The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Friday appealed to the international communication to uphold their global obligations regarding non-refoulement.
In a statement, the UNHCR said it issued new eligibility guidelines on the protection needs …
The Cape Metropolitan Court on Thursday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Nana Wiredu Karikari I, Nifahene of Effutuakwa Traditional Area at Assin Foso, for failing to appear before it to answer a stealing charge against him and for…
A massive diamond unearthed last month in Sierra Leone has been smuggled out of the country to Belgium and on to Israel, according to reports reaching here on Monday from Freetown.
"Government has got information that an Israeli-based …
Dozens of people have been killed in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, which has been reeling under renewed factional and ethnic violence, authorities said.
Many of the killings, which began Wednesday, resulted from drive-by shooti…
A mob attack and lynching of a Lebanese man suspected of multiple murders has prompted some Lebanese people to say their nation lacks law and order.
Mohammed Muslem, 38, of Egypt, allegedly killed the father, mother and two daughters,…
The Water Resources Commission (WRC) is formulating a policy document on how buffer zones are to be created, protected and maintained along Ghana's water bodies.
The policy, known as the Buffer Zone Policy, was made known by Mrs. Adwo…
The Brong-Ahafo Region recorded 2,487 HIV/AIDS cases in 2009 as compared to 2,555 cases the previous year, Mr. William Saawil Sopiimeh, Regional HIV/AIDS Coordinator said on Friday.
He said from January to March this year, the region…
Coastal areas of north Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh states are expected to witness heavy rains and very strong winds as cyclone 'Laila' intensified in the Bay of Bengal about 700 km south-east of Chennai.
"The current environmental c…
The Telugu Association of North America (TANA) has launched a massive public safety awareness
campaign among the community members living in US, especially among the youths and students, in view of a series of murders and road accidents d…
"Bharati: The Wonder that is India", a Sahara India Parivar initiated musical extravaganza to present Indian cultural richness at the world stage, has captivated the Israeli audience with capacity crowd turning up for all the eight perform…
Fifty-eight cadets of the National Cadet Corps were admitted to the Kottarakara taluk hospital after they showed symptoms of food poisoning.
They belong to a group of 600 NCC cadets who are attending a camp at the Trikannamangalam SK …
Union Minister for Overseas Indian affairs Vayalar Ravi has cautioned people against certain
unscrupulous agents in India which sent students to Australia.
Ravi was addressing a function here yesterday.
He said nearly two lakh …
A sub-inspector in Kerala police was found hanging inside his ancestral house at Vandanoor at the outskirts of the city yesterday.
The deceased has been identified as B Sasidharan (35) of the Thiruvananthapuram city special branch. Pr…
Hrithik Roshan-Barbara Mori starrer 'Kites' will be released in over 2,300 screens worldwide on May 21.
"Of these, over 1800 screens are in India and over 500 screens overseas, making 'Kites' the biggest ever Indian release till date …
Like tigers, endangered leopards too are battling for survival with as many as 160 already dead so far since this January in India against 290 last year.
The trend is not recent phenomenon. In the last 12 years since 1994, India has l…
Delta Air Lines has today held a training programme for its agents ahead of the scheduled launch of service between Atlanta and Accra. The programme which brought together over twenty top agencies in Ghana, aimed to provide information on …
• 1GOAL launches biggest ever mobile phone campaign for education
• Queen Rania, Shakira, Michael Essien and GSMA unite world’s mobile companies boosting campaign to give every child the right to an education
Thursday, May 20, 2010- 1GOA…
I read with utter consternation the Press Release issued by the novice of a Propaganda Secretary, Richard Quarshiga, titled: “Nana Akufo-Addo is insincere”.
My initial reaction was to consign the entire piece into the nearest garbage bask…
Mawuli School is 60 years old, hurray! Let the Champaign flow in celebrating a great School that has transformed the heads, hearts and hands of many in three scores.
Mawuli is mentioned in tandem with great schools in the country. It…
Dr Joseph Annan, Deputy Minister of Education, has said the survival of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2012 elections will depend on party executives and faithfuls.
They should therefore eschew all petty squabbles, uni…
The Commonwealth Secretariat on Wednesday commended the electoral accomplishment of Ghana, describing it as a model for democratic states.
"The Commonwealth acknowledges especially the role of Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Chairman of Ghana'…
Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, a flagbearer aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), on Wednesday attributed the party's Election 2008 defeat to complacency.
"We lost an election that in our complaisance we deemed was easier t…
Representatives from ABANTU for Development, Women In Broadcasting (WIB) and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), on Wednesday expressed concern about the low level of women representation in Ghana's electoral process.
They expressed the …
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor is on a five-nation working tour of South Africa, France, Brazil, England and Switzerland, having left Accra on Tuesday night.
