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ISIS Captures Up to 3,000 People Fleeing Violence in Iraq, UN Says
ISIS militants have captured up to 3,000 people displaced from their homes trying to flee conflict zones in northern...
Syrian Rebels ‘Seize Key Town Manbij From IS’
A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters has taken "almost complete control" of a strategically important...
IS Weakening but Still a Threat
US President Barack Obama says there have been gains against so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria but warned the...
UN Accuses South Sudan Troops of Committing Atrocities
The United Nations' top human-rights official has accused South Sudanese government troops and rebels of ethnically...
US Embassy Denies Blind Ghanaians Visas for Conference
All but three of 30 blind persons who applied for visas to attend the World Blind Union Conference in the United States...
Ghana Loses over 1 Billion Cedis Yearly on Open Defecation
According to data provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Health Observatory data repository, Ghana...
Egypt and Ghana Join Forces to Fight Terrorism
Egypt will continue to work together with Ghana to exchange views, experiences and knowledge on the threat of...
Mahama Frees 896 Prisoners
A statement from the Presidency said “President John Dramani Mahama has, in commemoration of the 56th Republican...
St. John’s Attack: Gang Leader Arrested
The gang leader in the attack on teachers of the St. John’s 1 and 2 Primary School in Accra has been arrested, the...
Too Young to Marry but Old Enough to Have Sex?
Each year, 15 million girls marry before the age of 18 around the world. Breaking this down - everyday 41,000 girls get...
ISIS Burn 19 Girls to Death for Refusing to Have Sex with Militants
Extremist jihadis of the Islamic State (ISIS) on Thursday executed 19 Yezidi girls by burning them to death, activists...
New HIV Vaccine Out! – to Be Tried in South Africa
As millions of people around the world continue to die of AIDS, scientists from the United States are preparing to run...
Nigeria President Buhari Hospitalized as vice President Takes Over
President Muhammadu Buhari is ill and is being treated at the presidential villa, GhanaStar.com can authoritatively...
17-Year-Old Egyptian Teenager Dies during Female Circumcision Operation
Egyptian prosecutors are investigating the death of a teenage girl during a female circumcision operation at a private...
Putin Congratulates Mugabe on Africa Union Day
Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated President Mugabe on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations which...
Anas Exposes ‘Baby Harvesting’ Cases in Nigeria
UNESCO first reported on cases of ‘baby harvesting’ in Nigeria in 2006. “Here, childless marriages are sometimes...
President John Mahama Is 57 Today
President John Mahama turned 57 years today (Sunday November 29, 2015). He was born in 1958, a year after Ghana’s...
The Inside Story of How Anas Aremeyaw Took on Ghana’s Corrupt Judiciary
Justice! is an explosive Al Jazeera English documentary about Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s undercover crusade to rid Ghana of...
Suspected Boko Haram Suicide Attack Kills 8 in Cameroon
Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon on Saturday in a suicide bomb assault by suspected Boko Haram militants...