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The COVID-19 pandemic is rolling back progress on key childhood challenges such as poverty, health and access to education, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report on Thursday, representing the biggest global crisis for children since the agency was founded 75 years ago.  The widespread impact of the pandemic continues to deepen, the report warned, increasing poverty, entrenching inequality and threatening the rights ...

U.S. Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan handed over one million Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses to Ghana today.  Since September, the United States has donated 5.3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Ghanaian people.  Ambassador Sullivan joined representatives of UNICEF, the Government of Denmark, and Ghana’s Ministry of Health at Accra Kotoka International Airport this morning for the donation.  The Government ...

Ms. Barbara Clemens has assumed her position as Representative and Country Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Ghana. She brings over thirty years of progressive experience in multi-functional roles in humanitarian and development programmes around the world.    Barbara joins us directly from WFP Nigeria where she was the Head of Programme for one of WFP’s large emergency ...

Resecurity, a cybersecurity and intelligence company, has announced its partnership with Safety and Intelligence Network Africa (SINA) to accelerate cybersecurity knowledge and skills transfer through training, awareness and innovative cyber intelligence solutions. Based in Ghana, Accra, SINA is the leading organization for providing training for security and risk management professionals, government, military and law enforcement officers.In the past year, Ghana’s ...

A Caribbean-based prime minister, a scientist, a group of indigenous women, and an entrepreneur were announced on Tuesday as this year’s winners of the United Nations’ Champions of the Earth awards. According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the all-female Champions were chosen for their impact and leadership in advancing bold action on behalf of people and the planet. “These Champions of ...

Plastic pollution has become pervasive in agricultural soils, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the UN agriculture agency, posing a threat to food security, people’s health, and the environment. While plastic refuse littering beaches and oceans draws high-profile attention, the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Assessment of agricultural plastics and their sustainability: a call for action suggests that the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has pledged to continue to respect the two-term presidential limit and abide by the Economic Community of the West African States (ECOWAS) protocol on democracy and good governance. He insisted that good governance must exclude political manipulations to stay in power beyond given mandates. President Akufo-Addo who was speaking at the 2021 Kofi Annan Peace and Security ...

Police in Sawla in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District have confirmed nine persons on board a VIP Bus with registration number GT 5693-16 have died in an accident. Nine others onboard the bus sustained various degrees of injuries. The VIP bus on which they were traveling is said to be heading towards Wa from Accra and was involved in a fatal accident ...

State-owned oil refinery Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), is expected to resume full-scale operations from June next year. TOR, largely due to financial challenges has been dormant for a while now, but new information from deep throat sources indicate that the refinery is making significant changes to start full operations from the second quarter of next year.  The revelation of TOR wanting to start full-scale ...

The Tax Exemptions Bill has been laid in Parliament on behalf of the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta. It was laid on November 16, 2021. The bill, which seeks to streamline the tax exemption regime in the country, was first laid on the floor of parliament in 2019 but was not passed before the tenure of the 7th Parliament elapsed ...