In a controversial move, Ghanaian lawmakers have overwhelmingly passed a bill criminalizing homosexual activity, brushing aside warnings from Western governments, including the US and France. The legislation, officially titled the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill but widely known as the Anti-Gay Bill, received unanimous approval from parliament on Wednesday, marking the culmination... 

Ghana has given regulatory clearance to a new malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University scientists. The West African country is the first in the world to approve the use of the R21/Matrix-MTM serum, the university said on Thursday. The vaccine has been endorsed by Ghana’s drug regulator, the Food and Drugs Authority, “for use in children aged five to 36 months, the age group at the highest... 

Tech behemoth Microsoft is bribing clients in the Middle East and Africa on a massive scale, according to whistleblower Yasser Elabd, a 20-year employee of the firm who published his testimony on Friday on the website Lioness. Elabd claims the company spends more than $200 million annually on bribes and kickback schemes in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Ghana, among other countries. Worse,... 

During Friday’s United Nations Security Council (UNSC) emergency meeting, representatives for Ghana, India, Brazil, Kenya, China, Mexico and Gabon voiced concern about Russia’s claims that the United States is secretly funding illegal biological research in Ukraine and other countries across the globe. As Western nations and their media lapdogs continue to echo the narrative that accusations of... 

Police in Italy arrested an armed illegal migrant suspected of attacking a mother and her child at a bus stop, according to reports. The incident unfolded on Tuesday in Naples. Police on patrol were approached by people who alerted them that a crazed man was on a rampage on a nearby street, Il Mattino reports. Officers encountered the violent suspect, who was wielding a hammer. After a struggle, they... 

This has got to be the funniest Football news report you have EVER seen in your life. Watch how Ghana’s UTV presents the scores between European football clubs. The way he pronounces these names is priceless. Sure Africans in general have a lower IQ so this kind of explains it but still… this is insane and funniest thing ever, for example he calls Sheffield United: “shflf unatad”... 

Two men have been sentenced to nine years in prison after tricking the “blind drunk student” into their car and taking her back to their flat after promising to take her home, The Irish Times reports. The woman said in court that she’d been about to pass out after a night clubbing with her friends. A video taken in the apartment showed the victim staggering around the apartment before collapsing.... 

A UK Foreign Aid project to the value of £11 million ($14 million) in northern Ghana not only failed to alleviate poverty in its targeted 26,500 African villagers, but also resulting in a lower “cognitive test score” in the population, an official report has revealed. The report, titled “Impact Evaluation Of The Sada Millennium Villages Project In Northern Ghana: Endline Summary Report,”... 

An African convicted of Britain’s largest ever financial fraud—which involved $2.3 billion and nearly brought down Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS—is about to be deported back to his native Ghana, unless Britain’s Pakistani origin Home Secretary and former Managing Director of Deutsche Bank, Sajid Javid, changes his mind. News of Kweku Adoboli’s pending deportation—which comes after... 

Up to 5,000 US blacks have moved back to Ghana—and thousands more to other African states—over the past few years as part of a growing movement to live in a society in which they say they will be able to live in a world “in which black people are in charge.” The slowly growing “return to Africa” movement was highlighted in a recent article on the Al Jazeera news service, titled “Why... 

Health workers stand inside the Elwa hospital in the Liberian capital Monrovia on September 7, 2014. West African countries still have a long way to go to beat back the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, a senior UN official says. “I think the response (to Ebola) has been successful but we have a long way to go,” Anthony Banbury, the outgoing head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency... 

The World Health Organization (WHO) is hosting an emergency meeting in Ghana as the death toll from the deadly Ebola virus keeps rising in West Africa. Health officials from eleven African countries are meeting in Ghana’s capital city of Accra on Wednesday to find a way to contain the deadliest outbreak of the virus in history. Representatives from Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the... 

Sailors prepare to board Argentinean frigate Libertad in Tema, Ghana on December 19, 2012, after an international tribunal ordered its release. An Argentinean warship has left Ghana after a UN court ordered its release following an injunction by a US hedge fund to detain it in Accra. Port spokesman Lawrence Atumbine said the Libertad set sail from the port of Tema after Ghana’s Supreme Court “nullified”... 

Fastjet flight FTZ1A lands at Dar es Salaam International airport late on November 29, 2012. The world’s first pan-African low-cost airline, Fastjet, has commenced commercial operations, enjoying a popular demand on its first day of flights. “Fastjet… commenced commercial flight operations yesterday, with its first aircraft flying passengers from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza, and Dar es Salaam... 

A sailor from the Argentinean frigate Libertad seized in a port in Ghana in connection with a debt dispute, runs pas the frigate at Tema Port near Accra. Argentina prepared, October 21, 2012 Argentina has lost its international court battle against a US hedge fund over an impounded navy ship in Accra after a judge blocked an attempt to challenge the authority of Ghanaian courts. Accra’s Commercial...