Ghana is among many countries in Africa struggling to fight child trafficking and slavery with the country placed on a watch list in the 2017 Trafficking in Persons report.
44 African leaders on Wednesday signed onto the world’s largest free trade area at a gathering in Rwanda with countries like Nigeria and Uganda missing out for the mean time.
The World Health Organization has announced that some 16 African countries are exposed to the deadly listeriosis outbreak which is linked to contaminated meat food in South Africa.
Rights group Amnesty International has accused Nigeria's army of ignoring warnings about the abduction of over 100 school girls in the country’s Yobe state.