Around 250 African migrants are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean after a charity's rescue boat found five corpses and two partially submerged rubber dinghies off Libya, a spokeswoman said...
Jihadists and allied rebels claimed more ground against Syrian government forces in central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. The Britain-based group...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he was open to sharingBeijing in flashpoint South China Sea waters over which Manila has been given exclusive rights by an international tribunal....
Palestinian football chief Jibril Rajoub insisted on Thursday the ball is now in Israel's court after a meeting at FIFA headquarters to discuss Israeli clubs playing in the occupied West Bank....
Once home to a family of Syrian refugees, a UN tent has found a new life as a dress still bearing the marks and stains of its past. "Dress for Our Time", the brainchild of fashion designer Helen...
UN-backed Syria peace talks resumed in Geneva on Thursday, with little hope of a breakthrough and the emboldened regime seen as unlikely to make concessions. The United Nations deputy Syria envoy...
About 600,000 people remain in the areas of west Mosul held by the Islamic State group, including 400,000 who are "trapped" in the Old City under siege-like conditions, the UN said Thursday. "They...
Betway Ghana, a leading online sports betting outfit, and 4 Change Initiative a Non-Governmental Organization has provided a 7,500 litre water storage system to the people of Oyarifa in the La...
Chronic food shortages and malnutrition are widespread in North Korea, a UN-led report said, as a senior official appealed to donors not to let political considerations get in the way of humanitarian...
The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) has asked government to provide details of its announced extension of the country’s programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According...
More and more Gazans are falling ill from their drinking water, highlighting the humanitarian issues facing the Palestinian enclave that the UN says could become uninhabitable by 2020. The situation...
YESTERDAY (March 22) marked World Water Day. The day—an observance created by the United Nations in 1993—is aimed at tackling water crisis. WATER is a fundamental human need without which...
The innovative Ghana Garden & Flower Movement (GGFM) and its flagship activity, the Ghana Garden and Flower Show, celebrate five (5) years later this year. The fifth edition of the show will be...
Data released by Afrobarometer, a pan-African, non-partisan research network, indicates that a total of 663 million people globally do not have access to clean water. This was contained in an...
Deadly fighting, a rise in jihadism, the threat of famine -- two years after Saudi Arabia intervened against Iran-backed rebels, Yemen is more unstable than ever. The chaos has also seen fighting...
Syrian rivals were to resume UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva on Thursday, with escalating violence and deadlock on key issues dimming hopes of a breakthrough. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura tried to...
As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the last few months of the fighting The United Nations has condemned Sri Lanka's government for failing to investigate civil war-era atrocities,...
Officials and distributors of Awake Purified Drinking Water joined Ghanaians and the world to observe this year’s World Water Day with a call on Ghanaians to drink quality water and to protect...
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the United States and Britain for transferring arms to Saudi Arabia to use in its war in Yemen. The rights group said the two countries had together sent...
Over 50 high school students from the United States and Ghana faced off in Washington, DC on March 18 to create innovative science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) solutions to critical...