In South Africa, his first stop, Former President Kufuor would be Guest…
Majority of people at a Consultative Constitution Review Commission durbar at Awutu have said chiefs should not take part in partisan politics because of their position as community leaders and custodians of the land.
They said if ch…
Mr. Mohammed Seidu, Brong-Ahafo Regional Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on Wednesday said the Atta Mills administration was embracing all lost and found sons and daughters of the party to pursue its Better Ghana…
The nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan has figured during a Congressional hearings on the New START treaty between US and Russia.
For the past two days, during hearings on New START treaty held by the Senate Foreign Relation…
Mrs. Theresah Adomako-Tawiah, District Chief Executive for Atwima-Mponua, has called on supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to unite and support government to enable it to deliver on its mandate.
She said that govern…
The Greater Accra Regional Executive Committee of National Democratic Congress (NDC) has postponed the Ashaiman Constituency Executive Elections scheduled for Saturday, May 22, indefinitely.
A statement issued in Accra on Thursday an…
Divergent views were expressed by people at a public forum on the constitutional review at Kade in the Kwaebibirem District on Thursday.
Whereas some held the view that the President should continue to nominate District, Municipal an…
President John Evans Atta Mills on Thursday extended a warm and open hand to the Republic of Spain and three other nations as a gesture of the deepening cordial relationship that existed between those countries and Ghana.
He praised …
India on Wednesday said that the foreign minister-level talks with Pakistan should not be
construed as resumption of Composite Dialogue as it was only an exercise to bridge the trust deficit between the two countries.
"If you look …
The Kashmir issue needs to be resolved in accordance with relevant UN Resolutions and the
aspirations of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Malik Amad Khan said on Wednesday.
Khan made t…
Top Maoist leader Kishenji on Wednesday turned down Indian Home Minister P Chidamabaram's conditional offer of talks saying that the government should
"first stop violence".
"The government has initiated violence and should stop th…
Iraq war-veteran Indian- American doctor Manan Trivedi has won the Democratic Party nomination to contest the November elections to the US House
of Representatives from Pennsylvania Congressional district.
A doctor-turned war-veteran…
Mr. Moses Bukari Mabengba, Northern Regional Minister, has challenged civil servants to work for the good of the country and the government and stay away from politics.
"A good number of civil servants have now become politicians and…
The Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Lawyer Samuel Adu Yeboah has cautioned supports of the party to shun complacency in their campaign activities for
the 2012 general elections.
He said the whole…
The scramble for East Africa's oil wealth is intensifying, with China's CNOOC outbidding India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. for exploration rights in the Lake Albert Basin, the epicenter of the emerging new oil zone.
But a political storm …
The Agona West Municipal Assembly has decreased its monthly service agreement of GHC25,000 with Zoomlion Ghana Limited to GHC20,000 to be able to resource its Environmental Health Department to perform its statutory duties.
The Assemb…
The success or failure of the Doha Round of trade negotiations depends on the willingness of emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil to accept the responsibility that goes along
with their growing roles in the world economy, a t…
U.S. President Barack Obama has said he shared Gulf Coast residents' anger about a spreading oil spill and its consequences on the environment.
"There's an oil leak and we need to stop it and we need to stop it as soon as possible," Obama…
BP connected a mile-long pipe Sunday to help divert a possible majority of oil gushing from a damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico, company officials said.
The oil giant said the pipe was not designed to completely cap the spill, though it …
China has been promoting arms-for-oil deals with Africa as the continent is becoming one of its major sources of oil. Since last year, top Chinese leaders and military officers have made frequent visits to Africa. And at the Zhuhai Air Sho…
Increasing quantities of China-made military equipment have been finding their way to Africa, traded for oil, mineral resources and even fishing rights. Zambia has used its copper resources to pay China in a number of military deals, for i…
Rich Arab states such as Saudi Arabia have bought huge tracts of land across Africa in recent years in a bid to combat global food shortages, water scarcity and desertification and feed their burgeoning populations.
But now the scramble f…
Over the last decade China and the continent of Africa have gradually been building diplomatic and economic ties in the hopes of further advancing globalization and enjoying mutually beneficial cooperation.
But now with a mounting global …
Food Inflation in India rose to 16.49 per cent for the week ended May 8, mainly due to high prices of vegetables and fruits.
Inflation rose by 0.05 per cent from 16.44 per cent in the previous week.
On a weekly basis, Onions …
Indian Defence Minister A K Antony Thursday ruled out for now any change in the defence production policy to raise the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from existing 26 per cent to 100 per cent as suggested by the Commerce Ministry recently…
In a far-reaching decision, the Indian government on Wednesday raised natural gas prices by more than double to USD 4.20 per mmBtu, a move that will result in a rise in power and fertilizer production cost and rise in CNG rates.
The…
Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the Eastern Regional Minister, on Thursday reiterated government's commitment to ensure food security in the country by way of encouraging the youth to go into
agriculture.
He said government would provide l…
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