After 72 hours of anxiety awaiting the results of the presidential poll, Ghanaians were relieved to learn that they had a new leader: Nana Akufo-Addo.

The discovery of sub-Saharan Africa’s fourth largest oil reserve has been hailed as a panacea for Uganda. But even it will generate only two barrels of oil per citizen per year.

Construction companies operating in the Gulf are failing to protect migrant workers from abusive working arrangements, and are not open about the safeguards they have in place.

Illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon hits its highest level in eight years - raising fears that the country could lose a decade of progress in forest protection.

Illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is at its highest level in eight years - raising fears that the country could lose a decade’s worth of progress in forest protection.

Illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is at its highest level in eight years - raising fears that the country could lose a decade’s worth of progress in forest protection.

Illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is at its highest level in eight years - raising fears that the country could lose a decade’s worth of progress in forest protection.

Ghanaians go to the polls with two leading candidates who are nothing if not familiar.

About 65 per cent of Ethiopian households that escaped poverty between 1997 and 2004 were again living in poverty by 2009.

Nepal has drained Imja lake in the Everest region to safe levels to avoid disastrous flooding.