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“Trauma from terrorism” hurts families, communities and destabilizes entire regions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, as he expressed solidarity with victims of extremist attacks in Africa. Speaking in Nairobi at the opening of a conference on counter-terrorism, Mr. Guterres recalled how attackers had laid siege to a hotel complex in the capital in January, killing 21 people. Africans ...

BuddeComm’s Telecoms Maturity Index for this year indicates that from a second position last year, Ghana has been completely displaced from the top three and even not listed among the market challengers. The rankings for 2019 showed Mauritius still maintained its lead from last year, as the most matured telecom market on the continent with a 49 score, while Algeria ...

A win by the informal coalition of civil society, traditional and social media activism which has pushed government to backtrack on the intended new 450 seater parliamentary chamber at a cost of $200M, is a statement of empowerment and confidence in the Ghanaian. The unexpected U-turn by Parliament to backtrack on the intended project under the hashtag #Dropthatchamber is a ...

The Chief Director of the Ministry of Planning, Ms Marian Kpakpah, has urged the youth to take advantage of the opportunities offered them to impact the country’s development agenda. She noted that young people were now taking on more valued roles and addressing issues that were relevant to them and which were influencing decisions regarding their development. Ms Kpakpah was ...

The global response to realizing poverty and environmental goals agreed by world leaders in 2015 has not been “ambitious enough” according to the UN Secretary-General. In his latest report on the progress towards meeting the targets of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, the UN chief António Guterres said that while a “wealth of action” had been taken by governments across ...

Heavy flooding and landslides in the Rohingya refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, has left thousands of children and families in an increasingly dire situation with critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday, while scaling up relief efforts to those vulnerable children. “Conditions in the camps and host community are deteriorating rapidly because ...

A Renowned global development economist, Professor Sir Paul Collier, has called on Africa to prioritise the development of its youthful population by creating a promising future for them. According to him, the new opportunity for Africa was its youthful demography as the rest of the world was basically becoming short of youth, indicating that Africa could take advantage of such ...

I am starting to sense that “which way the wind is blowing” with my girlfriend, and I think she may break up with me soon. No this cannot be!  We have been in love for so many years. Wait a minute, this is similar to the case of the Ghanaian Youth and its political system. I am tempted to say ...

Fiscal policy think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has bemoaned the low numbers of people covered by pensions in the country and further revealed that the informal nature of the economy had left well over 80 per cent of Ghanaians without sustained income upon retirement. The issue of low pensions coverage is more pronounced with women, with men ...

Food aid is being tripled for troubled Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to respond to what the World Food Programme (WFP) has described as the world’s second largest hunger crisis in the world, after Yemen. In addition to worsening hunger, communities in north-east DRC face a deadly Ebola outbreak and inter-ethnic clashes that claimed at ...