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Court Prosecutes Landlords Without Toilet Facilities

The Bolgatanga Magistrate Court presided by Mr Osman Abdul-Hakeem, has begun an exercise to prosecute landlords who do...

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End Malaria For Good; Invest In Malaria Prevention

According to the 2015 World Malaria Report, there were 214 million cases of malaria recorded globally in that year. The...

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Tackling the Negative Cultural Practices In Upper East Region

Paramount Chief of Katiu, Pe Ayikode Zangbeo Atoge IV, one of the chiefs addressing the durbar Many Anthropologists who...

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Two Billion People Drinking Contaminated Water

Dramatic improvements are needed in ensuring access to clean water and sanitation worldwide, the World Health...

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El Nino Can Warn On Cholera Outbreaks In Africa

El Nino, the cyclical climatic phenomenon in the Pacific Ocean, is linked to shifts in cholera cases in Africa,...

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Do Not Abandon National Sanitation Day

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ledzokuku Constituency, in the Greater Accra Region, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, has...

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We Need About $2 Billion To Execute Water Projects- Patrick Boamah

A Deputy Minister-designate for Water Resources and Sanitation, Patrick Yaw Boamah says Ghana needs about $2 billion to...

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Smoking Causes One In 10 Deaths Worldwide, Study Shows

Smoking causes one in 10 deaths worldwide, a new study shows, half of them in just four countries - China, India, the...

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Bring Back Our Rights To Water

What is the circumference of the planet earth?  No need to be specific, but we know it would make a baobab tree look...

International

Somalia Faces Major Cholera Outbreak

The United Nations has raised alarm over a major outbreak of cholera in southern Somalia. Aid groups are already...

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CCFC-Ghana Launches the ‘Promise’ Project

The Christian Children’s Fund of Canada has launched its flagship project to promote safe delivery and reduce...

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Ghanaians Urged To Practice Waste Segregation

Mr Raymond Ategbi Okrofi, the Country Manager of Safi Sana Ghana Ltd, has called on government to come up with policies...

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Ashaiman Residents Angry Over ‘poisonous’ Landfill Site

Residents of Ashaiman Presby Junction are at risk of an imminent outbreak of diseases over the mismanagement of a...

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Saving Ghana From Filth; Things We Must Do Now [Article]

Over the last two days, my colleagues and I on the Citi Breakfast Show have been raging about the filthy towns and...

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NPC Solicits Commitment, Support of Partners

The National Population Council (NPC) has held a stakeholders’ forum to solicit commitment from its local and...

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Gov’t To Build 1 Million To Curb Open Defecation

The Ministry of Sanitation has revealed government’s plans to erect private toilet facilities in Ghana, as an...

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Treaty Slows Global Tobacco Use By 2.5%

Tobacco use fell by 2.5 percent worldwide a decade after the first global health treaty went into effect, World Health...

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Africa Makes Progress In Water Delivery

Africa can be proud of many remarkable achievements in recent decades. Giving 427 million more people access to...

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Government To Build 1 Million Toilet Facilities Across Ghana – Minister

Government intends to construct toilet facilities in various homes across the country as an effective measure of...