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A 15-year-old girl is behind bars after pleading guilty to a brutal attack on a high school teacher.Video of the attack at Heritage High School on Jan. 26 has been seen and shared around the world.”She just went off and pulled me down to the floor,” said Tiwana Turner, who …

All of the government appointees named in the Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng report have been described as “galamsey kingpins” by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ‘s National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi. The report details the operations of the former Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), citing some government officials for working …

Speaker of Parliament Alban S.K. Bagbin says there is nothing wrong with passing a legislation to regulate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex,(LGBTQI+) in Ghana. According to the Speaker, there is nothing untoward with the current anti-gay bill in Parliament. He pointed out that there is the urgent need of …

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), is considering a public hearing on a petition to investigate a report on illegal mining otherwise known as “Galamsey” authored by the chairperson of the erstwhile Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM). This will follow an assessment by the Commission as …

The US and UK are suffering a throat cancer ‘epidemic’ — and experts point to oral sex as the culprit. Dr Hisham Mehanna, from the UK’s University of Birmingham, said 70 percent of cases of throat cancer are caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), a normally harmless virus that is spread …

The Police have arrested three suspects in connection with a robbery attack on a gold-buying shop at Akoon-Tarkwa in the Western Region. The suspects, Ezekiel Stephen Oghenekaro, Samuel Amoashie and Fatawu Awudu together with three other suspects armed with weapons attacked the gold-buying shop on 18th April 2023 and made …

The leader of a Kenyan cult told his followers the world would end on April 15 and instructed them to starve themselves to be the first to go to heaven, a relative of cult members and hospital staff told Reuters on Wednesday. Eighty-nine followers of the Good News International Church, …

Tens of thousands of people fleeing violence in Sudan are spilling into Chad, with aid agencies warning that larger flows of refugees are expected to arrive. Since fierce fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15, an estimated 20,000 people have entered Chad and at least 100,000 are set to …

Deposed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is being held at a military hospital in Khartoum after fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out and engulfed the prison where he was being held. Al-Bashir and about 30 other prisoners were moved to Aliyaa hospital on the recommendation …

The World Health Organization (WHO) expects “many more” deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday. Battles between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary since mid-April has killed at least 459 people and …