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UNICEF Worried Over Absenteeism In Basic Schools
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), has expressed concern with the high rate of...
Twitter Accounts Hijacked With ‘Nazi’ Hashtags In Turkish
A diplomatic spat between Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany spread online on Wednesday when a large number of Twitter...
Minister Wants Peace Added To Criteria
The Northern Regional Minister Saeed Salifu has called for the inclusion of peace as a criterion in ranking districts...
More Than 1,500 Children Dead In Two Years of Yemen War
The conflict in Yemen has killed nearly 7,700 people, including at least 1,564 children, since a Saudi-led coalition...
SEND Ghana’s Take On 2017 Budget
SEND Ghana has analysed Ghana’s 2017 budget and has come out with the following observations on key sectors and pro...
2017 Budget Silent On Funding of Office of Special Prosecutor
SEND-GHANA, a policy research, advocacy and livelihood promotion organisation, has called on government to explain how...
US-Iranian and Wife Charged Over Tehran Parties
A jailed US-Iranian and his wife have been formally charged with hosting parties in Tehran, while another couple were...
Syria War: 2016 Deadliest Year Yet For Children, Says Unicef
Syria’s children “hit rock bottom” in 2016, with more killed than in any other year of the civil war, the United...
Wa East Most Improved District In Ghana – Report
Wa East District in the Upper West Region is the most improved district in Ghana in terms of service delivery. This was...
Violence Against Syria’s Children ‘at Its Worst’ In 2016
Violence against children in war-ravaged Syria was "at its worst" in 2016, the UN's children's agency said Monday as...
World Facing Greatest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945
The world is facing its largest humanitarian crisis since 1945, the United Nation's humanitarian chief said as he...
Conflicts of Interest Keep Mongolian Child Jockeys In the Saddle
Mongolian courts banned them, human rights groups slammed them and the labour ministry demands they cease, but none of...
Greater Inter-Ministerial Collaboration For Women’s Development Needed – UNICEF
The UNICEF Representative in Ghana, Susan Namondo Ngongi has called for greater inter-ministerial collaboration to...
Stakeholder Collaboration Needed To End Child Marriages
The Minister for Gender, Children and Social protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, wants more public support to end child...
Helping School Girls Cope With Monthly Flow, JInitiative’s Recommendations
One out of every 10 girls in Africa misses days in school during menstrual period, according to UNICEF. In reversing...
Child Marriage Statistics Embarrassing To Ghana – Charlotte Osei
The Electoral Commission (EC) Chairperson has described as “embarrassing” the rate at which girls of school going...
Akufo-Addo’s Speech At Ghana@60 Anniversary Celebration
President Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghana no longer has an excuse to remain an underdeveloped country after 60 years of...
We’ve Run Out of Excuses After 60 Years of Independence
President Nana Akufo-Addo says Ghana no longer has an excuse to remain an underdeveloped country after 60 years of...
Somalia Says 110 Dead In Last 48 Hours Due To Drought
Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhea resulting from a drought,...