By Desmond Davies – London BureauLondon, Oct. 17, GNA - Boko Haram in Nigeria has been listed among terrorist groups that are using human trafficking and slavery to fund their activities.A report, Trafficking Terror, by the British thi

By Kester Kenn Klomegah, Moscow Bureau ChiefMoscow, Oct 17, GNA - Africa Active, a new quarterly publication about Africa, to break the information gap between the two regions has hit the market in the Russian Federation.Nataliya Zaiser,

Accra, Oct. 17, (UPI/GNA) - North Korea's Kim Jong Un ordered the massacre of hundreds of officers and their families following the purge and execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek in 2013, a former senior North Korean Economic Official said.Speaking at the Asia Society in New York on Monday, Ri Jong Ho, the previous head of the Korea Daeh

Accra, Oct. 17, (UPI/GNA) - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Tuesday it has cleared Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital, of all militant fighters -ending a fight that began early this summer.The Syrian Democratic Forces, the U.S. backed rebel force, said the four-month fight in the Islamic State's de facto Syria

Accra, Oct. 17, (Yonhap/GNA) - The international community needs to exert "extraordinary" pressure to convince North Korea that dialogue offers a better option for its survival, a former U.S. Diplomat said Tuesday.Evans Revere, a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of state and now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, also call

Accra, Oct. 17, (Yonhap/GNA) - Senior U.S. and Japanese Diplomats arrived in Seoul Tuesday to discuss diplomatic measures to tackle North Korea's nuclear and missile threats."I am here to focus on our diplomatic efforts to address the issues that confront us about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPKK)," Deputy Secretary of Sta

Tarkwa (W/R), October 17, GNA - A Tarkwa circuit court has sentenced a 31 year-old small scale miner to 15 years imprisonment with hard labour for defiling and impregnating a fifteen year-old Junior High School student.

Lawra, (U/W), Oct. 17, GNA - President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that government can make meaningful change in the lives of Ghanaians, only if it directed its efforts towards developing the agriculture sector.

Wechiau, (U/W), Oct. 17, GNA – Alhaji Sulemana Alhassan, Upper West Regional Minister has stated that migrating as a result of famine is an unacceptable phenomenon that needs to be addressed. He said migration in Gh

Kumasi, Oct 17, GNA – The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has upped it effort at making sure that operators in the hospitality industry meet set standards as the nation aggressively pushes towards raising more revenue from tourism.Nana Twum Barima, its Director of Research, Statistics and Information, said the

Ave Dakpa, (V/R) Oct.17, GNA - Dexaline Limited, an agribusiness Company is in discussions with the Akatsi North District for the establishment of a tomato processing plant under government’s “One-District, One Factory” initiative.Mr George Dzidzah, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, in a project br

Ho, Oct. 17, GNA - About 400 entrepreneurs in the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in the Volta Region have undergone a five-month training programme organised by the National Board of Small Scale Industries (NBSSI) towards supporting government’s new industrialization drive.The participants selecte

Tamale, Oct 17, GNA – A study has revealed low levels of competency in the areas of reading and numeracy skills amongst children of school going age in three districts in the Northern Region. The study surveyed 60 e

Sandema (UE) Oct. 17, GNA - The Sandema Senior High School in the Builsa North district of the Upper East Region is appealing to the government to construct more dormitories to accommodate more students.The school was chosen as one of the model schools in 2006 and has since been given some infrastructure but s

Nyankpala (NR), Oct. 17, GNA - Mrs Grace Sebugah, USAID Food Security Specialist has given the assurance that USAID would partner the government and research institutions to improve soybeans breeding, production and its utilizations through Feed the Future initiative.

Kumasi, Oct 17, GNA – Stepped-up fire safety education has led to significant decline in fire cases across the Ashanti Region, Assistant Divisional Officer (ADO) Desmond Ackah, the Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), has announced.A total of 684 cases had been reporte

Ho, Oct. 17, GNA - The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) has begun sensitising Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) in the Volta Region on the National Development Planning (System) Regulations, 2016, Legislative Instrument (L.I 2232).

The award is the initiative of Mr Clement Nii Ablorh Kommey, the Chief Executive Officer of the Heritage Africa Concept and being supported by Dr Nii Kotei Dzani, a member of the Council of State and the Greater Accra Regional House of Chiefs.The prestigious annual honorary awards would recognise Ga-Dangmes an

Navrongo (U/E) Oct. 17, GNA – Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye, Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS) has called on owners of hostel facilities on their campuses to beef-up security to ensure the safety of students.He said security and safety of students had over the years not adequately

The situation requires government’s intervention to save the students from the exploitation of landlords and landladies who charge exorbitant rent advance. Mr Solomon Saka Allotey, the acting Principal made the appeal in a speech read on his behalf at the College’s 2017/2018 academic year matriculation cer