Free Visas Won’t Increase Crime Rate
Free visa policies to allow free movement within the African continent will not lead to increased crime rates in countries receiving immigrants, IMANI Vice President Kofi Bentil has said. Critics...
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U.N. Agencies Urge Trump To Allow Refugees Entry
he United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration on Saturday to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution,...
Stakeholders Discuss Findings On Reproductive Health Programs
A national dissemination meeting on the Ghana Adolescent Reproductive Health (GHARH) Project, funded by the United Kingdom Agency for International Development (UKaid) has been held in Sunyani. It...
China Birth Rate Up After One-Child Rule Change
Birth rates in China rose to their highest level since 2000 last year, despite a fall in the number of women of childbearing age, say officials. The increase follows the relaxation of China's strict...
More Ghanaian Migrants Languishing In Italy
The number of irregular migrants from Ghana to Italy rose from 4,450 last year, to 5,545 from January to November, this year, Sylvia Lopez-Ekra, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...
Esi Partners UNFPA To Fight Teenage Pregnancy
The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) office in Ghana is to collaborate with the Pempamsie Foundation, a non-governmental organization founded by 2015 winner of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful,...
Use Tough Love To Win The Millennials
The Millennial Vote was treated like a Magical Unicorn in the 2016 election. It is seen as something valuable and mysterious. As Dan Schwabel, at Quartz, in a piece modestly entitled The complete...
Allons Enfants
"The treaty does not say that France must undertake to have children, but it is the first thing which ought to have been put in it. For if France turns her back on large families, one can put all the...
Men Asked To Encourage Women To Practice Family Planning
Ms Joan Eleeza, the Volta Regional Public Health Nurse, (VRPHN) has reiterated the call on men to encourage women to practice safe family planning to improve the wellbeing of the family. She said...
African Migration Expected To Rise Due To Accelerated Climate Change
Africa faces a surge in internal and cross-border migration in the coming years due to increased climate change and its impact on life and livelihood. According to the United Nations Environment...
Ghana Launches 2016 State of World Population Report
The Ghana office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has launched the State of World Population in Accra. Annually, the UNFPA compiles a report on the state of the world’s population with...
Ghana Is Moving In the Right Direction
President John Dramani Mahama has stated that, Ghana is moving in the right direction in terms of growth and development in various sectors, therefore citizens should be optimistic and believe in the...
Mahama Pledges To Reignite Ghana’s Economy
President John Mahama has called on Ghanaians to be optimistic about the future of the country because many indications show the country is performing well in terms of growth and development in the...
Limit To Human Life May Be 115 (ish)
Human life spans may be limited to a maximum of about 115 years, claim US scientists. Their conclusions, published in the journal Nature, were made by analysing decades of data on human longevity....
India’s Population Will Soon Be Bigger Than China’s
By 2022, India’s population will have overtaken China’s to become the largest in the world, according to a United Nations report. As the world’s two most populous nations, China and India...
Enough Of CIAs Enough Project In Africa
Enough of the CIA’s “Enough Project” in Africa. With Hollywood superstar George Clooney as it’s talking head, EP, as it is known, was founded by senior US Intel “spook” Gayle Smith,...
Does the Media Needlessly Foster Fear?
The Vatican’s Pope Francis has strived to be a voice of peace and unity on a continent struggling to deal with a refugee crisis. On Thursday he spoke out once again, this time against mass media,...
Kenya Women Not Using Contraceptives
More than half of women in Lamu county do not use contraceptives, the National Council for Population and Development has said and expressed concern. A 2015 survey showed more than 50 per cent of the...
Germany Expects ‘up To 300,000 Migrants’
Germany expects up to 300,000 migrants to arrive in the country this year, the head of its Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said. Frank-Juergen Weise told the Bild am Sonntag paper that his...
Ghanaians Are Now Living Longer than Ever, According to Latest WHO Report
Ghana’s life expectancy is now 62.4 according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report. The report also revealed that Ghana is 25th in West Africa.
The WHO report indicates that life...