Africa Archive

Police in Kumasi have arrested two suspected armed robbers who on Sunday 23 April storm at a residence of some Chinese  Expatriates in Obuasi robbed them at gun point. The suspect Philip Kwadwo Danso, 28, Kwadwo Asamoah Daniel, 30 and other

Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been chosen to test the world’s first malaria vaccine, the World Health Organization announced Monday. The three African countries will begin piloting the injectable vaccine next year with hundreds of thousands of young children, who have been

Over 30 people have been reported dead at a football viewing centre in Calabar, Cross River State capital after being electrocuted by a high tension cable that reportedly fell on them. The football fans are said to have assembled at the

Russia’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling banning Jehovah’s Witnesses after the justice ministry called on it to dissolve the “extremist organisation”. Supreme Court judge Yury Ivanenko said Russia had decided to close down “the administrative centre of Jehovah’s Witnesses

Hundreds of revellers on Easter Monday had their senses knocked off by uncontrolled ‘dosage’ of the popular Adonko Bitters during the annual Adonko Aseda Bash at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi. Twenty-four hours after the ‘all night’ concert, which attracted