By Desmond Davies, GNA London Bureau ChiefLondon, July 31, GNA – West Africa, last year, saw a “significant rise in violent attacks directly related to violent extremism,” the Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), Dr Mohamed Ibn Chamb

By George-Ramsey Benamba, GNAAccra, July 31, GNA - The government of Morocco will in the 2019/2020 Academic year award 20 scholarships to Ghanaian students willing to undertake Vocational Training Curricula in Morocco, Mr Abdelouahed Bekki, Moroccan Charge’ d’Affairs in Ghana has announced.

LOS ANGELES, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - California governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Tuesday that will require presidential candidates to disclose the last five years of their taxes in order to appear on the state's 2020 primary ballot.Senate Bill 27, dubbed the "Presidential Tax Transpa

BEIJING, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - China will ease the permanent residence application for high-level foreign talents from Thursday, according to the Ministry of Public Security.Meanwhile, long-term visas and residence permits will be issued to more foreigners including those doing busine

By Benjamin Mensah, GNA Accra, July 31, GNA - The United States House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a historic address to Ghana’s Parliament on Wednesday, called for Ghana and the United States of America (USA) to forge ahead and continue to sacrifice for a better future for their chi

By Christopher Arko, GNA Accra, July 31, GNA – Mrs Nancy Patricia Pelosi, Speaker of the United State House of Representative, has called for the deepening of security ties between Ghana and the United States for the mutual benefit of their people.

KIGALI, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - Rwanda has installed thermal cameras at some entry points at risk zones to reinforce Ebola surveillance.About 12 cameras have so far been installed at selected entry points including some border posts with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Ki

A GNA news feature By Yaw Ansah Accra, July 31, GNA - Education is not just by formal means but through informal ways as well. With formal education, we go through a system of tuition guided by a stru

GENEVA, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - Ahead of the one-year milestone of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), two United Nations agencies have spoken of the challenges of working in "an active conflict zone.""This Ebola response is far more complex because it

CAPE TOWN, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - South Africa's National Council of Provinces (NCOP), or Upper House of Parliament, has passed the 2019 Appropriation Bill designed to bail out embattled state-owned enterprises (SOEs).The NCOP passed the bill on Tuesday without any amendments and

HARARE, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - The Zimbabwe Cabinet has directed that a controversial clause in the proposed Marriages Amendment Bill be removed following public outcry that it sought to legitimize extramarital relationships by recognizing civil partnerships between men and women.Claus

By Kodjo Adams, GNA Accra, July 31, GNA – The Reroy Group, dealers in electrical cables on Wednesday commended the government for taking the initiative to redevelop the Ghana Trade Fair site to meet international standards.

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UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (Xinhua/GNA) - A UN report released Tuesday documented that the level of grave violations against children worldwide last year was on the rise. The 2018 Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict said that more than 24,000 grave violations against children were

ABUJA, July 31, (Xinhua/GNA) - Nigeria's Inspector General of Police Mohammed Adamu on Tuesday officially declared that the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as the Shi'ites Movement, had been outlawed and banned from organizing protests in the country. Anyone associated wit