Less than half of all babies less than six months in the country are exclusively breast fed.

A "large number of gunmen" have attacked a Nigerian police base in the capital, Abuja, where Boko Haram militants are often held, police say.

An Accra-based Nigerien couple has been grabbed by the police for allegedly torturing their 14-year old daughter for refusing to marry a middle-aged man.

Vice President Kwesi Amissah Arthur on Sunday joined the family of former vice President Alhaji Aliu Mahama to perform his seventh day adua in Tamale.

A teenage girl in the Indian capital Delhi has been shot dead by a man after she objected to him urinating near the gate of her family home, police said.

According to him, the sector has acquired a $50million loan facility from China to solve the accommodation problem of the military to prevent some from living outside the barracks.