By: Julius Addae ODURO Ho Municipal Football Association has organized a one-day seminar for media officers of division three clubs on Tuesday April 16, 2024 at the Volta Regional Football Association secretariat in Ho. The one-day seminar enlightened participants on match day updates and its importance, social media brands and marketing and the use of social media flyers. A section ...

By Kelly Ng,BBC News At least 39 people have been killed in Pakistan after days of unusually heavy rains battered the country’s southwest. Some of those killed were farmers struck by lightning while harvesting wheat, authorities said. Images online show swathes of farmland engulfed by rainwater. Flash floods have also disrupted power supplies and transportation networks. Pakistan has experienced an ...

Nearly 60 people have died since the start of this month in heavy rains and flooding that has hit several parts of Tanzania, the government said.  The coastal region of the East African country is one of the worst affected, with floods damaging thousands of farms there, Mobhare Matinyi, the government spokesperson, said in a statement on Sunday.  “Serious flood ...

By: Julius Addae Oduro Philanthropist and Physician Assistant , Edmond Amos Ameamu, on Wednesday April 10, 2024 donated eight (8) white formica boards to Hodzo-Ve MA Basic School in the Volta Region,Ghana. This was part of his initiatives to reach out to learners in hard- to-reach communities in the Volta Region and Ghana at large. Miss Janet Adanu, a partner ...

By Brandon Drenon,BBC News The parents of a Michigan teenager who shot dead four students have each been sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison.  A seven-year sentence was recommended, but prosecutors asked for more.  James and Jennifer Crumbley, the first parents of a US school shooter to be convicted, appeared together for the first time in months at ...

Millions of people across Mexico, the US and Canada looked to the skies on Monday to witness a total solar eclipse carve a narrow path of darkness across the continent.Its shadow first touched the surface of the Earth in the Pacific Ocean before travelling across Mexico, turning daylight into darkness as crowds watched on. The eclipse rolled over the border ...

By Ido Vock,BBC News More than 90 people have died after a ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, local authorities say.  Officials in Nampula province said five people had been rescued of the around 130 believed to have been on board. They were fleeing a cholera outbreak, Nampula Secretary of State Jaime Neto said. Many children were among ...

By Jonathan O’Callaghan Millions of observers will watch next week’s American solar eclipse from the ground. But a few lucky Nasa flight crews will get a much closer view. When a total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday 8 April, an estimated 31 million people will be in its path – watching. Many more are likely to travel for the ...

By Nadine Yousif,BBC News The first man to receive a genetically modified kidney transplant from a pig has been discharged from hospital.  The 62-year-old was sent home on Wednesday, two weeks after the ground-breaking surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  Organ transplants from genetically modified pigs have failed in the past.  But the success of this procedure so far has ...

https://bbc.com/africalive Kenya’s largest public referral hospital has announced that it will dispose hundreds of unclaimed bodies currently at its morgue if family members will not collect them. “Interested members of the public are therefore requested to identify and collect the bodies within seven days, failure to which the hospital will seek authority from the courts to dispose of them,” the ...