Ghanaian prisoners in Libya receiving consular services – Foreign Affairs Ministry

ACCRA, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the Ghana Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, is extending consular services to at least 20 Ghanaians in prisons in Libya arrested for various crimes. The crimes they committed include operating brothels, consumption of alcohol in public, drug peddling and use,…

Marburg outbreak in Ghana officially over – GHS

Patrick Kuma Aboagye, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service ACCRA, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Ghana Health Service says the recent outbreak of the Marburg virus is now over after 42 days without anybody testing positive.The virus was first confirmed in Ghana on July 4 with three cases reported…

Ghana government has created 5.3 million jobs since 2017- Employment Minister

Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations ACCRA, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ghana’s Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, has revealed that since 2017 government has created some 5.3 million jobs.Ignatius Baffour Awuah made mention of this at the 2022 Ghana Job Fair in Sunyani.Speaking…

Plastic garbage covers Central American rivers, lakes and beaches

SAN SALVADOR, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A blanket of multi-colored plastic waste flowing in from tributaries covers Lake Suchitlan in El Salvador. Fizzy drink bottles, medication packets, tattered flipflops: all sorts of plastic rubbish can be found floating on 13,500-hectare Lake Suchitlan, which serves as a reservoir for a power…

Russia says pipeline to China will replace the abandoned European Nord Stream 2

SAMARKAND (Uzbekistan), Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Russian pipeline to China will replace the Nord Stream 2 gas link to Europe, abandoned amid the Ukraine conflict, Moscow’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. Asked in an interview with Russian television channel Rossiya-1 if Russia would replace the European Nord Stream 2…

Russian public’s confidence in Pres Putin reaches 81.5%, poll reveals

MOSCOW, Sept 17 (NNN-TASS) — The level of Russian citizens’ confidence in President Vladimir Putin has increased by 1.2 percentage points in one week, reaching 81.5%, according to the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center that on Friday published the results of a survey conducted from September 5 to 11 among…

South Africa: At least 16 school children, 3 adults die in minibus-truck collision

DURBAN (South Africa), Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 16 school children were killed Friday when a minibus collided with a truck along a South African highway around 300 kilometres north of Durban, a regional government said. The provincial KwaZulu-Natal transport ministry reported 16 deaths from the collision. Local media…

UN summit returns in person to world of divisions

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN General Assembly is back in person after the pandemic disruption but in a world as full of crises as ever, with the war in Ukraine set to pit the West against Russia. Some 150 world leaders will descend on New York for…

South Africa’s Pres Ramaphosa vows cooperation with Biden but firm on Russia ties

WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa agreed to cooperate closely with US President Joe Biden on health, security and climate but warned against punishing African nations for maintaining ties with Russia. The Biden administration has put a new focus on Africa after being taken aback by…

Sudan: 134 dead, scores of homes wiped out in seasonal floods

KHARTOUM, Sept 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Flooding in Sudan has killed at least 134 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes in the northeast African country’s ongoing wet season, police said. Heavy rains usually fall between May and October in Sudan, which faces severe flooding each year, wrecking property, infrastructure…