Accra (AFP) - All drumming and noisemaking have been banned in part of central Ghana following the death at 111 of the Asante Kingdom's queen mother after a 39-year reign, the palace said in a statement on Thursday. Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II was enstooled in 1977 as the 13th queen mother of the Asante Kingdom (Asantehemaa). She appointed he ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. On Wednesday, Russia announced it would withdraw from the ICC. The International Criminal Court in the Hague, the last resort for prosecuting individuals accused of crimes against ...

The American ambassador to the United Nations signaled the change of position to help stop the violence convulsing the world’s youngest country.

The number of homeless people sleeping in shelters and streets altogether went up by 12 percent in Los Angeles and 14.4 percent in Washington, D.C. in 2015, says a new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report issued Thursday. The nationwide homeless population was 549,928, compared with 564,708 in the previous year, finds the […]

The shrinking in the euro area is due to building construction falling by 1.1 percent, while civil engineering rose by 0.4 percent. In the EU, the monthly decrease is due to building construction falling by 0.7 percent, while civil engineering rose by 1.8 percent. On a year-on-year basis, production in construction rose by 1.8 percent […]

Research and development on civil projects during the year was just over 24 billion U.S. dollars, a six percent rise over 2014, while defense research and development expenditure decreased by four percent in 2015 to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars. ONS said expenditure on research and development performed in Britain last year by foreign-owned businesses increased […]

The number of employed people amounted to 43.7 million between July and September, a year-on-year increase of 0.9 percent, German federal statistics office Destatis reported. “Although employment increased year on year in the summer months, it did so at a slower pace than in the first two quarters of 2016,” the report said. The year-on-year […]

Twist the key and you'd never know the new Smart Fortwo Electric Drive is switched on. There's no noise, no vibration, no shudder. This utterly unremarkably first impression makes what happens next all the more shocking. Lay your foot down on the ...

N'Djamena (AFP) - Several opposition activists and politicians were detained on Thursday in the Chadian capital N'Djamena, after the government banned a rally following a failed bid to hold a vote of no confidence. The arrests came during an attempt by the opposition to defy a ban by President Idriss Deby's government on a demonstration organise ...

Head Coach of the Black Stars, Avram Grant, has lashed out at critics, calling for his resignation after failing to beat Egypt in the 2018 World Cup qualifying match in Alexandria, Egypt.

Head Coach of the Black Stars, Avram Grant, has lashed out at critics, calling for his resignation after failing to beat Egypt in the 2018 World Cup qualifying match in Alexandria, Egypt.

The Attorney General has no excuse for her failure to collect the GHS51million judgment debt paid to businessman Alfred Woyome by the state in 2010, private legal practitioner Kofi Bentil has said.

A Sudanese entrepreneur said that Sudan hopes to establish a long-standing partnership with China in developing its Port Sudan harbor, as the country’s economy is suffering from lack of major resources. “We have important and strategic partnerships with the Chinese companies which have greatly helped us to modernize Port Sudan harbour and increase its efficiency,” […]

“Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction” is the Museum of Modern Art’s first substantial show for an artist among the earliest proponents of Cubism and Dada.

Following a weekly humanitarian taskforce meeting, the Special Envoy’s Office reported “it was regrettable that no UN inter-agency cross-line convoys were able to proceed so far in November.” Chaired by the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, the meeting also took note of the rise in violence in areas including Aleppo, Raqqa […]

Policy Analyst of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) says he will not be offended if President Mahama refer to him as a political quantity surveyor.

Published in the November issue of the journal Energy, the study by researchers at Stanford University in the United States and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany focused on California, where battery electric cars are growing in popularity while only a few manufacturers have begun offering fuel cell vehicles. The researchers created future […]

Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project leader, Murenga Mwimali, told an agricultural forum in Nairobi that Kenya loses about 13 percent of its maize production to the stem borer pest. Mwimali said that the losses were equivalent to 400,000 metric tons of maize production annually. “Farmers currently use cultural, chemical, biological methods to control […]

Former Minister of Finance under the administration of former President Rawlings, Mr Kwame Peprah has said the one million dollars for each constituency promised by the NPP Flagbearer Nana Akuffo Addo is not feasible.

Tunis (AFP) - Victims of murder, rape and torture under successive dictatorships started testifying on live television Thursday as Tunisia -- in a rare move for the Arab world -- tries to deal with decades of abuse. The Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) has tracked human rights violations committed between July 1955, a year before Tunisia gaine ...