China Tianjin Explosions: Nearly 100 People Still Missing
Ninety-five people, 85 of them firefighters, are still missing four days after multiple blasts in the north-eastern port of Tianjin, Chinese authorities have said.
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Ex-Army Chief Col Jean Bikomagu Shot Dead In Burundi
The former head of Burundi’s army has been shot dead outside his home in the capital Bujumbura. Col Jean Bikomagu, who led the armed forces during the country’s civil war, was gunned down as he drove through the gates of his house. His daughter was badly injured in the attack, a family member told AFP.
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Brong Ahafo: Three Dead In Kwapong Clashes
Three persons have been confirmed dead in clashes at Kwapong, a town near Sankore in the Brong Ahofo Region. The Saturday dawn hostility started after a young man was stabbed to death by a fetish priest. Deputy Regional Police Commander, DCOP Maxwell Atingani, told Accra-based Joy FM the fetish priest was arrested after a complaint
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Gov’t Works On Conditions Of Service For Ghanaian Doctors
Government has released a draft document detailing some conditions of service for public sector doctors who have been striking for weeks.
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Seth Kwame Boateng Is 2015 Ghana Journalist Of The Year
Multimedia’s Seth Kwame Boateng has been adjudged the 2015 GJA/Prof. PAV Ansah Journalist of the Year for his ‘Locked and Forgotten’ documentary about the plight of remand prisoners in Ghana. “God has been indeed good. I am grateful to God. It is a miracle…..I didn’t dream a day like this will come,” Seth Kwame Boateng
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Ghanaian Doctors Extend Strike By Two Weeks
Members of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) have voted to remain on strike but stay the execution of its final roadmap that would have seen their resignation from public service. At an extraordinary general assembly meeting on Friday, August 14, the doctors were divided over the activation of the final phase. While one group called
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A Letter To African Leaders By Francis Xavier Tuokuu
Your Excellencies, I am an African from the stony town of Nandom in the Upper West Region of Ghana and writing to you from the Green and forested State of New Hampshire in the United States of America. I am a true African. I owe my existence to the rich and diverse bio-physical environment of
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Somali Wedding Guests ‘Killed By AU Troops’
African Union (AU ) soldiers allegedly killed six people at a wedding in Somalia’s port town of Merca, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.
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China Tianjin Blasts: Evacuations As Sodium Cyanide Found
The Chinese authorities have ordered the evacuation of residents within a 3km radius of the Tianjin blast site over fears of chemical contamination.
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CPP, NPP Advocate For New Voters’ Register
The General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyei Agyepong, has called on all political parties and civil societies to support the call for a new voters’ register for the 2016 elections.
