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New Vaccine Against Rotavirus Could Curb Child Deaths
A new vaccine that is cheap to make and does not require refrigeration has shown promise in preventing rotavirus, a...
UN Chief Heads To Arab Summit After Row Over Israel ‘apartheid’ Report
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres travels to Jordan next week to attend an Arab summit following a row over the...
Water Shortage To Hit World Soon – Activist
The founder and president of Friends of Rivers and Water Bodies, Nana Dwomoh-Sarpong, has said by the time the world...
Sharing Water With Cattle [Report]
Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless...
UN Rights Chief Blasts Sri Lanka Over War Probe
The UN rights chief on Wednesday condemned Sri Lanka's persistent failure to probe war-era atrocities, suggesting the...
Ghana Must Start Harvesting Rain – MP
The Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, has called on the Ministry of Sanitation and...
Indian ‘murders Daughter In Suspected Honour’ Killing
An Indian father slit his daughter's throat with a meat cleaver and dumped her body on her boyfriend's doorstep in a...
World Water Day: One In Four Children Will Live With Water Scarcity By 2040
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a...
Indian Murders Daughter In Suspected ‘honour’ Killing
Indian police Wednesday arrested a man for allegedly murdering his teenage daughter in a so-called honour killing after...
Boko Haram Crisis: Cameroon ‘forcing Nigeria Refugees Home’
The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after...
UNICEF Decries Sale of Cambodian Breast Milk To US Mothers
UNICEF on Wednesday condemned a company selling breast milk from "vulnerable and poor" Cambodian mothers to Americans,...
Cameroon ‘forcing Nigeria Refugees Home’
The UN refugee agency has criticised Cameroon for the forced return of hundreds of refugees to north-east Nigeria after...
Latest North Korean Missile Test Fails
A new North Korean missile test failed on Wednesday, the South's defense ministry said. "South Korea and the United...
New Syria Peace Talks As Fight Comes To Damascus
A fifth round of UN-backed Syria peace talks begins Thursday in Geneva with scant hope of a breakthrough against a...
S. Korea Returns Chinese Soldiers’ Remains Despite THAAD Row
Seoul on Wednesday repatriated the remains of 28 Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War, despite a heated row...
Wastewater Key To Solving Global Water Crisis
Recycling the world's wastewater, almost all of which goes untreated, would ease global water shortages while...
Dr Yumkella Delivers 2017 Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lectures
Once again, the University of Ghana will see another distinguished son of Africa mount the distinguished platform of...
Africa Makes Progress In Water Delivery
Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to...
Rebels, Jihadists Begin New Offensive In Central Syria
Syrian jihadists and allied rebels seized a key town from government forces on Tuesday in a new offensive in the...