SEND-Ghana, one of Ghana’s foremost policy think –tanks has released its preliminary assessment of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, focusing on Health; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH); Education; Agriculture; Social Protection; the SDGs; and Taxation. According to a release signed by Emmanuel Ayifah (PhD), Deputy Country Director for SEND GHANA, on Friday 26th November, 2021,revealed that , the organisation’s ...

The government has said that all 11 countries will be removed from the UK’s travel red list from 4am on Wednesday.Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe are on the list. The red list was reintroduced in late November as a precaution after the emergence of the Omicron variant.But Health Secretary Sajid Javid said ...

A Christian movement, Advocates for Christ Ghana (A4CG) is kicking against plans to make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory in the country. The movement says while the vaccines are good, people must be encouraged to take them and allowed to voluntarily decide on that. Speaking on Eyewitness News, the chairman of the movement, Edem Senanu said there is no basis or need for ...

A South African court has ruled that the country’s former President Jacob Zuma should be returned to prison, saying his medical parole was “unlawful”. The time he has spent out of prison should not be counted in his 15-month sentence, the Pretoria court ruled. Mr Zuma was released on 5 September for an undisclosed medical condition. He had been jailed ...

The new coronavirus variant Omicron is spreading across the globe at an unprecedented rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned Cases of the heavily mutated variant have been confirmed in 77 countries. But at a press conference, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was probably in many others that had yet to detect it. Dr Tedros said he ...

Commercial quantities of iron ore deposits have been discovered in a farming community known as Arokrowa in the Oti Region. The discovery made by the Ghana Geological Survey Authority [GGSA] indicates the iron ore deposits are of a 55.22 weight percent (fe) and a higher grade. The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel A Jinapor at a meeting with the Chiefs and people of ...

The Special Budget Committee of Parliament will not consider budget estimates for the Electoral Commission until the Chairperson of the commission appears before it. This is according to a member of the committee and Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Ahmed Ibrahim. The consideration of the budget estimates for the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation has also hit a snag. At the ...

West Africa’s leading exploration drilling company, Geodrill Ghana Ltd. has donated a further amount of GH₵20,000 towards the treatment of a borehole water for Pearl Safe Haven shelter.  The gesture, the company indicated, is geared towards ensuring the women in the shelter get purified water for their basic needs.  Adding to the sustainability of the facility, they will also be able ...

The government has released funds to pay at least three months arrears of personnel of the Youth in Afforestation module, who have threatened to embark on a sit-down strike. The youth said they had not been paid their allowances for the past five months. Mr John Allotey, the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, confirmed that the workers were ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is rolling back progress on key childhood challenges such as poverty, health and access to education, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on Thursday, representing the biggest global crisis for children since the agency was founded 75 years ago.  The widespread impact of the pandemic continues to deepen, the report warned, increasing poverty, entrenching inequality and threatening the rights ...