Akosua Manu, Advisor on Gender and Social Protection to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) 2028 presidential candidate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has criticised government’s handling of the recent floods. She insisted that protecting citizens’ lives should be the foremost responsibility of…
The entire family of the late Elder Dr. (Pharm.) Samuel Kwasi Nkansah invites you to the burial, memorial and thanksgiving of their beloved Elder Dr. (Pharm.) Samuel Kwasi Nkansah. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS Filing Past 8:00 am, Friday, July 10, 2026. Venue:…
Oil prices fell more than 1% on Wednesday to their lowest levels since March as optimism over U.S.-Iran talks allayed supply concerns after U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Qatar had gone well. Brent futures settled down $1.38, or…
At least 36 children and a staff member are missing after being kidnapped by gunmen from a school in Nigeria’s northeast, the third such mass school abduction since May in Africa’s most populous country. Here are some of the worst of recent…
Ugandan health authorities have confirmed an isolated case of Marburg virus disease, a highly infectious hemorrhagic fever, while conducting surveillance for an Ebola outbreak, Africa’s top public health agency said on Wednesday. No contacts of the Marburg case have developed…
A Kenyan court charged eight schoolgirls on Wednesday with murder for the deaths of 16 of their fellow students in a dormitory fire at a school in Kenya’s Rift Valley in late May, the public prosecutor’s office said. The girls died after…
Anti-immigrant protesters draped in flags and wielding wooden weapons marched across cities in South Africa on Tuesday to mark a deadline they had set for undocumented migrants to leave, with some marches hit by violence and looting. Thousands of African…
The United Nations said on Tuesday that an Ebola outbreak could cost Africa up to $3.6 billion and hundreds of thousands of jobs, potentially causing a development crisis. The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is no…
A Missouri state court on Tuesday set an August 19 hearing date to review Bayer’s $7.25 billion proposed settlement of lawsuits alleging that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, briefly delaying a hearing that had been set for early July. Judge…
TikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a teenager who claimed the platform damaged his mental health, a spokesperson for the plaintiff’s law firm said Tuesday. The settlement was reached in principle, but the details have not yet…