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Each year, around May, the Gonjas people of Ghana’s Northern Region celebrate the Damba festival, where Islam and indigenous customs come together. Three days of events and celebrations. To remember the past but also to discuss currents issues. Bole is a small town and is the capital of Bole district, in the Northern Region of Ghana. The town is only ...

Civil society organizations working in the area of climate change have   given thumbs up to government for its intention to set up a ‘Ghana   Green Fund’ to finance climate related initiatives. The move, according to the organizations “is laudable and must be pursued,” as it would assist in pulling together fragmented climate change interventions which are never up-scaled and therefore ...

Two elections in two months have not settled Kenya’s political crisis. But the impasse is not really about who will sit in State House. It’s a deeper question: it’s about who owns Kenya – its citizens or a historically entrenched political elite. Kenya went back to the polls on 26 October after the Supreme Court annulled the first attempt in August. ...

The Kwesi Botchway Report is the result of a committee set up by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) after the party’s disastrous performance at the 2016 polls. The nation was informed amid wild publicity that the KB Committee will unravel some of the reasons why the largely popular NDC performed also abysmally during the 2016 elections. So high was the ...

The Driver and Licensing Vehicle Authority (DVLA), has introduced new smart card to help address security issues and make license acquisition easier. It appears that the current government in power wants all the public service agencies to switch to digital, with the aim of reducing corruption.  An example is the Ghana Ports and Harbour which has gone paperless for the ...

 Farmers and the food industry should stop using antibiotics routinely to promote growth and prevent disease in healthy animals, the United Nations health agency has said. “A lack of effective antibiotics is as serious a security threat as a sudden and deadly disease outbreak,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in a news release on ...

 The fishing industry in Ghana will contribute over a $ one billion dollars to government revenue if stringent measures are put in place to deal with illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing {IUU} methods.  The practice that has been in existence for over eight years now is said to have depleted the nation’s fish stock, beautiful coastal wetlands and an annual loss ...

The link between Welfare States and Social Policies is a thin one, but the main difference is that while the former occurred in response to the effects of industrial activities in the industrialized economies, the latter is seen as deliberate social intervention policies aimed at solving social imbalances and inequalities.Social Policy is therefore seen as public services that govern the ...

A feasibility studies to construct a 700 MW super critical clean coal power plant at Ekumfi Aboano in the Central Region has been concluded by a consortium comprising the Volta River Authority and Shenzhen Energy. According to Mr Suleman Abubakari, Deputy Director of Distribution at the Ministry of Energy, the addition of a coal generation plant into the energy mix ...

Even though Ghana first broke her long protracted official silence over Islamic finance in 2011, saying she was ready for Islamic banking, the Bank of Ghana as of today, is yet to issue its first Islamic banking license. The foregoing notwithstanding ,a conventional Insurance company ,Metropolitan   Insurance Company, however  first opened a Takaful(Islamic insurance) window or department under its operations ...