Egyptian police officers blocked the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday to protest the kidnapping of seven of their colleagues by Islamist gunmen, witnesses said.    

Students in Ghana launch a model of a satellite attached to a balloon for the first time.

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One shot confers lifetime protection and the “booster shot” given at 10 years is no longer necessary, the World Health Organization said.    

After years of conflict, it can be difficult to imagine the people of Mogadishu enjoying a nightlife.

An engineer from Greater Manchester was unlawfully killed by his kidnappers in Nigeria minutes after a UK-led rescue operation stormed in, an inquest found.

Military officials said attacks were launched against the Boko Haram Islamist group in border areas in a forest south of the city of Maiduguri.    

[Ghanaian Chronicle]An Accra-based pastor is standing trial at an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding a businessman of an amount of GH¢122,500, under the pretext of supplying him with auctioned cars from the Office of National Security.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The former Member of Parliament (MP) for Ahafo Ano South, Mr. Balado Manu, has threatened to sue the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Dr. Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, if he goes ahead to construct a modern market at the burnt Kantamanto Market, as he has been preaching.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]A truck pusher, Adolf Okoe, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for defiling a child under sixteen years at Nungua, a suburb of Accra.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Ghana is reportedly ranked 15th on the latest World Mining Index. The index is said to list 58 mining countries across the globe, and rates the level of transparency in each country's mining sector.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Following the numerous fire outbreaks across the country lately, a combined team of personnel from the Tema Metropolitan Assembly (TMA), Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Ghana National Fire Service, on Wednesday, embarked on an inspection tour of the Tema main market.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Two new steel manufacturing companies, with a combined capacity of 30,000 metric tonnes, are expected to commence operations in Ghana by the end of next month.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Hip hop's Legend, Jay Z announced his world tour yesterday which includes seven stops in Africa, according to Billboard.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Supreme Court (SC) hearing the election petition challenging the outcome of the 2012 presidential polls, yesterday rejected a request by the lead counsel of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata, to bring three more witnesses into the witness box for cross-examination.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing, has given a-two-month ultimatum to squatters who have invaded the government Affordable Housing project at Kpone, near Tema, to vacate the uncompleted buildings or face forceful ejection.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Acting Director General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Brigadier-General Martin Ahiaglo, has assumed duty at the Authority on Friday May 3, 2013.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Accra Regional Police Command has commenced investigations into an incident that led to the death of a policeman with the Tesano Divisional Police Command, to establish the cause of death.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]The Ministry of Trade and Industry, in collaboration with Google, has introduced an initiative known as "Innovation Ghana" to get Ghanaians to appreciate the use of the internet, and its impact on the Ghanaian economy.