The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, internationally recognised for its role in celebrating ground-breaking works from both new and established authors, on Friday said female writers dominate the Africa regional shortlist for the 2011 Prize.
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A Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Mr Justice Emmanuel Amo-Yartey has ordered a businessman, and an apprentice mechanic, standing trial for alleged car theft to be held in prison remand.
Mohammed Yakubu, the businessman, and A…
A Takoradi Circuit Court on Friday remanded Albert Cobbinah, Mustapha Nkrumah and Philip Awortwe for mining illegally in the Neug South Forest Reserve at Tarkwa Nsuaem in the Western Region.
Their pleas were not taken and they would …
A 27-year-old electrician, Fatawu Mumuni, was on Thursday sentenced to four years imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court for stealing electrical cables worth GH¢1,200.00.
Mumuni was also ordered to pay the full cost of…
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to undertake a USD$1.5 million ecological project to protect and manage Bosomtwe Lake and other natural resources in its basin.
The project, the brainchi…
The rainfall being experienced in some parts of the country currently is not an indication that the major rainy season has begun.
“On the contrary, we are still in the dry season, which may become more severe at certain times than ot…
Four hundred and forty people tested HIV/AIDS positive in Nkoranza South District of Brong Ahafo last year, a report by the District Health Directorate has indicated.
The report said the figure was realised after 4,799 people had und…
The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) has finally installed one of the two lifts at the Maternity Block.
The installation of the new one paves the way for the second one to be installed.
The Hospital, through the National Healt…
The Ghana Education Service is to support the promotion of environmental cleanliness and the fight against HIV and AIDS through the school system.
Under the programme, 600 focal persons from each of the Senior High and Technical scho…
The Nadowli District Director of Health Services, Madam Florence Angsomwine, has said over 90 percent of diseases reported at health facilities in the district were preventable.
She said these preventable diseases, most of which eman…
The Regional Health Directorate of Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Friday cautioned residents to observe personal hygiene and adhere to advice provided by health professionals as the number of deaths from the cholera outbreak in Accra rose t…
The Medical Director of the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital, Dr. Paul Nkwaw Ntodi, has said there was an urgent need to build a modern hospital in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis to adequately meet the health challenges of the people.
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Former President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday condemned the loss of millions of lives, especially in developing countries, because of the lack of nutritious and sufficient food.
“In the 21st century, this is a scandal which must s…
The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) in its determination to transform the Takoradi Port, on Friday inaugurated new sets of equipment to facilitate its operations.
The equipment worth GH¢11,473,582 comprised three each of re…
Mr. Asher Nkegbe, the Acting Upper West Regional Director of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has said bushfires were a major threat to the successful implementation of the Ghana Environmental Management Project (GEMP) in the three n…
Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed on Thursday said the government forces will fight foreign Islamist fighters while calling on local rebels to abandon extremism.
Mohamed made his statement during a visit to the base of 500 ne…
A teenager suicide bomber dressed in school uniform Thursday attacked army recruits at a parade ground in a northwestern Pakistani city, killing at least 31 soldiers, police said.
The deadly attack in Mardan, a main city some 60 kilometer…
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday condemned the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the rebel group's kidnapping of two people on Wednesday evening after it released one hostage.
Santos said that the new kid…
The Chinese American population has increased rapidly over the past decade, and has shown greater diversity and even bimodalism, a new study showed.
Through a non-profit-academic partnership, the National Council of Chinese Americans (NCC…
Pirates off the coast of Nigeria's Lagos have attacked a chemical tanker in attempt to board the ship in the Gulf of Guinea, media reports said Friday.
The report quoted sources from the International Maritime Bureau as saying that the at…
A headquarters of the central security forces in the Egyptian border town of Rafah was attacked late Thursday by rocket-propelled-grenade, according to Al Arabiya channel.
An Egyptian citizen was wounded in a shootout between the Egyptian…
The seven Somali pirates arrested by the Malaysian navy in the Gulf of Aden in January were charged in Malaysia Friday, and could be sentenced to death if convicted.
The Malaysian Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail said in Kuala Lumpur on…
Taliban insurgents were behind the brief kidnapping of South Korean workers and the attack on a South Korean-operated construction site in Afghanistan in December, an official said Friday, sparking concern about security for Koreans stayin…
The number of young men applying to join the Navy's special forces rose to a record level, following a naval commando team's daring raid on Somali pirates last month to free a hijacked South Korean ship, a report said Friday.
South Kor…
The South Korean captain of a boat recently released by Somali pirates described his four-month captivity as "hell," saying he always feared for his life under the captors' death threats.
The 54-year-old captain, Kim Dae-geun, was one …
A senior U.S. diplomat met with South Korean officials Friday to discuss Seoul's planned accession to an international convention on the custody of children from international marriages.
