A soldier has been killed at Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West district of the Central region. The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber. The late Captain Maxwell Mahama was a military officer with the 5th Infantry Batallion (5BN) at … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces have commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The solider, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have been lynched and burnt by some youth at Diaso, a small town in the area who mistook him for an armed robber. The incident, which … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces have commenced investigations into the murder of one of its personnel deployed Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region. The solider, Captain Maxwell Mahama is reported to have been lynched and burnt by some youth at Diaso, a small town in the area who mistook him for an armed robber. The incident, which happened on … Read more
The sound of the blast in Syria’s capital Damascus brought worried residents running, but rather than carnage they found a crew filming one of the country’s famed television drama series. Moments before, director Rasha Sharbatgi had been wielding her loudhailer, calling for silence before counting down to the controlled explosion. Onlookers arriving at the set … Read more
The Deputy Minister said what the government is doing now is to assess the damage caused A Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture, William Agyapong Quaito, says the ministry has not thought of any compensation package for farmers whose crops have been affected by the invasion of army worms. The Deputy Minister said what the … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces has defended the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company, a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, found to be operating illegally. According to the military, the deployment was made following a request by the Ashanti Regional Security Council. The Ashanti … Read more
The Ghana Armed Forces has defended the deployment of some of its men to protect Geo Professional Services Company, a mining company in the Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region, found to be operating illegally. According to the military, the deployment was made following a request by the Ashanti Regional Security Council. The Ashanti … Read more
The Army personnel found protecting an illegal mining site in the Ashanti Region were deployed there in 2014 upon a request from the former Deputy Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin. The Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei-Mensah revealed this to Citi News after being briefed during a Regional Security Council meeting on the issue. The soldiers were … Read more
Former Member of Parliament for Ablekuma Central in the Greater Accra Region, Theophilous Tetteh Chaie, has called on the government to put in place adequate compensation package for farmers whose crops have been attacked by fall of army worms. Mr. Tetteh Chaie alleged the Ministry of Food and Agriculture “gave the farmers wrong chemicals to … Read more
Talks to end decades of bitter civil war in Myanmar have faltered, a government spokesman warned Sunday, blaming ethnic rebel demands for greater autonomy, which the military fears could break the country up. The civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi has made striking a peace deal a key pillar of her administration, but fighting … Read more
Myanmar authorities must investigate a video showing men in military uniforms viciously beating handcuffed detainees suspected of being ethnic rebel fighters, rights groups said Sunday. The video’s emergence comes as negotiators from the civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi and the military hold peace talks with more than a dozen ethnic rebel groups in … Read more
From its rattling trams and racecourses to its legal system and the ubiquitous consumption of Spam, Britain’s colonial legacy still resonates through Hong Kong. But almost 20 years since the city was handed back to China under a deal that made it semi-autonomous, colonial emblems have become a symbol of protest. The old Hong Kong … Read more
Fifty years ago, the Igbo people of southeast Nigeria seceded, declaring an independent Republic of Biafra and sparking a brutal civil war that left about one million people dead. On May 30, 1967, the military head of Nigeria’s eastern region, Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, declares “the independent Republic of Biafra”. His move comes two days after … Read more
The president of the Philippines has come under fire for joking about rape in a speech to soldiers. While speaking at a military camp after imposing martial law across the south of the country, he said they were allowed to rape up to three women. This was the second rape joke Rodrigo Duterte has been … Read more
The masked gunmen first ordered the Christians travelling to the Egyptian desert monastery to get down from the buses they were in — and then to recant their faith. The mix of faithful visiting the sanctuary along with monastery workers refused. And one by one, the gunmen, who had lain in wait for the convoy … Read more
Friday’s attack on a bus carrying Egyptian Copts, which killed at least 28 people, was the latest in a wave of massacres of Christians and attacks on churches in the Middle East. – January 1, 2011: blast kills 23 and wounds 79, mostly Christians, as they leave a Christian Coptic church after New Year’s mass … Read more
Egypt’s Copts, targeted by gunmen Friday as they travelled in a bus to a monastery south of Cairo, are the Middle East’s largest Christian minority and one of the oldest. Making up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population of 90 million, the Coptic Orthodox form the largest Christian denomination in the Muslim-majority country. Here is … Read more
India has inaugurated a 9.15km (5.68-mile) bridge over the Lohit river, easily its longest ever, which connects the disputed state of Arunachal Pradesh with the north-eastern state of Assam. China claims Arunachal Pradesh as its own, and refers to it as “southern Tibet”. Beijing recently strongly objected to India’s decision to allow Tibetan spiritual leader … Read more
The Syrian army is in full control of the highway from Damascus to ancient Palmyra for the first time since 2014 after driving out jihadists, a monitor said on Friday. Since troops recaptured Palmyra from the Islamic State group in March, the UNESCO World Heritage site had been accessible via Syria’s third city Homs, about … Read more
At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defence ministry said Friday, in the second such assault on Western-backed forces this week. The attack in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday came just three days after 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when … Read more