Tag Archives: DEATHS

  The poor road system in the area has been attributed to the deaths of pregnant women and their unborn babies by the people of Japandu, a rural hamlet that is close to Kuntenanse but lies inside the Bosomefreho District of the Ashanti Region. According to the residents, the bad …

  Eric Kojo Duah, who is suspected of shooting General Lance Corporal Mohammed Awal and Lance Corporal Michael Dzamesi to death in August 2019 while traveling from Kasoa to Budumburam in Accra, was sentenced to 20 years in jail as part of a plea deal with the State. After initially …

Residents of Emena in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti Region have expressed fear after recording four mysterious deaths in one month after cemetery desecration. According to them, they suspect mysterious deaths have hit the community following the destruction of the town’s old age cemetery and some sacred places by …

Kenyan President William Ruto on Friday appointed a commission of inquiry into the deaths of more than 100 people believed to have starved themselves to death, while a court ordered that the cult leader remain in prison. The commission of inquiry, announced on Friday by presidential spokesman Hussein Mohamed, will …

Ghana recorded four deaths and 116 confirmed cases of the Monkeypox disease in 2022, in 14 out of the 16 regions. Two deaths were recorded in Upper East and one each in the Greater Accra and Central regions. The Savannah and Ahafo regions did not record any cases, Dr Farida …

The Births and Deaths Registry (BDR) has organized a two-day stakeholders engagement in Koforidua the Eastern Regional capital, to find ways of improving death registration coverage. The stakeholders’ engagement was under the Public Sector Reform for Results Project Initiative of the Registry which seeks to develop Administrative Caveat for curbing …

Officials in Poland and Germany are trying to work out the cause of a mass fish die-off along the Oder river, which runs between the two countries. Thousands of dead fish have been appearing along hundreds of kilometres of the river since late last month. It is thought that a …

South African authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 22 young people in a nightclub. The victims were found strewn across floors and tables the Enyobeni Tavern in the coastal town of East London. The bodies were taken to mortuaries, where post-mortem examinations – including toxicology tests – will …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has reported three covid-19 related deaths after the country began recording new cases over the past weeks. The three deaths were recorded between June 14 to June 16. GHS has also reported 243 new cases with 14 of the cases being severe and two people in critical …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGESimage captionThe virus continues to spread in Brazil amid a lack of co-ordinated measures The number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 500,000 in Brazil, the second-highest in the world, as experts say the outbreak could worsen amid slow vaccination and the start of winter. The virus …