The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and its partners met to celebrate the transformation of private maternity homes in Ghana. Midwives, Government of Ghana representatives, USAID staff, and partners gathered in Accra for the occasion. The event included presentations, poster exhibitions, and a panel discussion on revitalizing the private maternity sector in Ghana. […]
US President Donald Trump has asked the Pentagon to organise a large military parade in the nation’s capital. The president made the request of top military chiefs in late January, after reportedly being impressed by a French Bastille Day parade last year. “It was one of the greatest parades I’ve ever seen,” he later said. […]
The UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth, Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake will pay a working visit to Ghana on Wednesday February 7 as part of her five country African tour. According to statement by the UNFPA and copied to the GNA, Ms. Wickramanayake with her visit will be advocating for Africa to implement the AU Roadmap for Harnessing […]
President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Joseph Kabila will not contest in elections when they are next held, the information minister Lambert Mende has told the Voice of America channel. According to him, Kabila intends to respect the consitution of the country and to hand over power after the December 2018 elections. The […]
Israel on Sunday began warning thousands of African migrants that they must leave by the end of March, officials said, under a plan that could see them jailed if they refuse. Immigration authority spokeswoman Sabine Haddad told AFP that officials began issuing migrants letters on Sunday advising them that they had 60 days in which […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the Ghana Health Service; the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA); Samsung; and Good Neighbors (a Korean NGO) are digitizing healthcare in rural and hard-to-reach communities using touchscreen tablets. Under this partnership, the e-Tracker—a tablet-based tool was developed to allow health workers to electronically collect and analyze health […]
At least five migrants have been shot in the French port city of Calais, after a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans. Four Eritrean youths aged 16-18 are in a critical condition and have been rushed to a local hospital for surgery, AFP news agency reports. A fifth man was taken to nearby Lille due […]
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Africa’s largest peacebuilding organisation, has called on the African Union (AU) to re-engage Kenya’s two leaders as part of efforts to resolve the unfolding political crises in that country. Dr Chukwuemeka B. Eze, the Executive Director of WANEP, described as very unfortunate the ‘self inauguration’ of Mr Raila […]
The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National Resistance Movement (NRM) as an illegal entity. According to a special gazette notice issued today under the Prevention of organized Crimes Act, the government declared as follows: “IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by section 22 of the organized Crimes Act of […]
The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of TV channels that defied a ban on live coverage of the the symbolic inauguration of Raila Odinga as “the people’s president”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. The human rights body released a statement that also highlighted the deteriorating human rights record […]
