The World Bank will soon withdraw its grant support on water and sanitation to Ghana, Mr Charles Dzradosi, a Social Policy Specialist of UNICEF, has said. This is because, for some years now, Ghana...
The 2016 District League Table has revealed that not a single community in the entire 16 metropolitan, municipal and districts in the Greater Accra Region has been certified as open-defecation free....
OVER eight thousand residents at Oyoko Traditional Area in the Sekyere Kumawu District in the Ashanti Region have engaged in open defecation, posing health threat to many lives in the...
Fisherfolks in Elmina Bantuma, a suburb of Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, on the dawn of Friday, February 24, 2017 beat up officials of an...
FISHERFOLKS in Elmina Bantuma, a suburb of Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) municipality of the Central Region, on the dawn of Friday, February 24, 2017 beat up officials of an...
Poor sanitation alone accounts for about 700,000 child deaths from diarrhoea each year. Chronic diarrhoea can hinder child development by impeding the absorption of essential nutrients and reducing...
Lives of traders at Dambai Market in Krachi East District of the Volta Region are in grave danger as they have to deal with a burst public toilet at the market, Today can report. Today observed...
The Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem municipality assembly is proposing the inclusion of toilet facilities at the home of men as a precondition for contracting marriages. This according to the...
The National Sanitation Day initiative failed and memories of the event have since ebbed into quiet oblivion. Not a lot has been said about why or how it failed; however, the fact sanitation remains...
The practice of easing oneself in the open, especially along the country’s beaches, is a major disincentive to the tourism sector, Minister-designate of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts,...
MINISTER-designate for Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda, has intimated that the availability of toilet facilities at every household will mitigate open defecation that has resulted in...
Executive Vice President of Unilever Ghana & Nigeria, Yaw Nsarkoh has said the supposed development of Ghana is questionable. In his view, Ghana is still underdeveloped since it has been ranked...
Minister-designate for Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda has intimated that the availability of toilet facilities at every household will mitigate open defecation that has resulted in...
Magistrate Court in Elmina in the Central Region has fined 14 people for openly defecating in an area which is a tourist attraction. The first set of people, numbering eight, was sent to court on...
“Under the past year, headlines have talked of Ghana as the seventh dirtiest country in the world and then we are going backwards compared with other countries… “We were confronted with the...
Ghana has been ranked as second in Africa in open defecation with 19 per cent of its population resorting to sanitation practice deemed the riskiest of all. The Tamale Metropolis in the Northern...
Accra, Jan. 3, GNA - On the last day of every year, most people reflect on what they were able to achieve and what they could not. So in the beginning of every New Year, no matter the loss or gains...
In the sweltering afternoon on the beach of Chorkor, a slum along the Atlantic Coast of Ghana, two playful boys were competing in a race; breathing uncontrollably. The front runner, with short legs...
I’m sure all of us would agree that stinking isn’t appealing! We buy various kinds of lotions, perfumes, deodorants, etc. so that we can smell good because we’re all aware of the fact that...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) project has succeeded in combating open defecation in 56 communities of 17 districts in the Northern...
