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Most recently the World Meteorological Organisation and the EU’s climate agency Copernicus have reported that Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average. Today’s Lancet Countdown report led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain is looking at what this has meant for health. It says the greatest burden of poor health ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has rectified errors in its publication of the daily voter registration figures in the ongoing limited voter registration exercise. EC issued a press release at the end of day four of the exercise and indicated that 143,014 eligible voters had been registered. Less than 24 hours after the release of the day-four figures, the EC released ...

May 25 each year has now been declared World Football Day. This follows a United Nations General Assembly resolution on Tuesday, May 7 to allow football fans to celebrate the most popular sport in the world. The day marks the 100th anniversary of the first international soccer tournament in history with the representation of all regions which took place on ...

Mineral resources rich economies in West Africa have been asked to deal with inequalities in the Extractive sector in order to prevent poverty and repel the growing violent extremism in the sub-region. According to the proponents, policies relative to Extractive sector must be all encompassing and beneficial to all.   The call was made recently at a natural resources meeting held ...

As Ghana prepares for a crucial national election in December 2024, the need for initiatives that bolster democratic processes and empower citizens with comprehensive information to make informed choices has never been more pronounced. In response to this critical need, Penplusbytes, through its esteemed African Elections Project, is launching the Ghana Elections 2024 Voters’ Compass Project in collaboration with VoteSwiper e.V., ...

The Integrated Social Development Centre (ISODEC), a Policy and Advocacy Think Tank in Ghana, in collaboration with the Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD) have jointly held a National Policy Roundtable on Natural Resource Governance in Sierra Leone. The event, which was financed by Ford Foundation, featured the Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources of Sierra Leone as the ...

In a significant step forward for malaria prevention in Africa, three countries—Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone—today launched a large-scale rollout of the life-saving malaria vaccine targeting millions of children across the three West African nations. The vaccine rollout, announced on World Malaria Day, seeks to further scale up vaccine deployment in the African region.    Today’s launch brings to eight the ...

Rights Activists in Ghana’s foremost salt producing enclave, Ada Songor, in the Greater Accra Region have vowed to use legitimate means to resist any attempt by salt mining companies to violate the rights of indigenes of the area. They want existing and prospective companies to use proper community entry protocols especially Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to get the ...

Doctors in Gaza have delivered a baby girl from the womb of her mother who lay dying from injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Rafah on Saturday. Sabreen’s father and her 4-year-old sister were also killed in the attack When emergency responders learned that her mother was 30 weeks pregnant, doctors at Kuwaiti hospital, where ...

A Governance Expert Professor Baffuor Agyeman-Duah has criticized the government for the snail’s pace with which it is finding solutions to the power challenges. He believes that given the rate at which the power outages occur, the government should have at least attached all seriousness to finding lasting solutions but that has not been the case. Speaking on the Ghana ...