MindFreedom Ghana, a  mental health advocacy organization, has unveiled a two-year project to help fight the underlining challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic facing persons with mental health conditions and promote their fundamental rights to live decent lives as every citizen. The ongoing project, which commenced in 2020 and is expected to end in 2022, highlights the “Institutional strengthening and awareness-raising ...

Residents in the Ledzokuku Municipal Assembly of the Greater Accra Region on Tuesday, 26 October, 2021 defied the strong winds and heavy rain to attend a community durbar structured to educate them on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of Persons with mental health conditions.   The durbar was meant to raise awareness and equip the public with the requisite ...

ABANTU for Development and the Women’s Manifesto Coalition (WMC) of Ghana have joined hands to offer their sincerest congratulations to Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo on being confirmed as the first woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Legon.  “We take tremendous pride in the promotion of Prof. Amfo to the high profile position in institutional administration at the University ...

More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).  The region has been hit hard by successive years of severe drought, forcing families in rural communities to resort to desperate measures just to survive.  Madagascar, the fourth largest island in ...

A section of African Civil Society Organizations and individuals have welcomed the abortion, by the UN Secretary-General, of the appointment of Mr Matt Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and MP for West Suffolk as Special Representative for Financial Innovation and Climate Change of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The Organizations argue that ...

U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Stephanie Sullivan joined the President of Ghana H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo and other Ghana government officials to formally inaugurate the Pokuase Bulk Supply Point (BSP) in Accra today.  The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funded the $64.7 million (GH₵ 391.9 million) electrical infrastructure project under the Ghana Power Compact. “The Pokuase Bulk Supply Point represents sustainable infrastructure ...

Hindus are urging Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to urgently intervene in the affairs of elite Achimota School so that minority religions do not have to sacrifice their beliefs to enroll or continue their education.  Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Ghana prided itself on being a nation of high religious tolerance and ...

A new research by the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has found that a presidential candidate will need at least $100 million to win an election in Ghana. “And the cost of running for president, the study estimated that the most viable sum of money that a person who needed to run for president was $100 million…this is why we ...

To drive greater awareness around breast cancer, empower and support breast cancer patients in Nigeria and Ghana, Pfizer along with medical professionals held a media roundtable. Pfizer held the media roundtable to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Metastatic Breast Cancer Day that falls on the 13th of October. The roundtable was attended by two reputable medical professionals from Nigeria ...

The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fuelled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned ahead of World Food Day. . “The climate crisis has the potential to overwhelm humanity. The world is not prepared for the unprecedented ...