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Two babies have died at the St Anne’s Hospital in Damango in the Savanna Region due to a power outage as a result of power debt. The Northern Electricity Company (NEDCo) cut electric power supply to the hospital due to a GH¢4 million power debt. The two babies, according to …

The authorities in Liberia say they’ve lost all traces of four suspected drug dealers linked to a $100m (£80m) cocaine shipment, after a trial jury unexpectedly acquitted them. Last year, with assistance from the US and Brazil, Liberian security officials seized a container with more than 500 kilos of cocaine …

City authorities from the Ayawaso Central Municipal Assembly on Monday supervised the cleaning and clearing of the debris that was left from the inferno that razed stores and their wares within the neighbourhood of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange (Circle) last Sunday. The fire, which began around 1 p.m., gutted over …

Irate South Africans chased away a mayor on Monday, blaming him for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in Gauteng, the country’s most populous province. Tshwane City Mayor Cilliers Brink was expected to join officials from the national government to assess the situation in …

A Ghanaian peacekeeper serving in the disputed Sudan-South Sudan border region of Abyei has won the 2022 UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award for her efforts in promoting peace for women. Captain Cecilia Erzuah, 32, who has served in Abyei since March 2022 as the commander of the …

WhatsApp says it will allow users to edit messages, in a move that will see it match a feature offered by competitors like Telegram and Signal.The firm says messages can be edited for up to 15 minutes after being sent.The instant-messaging service is part of US technology giant Meta, which …

The office of the National Commission for Civic Education, NCCE in the Fanteakwa South District- Osino in the Eastern Region honored the Commission’s flagship program dubbed Constitutional Week Celebration, with the theme ‘’Thirty Years of Consolidating Constitutional Democracy: Building National Cohesion through Civic Education and Participation in Local Governance”. Although …

Deputy National Director of A Rocha Ghana, Daryl Bosu has said in an interview on Joy News JoyNews’ PM Express has said that the devastation left by miners venturing into the country’s forest reserves endangers water bodies and biodiversity in these areas. According to him the environmental costs of mining, …

Former Lands and Natural Resources Minister Inusah Fuseini has urged the government to lead a concerted and determined effort to halt the activities of illegal miners in the country. According to him, their activities are causing disruptions in mining communities’ ecosystems and endangering the lives and livelihoods of locals. His …

During a rainstorm, a 5-year-old girl was crushed to death and her sibling was seriously injured by a collapsed building at Ada Magazine, a suburb of New Juaben South in the Eastern Region. The back of a compound house’s concrete block chamber and hall room collapsed on two siblings, a …