GENEVA (Reuters) - Nearly 2,000 people fleeing Africa and the Middle East have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, most of them in the past three months as they tried to reach Europe from Libya, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The Canadian wife of an ex-aide to Egyptian Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, whose husband has been detained more than 400 days in solitary confinement, says she has brought a case to the United Nations this week, seeking support for his release.

Intel has unveiled a 3G modem not much bigger than a UK penny or US one-cent coin, with the aim of embedding it in connected devices around the home. The company says the XMM 6255, with an area of about 300 sq mm, is the world’s smallest modem. The standalone chip could be used in ...

Washington: The Islamic State militant group is holding hostage a young American woman who was doing humanitarian aid work in Syria, a family representative said. The 26-year-old woman is the third American known to have been kidnapped by the ...

While the ratio of females in the population of university students in Ghana has increased since 1990, women still remain far in the minority, data available to the B&FT have shown. The data, gathered from the National Council for Tertiary Education, show that only one-fifth of students enrolled in universities in the 1990/91 academic year were women, but this ratio has improved gradually and stood at 36 percent in the 2012/13 academic year. Yet despite this progress, the numbers indicate that

Cameroon legend Samuel Eto’o has joined Ghanaian winger Christian Atsu at English side Everton after penning a two-year deal with the Toffees.

Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua has opened up as to why his church does not have foreign branches despite his popularity abroad. The cleric, who spoke on Sunday 24th August 2014 at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), stressed on the need for God’s character to be fully established before ministerial expansion. “I would have ...

WASHINGTON, August 27- An American journalist held for nearly two years by militants linked to Al Qaeda in Syria returned to the United States late Tuesday, two days after Qatar negotiated his release, his family said. Peter Theo Curtis, 45, was reunited with ...

The Technical Adviser on financial markets to the Ministry of Finance, Dr. Sam Mensah, is advocating a relaxed legal regime to allow insurance companies and other institutional investors to invest in riskier ventures. Dr. Sam Mensah, who is also the chairman of the Council of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE), explained that a number of sectors which need critical capital to stimulate growth could benefit from a system that gives flexibility to the investment programme of institutional investors, particularly

It is an established fact that free speech -- which encompasses the freedom to criticise the policies of government, is the bedrock of a vibrant democratic system. Free market democratic governance cannot effectively thrive where free speech and constructive dialogue among contending interest groups is not passionately encouraged by the governing administrators of a given society.    This is partly born of the fact that institutional investors, who are often the driving engines of job-creation,

Ghana striker Abdul-Majeed Waris could join his compatriot Jeffrey Schlupp at Leicester City as the English side are keen on signing the attacker by next week.

The Board of United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA) has announced the appointment of Mr. Tony O. Elumelu, C.O.N. as Chairman, succeeding Ambassador Joe Keshi. Mr. Elumelu is Chairman/CEO of Heirs Holdings, the pan-African proprietary investment company he founded in 2010, which holds stakes in a number of leading African businesses, including Nigeria's largest conglomerate by market capitalisation, Transcorp, as well as UBA. Elumelu retired as Group Managing Director and CEO of UBA in 2010, following

Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga is extremely confident of Ghana’s chances of winning the hosting rights to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Air strikes against Libyan Islamist militants that U.S. officials had said were staged by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates could mark an escalation of a regional struggle over the future of the Arab world.

The First Global Public Private Partnership (PPP) Conference has ended with an assurance from government it will provide the right legal framework to enable the private sector to partner the state in provision of public infrastructure. The event, an initiative of C-nergy Ghana -- an international consulting firm -- created a platform for local and foreign investors, insurance companies, pension fund managers and government agencies to interact and share ideas and experiences on developing and financing

The District Manager of the Cocoa Merchant Company at Agona Duakwa in the Central Region, has warned marketing clerks to stop exploiting farmers through the manipulation of weighing scales. Mr Randy Nkrumah, told Ghana News Agency in an interview at Duakwa, after a general meeting of marketing clerks from licensed cocoa buying companies and other chief farmers in the area. The meeting was aimed at preparing participants for the opening of the 2014/2015 cocoa season. It also sought to find solutions

A private legal practitioner,  Yaw Oppong says the Tamale Metro office of the  Electoral Commission(EC) cannot delete the names of voters from the voters register. The  Tamale Metro office of the Electoral Commission (EC) on Tuesday threatened to delete the names of 20 alleged unqualified voters from the voters register after they  ignored an EC ...

Certainly, André Ayew is going to leave OM this summer. But to where? One thing's for sure, pretenders do not miss. The name of the Ghanaian midfielder is known almost everywhere.