The practice of child marriage has continued to decline globally, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report published on Wednesday, warning that a ‘polycrisis’ including war, climate shocks, and the continuing COVID pandemic, is putting the fragile gains made towards ending the scourge, under threat. Currently, one in five young women aged 20 to 24, were married as ...

The Forestry Commission has revealed that 34 out of 288 forest reserves in the country are currently under threat due to illegal mining activities known as ‘galamsey’. This comes at a time government’s fight against the menace has been questioned following a report put together by the former chairman of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on illegal mining, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, ...

The Chairman of the Kumasi Presbytery of the Global Evangelical Church has asked the government to admit its failure in the fight against illegal mining. Rev. Dr. Smith Francis Korbla Tettey says evidence available to Ghanaians in the form of destruction of the environment, including water bodies does not support the claim that the Nana Addo-led government is on course ...

The Liaison Group for Mining in Forest Reserves has successfully completed the conversion of the Environmental Guidelines for Mining in Forest Reserves into Legislative Instrument (L.I)to provide legal backing for the regulation of mining operations in Forest reserves in Ghana. The L.I, labeled, ’Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves Regulations, 2022, L.I 2462) was passed and came into force in ...

Taking advantage of relative calm, many residents in Khartoum and the neighbouring city of Omdurman emerged from their homes to seek food and water, lining up at bakeries or grocery stores, after days of being trapped inside by the fighting between the army and a rival paramilitary group. Some inspected shops or homes that had been destroyed or looted. People ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday launched a new initiative to help strengthen countries’ ability to plan for, and deal with, another deadly pandemic like COVID-19, as the latest figures show a huge fall in COVID deaths this year. The guidance provides a joined-up approach for responding to the threat or arrival of any respiratory pathogen such as flu or the ...

Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor says the government is launching an aggressive campaign to conserve the country’s forest reserve. Mr. Jinapor claims that all attacks against the country’s forests will be met with resistance. His comment comes after Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng’s damming report on galamsey in Ghana. Samuel Abu Jinapor says the Forestry Commission is up to ...

Fitch Ratings has downgraded Ghana’s Long-Term Local-Currency (LTLC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to ‘RD’ from ‘CCC’. It has also downgraded to ‘CC’ from ‘CCC’ and subsequently withdrawn the issue ratings on five local-currency bonds issued prior to the domestic debt exchange. It affirmed the issue rating of local-currency bonds issued on the completion date of the domestic debt exchange at ...

The Ghana Education Service(GES) has interdicted Mr. Kenneth Agbomodze, Headmaster of Fijai Senior High School with immediate effect over alleged illegal fees collection in the school. This was contained in a statement issued by the GES on Tuesday, April 18. He has been asked to hand over the administration of the school to the Western Regional Director of Education. The ...

G7 foreign ministers on Tuesday urged warring forces in Sudan to “end hostilities immediately” and return to negotiations, after clashes that have killed almost 200 people. A weeks-long power struggle exploded into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, ...