The Government of Ghana is fully aware of the problem of malnutrition in the country and has being taken steps over the years to address the situation, with varying degrees of successes. Despite the...
The Northern Development Society (NORDESO), has begun a five-year advocacy project dubbed: “Voice for Change (V4C)” in the Yendi Municipality and Mion District in the Northern Region. The...
Many human beings seek to provide a decent living for their families and loved ones. Sometimes however, the lack of resources and other things like money get in the way. To God, this is no surprise...
Excess and waste are usually considered symptomatic of the affluent West but trained chef Elijah Amoo Addo knows these are problems too in his home country, Ghana. One day he saw a homeless man...
The impact of extreme natural disasters is equivalent to a global $ 520 billion loss in annual consump A new report from the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery...
The impact of extreme natural disasters is equivalent to a global $ 520 billion loss in annual consumption, and forces some 26 million people into poverty each year. A new report from the World Bank...
Shall we put Africa up on stock exchange? It takes nothing to be president of an African country. Perhaps, I’ll modify the statement slightly. It takes something: greed. To trace the causes of...
Uganda has warned that the persistent drought has placed over 7 million people at risk. As experts meet in Morocco this week for the UN Climate Change summit, the East African country said climate...
Dozens have starved to death in beseiged Madaya The town of Madaya in Syria has been under siege for more than a year. Cut off from regular supplies of food, medical supplies and electricity, many of...
USAID Deploys Disaster Assistance Response Team to Nigeria USAID is promoting an increasingly proactive monitoring approach to quickly report on the alarming conditions in newly accessible parts of...
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) wants Ghanaian journalists to ask critical questions on sexual reproductive health of disaster victims. The UNFPA opines that journalists by asking critical...
UK increases humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe in response to El Nino induced drought Through the Department for International Development (DFID), the UK has made an additional £40 million contribution...
play videoBrook Blair wants homelessness to cease in the UK Five - year old Coventry girl, Brook Blair has addressed Prime Minister Theresa May in a short, amusing video uploaded unto YouTube about...
As stipulated in my preview article, dubbed “The Essence of Life”, this makes more different, comprehensible and substantial clarification about the authenticities in life, even though the whole...
1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid - Report Despite the progress Kenya has made in reducing hunger, it is among 50 countries where levels of hunger remain serious or alarming,...
A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected...
The global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) deadline of 2030, authors a new report on hunger trends across the world have warned. The...
Children are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty, according to a new analysis from the World Bank Group and the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF). The...
The humanitarian emergency in northeastern Nigeria is reaching catastrophic levels. A massive relief effort is needed immediately in remote areas as well as in the state capital, the international...
Nearly five million people in Somalia are suffering from a shortage of food due to poor rainfall, floods and displacement, the United Nations says. More than 300,000 children under the age of five...
