Ghana to Establish Helicopter Service Center
President John Dramani Mahama has announced that government is in talks with a Russian firm to establish a helicopter service ...
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The World Health Organization Estimates Over 20,000 People Could Get Ebola Before It is Brought Under Control
The World Health Organization says the current deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic ...
3 Crew Members Die in Cargo Helicopter Crash in South Sudan
A United Nations cargo helicopter crashed Tuesday in the north part of South Sudan, killing three crew members and injuring ...
The Current State of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak.
Ebola still has the "upper hand" in the outbreak that has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa, but ...
#BringBackOurGirls and Violent Exploitation of Women in Conflict Zones
The well publicized campaign #bringbackourgirls helped to bring global attention to the often ignored issue of sexual and gender based ...
Kofi Annan Calls on Ghana’s Leadership To Adhere To the Tenets of Peace and Security to Promote Development
Mr. Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) has called on the country’s leadership to adhere to ...
Ecowas to Hold Emergency Meeting over Ebola in Accra
Despite a three-month moratorium on all international conferences in Ghana, an emergency meeting of the Authority of Heads of State ...
Here’s How Many People Have Died From Cholera So Far
Cholera has killed at least 67 people in Ghana since June and infected more than 5,000 others in an outbreak ...
Boko Haram Seizes Another Nigerian Town
Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into the armed group's hands ...
Ghana’s President Mahama To Tackle Drug Trafficking in West Africa
President John Dramani Mahama has promised to use his position as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African ...
Liberia Riot Police and Soldiers Use Scrap Wood and Barbed Wire to Seal off 50,000 People To Contain Ebola
Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people ...
Kofi Annan to grace Mfantsipim Old Boys Association (MOBA) Awards Night
Former UN Secretary General and member of the MOBA 1957 Year Group, Kofi Atta Annan, will grace the 138th Mfantsipim ...
152 New Cases of Ebola Recorded in Two Days – World Health Organization (WHO)
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said between 12 and 13 August, a total of 152 new cases of ...
E-waste In Ghana: Where Death is the Price of Living Another Day
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes ...
Edem : “Ghetto Arise” An Anthem for Perseverance As We Celebrate International Youth Day
Today, the 12th of August is International Youth Day. The day which is a product of the United Nations' resolution ...
Ebola Vaccine To Be Available in 2015 – World Health Organization (WHO)
Clinical trials of vaccines for the deadly Ebola virus should soon get underway and will likely be ready for widespread ...
Ghana May Now Have Recorded Her First Case of Ebola
A man from neighboring Burkina Faso, who shows symptoms of fever and bled from his nose and ears “was brought ...
Nigerian Doctor Tests Positive for Ebola
One of the doctors who treated the Liberian Ebola patient who later died in Lagos has tested positive for Ebola ...
Ghana Urged to Sign Treaty on Small Arms Trade
Mr Barfuor Amoa, President of the West Africa Network on Small Arms (WAANSA), has appealed to government to ratify the ...
HEARTBREAKING: Air Algerie Jetliner with 116 Persons On Board Crashes in Mali.
An Air Algerie jet carrying 116 people crashed Thursday in a rainstorm over restive Mali, and its wreckage was found ...