The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) in Yendi, in the Northern Region, has closed its water treatment plant in the town. The shut down follows the low level of the Dakar River where raw water is taken for the production drinking water for thousands of residents. The situation has compelled the residents to buy water…
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NAIROBI, KENYAA Kenyan charity launched a range of educational materials Tuesday to teach children about the dangers of trafficking, in a bid to combat child slavery and exploitation. Most information on human trafficking, including images, is focused on Southeast Asia, said Sophie Otiende of Awareness Against Human Trafficking, also known as HAART Kenya, and…
A senior corporate manager from Malawi, has publicly revealed intimate details about the paternity of four of children he assumed were his. The man’s revelations come after a DNA test proved that four of the six children he had with his wife, Miriam, were not his. He broke the news to his relatives on a…
NYATIKE, KENYA Scorching sun beats down on half a dozen women as they carry large sacks of crushed ore on their backs at the Osiri-Matanda gold mine near Kenya’s border with Tanzania. On wooden tables, they sieve the powdered ore into metal pans, add mercury, and heat the mixture over a charcoal fire. The air…
President Akufo-Addo has officially renamed the seat of the presidency, the Flagstaff House to Jubilee House. The decision was confirmed in a statement signed by Akufo-Addo, issued Thursday, March 29 after pictures surfaced on social media of the name being changed on the wall of the facility.This is the second time in nine years that…
A 30-year-old carpenter has been hauled before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl at Ashaley Botwe in the Greater Accra Region. The accused, Richard Moncho, according to the police, in March 2018 lured the victim into an unused kiosk and forcibly had sex with her. He is said to have threatened…
AUSTIN, TEXAS While working for a big consulting firm in Lagos, Nigeria, Afua Osei repeatedly encountered women who wanted to advance professionally but didn’t know how. They needed guidance and mentoring. So, Osei and her colleague Yasmin Belo-Osagie started She Leads Africa, a digital media company offering advice, information, training and networking opportunities to help…
Dutch Company Delft Imaging Systems has completed the largest African e-health and tuberculosis project in Ghana known as 51 X-ray systems. The systems were installed this March across the country to accelerate Tuberculosis (TB) case detection in Ghana. This installation came ahead of World Tuberculosis Day that fell last Saturday, March 24. TB is curable…