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Abantu for Development, a women’s right advocacy group has launched a project meant to strengthen advocacy on national commitments towards the passage of an affirmative Action law in Ghana. Launched on the theme ’Strengthening Advocacy for the Passage of an Affirmative Action Law in Ghana, ’the project’s ultimate goal is to secure the best gender equality outcomes for all citizens ...

Since Marie Chantal Akingeneye lost her only cow to an unknown illness, she has no source for manure for her fruits and vegetables – but she hopes a new phone app could help. After attending a training by the United Nations, which developed the technology, she thinks the app will help to keep her goats and pigs healthy and modernise ...

Basic schools in the country could study lesser number of subjects from the next academic year, the Ghana Education Service (GES) has hinted. It said the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) has been tasked to carry out the review with a view to reducing them. The review of the subjects would be done at the kindergarten, primary and ...

Figures from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) reveal that 53,114 abortions were supervised in public health facilities in the country in 2017. Unsafe abortion also recorded 13,918 in the same period as compared to 15,325 unsafe abortion cases in 2016, Mr Raphael Godlove Athena, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF), a health-inclined non-governmental organisation, has said. In ...

Most women from Sub-Sahara Africa entering Italy are trafficked for sexual exploitation, an official of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. According to Mrs. Florence Kim, a Communication Expert at the IOM, the situation between Ghanaian and Nigerian women was not very different, as many of them were engaged in commercial sex work. Human trafficking, she added ...

The Wa Airstrip in the Upper West Region is virtually wasting away over a year after rehabilitation and expansion works on it were completed for use. So far, it has been limited to presidential flights to and from the regional capital with no sign of the much anticipated commercial flights happening any time soon. Staff at the Airstrip refused to ...

The Ghanaian pilot who historically flew the world’s biggest passenger Aircraft to Accra this week, Captain Solomon Quainoo, has made a passionate appeal to the government to invest more in the country’s aviation industry to help the country produce more local pilots. According to the Emirates Airline pilot, the high cost of educating and training pilots have contributed to the ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration is alerting the public to the activities of fraudsters using the name of the Ministry to dupe unsuspecting members of the public with empty-promises to acquire visas for them. A press release by the Ministry says it is not responsible for acquiring visas for the general public, and that it may assist ...

University of Ghana’s Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has warned that the times ahead will be hard and Ghanaians should prepare for what is coming, MyNewsGH.com reports. This follows the prediction by ISSER that, the cedi will further depreciate against the dollar in 2018. “It’s expected that the cedi will depreciate slightly more than the 2017 levels ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH), through the Ghana Health Service (GHS), has hinted of an expansion of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) care – including breast cancer- to the primary care level. Dr. Badu Sarkodie, Public Health Director at the GHS, who announced this in Accra, said government is currently reviewing the National NCDs Strategy, which will include breast cancer care at ...