The World Bank will soon withdraw its grant support on water and sanitation to Ghana, Mr Charles Dzradosi, a Social Policy Specialist of UNICEF, has said. This is because, for some years now, Ghana...
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has expressed concern with the high rate of absenteeism in basic schools in the country. According to the key national...
A diplomatic spat between Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany spread online on Wednesday when a large number of Twitter accounts were hijacked and replaced with anti-Nazi messages in Turkish. The...
The Northern Regional Minister Saeed Salifu has called for the inclusion of peace as a criterion in ranking districts on the District League Table. Better still a new league table should be...
The conflict in Yemen has killed nearly 7,700 people, including at least 1,564 children, since a Saudi-led coalition intervened on the government's side two years ago, UN agencies said Monday. The UN...
SEND Ghana has analysed Ghana’s 2017 budget and has come out with the following observations on key sectors and pro programs; We applaud government for incorporating a good number of our inputs...
SEND-GHANA, a policy research, advocacy and livelihood promotion organisation, has called on government to explain how it would fund the soon-to-be office of Independent Prosecutor. The advocacy...
A jailed US-Iranian and his wife have been formally charged with hosting parties in Tehran, while another couple were given the death penalty for running a "cult", the Tehran prosecutor said Monday....
Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United Nations children’s organisation says. At least 652 children died – 255 of...
Wa East District in the Upper West Region is the most improved district in Ghana in terms of service delivery. This was attributed to the recent District League Table (DLT) launched by the Centre for...
Violence against children in war-ravaged Syria was "at its worst" in 2016, the UN's children's agency said Monday as the conflict nears its seventh year. UNICEF said that cases of children being...
The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nation's humanitarian chief said as he pleaded for help to avoid "a catastrophe". Stephen O'Brien said more than 20 million...
Mongolian courts banned them, human rights groups slammed them and the labour ministry demands they cease, but none of that has stopped Mongolia's politicians from letting child jockeys saddle up....
The UNICEF Representative in Ghana, Susan Namondo Ngongi has called for greater inter-ministerial collaboration to improve the reach and quality of governmental efforts towards women’s development....
The Minister for Gender, Children and Social protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, wants more public support to end child marriage in Ghana. She said all stakeholders must get involved to root the...
One out of every 10 girls in Africa misses days in school during menstrual period, according to UNICEF. In reversing this trend in Ghana, JInitiative, a child and family focused organization, started...
The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson has described as “embarrassing” the rate at which girls of school going age are married off by their parents, mostly to older men. Mrs. Charlotte Osei...
President Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghana no longer has an excuse to remain an underdeveloped country after 60 years of independence from colonial rule. In a nine-page speech and in 2,757 words, he...
President Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghana no longer has an excuse to remain an underdeveloped country after 60 years of independence from colonial rule. In a nine-page speech and in 2,757 words, he...
Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhea resulting from a drought, the prime minister said on Saturday, as the area braces itself for widespread...
