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Former President Jerry John Rawlings has expressed concern that though Ghana has been able to achieve electoral democracy, she has been unable to translate that into combatting and containing corruption. He said a good system of democracy should be able to

A fifty-two-year old man Michael Opey Lamptey has allegedly been killed by his wife, Rebecca Lamptey ,a psychiatric patient, by crashing his head severally with a grinding stone. The deceased was reportedly attacked by his  wife while sleeping. Reports say he

The United States pulled the trigger Friday on a steep increase in tariffs on Chinese products and Beijing immediately vowed to hit back, turning up the heat before a second day of trade negotiations. President Donald Trump got a briefing from

The Pentagon said Friday the U.S. will deploy an amphibious assault ship and a Patriot missile battery into the Middle East region to bolster an aircraft carrier force sent to counter alleged threats from Iran. “These assets will join the USS

A boat carrying up to 70 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa has sunk in the Mediterranean, leaving three people dead and dozens missing, Tunisian officials said Friday, revealing once again that crossing the central Mediterranean has become more treacherous than ever for

The Bank of Ghana, BoG says it will punish businesses and individuals who charge dollars for their services in the country.According to the statement from BoG on Thursday, the general public must only use the Ghana Cedi (GH¢) and pesewas (GHp)

A federal grand jury in the United States of America has indicted a Ghanaian native on charges of passport fraud, falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally voting. Michael Nana Baako, 50, was a physician who practiced in Maryland hospitals and had

The United States called on North Korea on Thursday to “dismantle all political prison camps” and release all political prisoners, who it said numbered between 80,000 and 120,000. In remarks to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mark Cassayre, U.S.