The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Int…
North Korea has intensified propaganda for its people saying that the South is to blame for the collapse of this week's military talks, with state media repeatedly broadcasting a lengthy statement in what appears to be an attempt to solidi…
South Korea's defense ministry is investigating a U.S. arms broker suspected of swindling millions of dollars out of the Army by supplying faulty barrels for anti-aircraft guns safeguarding the skies of the nation's capital, officials said…
South Korea's military has not spotted any unusual activity from North Korea's armed forces following the North's walkout on inter-Korean military talks this week, but is closely monitoring the situation, officials said Friday.
The fir…
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced Thursday the Islamic Republic has manufactured a machine to produce nuclear fusion laser.
In an announcement posted on its website, AEOI said that researchers have conducted researches i…
The Canadian government announced Thursday it will require all diesel fuel and home heating oil sold in the country to contain at least 2 per cent oil from renewable sources.
Environment minister Peter Kent and Agriculture minister Gerry …
A U.N. agency handling agricultural matters will send a group of experts to North Korea next week to help the country contain foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the Radio Free Asia (RFA) said in a report Friday.
The Food and Agriculture Org…
South Korea's new government agency overseeing science and technology policy is expected to be headed by Kim Doh-yeon, a local scientist who now serves as president of the University of Ulsan, a source said Friday.
"The screening proce…
China has decided to set up its first group of rare earth mining zones with a view to protect not only resources but also the environment, a state news media outlet said Friday.
The Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources announced last…
North Korea could conduct its third nuclear test between late this year and early next year if the regime feels the need for a breakthrough for its power succession plan or for the standoff over its atomic programs, a state-run think tank …
India and Pakistan have agreed to resume comprehensive dialogue suspended since the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, according to a press release by India's External Affairs Ministry on Thursday.
But the two countries only agreed to "resume dia…
In an exciting announcement today, M-Net has confirmed that it will be holding auditions in Accra next week to search out new Ghanaian talent for its popular soap opera Tinsel! As with all soap operas Tinsel is jam-packed drama, passion,…
Undercover Princesses (4 episodes): Three Princesses are on a quest for love – with a British man. If they find their Prince Charming, they will take them back to their kingdom to live happily ever after.
However, to make sure the lovely…
Dormaa Municipal Office of the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has commenced an anti-hard drug use campaign targeted at students of Senior High Schools in the area.
The programme, which delved into the causes, types, e…
More than 900 participants gathered on Thursday for a two-day international conference in Delhi, India, to examine how agriculture could enhance the health and nutritional status of poor people in developing countries.
"Agriculture i…
Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, Director, Human Resource for Health Development (HRHD, Ministry of Health (MOH), on Wednesday disclosed that government was collaborating with institutions of higher learning to upgrade health professionalism t…
Dr. Kwabena Sarpong, Municipal Director of Health Services of Upper Denkyira East, on Thursday, bemoaned the widespread abuse of “cutotec”, a drug used in controlling bleeding after delivery, by some teenage and adolescent girls in the are…
The Ho Municipal Hospital is gradually becoming a first choice health facility for many people in the Ho Municipal area.
The attractive physical and social environment has totally changed the image of the facility from a “death camp”…
The Ho Polytechnic branch of the Pentecost Students Association (PENSA) Sunday presented 300 Ghana cedis worth of second-hand clothes, Wellington boots and shoes to 56 new converts at Gadaka near Kwamwkrom.
Deacon Samuel Kokroko, Vic…
Kwame Gyamfi alias ‘Akoto’ has been granted bail in the sum of GHC5,000.00 and two sureties of substance and reliability to be justified for allegedly defrauding four farmers in Jaman South District under false pretence.
Gyamfi, a fo…
Young people are on the move. Improvements in transportation, technology development and increased international trade, as well as issues such as unemployment, war, health and economic hardship have prompted more young people to migrate wi…
Multichoice Ghana recently held and event to commission Rankos Enterprise, an accredited Multichoice dealership at the forecourt of the SSNIT building at Adum in Kumasi.
The event was chaired by the Adum Hene, Nana Baffour Adjei Kesseh I…
A memorial lecture in honour of Dr. John Kofi Turkson, a Senior Energy Economist, who died in a plane crash in January 30, 2000, has been held in Koforidua.
He was the younger brother of Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, the President o…
The Eastern Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) denied on Thursday that a Land Cruiser is missing from their outfit.
A statement issued in Koforidua signed by Mr Samuel A. Bawa, Regional Co-ordinating Director, described as mischievo…
Ghanaian International Evangelist, Dr Lawrence Tetteh, and his US counterpart; Dr Peter Gammons, would host a five-day crusade in Accra to commit the development efforts of Ghana into the hands of the Lord.
The landmark crusade, dubb…