Dr Owen Laws Kaluwa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Representative, has called on the Government to develop and strengthen evidence-based programmes to address the mental health needs of young people. He urged the Government to put in place deliberate interventions, with the support of national policy-makers and programme managers, to prioritise and advocate for funding to finance the mental ...

Ghana has been ranked the seventh wealthiest country in Africa with a total wealth of 63 billion dollars (US$bn 63) as at December 2017. The figures were contained in The AfrAsia Bank Africa Wealth Report 2018 published in September. The report covers wealth, luxury, prime property and wealth management trends in Africa from 2007 to 2017, with projections to 2027. Ghana’s ...

The Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA) has recorded an increase in maternal deaths at the various health facilities in the metropolis. A report compiled by the assembly attributed the deaths to bleeding after birth, late reporting, religious beliefs, unsafe abortion and hypertension. The report indicated that five of the women were referred to Effia-Nkwanta Regional Referral Hospital from other surrounding districts. ...

Mr Adama Dieng, the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Genocide Prevention, has said that early warning and respect for human rights are critical components in conflict prevention and mitigation. He said that violent conflicts, which resulted into atrocity crimes, did not just happened overnight; adding that there were always early signs of conflicts. “When the warning signs ...

The Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) and GS1-Ghana, a global organization that specializes in management of barcodes system, has held a joint workshop on standards and labelling requirements for local businesses. The one-day workshop, which assembled manufacturers and retailers, was aimed at providing an avenue for stakeholders to discuss issues related to standardisation and labelling requirements to promote trade. It was also to ...

The Alliance for Development and Industrialization (ADI) is asking the government to establish a US$1billion commodity diversification and alternative livelihood for cocoa farmers as well as the non- traditional export sector in the country. This commodity diversification could triple the country’s agriculture export income within 3 to 4 years. As the country’s export earnings increases it would stabilize the fiat ...

Since Marie Chantal Akingeneye lost her only cow to an unknown illness, she has no source for manure for her fruits and vegetables – but she hopes a new phone app could help. After attending a training by the United Nations, which developed the technology, she thinks the app will help to keep her goats and pigs healthy and modernise ...

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has said the Germany Ghana Investors Forum is a platform set to boost trade ties between the country and Europe. Mr. Ofori Atta said, “What we’re seeing is a certain clarity with regards to the Compact Africa and how Germany is looking at interventions to make sure that we sustain the type of progress that we ...

Basic schools in the country could study lesser number of subjects from the next academic year, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has hinted. It said the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has been tasked to carry out the review with a view to reducing them. The review of the subjects would be done at the kindergarten, primary and ...

Figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reveal that 53,114 abortions were supervised in public health facilities in the country in 2017. Unsafe abortion also recorded 13,918 in the same period as compared to 15,325 unsafe abortion cases in 2016, Mr Raphael Godlove Athena, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a health-inclined non-governmental organisation, has said. In ...