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At least 34 people died on Sunday night in central Kenya after a bus carrying passengers fell off a bridge. The National Transport and Safety Authority NTSA, initially put the death toll at 33, saying operations of the bus company, Modern Coast Express Ltd, had been suspended. The bus plunged some 40 metres into the Nithi River as it crossed ...

Women working in the health and care sector earn nearly 25 percent less than their male counterparts – a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, two UN agencies said in a new report on Wednesday.  The gender pay gap in the health and care sector: a global analysis in the time of COVID-19 was published by the International ...

A call has been made on Ghanaian voters to consider voting massively for women candidates who will be contesting the District Level Elections in 2023. Even though processes for the said election have not begun, ABANTU for Development, a leading women’s rights policy, and advocacy organization has started rallying to ensure that more women partake in the district level to ...

After over five months of touring the country, MindFreedom Ghana has completed a Shadow Report on the Universal Peer Review (UPR) process and readying itself to submit it to the UN Human Rights Council by the close of Thursday, July 14. With funding support from OSIWA, MindFreedom Ghana in collaboration with non-state actors and the media organized in-country consultations which ...

Ghana’s inflation has gone up again, rising to 29.8 percent in June 2022. This is up from 27.6 percent recorded in May 2022, according to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS). The consumer price index for June was 167.7 relative to 129.2 in June 2021. The month-on-month inflation between May 2022 and June 2022 was 3 percent. Food inflation stood at ...

The team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised Ghana’s Parliament to approve a $1bn loan that is before the House in order to prevent the economy from grinding to a halt, TV3’s Parliamentary correspondent Komla Kluste has reported. The team met the Finance Committee of Parliament on Tuesday, July 12 as part of its initial discussions with the government for a potential ...

Members of the Senior Staff Association of the Universities of Ghana (SSA UOG) have dared the Chief Executive Officer of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC),  Benjamin Arthur to go ahead and withhold their salaries after they declared their strike starting today, Wednesday, July 13. Announcing the declaration of the strike at a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, July 13, ...

Nigeria’s solar companies are seeing a surge in demand for mini-grids and equipment as businesses in Africa’s biggest oil producer look for alternative power sources after the cost of diesel soared locally due to rising global oil prices. Supply constraints could, however, hamper their ability to capitalize on the trend, with some saying they have begun to turn away customers ...

The Speaker of Parliament has constituted an ad-hoc body of five parliamentary committees to probe the activities of the National Food Buffer Stock Company and the National School Feeding Programme. The mandate of the committees among others is to look into the feasibility and sustainability of the organisations, especially in recent times when there are reports of food shortage in ...

The Ugandan police on Monday arrested at least a dozen protesters against the rising cost of living in Jinja, in south-eastern Uganda. “Eight of the leaders were arrested and will be charged with inciting violence on Tuesday, police spokesman James Mumbi told AFP. Witnesses said the protesters burned tyres and blocked a busy road in Jinja, about 80km east of ...