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Mozambique Electoral Bloodshed: AEI offers recommendations as opposition leader claims assassination attempt

Ghana-based African Electoral Institute (AEI) is calling for calm in Mozambique and has offered a number of recommendations following a general election that saw bloodshed in October and a...

AEI commends America for commitment to democratic principles ahead of Tuesday’s elections

The African Electoral Institute (AEI) has commended the United States of America (USA) for...

Good news for NDC as latest Global InfoAnalytics polls show NPP heading into opposition

The latest polls conducted by Global InfoAnalytics, a nonpartisan company that provides data-driven research...

House of Chiefs Conflict: Court awards cost against Tongraan, Sandem-Nab

A high court in Bolgatanga has struck out the name of the registrar of...

Violent Extremism Watch: WANEP-Ghana trains 240 security personnel, 448 civilian stakeholders under PBF-funded project

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding Ghana (WANEP-Ghana) has conducted training programmes for 240...

Court exposes former education minister as judge sacks vice-chancellor, registrar from CKT-UTAS

A High Court in Bolgatanga has terminated the post-retirement appointments of Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot as Vice-Chancellor and Dr. Vincent A. Ankamah-Lomotey as Registrar...

Regional Minister quotes Vice President: ‘24-hour economy will prevent men from sleeping with their wives at night’

The Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, has quoted Ghana’s Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as saying the 24-hour economy policy proposed by former...

Former minister writes ‘humbling letter’ to public officeholders from the back of a motorcycle

Yesterday, I was at the Regional Co-ordinating Council (RCC) in Bolgatanga. I rode behind a motorcycle. No one noticed my arrival. The situation would...

Soldiers reportedly brutalise 15-year-old orphan in Talensi; medic fears for victim’s life

An underprivileged boy is reported to have been brutalised by military officers in Talensi, a district in Ghana's Upper East Region. The picture the 15-year-old...

Man who invoked ‘Gods of Talensi’ against ‘corrupt forces’ in another trouble

The Divisional Police Command in Bolgatanga is investigating a fresh criminal case involving Robert Boazor Tampoare, a small-scale miner in Ghana’s Upper East Region,...

Bolga hospital drug thefts: Body of key witness exhumed; GHS administrator arrested

It was believed that Mercy Alagpulinsa, a key witness to thefts of government medicines at the Upper East Regional Hospital, died of unnatural causes. The...

Bolga hospital drug thefts: Court grants police order to exhume witness’s remains

The District Court in Bolgatanga has granted a request filed by police in the Upper East Region to exhume the remains of Mercy Alagpulinsa,...

More illegal miners killed in Talensi District; police foil another secret-burial plan

Two more illegal miners have been reported dead in Talensi, a district in the Upper East Region. They died on Monday, 16 October 2023,...

‘Gods of Talensi’ interdict small-scale miners’ chairman for allegedly defrauding small-scale miners

Soon after the Chinese set foot in Ghana in 2008 to try their luck at producing gold in Talensi, one of the early rebels...

Prison officers face punishment over ‘embarrassing’ video government wishes public hadn’t seen

On Monday, 26 June 2023, Media Without Borders published a Ghana Prisons Service story with an “embarrassing” video the Akufo-Addo Government reportedly wishes could...

Talensi: 15 galamseyers reportedly killed, buried secretly; EPA, police blamed

Several angry residents of the Upper East Region have descended heavily on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ghana Police Service following recent...

Mentally ill man causes damage during Mental Health Week; compassionate police commended  

On Monday, 2 October 2023, the Mental Health Authority (MHA) gathered media practitioners in the conference hall of the Ministry of Health (MoH) for...

OccupyBoG demonstration in pictures

On Tuesday, 3 October 2023, the Minority in Ghana’s Parliament, joined by many thousands of people, staged a demonstration in the national capital, Accra. Accompanied...

Hospital medicine thefts: Truth-seeking head of pharmacy department poisoned— Autopsy allegedly reveals

An autopsy report is said to have revealed that the Head of the Pharmacy Department of the Upper East Regional Hospital, Samuel Amoateng Saffoh,...

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