Malala Meets Her Chibok ‘heroes’ In Nigeria
Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday called for a "state of emergency for education" in Nigeria, as she visited the country and met some of the Chibok schoolgirls whose cause she...
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UN Envoy Lilly Singh Calls On India To Show Comic Tolerance
Comic and UN ambassador Lilly Singh has called on the Indian government to be more tolerant of satire after a popular comedy group was slapped with criminal charges over allegations that they...
20 MMDAs To Pilot Justice For Family and Children Policies
The Institute of Local Government Studies (ILGS), is implementing two pilot programmes in 20 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) across the country, to ensure that the rights of...
US-China Citizen Given 10 Years For Espionage In Iran
A Chinese American accused of "infiltration" in Iran has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, local media reported on Sunday. The man was identified as Xiyue Wang, a 37-year-old researcher at...
US Citizen Accused of ‘infiltration’ Sentenced To 10 Years
A United States citizen accused of "infiltration" in Iran has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a spokesman for the judiciary said on Sunday. "The person was identified and arrested by the...
Over 8000 Northern School Children Educated On Numeracy
8,275 out of school children in northern Ghana have successfully completed a 9-month learning course on literacy in numeracy. The children, aged between 8 and 14, were selected from seven districts...
Gap Between the Poor and Rich Widens-UNICEF Report
Latest statistics by UNICEF have shown that the gap between the rich and the poor in Ghana continues to widen due to a lack of inclusive development. The statistics show that the Northern, Upper East...
South Sudan Marks Another Year of Freedom Without Peace
South Sudan on Sunday marked its sixth independence anniversary in muted fashion, with no official celebration as the world's newest nation reels from a brutal and destructive ongoing civil war. A...
Builsa North School Drop Outs Dare To Hope [Article]
It’s not the first time that I had the opportunity to travel elsewhere in Ghana where life was a bit different from what was in my eyes ordinary. Indeed in 2012 I joined UNICEF go up North on field...
World Vision Ghana Launches ‘End Child Marriage Now’ Campaign
World Vision International Ghana has launched a national campaign in Tamale codenamed, “End child marriage now! It Takes Us All.” The organization is alarmed by the nation’s statistics of child...
Nigerian Camps Under Strain From Returning Refugees
An upsurge in Boko Haram attacks and returnees from Cameroon are stretching camps for those made homeless by the conflict to breaking point, as the UN warned against forcing people back to northeast...
Suspected Diarrhoea Kills 38 Sudanese In One Month
Suspected acute diarrhoea has killed 38 Sudanese in the past month and 317 since August 2016, the UN said Wednesday, warning the outbreak could worsen ahead of the rainy season. The UN children's...
Koforidua Presby JHS ‘A’ Holds Maiden Graduation Ceremony
One of the oldest mission schools in the Koforidua Municipality, Presby Junior High School ‘A’, has held its first ever graduation ceremony. The colourful event, held on Wednesday, 21st June,...
Yemen Cholera Cases Could Jump To 300,000 By September
A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen will probably have infected more than 300,000 people by September, up sharply from the current tally of nearly 193,000 cases, the United Nations said Friday....
Myanmar Releases Nearly 70 More Child Soldiers
Myanmar's military released 67 child soldiers on Friday, its first discharge this year as part of a slow process to end decades of forced recruitment of underage fighters that began under the former...
Yemen Cholera Death Toll Passes 1,100
Cholera has killed 1,170 people in war-ravaged Yemen and the number of suspected cases is now at nearly 2,000 a day, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. And the devastation wrought by the...
Okyeame Kwame Joins David Beckham, Hugh Jackman As UNICEF Super Dad Ambassadors
Ghanaian award-winning musician, Okyeame Kwame becomes one of the world’s top celebrity fathers on UNICEF’s “Super Dad Ambassadors” list. The “Super Dads” is a new UNICEF initiative...
More Investment Needed To Promote Child Rights
The SOS Children’s Villages marked the Day of the African Child on Friday, June 16, with a call on government to guarantee a zero-tolerance approach towards child rights violations in Ghana while...
Yemen Cholera Deaths Up At 1,054
The death toll from cholera in war-torn Yemen has increased to 1,054 since April 27, with the total suspected cases reaching 151,000, the Yemeni health authorities said on Saturday in a statement...
NGO To Spearheads Sanitation and Hygiene Programme
The Voice for Change (V4C) programme has been launched at Kasoa in the Awutu-Senya East Municipality of the Central Region with a call on the citizenry to ensure improved sanitation and hygiene in...