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The identity of a 32-year-old Ghanaian man who was shot and killed by a uniformed Brooklyn police officer after altercations while the latter was arresting a suspect, has popped up in the list of black persons slain by US police. According to reports, Kwasi Ashun who had earlier been diagnosed …

A new video has surfaced online, showing not just one but three Minneapolis Police Department officers kneeling on George Floyd during his arrest on Monday. In the video, George Floyd can be heard begging that he could not breathe, he later died in the Police custody. Previously, a video was …

World-renowned singer Rihanna has spoken out for the first time on the murder of black American George Floyd by a white police officer. According to Rihanna, the murder has left her angry, sad, and devastated – she’s essentially broken from the racism on display. Rihanna took to Facebook to send …

Moussa Faki Mahamat, the chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission, has condemned the killing of a unarmed black man in the US city of Minneapolis, calling it “murder”. George Floyd, 46, died in police custody on Monday. A white police officer was filmed kneeling on his neck, despite him …

Nigeria’s information minister has said the country is yet to receive ventilators promised by US President Donald Trump in April. Lai Mohammed has denied Mr Trump’s remarks made last week that he had sent 1,000 ventilators to the West African country. Mr Mohammed said that if the consignment had arrived, …

Transparency International, the nongovernmental organization based in Germany, defines corruption as the misuse of public power for private benefit. The organization’s most recent version of its Corruption Perceptions Index also states that the failure to significantly control corruption is fueling a global crisis in democracy. Colombia is perceived to be …

Houdini was one of three people taken to hospital with injuries but he was pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m. The two others, a woman, 27, and a 15-year-old boy are expected to recover from the attack. Toronto Police believe it was targeted shooting after gunfire broke out outside the hotel …

Ghanaian rapper Eno Barony has called out American rapper Nicki Minaj in a desperate attempt to keep her newfound popularity climbing even higher. Eno, in a new freestyle, completely slammed Nicki and said the U.S rapper thanks her God every day that she was not born American Eno Barony has discovered over the past …

Rapidly rising water overtook dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in the central part of the US state of Michigan, where flooding struck communities along rain-swollen waterways and the governor said one downtown could be “under approximately 9 feet [2.7 metres] of water” by Wednesday. For the …

he Ghana Embassy in the United States of America (USA) has revealed that 20 Ghanaians have died from the coronavirus in that part of the world. Kofi Tonto, an official at the Public Affairs Department at the Embassy, told Alfred Ocansey in an interview on the Sunrise morning show on …