A new law criminalising sexual violence and harassment has come into force in Morocco. The law – which includes a ban on forced marriage – follows growing concern in recent years about levels of abuse against women. One survey found that six in 10 Moroccan women had suffered some kind of violence. Recent rape cases have received wide coverage on ...

Ghana’s Black Starlets have made the 2019 Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations’ WAFU Zone B qualifying tournament final after beating Ivory Coast 2-1 on Wednesday. Coach Karim Zito’s boys had to come from behind to score two quick goals late in the first half of the game at Stade Général Seyni Kountché in Niamey. The Ivorians capitalized on a mistake ...

The Fifa/Caf mission has named Dr. Kofi Amoah as president of a five-member Normalization Committee for the Ghana Football Association (GFA). Caf’s Amaju Pinnick as well as Fifa duo Luca Nicola and Veron Mosengo-Omba conducted interviews with proposed candidates for the Committee which will steer the affairs of the country’s football for the next six months – no later than ...

The Mayor of Accra, Mohammed Adjei Sowah, has urged city dwellers to use social media as a tool to help change negative behaviour towards sanitation. According to him, the considerable rise in the use of social media provides not only an opportunity to reach a large audience but also contribute to improve knowledge and attitude towards sanitation in the city. The Mayor made ...

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Trobu constituency in the Greater Accra region, Moses Anim,  has advised parents to invest more in their children’s education than they do in funerals. Speaking on Onua FM’s current affairs programme, Ghana Dadwen, Monday, the MP who doubles as the Majority Chief Whip asked parents to use the Free Senior High school policy as ...

A former Chief Economist at the Bank of Ghana, Dr. A. O Abudu says most Ghanaians have failed to properly put their skills and knowledge acquired through education to use. Dr. Abudu who was speaking on 3FM’s Sunrise morning show said there is a disconnect between what people learn in school and the implementation of such skills on the job ...

The Minister of Planning, Prof George Gyan-Baffour, has reiterated government’s commitment to increasing the country’s per capita income to $3,500 by the year 2024. The move, according to him, forms part of the national development programme as captured under the seven-year Coordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies (CPESDP) of government. Speaking at the regional dissemination event in Kumasi, ...

Inflation for the month of August inched up to 9.9 per cent, 0.3 percentage points higher than the 9.6 per cent recorded for July 2018, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced. The increases were informed by rising prices of food and non-food items used for measuring changes in prices, relative to the same period the previous year. In spite ...

Mr Ishmael Ashitey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, has charged Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the Region to strictly enforce their sanitation bye laws devoid of political interference. Mr Ashitey said the indiscriminate dumping of refuse, open defecation and other sanitation challenges are high in the Greater Accra Region due to the inability of the Assemblies to enforce the laws ...

Spain’s impressive start to the Nations League continued as they thrashed World Cup runners-up Croatia. Luis Enrique’s side – who beat England at Wembley in their opener in the competition on Saturday – never looked back after Saul Niguez’s headed opener. Marco Asensio fired in from 20 yards and then, shortly after, saw another rifled effort hit the bar and ...