January 2011

Some 99% of South Sudanese voted to secede from the north, according to the first complete results of the region's independence referendum. A total of 99.57 percent of those polled voted for independence, according to the referendum…

Gangs of armed men attacked at least four jails across Egypt before dawn Sunday, helping to free hundreds of Muslim militants and thousands of other inmates as police vanished from the streets of Cairo and other cities. The U.S. Embassy in…

Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Saturday in a new wave of protests against government plans to hike university tuition fees and scrap education grants. The protests in London and Manchester are the first major demonstrations…

Britain will only do a deal with banks on bonuses and lending in return for government backing if it was a "good deal," Chancellor George Osborne said Saturday . Osborne has led efforts by the coalition government to get the banks to…

Life expectancy in the U.S. lags behind that of many other high-income countries and is currently ranked by the United Nations at number 28, despite spending the most on healthcare, according to a National Academy of Sciences report. In…

A Ghanaian man who was on the Interpol wanted list has been arrested in India, US media has reported. The 56-year-old Dan Boakye Agyenm (Most probably Agyenim) is an alleged fraudster wanted by authorities in America for defrauding a bank…

MTN has had its application for a 3G license in Swaziland rejected by the local telecoms network player and regulator, the Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC). SPTC also manages the regulatory regime in the country…

An Accra Fast Track High Court (Commercial Division), on Thursday ruled that the new board of Donewell Insurance should remain in office and allow the shareholding structure to be functional. The court presided over by Ms Justice Barbara…

The Volta Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, said on Friday that for the past six months the Ho Municipal area had not had any armed robbery. The region recorded 12 robberies in the fourth…

British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that the United Kingdom would double its current contribution to polio eradication. Mr Cameron called on other donors to back the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as he announced the…