UN Backs Sending Monitors
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling for UN officials and others to monitor the mass evacuations from rebel-held east Aleppo and the safety of civilians still there. Some 13,000...
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Evacuations Resume From East Aleppo
Evacuations have resumed from east Aleppo, with buses and ambulances leaving rebel areas of the Syrian city. At least 350 people reportedly left rebel enclaves late on Sunday, heading towards other...
Hundreds Leave Syria City As Evacuations Resume
Evacuations have resumed from east Aleppo, with buses and ambulances leaving rebel areas of the Syrian city, a UN official says. At least 350 people have reportedly left rebel enclaves in convoys,...
Rebels Burn Syria Evacuation Buses
Several buses sent to transport the sick and injured from two government-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province have been burned by rebels. It has thrown the latest efforts to evacuate besieged...
Media Urged To Subject DLT Reports To Thorough Review
The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) and UNICEF have held an engagement with the media on reporting effectively on the District League Table (DLT) to generate the desired responses...
The Poorest Districts In Ghana According To the District League Table
Despite Ghana’s progress in poverty reduction, the northern part of the country is vulnerable in terms of poverty with about 40% of the population living especially in the Upper West Region and the...
La Nkwantanang Madina Tops District League Table
The Centre for Democratic Development (CDD Ghana) in collaboration wit UNICEF and the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has released 2016 District League Table with La Nkwantanang...
Lionel Messi Meets Afghan ‘plastic Shirt’ Boy Murtaza Ahmadi
An Afghan boy who gained online fame after a picture of him wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi jersey went viral has finally met his football hero in Doha, Qatar. Murtaza Ahmadi was shown dressed in a...
Wonder Woman Dropped As UN Equality Champion
The UN has ended its campaign with comic book heroine Wonder Woman, a spokesman says, less than two months after her appointment sparked outrage. The superhero had been declared an honorary...
Ghana’s Automated Birth Registration Recognized
The automation of Ghana’s birth registration process, a programme spearheaded by the Births and Deaths Registry, UNICEF and the mobile network operator Tigo, won the ‘Changing Lives Award’ at...
Consolidate Efforts To #endAIDS By 2030
(CNS): Success breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure. When the number of people affected by a disease decreases, there is a tendency to disregard it as a public health problem. Even as...
The Travel To School On Foot For Education
Between 1989 and 1991, I lived in a cottage in the Western region of Ghana where I had to walk about 12 miles everyday to the nearest school in a village called Petepom near Bogoso. It was one of the...
Peace Officers Talking Like Thugs, But…
I should be starting my series on what I said is the inequality that has left 3.5 million of Ghana's children in such poverty that a child in Accra is 10 times better off than a child in the Upper...
LEAP Benefiting 213,000 Households
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, says more than 213,000 households in all the 216 districts are currently benefiting from the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP)...
Ogilvy & Mather Honored Advertising Agency of the Year 2016
As a team, we at Ogilvy & Mather are both honored and proud of our success at this year’s 10th annual Gong Gong Awards. Seeing our work acknowledged by our industry and peers, inspires us to keep...
Ghana’s Automated Birth Registration Wins ‘Changing Lives Award’
The automation of Ghana’s birth registration process, a programme spear headed by the Births and Deaths Registry, UNICEF and the Mobile Network Operator, Tigo, won the ‘Changing Lives Award’ at...
Migrant Kids and Glaring Abuse of Child Rights [Article]
She stops by a motorbike or “Mahama Kambu” – the tricycle taxi in the Wa Municipality – she stretches one hand for money, and puts the other on her stomach – she says, “give me money to...
Open Defecation – A Lingering Eyesore
“It’s in the early hours of the day. A young man squats a few steps away from his house. His neighbour suggests to him: “massa, go into the bush a little”. His response: “come and push me...
Migrant Children And A Glaring Abuse Of Child Rights
She stops by a motorbike or “Mahama Kambu” – the tricycle taxi in the Wa Municipality – she stretches one hand for money, and puts the other on her stomach – she says, “give me money to...
A Ghanaian Chef Works Against Waste To Feed the Hungry
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...