an offensive that has...
Syria War: 2016 Deadliest Year Yet For Children, Says Unicef
Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United...
Pakistan To Kick Off First Census In 19 Years
Fast-growing Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, with an estimated 200 million people, but has...
Gender Economic Equality Will Take 170 Years To Achieve
United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, has said that it will take 170 years to achieve economic...
Violence Against Syria’s Children ‘at Its Worst’ In 2016
Violence against children in war-ravaged Syria was "at its worst" in 2016, the UN's children's agency said Monday as...
One Month After Kim Killing
Monday marks one month since Kim Jong-Nam was murdered with a lethal nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur International Airport,...
Tillerson To East Asia In Shadow of North Korea Threat
With North Korea's drive to field a nuclear-armed missile rapidly emerging as President Donald Trump's first foreign...
Gender Minister Bonds With Female Parliamentarians
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, (MGCSP) on Thursday, treated the Female Caucus in Parliament to...
Did Anlo-Ewes Really Love Kwame Nkrumah?
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. It ought to be crystal clear to each and every Ghanaian of age that the Deputy...
Donors Forcing Me To Be Ambassador For Homosexuality – Opuni Frimpong
General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev. Opuni-Frimpong has made a shocking revelation about a...