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The COVID-19 pandemic could reverse decades of global progress in stamping out female genital mutilation (FGM), UN agencies warn ahead of the International Day to eliminate the harmful practice.  Shuttered schools, lockdowns and disruption to services that protect girls, have put millions worldwide at increased risk of being subjected to FGM.  This means an additional two million girls could be ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), says it is ready to support Ghana in any way deemed useful by the country’s leaders amidst its economic challenges. It says Ghanaian authorities have not contacted it for any form of assistance yet. In a statement published on Twitter by IMF’s Ghana country representative, Dr. Touna Mama, the IMF said Ghana’s current economic woes ...

Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has told his colleague Heads of State to work hard to deal with the menace of the coup d’états in the sub-region. Mr Akufo-Addo said the resurgence of coup d’états in the region is a matter of grave concern because it challenges the democratic way of lives chosen. “Your ...

An oil production vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board. in a statement on Thursday Nigeria’s Shebah Exploration & Production Company Ltd (SEPCOL) said that flames had engulfed the Trinity Spirit floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel following the blast a day earlier. ” But we can confirm that there ...

The Office of the Head of Local Government Service and the Institute of Local Government Studies have launched the Enhanced Scheme of Service Training (SoST) Programme for staff of the various job classes within the Local Government Service. The SoST, according to local government experts, is geared towards the realization of a robust local government service delivery system that delivers ...

The National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) in the Prestea Huni-Valley area, has started registering displaced residents of the Bogoso-Apiate explosion in the Western Region. This is to make way for the relocation of the affected persons to a new site. The residents were rendered homeless after the explosion ransacked the whole area, leaving 14 dead and about 60 persons injured. ...

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says the recent outbreak of transborder animal diseases, including Bird Flu, has negatively impacted the progress of the government’s flagship Rearing for Food and Jobs programmes. He said the outbreaks “threaten government’s agenda of attaining self-sufficiency in meat production by 2025 as envisioned under the rearing for food and jobs programme.” Available ...

Burkina Faso’s ousted president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, “is physically well” and is being held by the army in a villa, a source in his party said on Wednesday. Kabore’s state and whereabouts have been a key issue since he was overthrown by mutineering soldiers on Monday. “President Kabore is physically well, but I cannot say anything about his state ...

Mobile money Association of Ghana has petitioned the Minority Caucus in Parliament to ensure the new Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) is rejected when it is put before the house. According to the group, the analysis they did on the E-levy following its introduction in the 2022 budget shows its implementation will pose a challenge not only to Ghanaians and agents ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed in the COVID-19 Households and Jobs Tracker Wave 3,  that borrowing became more frequent coping strategy in Ghana last year. Approximately eighty-seven percent, 86.7%, of households used some sort of coping strategy to deal with the negative effects of COVID-19 since March 2020, the tracker said. “The most common coping strategies included relying on savings ...