The Civil Society Platform on Oil Visit Myjoyonline.com for latest news, breaking news, audio and feature stories in Ghana President Barack Obama has cast his vote in his hometown of Chicago as his campaign seeks to boost early ballots in a neck-and-neck election race.

Four months holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been "a little like living in a space station" but beats prison, fugitive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday.

More than 6,500 lives are lost annually in Ghana as a result of exposure to air pollution caused by use of inefficient cook-stoves and fuels, a report by the World Health Organisation had announced.

A methodology survey conducted by the Gomoa West District Oversight Committee of the Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) on five communities has revealed that 88 per cent of children between five-14 years do not attend school.

Scores of police personnel in the Eastern region have been deployed at Suhyen in the region, to avert a possible clash during the performance of the traditional rites for the Akwantukese festival.

Authorities in Wa have tasked residents there to expose their relatives who are engaged in armed robbery as a means to curb the menace in the municipality.

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President Barack Obama has cast his vote in his hometown of Chicago as his campaign seeks to boost early ballots in a neck-and-neck election race.