Haiti In National Mourning
Survivors of Hurricane Matthew in Haiti have picked their way through devastation to attend Sunday church services, some worshipping outside because buildings were destroyed. The Category four storm...
Tag: United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Nigerian Lawmakers To Probe Use of Funds For People Fleeing Boko Haram
The use of Nigerian government funds earmarked for assisting displaced people who are living in desperate conditions in the former stronghold of Boko Haram, is to be investigated because of...
Foreign Minister Briefs Ghanaians With UN On the Home Front
Source: Permanent Mission of Ghana to the United Nations Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Hanna Serwaa Tetteh has briefed Ghanaians working with the United Nations headquarters in...
Central African Republic Militiamen Ordered To Vacate Schools
Armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been told to leave the schools they are occupying or face forceful eviction by UN troops. The UN says 10,000 children have been unable to...
The UNs Next Genocide In Somalia
The UN just announced that due to drought and famine over 300,000 Somali children are suffering from severe malnutrition. This means that over 100 children are already dying everyday from starvation....
Dumelo Used To Be My Celebrity Crush, But Not Anymore
Ghanaian afro-pop singer, Noella Wiyaala has revealed that John Dumelo is no more her celebrity crush igniting a debate among many people on social media that her disclosure last Friday was an...
The Super Start To Life!
Thirty-five-year old Alima Yakubu is a mother of six. When she gave birth to her first five children, she did not practise exclusively breastfeeding. “After breastfeeding them for a month, what I...
10,000 ‘Kayayes’ To Be Absorbed Into Youth Employment Programme
By Nana Ohemaba Kayayeis (head-porters), are mostly young women and men – sometimes below 18 years, who carry loads for fellow Ghanaians, after they have finished shopping in our various markets to...
Buhari Asks Countries To Fulfil Humanitarian Crisis Relief Pledges
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, says the 71st United Nations General Assembly meeting was a successful outing, just as he leaves the U. S. for Nigeria. He also asked countries that had...
UN Chief ‘appalled’ By Aleppo Escalation
UN chief Ban Ki-moon is "appalled by the chilling military escalation" in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, his spokesman says. Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general was alarmed by reports...
IMANI Africa, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundation, Franklin Cudjoe and the CIA
Franklin Cudjoe is founding President and CEO of IMANI Center for Policy By Dade Afre Akufu On Saturday September 17, 2016, a dear friend M. Kwadwo Nyamba came to the defense of the “good” work...
CIA, UNICEF And Genocide In Somalia
UNICEF oversaw the starvation deaths of at least 250,000 Somalis, mainly children, during the last “Great Horn of Africa Drought” and famine of 2010-2012 (at the time the worst in 60 years) all...
No Political Party Funding ‘IMANIfesto’ – Franklin Cudjoe
The manifesto work being done by IMANI is not being sponsored by any political party in Ghana, the policy think tank has said. “Folks let me be frank with you; our manifesto work has not been paid...
Mostly False On Primary School Enrollment
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, September 13 gave a presentation on the NDC's 2016 manifesto ahead of the elections. Some of these claims were fact-checked by The Media Foundation for West...
We’ll End Open Defecation By 2021 – Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has said that the next NDC administration under his watch will work towards ending the age-old menace of open defecation by 2021. The President said this at the Banquet...
Ghanaian Artists Talk Sh*T
Fifteen Ghanaian artists, 15 genres of art and 15 different media, with one goal; use artwork to contribute to the fight against open defecation. The artists, selected across the country, will be...
What We Know About Boko Haram’s Factional War
For seven years, Boko Haram has terrorized northeast Nigeria and surrounding countries, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions. Despite the Nigerian government claiming a “technical”...
Hospital Boss Uses Drug Truck As Tipper
Workers at the Upper East Regional Hospital are clamouring for the recall of a transferred administrator to answer charges over an official vehicle he misused whilst in office. The former...
First Lady Addresses COBAANA Durbar In Worcester, USA
First lady Mrs Lordina Mahama has called for equal opportunities to education for every child. She believes the location of a child should not deprive a child of education saying that there was...
UDS Set To Integrate Child Protection Project Into School Curricula
The Deen of the Faculty of Integrated Development Studies (FIDS), Dr. Sylvester Galaa has stated that Children are the future capital of Africa, as such any activity that is geared towards Social and...