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A Lisburn student who wrote an article on Ghana’s fair trade has been shortlisted for Amnesty International’s (AI) Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year Award in the UK. “Christina Cargill, 10, from Knockmore Primary School, will now be…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun airlifts to provide life-saving food assistance to tens of thousands of internally displaced people in Cote d’Ivoire and Ivorian refugees in neighbouring Liberia. “We need to open up…

The Ghana Cocoa Board Anti-Smuggling Task Force in the Jomoro District has between January and April 8 seized a total of 826 bags of cocoa being smuggle from Cote d’Ivoire into the country. The cocoa have been handed over to the Ghana…

Ghana’s social security system has been described as the best in world. Prof. Stephen Adei said it is the best in the world because, to his knowledge Ghana is the only country in the world whereby if you contribute 30 years to the Social…

Schools have vacated and many pupils have been compelled by circumstances to criss-cross streets dangerously and lorry stations selling items. Some do it because they have to make some money to pay school fees when school reopens and…

Madam Charlotte Owusu, Founder of the Sickle Cell Condition Advocates (SICCA), has appealed to people intending to marry to know the sickle cell status of their partners before marriage. She said the disease was assuming an alarming…

Six illegal gold miners who went to mine in the Kweikaru Forest Reserve in the Birim North District had been sentenced to one year imprisonment each in hard labour by a District Magistrate Court at Nkawkaw. The accused persons were Kwame…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration on Monday noted with concern the increasing number of unsuspecting Ghanaians who have been deceived by fraudsters to travel to Malaysia for non-existent jobs. This situation, it said…

Investment in agricultural research and development in sub-Saharan Africa increased by more than 20 percent from 2001-2008 but most of this growth occurred in only a handful of countries. Nigeria alone accounts for one-third of the…

MainOne Cable Company has appointed Mr Africanus Mensah, a Ghanaian Petroleum Engineer, as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the corporate entity in Ghana, effective March 24. Mr Mensah’s appointment confirms MainOne’s continuous…