The Deputy Majority Leader, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has assured her colleagues Members of Parliament that the leadership of the House is committed to improving security within the precincts of...
The UN rights council agreed Friday to "urgently" launch an investigation into violations against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, including torture, murder and rapes allegedly committed by troops. The...
The international coalition battling the Islamic State group will begin a final push on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa in the coming days, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said...
Guterres called for South Sudan's leaders to do more to help the 7.5 million in need of aid Secretary General Guterres says government in Juba refuses to acknowledge plight of 100,000 people...
Populist Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told a demonstration in Baghdad on Friday that he would order a boycott of upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections unless the country's electoral law is changed....
Consumers in the Central Region owe the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) to the tune of GH¢57,555,428.00 with Government debt amounting to more than GH¢41.2M. The government debt constitutes the...
A day’s forum to deepen understanding of the United Nations Convention on contract for the international carriage of goods by sea, commonly referred to as “Rotterdam Rules” has been held in...
The chairman of parliament’s committee for defense, Major Derek Oduro, has backed calls for security at Ghana’s parliament to be strengthened in the wake of a terror attack at the British...
About 250 people are feared drowned in the Mediterranean after two partially submerged rubber dinghies were found off the coast of Libya. Laura Lanuza, a spokeswoman for the Spanish NGO Proactiva...
The United Nations said fighting around Syria's capital has cut off 300,000 people from humanitarian assistance and pauses in the conflict are needed to allow aid convoys to get to the area. Fighting...
The National Population Council (NPC) has held a stakeholders’ forum to solicit commitment from its local and international partners to support it to carry out its mandate. Mandated to advise the...
Parliament yesterday observed International World Water Day, with a call on Ghanaians to devise ways to treat and re-use waste water. The Members of Parliament (MPs) said the re-use of waste water...
Roua Ahmed's classes ended abruptly when her school in Yemen was bombed, but she still clings to her dream of getting an education. She is one of hundreds of thousands of young Yemenis forced out of...
The UN Security Council voiced alarm about the deepening humanitarian crisis and famine in South Sudan, with the United States, Britain and France raising anew the idea of sanctions and a weapons...
The United Nations has warned that Uganda is at a "breaking point" as almost 3,000 refugees pour into the country every day from South Sudan, fleeing violence and famine in the world's youngest...
Somalia's president said on Thursday almost half his country's people are facing acute food shortages and about 15 percent are facing famine. He urged the world to help. Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed...
The UN Security Council on Thursday "strongly condemned" recent North Korean missile and ballistic missile engine tests, denouncing Pyongyang's "increasingly destabilizing behavior." The condemnation...
The US military has observed activity in North Korea that suggests Pyongyang may be gearing up for another nuclear test, a US official said Thursday. "At the sites where we watch tests, we see a...
Somalia's new president appealed to the international community Thursday for more aid to avert a famine threatening his country that could also undermine fledgling political hopes born in his...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has implored government not to extend its Extended Credit Facility program with the IMF to December 2018. The ICU says the move could cause further...
