May Obiri Yeboah, the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), says Ghana has made commendable strides in the attainment of the targets under the National Road Safety Action...
Boko Haram seized 276 pupils from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok on April 14, 2014. Fifty-seven managed to escape in the immediate aftermath of the abduction, but nearly 200 other...
The United Nations General Assembly today (October 13,2016) formally appointed Mr. António Manuel de Guterres, the former Prime Minister of Portugal as the next United Nations Secretary-General, to...
The Ada Songhor Salt Women’s Association (ASSWA) has urged the government to ensure the removal of small dams created around the Songhor Lagoon to allow them mine salt freely. Madam Mary Akuteye,...
On the 24th of July 2012, dark clouds besieged our country Ghana. Everyone regardless of our political affiliation, ethnicity or religion was saddened by the sudden and untimely demise of our then...
Road accidents have claimed 1,579 lives between January and September this year. The national road safety action plan had set a target of keeping traffic related deaths at a level not exceeding...
Israel has frozen co-operation with the UN's cultural agency, accusing it of denying Judaism's connections to the religion's holiest sites. Its education minister said a Unesco draft decision...
Road accidents have claimed 1,579 lives between January and September this year. The national road safety action plan had set a target of keeping traffic related deaths at a level not exceeding...
Social media, has both positive and negative benefit, but most people overlook the positive benefits and rather concentrate on the negative influences on the youth and society as a whole. The...
Riek Machar, who was sacked as South Sudan's vice-president in July after heavy clashes in the capital, Juba, is in South Africa to receive medical treatment, according his spokesman, quoted by...
At least 32 people were killed in the September demonstrations The International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank has called for forceful international diplomacy to put the electoral process back on...
Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres has been officially appointed as the next UN secretary general. Mr Guterres, 67, will become the world’s top diplomat on 1 January when Ban...
Russia's role in U. S election under growing scrutiny Russia's highest officials are dismissing accusations that Moscow is trying to sway the US presidential election with cyber attacks. President...
The 193-member United Nations General Assembly appointed former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres on Thursday as the ninth secretary-general of the world body for five years from Jan. 1,...
It's not a new Cold War. It's not even a deep chill. It's an outright conflict. US-Russia relations have deteriorated sharply amid a barrage of accusations and disagreements, raising the stakes on...
The UN has warned of increasing violence in South Sudan as the government was forced to publicly dismiss rumours of President Salva Kiir's death to quell rising tensions. The UN said it was being...
President Vladimir Putin has dismissed suggestions that Russia could face war crimes charges over its bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo. He told French media the accusations were "rhetoric"...
Russia on Tuesday (11 October) said that it would not be in favour of imposing arms embargo on South Sudan despite UN Chief Ban Ki-moon criticising President Salva Kiir's government in failing to...
The Gulf of Guinea has become the new hub for African piracy. An international summit in Lome, Togo is looking for answers. The raids off the West African coast invariably follow the same pattern. At...
The UN warned Wednesday of increasing violence in parts of South Sudan, as the government was forced to publicly dismiss rumours of President Salva Kiir's death to quell rising tensions. "The United...
