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Although COVID-19 may no longer be a global public health emergency, countries must still strengthen their response to the disease and prepare for future pandemics and other threats, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday in Geneva. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was delivering his report to the 76th World Health Assembly, the UN agency’s decision-making body, which ...

A Ghanaian peacekeeper, Captain Cecilia Erzuah, will receive the 2022 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. Captain Erzuah, who has been serving the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) since March 2022, will receive the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres award. It will be at a ceremony to mark International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Thursday, ...

An executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Nurudeen Hamidan, has warned all party agents in the ongoing by-election in the Kumawu constituency not to sign pink sheets until voting ends. Mr. Hamidan gave the warning to party agents after the NDC claimed that it had detected some pink sheets being used for the elections have already been signed even ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has deployed all 47 MMDCEs in the Ashanti Region, a good number of MPs, and Deputy Ministers as polling agents for the ongoing Kumawu bye-election. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is also underscoring its high stakes in the by-election by fielding high-ranking party officers and MPs to give the polls a close watch. North Tongu ...

An alarming 5.4 million people out of the 12.3 million Ghanaian workforces are tagged as multidimensionally poor. This is according to the Ghana Statistical Service’s 2022 Labour Statistics report. Multidimensional poverty encompasses the various deprivations experienced by poor people in their daily lives – such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, disempowerment, poor quality of work, the ...

The government of Ghana has been encouraged to prioritize access to education for Children with disability by redoubling its efforts to promote inclusive education for all and finalize measures to support children with severe forms of disabilities that impede their access to schools The State has also been asked to continue to place emphasis on ensuring equitable education opportunities for children ...

Countries around the globe have made recommendations to the government of Ghana to amend its Persons with Disability Law, Act 715, (2006) in order to align with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The quest for Ghana to amend Act 715 was among the topmost recommendations made by 11 countries during the Fourth Cycle ...

The head of the Arab League held talks on Tuesday with a representative of Sudanese military leader General Abdel Fattah Burhan at the organization’s headquarters in Cairo. Speaking after the meeting, Dafa’alla Al-Haj Ali said that the crisis in his homeland was an “internal matter” and warned against any external interference. “I am talking to you now, and there are contacts regarding the completion of this truce, but we ...

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, ...