Police fire rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse about 1,000 striking miners at a leading platinum mine in South Africa.

A council of Coptic Christians in Egypt has named three candidates to succeed Pope Shenouda III, who died in March.

A Bolivian radio journalist has been attacked while he was conducting a radio show in the southern city of Yacuiba.

Tragedy struck in Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Monday, when some unknown gunmen stormed a drinking joint and killed four people, leaving others with injuries.

Ghana in general and Accra in particular suffers from poor public sanitation. Refuse is scattered across most of the capital cityÂ’s streets, and in many neighborhoods it clogs gutters and sits in heaps by the roadside.

At the recent World Food Prize Symposium in the U.S., I shared an important truth: Africa’s farmers are not needy victims. They have something to offer the world – a vast and verdant supply of arable land. Like us, the rest of the world needs to eat.

The decision of NPPÂ’s candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo to make his vice the head of the National Development Planning Commission, in what he said would be effective implementation of the CommissionÂ’s plans, drew the first banter in the first IEA Presidential Debate with the President and NDC candidate John Mahama suggesting that he is a confused man.