Ghana needs to tighten security or elevate advocacy concerning approach to security issues else the country “will be caught sleeping” in the likelihood of a terrorist arrack, Dr Philip...
“Violence should not beget violence. Violence should be reported to be punished.” That is part of an article I wrote after blood was spilled and limbs broken at Talensi over a bye-election some...
120 million Africans are on social media. 1.5 million of them are in Ghana. That is power. It connects us, engages us and enables us to share information, tell stories and totally reimagine our...
UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed Friday for more aid and international solidarity for the people of Mosul, as he visited a camp for Iraqis displaced by fighting with jihadists. "We don't have the...
The children proudly wield donated plastic water bottles like freshly dug nuggets of treasure, smiling despite the fear and death and destruction they have faced in their ruined city. With the...
The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said Thursday that it had killed a propaganda chief and associates in an air strike in the western Iraqi town of Al-Qaim. Ibrahim Al-Ansari was...
A Boko Haram faction led by the son of the group's founder is trying to win over civilians by shunning the indiscriminate violence of its longtime figurehead that has alienated locals. Eyewitnesses...
A late-night protest broke out in central Paris over the police killing of a Chinese man in a raid at his home. Around 200 mostly Asian protesters pulled barricades across the central Rivoli street...
Gender Minister, Otiko Djaba, says there is nothing wrong with her advice to girls that inappropriate dressing could invite rape. She said, contrary to criticisms that the advice reflected a warped...
Indian police arrested five men after hundreds of people went on a violent rampage targeting Africans outside of New Delhi where a teenage boy died of a suspected drug overdose. Senior police officer...
Social media has been abuzz with reactions from the public regarding Otiko Djaba’s rape comments, but the Gender Minister has this to say… Minister of Gender and social Protection has responded...
Dear Otiko! It was shocking to read portions of the speech you gave to the impressionable girls at the Krobo Girls Secondary School over the weekend. You took my breathe away when I saw you on TV...
Gender minister Otiko Djaba has justified her call for school girls to desist from wearing skimpy dresses because they appeal to rapists. According to her, the caution was a sincere advice from a...
Dear Otiko! It was shocking to read portions of the speech you gave to the impressionable girls at the Krobo Girls Secondary School over the weekend. You took my breathe away when I saw you on TV...
Police at Sandema in the Upper East Region on Monday March 27 exchanged gunfire with some armed robbers in the community. The incident happened at about 2pm in the afternoon. An eyewitness, Haruna...
Would you say the nature of a lady's dress has the potential to attract rapists? In other words, can a lady be handing out invitations to rapists based on how she dresses? Well, the subject matter...
The conflict in Yemen has made women and girls more vulnerable to gender-based violence, with more than 10,000 cases reported last year, the UN Population Fund said on Monday. "Displacement and the...
Otiko’s rape comments seem to have taken people’s mind back to the ugly scenarios, where female rape victims are subjected to horrible stigma by the public who misjudge their predicament....
Policy think tank, Strategic Thinkers Network (STRANEK) has suggested that the existence of vigilante groups and their attacks on people, could be a ‘’a microcosm of terrorist groups’’. A...
Indonesian toddler Salsa Djafar was wearing a glittering golden crown decorated with ribbons and a shiny purple dress to mark a special occasion -- her circumcision day. At the celebrations attended...
