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International Confab On Trade, Finance To Open In Accra Next Month
A three-day international conference on trade and finance is scheduled to take place in Accra on April 12, 2017. It is...
UN Releases $22 Million To Fight Famine Threat In Somalia
The United Nations has approved an emergency loan of $22 million (20.3 million euros) in a bid to prevent another...
Israel Arrests Turkish Aid Agency Official For ‘aiding Hamas’
Israeli authorities said Tuesday they have arrested a Palestinian employee in Gaza of Turkey's international aid agency...
France Warns Against Cuts To UN Mission In DR Congo
France's ambassador to the United Nations warned Tuesday that drastic cuts to the UN peacekeeping mission in the...
Cameroon Expelled 2,600 Nigerians Fleeing Boko Haram
More than 2,600 Nigerians who fled into northern Cameroon to escape Boko Haram jihadists have been forced to go home...
Somalia: 26 ‘starve To Death’ In Drought
At least 26 people have died of starvation in Somalia’s southern region of Jubaland, the government-owned Radio...
Wastewater Use For Sustainable Living and Survival
Since 1993, March 22 has been celebrated as World Water Day. The day was first officially added in the schedule 21 of...
Lucky Escape For S.Sudan Plane Crash Survivors
All passengers and crew survived a plane crash in South Sudan on Monday in which the jet hit a fire truck on the runway...
Women Allegedly Raped By UN Peacekeepers In Haiti Speak Out
In Haiti By Force: UN Sex Abuse, Fault Lines speaks to Haitian women who say they were raped by UN peacekeepers there....
Syria Rebels Launch Fresh Assault On East Damascus
Rebels and jihadists on Tuesday launched a fresh assault on east Damascus, two days after Syrian government forces...
Ex-Guerrilla Wins E. Timor Presidential Poll
A former guerrilla fighter has won East Timor's presidential election in just one round, an early count indicated...
Archaeologists Discover Invisible Solution
The recent plundering of priceless artefacts from Syria and Iraq by both terrorists and criminal gangs has taken place...
North Korea Nuclear Programme In ‘new Phase’
North Korea's uranium enrichment facility has doubled in size over the last few years, the UN's atomic watchdog chief...
Chad’s Ancient Ennedi Cave Paintings Defaced
Ancient cave paintings at a world heritage site in the Sahara desert have been defaced with graffiti, Chad's minister...
UN Rejects Saudi-Led Coalition Call To Supervise Yemen Port
The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of...
Ghana 131st Happiest Country In the World – Report
Ghana has been ranked the 131st happiest country to live in, according to the new report. Dubbed “World Happiness...
Ghana 131st Happiest Country In the World
Ghana has been ranked the 131st happiest country to live in, according to the new report. Dubbed “World Happiness...
Europe, N.Africa Ministers Seek To Curb Libya Migrant Flows
Interior ministers mainly from the central Mediterranean region met in Rome on Monday to ramp up efforts to curb...
UN Wants Probe Into Refugee Boat Attack Off Yemen
The United Nations called Monday for an inquiry into last week's attack on a boat off Yemen's coast that killed 42...