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MindFreedom Ghana, a mental health advocacy organization has blamed state actors for not prioritizing issues relative to mental health in the country. MindFreedom’s reaction was triggered by a recent news report by: myjoyonline.com https://www.myjoyonline.com/mentally-challenged-woman-stones-man-todeath-at-kwame-nkrumah-circle/ with the Headline, “Mentally challenged woman stones man to death at Kwame Nkrumah Circle on 1st August, 2022.”    In a Press statement signed  and  issued in ...

Council of State member, Eunice Jacqueline Buah Asomah-Hinneh has been accused by the Office of Special Prosecutor (OSP) of corruption-related offences. In November 2021, the OSP was petitioned by one Frank Asare, to launch an investigation into the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and Labianca Company and its subsidiaries for alleged evasion of import duties since 2017. The ...

The Africa Water Justice Network(AWJN) has backed Civil Society Organisations and rights activists in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa and others resisting the continuous dispossession of people of their rights. The AWJN also supports the activists’ insistence on increased state-led tax-financing of basic social services nd calls on the African public,workers, media, lawmakers and students to support efforts by civil ...

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 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 ...