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The 245 Ghanaians illegally living in Kuwait who are expected to be deported back to Ghana today have arrived at Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport in a Kuwaiti aircraft. Starr News sources at the airport say the deportees arrived a short while ago and are undergoing arrival processes. Ghana’s Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah revealed the news of ...

Negotiations remain the only way to overcome the ongoing political deadlock in Venezuela, especially given the potentially far-reaching impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior UN official told the Security Council on Wednesday. “Venezuela is mired in a deepening protracted crisis that only Venezuelans can resolve,” said Rosemary A. DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. Despite significant international facilitation ...

The Auditor-General has once again revealed a harrowing tale of payroll fraud involving 21 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) which has resulted in the state losing GH¢467,634,792. According to the Auditor-General, a study conducted between June 2018 and January 2020, discovered that 7,823 ‘ghosts’ names were on the public sector payroll of the MDAs. Contained in a report presented to ...

Ghana has confirmed 173 new COVID-19 cases. This makes the total confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus stand at 6,269, according to the latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The increase, per the GHS update, is attributed to new cases found in Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western and Central regions. The update also indicated 125 more recoveries, raising the number of recoveries to ...

Over 400 structures including an orphanage have been demolished at Jamestown to pave way for the construction of a fishing habour in the area. The $60 million project will have a landing site, storage facilities and recreational area. However residents affected by the demolition protested the exercise, claiming that they were not informed ahead of time. Narrating the incidence, Joy ...

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has advised Government not to rush with plans to reopen schools, explaining that proper planning must be taken in making such a decision. He said, government should forget about reopening for this academic year, while urging them to use this period to access the current situation of schools, especially the lower primaries ...

Mr. Prosper Bani, a former Head of the United Nations Development Programme Crisis Prevention and Recovery Team for Africa, has urged African leaders to invest in Disaster Risk Prevention and Management to ready the continent to respond to unpredicted crises. Africa’s development, he said, was being challenged by the lack of a strategy to link disaster risk reduction to development ...

Ghana has received samples of Madagascar’s highly publicized COVID-19 remedy and preventive herbal mixture; the Ministry of Information has indicated. In a tweet on its page, the Info Ministry indicated that testing has begun to confirm its efficacy. The Ministry also indicated that like all drugs, it will be tested by the FDA and in this case, by Center for Plant Medicine, ...

Zimbabwe’s justice minister has threatened to prosecute three female opposition members who allege they were arrested and then abducted from police custody and sexually assaulted. They say they were beaten and forced to drink each other’s urine. The three, including an MP, are being treated in hospital for their injuries. Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the women made up the ...

Sudan is required to pay punitive damages to some of the victims of the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania carried out by al-Qaeda, the US Supreme Court has ruled. More than 200 people died and thousands were injured in the attacks. Sudan was accused of giving al-Qaeda and its leader Osama Bin Laden technical and financial support. The ...