Lieutenant General Peter Augustine Blay, the Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), was born in Ezinlibo, in the Western Region of Ghana in November 1948. In academic education, he is basically a...
Lt. Gen. Joseph Henry Smith was born on the 9th of January, 1945 in Takoradi. He is married with five children. Education He attended Achimota School from 1959 to 1963 and successfully passed out...
Acheampong was born in Kuamsi in the Ashanti Region, to James Kwadwo Kutu Acheampong and Madam Akua Manu of Trabuom, Ashanti. He attended Trabuom Elementary School, St. Peter's Catholic School,...
A man shot by police after he attacked two officers with a machete in the Belgian city of Charleroi has died.
The women officers' injuries are not life-threatening.
The assailant is said to have...
Two police officers have been injured by a machete-wielding assailant in the Belgian city of Charleroi.
The attacker was shot and wounded, Charleroi police said on Twitter.
The assailant is said to...
ISIS militants have captured up to 3,000 people displaced from their homes trying to flee conflict zones in northern Iraq, the United Nations said Friday, reportedly killing 12 of them.
The UN...
President John Dramani Mahama will, on 25th August, 2016, addressed the 4th edition of the Africa Media & Democracy Conference (AMDMC) in Accra.
The conference, which is on the theme, ‘Media,...
Nigeria announced on Monday it resumed payments to former militants in its oil-rich Niger Delta region, according to a Bloomberg report.
The payments of 65,000 naira per month (about $204) to about...
A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters has taken "almost complete control" of a strategically important Syrian city held by so-called Islamic State (IS), activists say.
Manbij is situated...
In 2014, NDFB rebels killed at least 62 people in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar
Gunmen have opened fire on a busy market place in India's north-eastern state of Assam, killing at least 13 people, officials...
US President Barack Obama says there have been gains against so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria but warned the group still poses a threat.
As the jihadist group lost ground, he said, there...
The United Nations' top human-rights official has accused South Sudanese government troops and rebels of ethnically targeted atrocities, including extrajudicial executions and rapes, during renewed...
A court in Turkey has issued a formal warrant for the arrest of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who the government accuses of being behind the failed July 15 coup that left more than 270...
Exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen on Thursday dismissed an arrest warrant issued against him by a Turkish court while denying his role in the recent failed military coup.
The warrant changes...
Nigeria's Defense Headquarters on Thursday dismissed the reported change in the leadership of the terrorist group Boko Haram.
In a statement made available to Xinhua in Lagos, Rabe Abubakar, the...
South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has suffered its worst electoral setback since apartheid ended in 1994.
With 92% of the votes counted after Wednesday's municipal elections,...
Security Analyst Dr. Kwesi Aning has stated there is something more dangerous underpinning the Old Tafo clashes.
He indicated that there are underpinning factors that have been timed to coincide with...
France’s national holiday turned bloody and violent Thursday night in the southern city of Nice, as a truck drove through crowds of Bastille Day revelers for more than a mile along a...
The son of Usama bin Laden warned that Al Qaeda would take revenge against the U.S. for assassinating his father in 2011, according to audio released by the terror network's media arm.
The audio was...
