Follow The Globe and Mail's Africa correspondent Geoffrey York as he tweets from Oscar Pistorius' murder trial. An expensive luxury watch was stolen from the bedroom of Oscar Pistorius when police were in control of his house after he shot his girlfriend, his ...

Medeama defender Joseph Jackson has been ruled out of action for two weeks with an ankle injury, the club has confirmed.

Sources close to the investigation into the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 told Reuters on Friday that radar data showed that the missing plane was deliberately flown across the Malaysian peninsula towards the Andaman Islands. Here are five things ...

President John Dramani Mahama In fact, President John Dramani Mahama is gradually gaining notoriety for himself as one president who cannot keep his promises. And yet in the face of all this, he always wants Ghanaians to pat him on the shoulder for causing no meaningful transformation in their lives. Among his failed promises, the […]

The first time that I met anyone from Ukraine was in 1982. I was studying in the US at the time and I was invited to dinner by an Ukrainian family who had emigrated from Kiev to one of those small towns outside of Chicago. It had been a decade or more since ...

Suspected Islamist militants attacked the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri and are battling security forces, Borno State Police Commissioner Lawal Tanko said. “We're trying to contain the situation,” he said today by phone from Maiduguri, the Borno ...

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The President of the Ghana Contractors Association, Mr. Rockson Dogbegah has advised government to set up a construction industry development board to ensure that building projects are properly monitored. Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Dogbegah stated that the board will also ensure that contractors as well as people undertaking constructions are qualified to do so. ...

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called President Obama on Wednesday night to express frustration about the government’s spying and hacking programs. “When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon. It may seem disingenuous for the […]

Reverend Dr. Ernest Adu The Head pastor of the Grace Divine Ministry at Juaso in the Asante Akim South District in the Ashanti region has been dismissed for failure to attend the funeral of the father of a colleague minister and using church funds for the construction of mission house.  Reverend Dr. Ernest Adu, 38, is […]

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Kennedy Ohene Agyapong Outspoken New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin-Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has admitted that Parliamentarians do receive some monetary reward from individuals and organisations after deliberations in the House at committee level. The NPP MP said he strongly backs the Nadowli/Kaleo MP, Hon. Alban S.K. Bagbin’s claim that some […]

Sierra Leone’s ex-president and war-time leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has died at the age of 82 after a long illness. Mr Kabbah’s then-deputy, Solomon Berewa, and a relative confirmed his death, Sierra Leonean journalist Umaru Fofana told the BBC. Mr Kabbah was praised for his leadership during Sierra’s Leone’s decade-long civil war. The conflict officially ...

Suspected members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect this morning launched a daring attack on Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Sources said the assailants sneaked into Maiduguri and divided themselves into groups, some headed towards the Giwa ...

A FIGHT between two food stall owners at a market in southern China today left five people hacked to death and one person fatally shot by police, authorities said. A dispute at the market in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, erupted in a knife fight that ...

Mobile World Congress spans the full spectrum of untethered gadgetry, from the next generation of mobile phone networks to wireless charging technology. But it’s always the consumer technology that’s the star. We askedStuff Magazine Editor-in-Chief Will Findlater to analyze the top trends from the show. Trend 1: Getting the whole world connnected Mark Zuckerberg used his keynote address to ...