The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations children’s agency have urged African governments to promote the safe reopening of schools during the coronavirus pandemic. They say prolonged closure of schools is harmful to students and want governments to invest in sanitation facilities to prevent the spread of coronavirus in learning institutions. The two organisations said students are being exposed ...

The inability of parents and guardians to buy sanitary pads and properly feed young girls have been identified as key factors pushing young girls to engage in unprotected sex in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of the Central Region. Some parents have neglected their core responsibility of caring for their children’s basic needs like food, medical care, shelter, clothing, love, attention, understanding, ...

The Nigerian government says it is taking steps to ensure it ends the ongoing retail trade feud with Ghana. This follows the closure of retail shops owned by foreigners by a task force put together by the Trade Ministry. The PRO of the Ministry had said it is against the laws of Ghana for foreigners to own retail shops in ...

Renowned Kenyan pan-Africanist, Professor of Law and anti-corruption crusader, Patrick Loch Otieno (PLO) Lumumba has admonished the youth to remain resolute in their contribution towards development and unification of the African continent. This he urged them to do without fear of vilification of critics for speaking the truth. Professor Lumumba who was addressing members of the PLO Lumumba Foundation Ghana ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Wednesday cut the sod for the construction of an integrated recycling, compost and water treatment plant at Assakae in the Effia-Kwesimintsim Municipality of the Western Region. The Plant would receive, sort, and process four hundred tonnes of solid waste, and treat some 1,000 cubic meters of waste water of about two million people in the Municipality. The ...

The masterminds of Mali’s coup that ousted President Ibrahim Keïta on Tuesday include the deputy head of a military camp and a French-trained general. BBC Monitoring has profiled three high-ranking military leaders thought to have played key roles in the coup. 1. Col Malick Diaw He is the deputy head of the Kati camp where the mutiny started. There is ...

At least 45 migrants and refugees, including five children, have died in the deadliest shipwreck off Libya this year, the UN refugee agency says. They were among more than 80 people on board a vessel whose engine exploded off the coast of Zwara, the UNHCR said. The deaths were reported by some 37 survivors rescued by local fishermen. Both the UNHCR ...

Soldiers who ousted Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta say they plan to set up a civilian transitional government and hold new elections. The spokesman for the soldiers said they acted to prevent the country falling further into chaos. President Keïta resigned on Tuesday night saying he did not want “blood to be spilled to keep me in power”. The African ...

Expectant mothers in Aromo Sub-county, Lira District, are now delivering with the help of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) following the recent closure of a maternity ward at Aromo Health Centre III. On June 24, part of a ceiling board collapsed on mothers in the labour ward at the government health facility, prompting the authorities to shut it down. The ward, ...

A total of 654 persons living with HIV/Aids in Adjumani District have not collected their antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs from health facilities for the past six months, Daily Monitor has learnt. They have also not shown up for viral load testing and adherence counselling sessions at various health facilities. The health officer in-charge of HIV/Aids management, Mr Dlorence Inyani Mane, said ...