Understanding Vulnerability and Exclusion in Ghana
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PDA Ghana tries out causal mapping!
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ACU – 2022 Quarter 2 Updates
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CHILD LABOR REMEDIATION PROJECT – 2022 Quarter 2 Updates
INTRODUCTION During the quarter under review, the Child Labor Remediation team carried out…
VSLA – 2022 Quarter 2 Updates
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Research, Evaluation and Learning (REL) Unit -2022 Quarter 2 Updates
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Participatory Development Associates Collaborating Against Child Abuse In Ghana
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In Ghana, VSLA-CHILD Member Mary Frimpong Has Become a Community Leader
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PDA continues to demonstrate its commitment towards protecting the Ghanaian child from all…
PDA Child Abuse Tracker
The PDA child abuse tracker continues to record cases of child abuse in Ghana. In…
Nyonkopa Child Labour Remediation VSLA
The Nyonkopa Child Labor Remediation Project is a 2-year contractual engagement between Barry-Callebaut…
VSLA-CHILD (Ivory Coast)
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VSLA-CHILD (Ghana)
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District Level Needs Assessment for AfriKids in Northern Regions of Ghana.
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Community Needs Assessment for Beyond Beans
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Endline Assessment of Women Economic Empowerment Through Rural Financing in Ghana and DRC Using Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP) Methodology
The PDA REL team and the Bath Social Development Research (Bath SDR) have…
4th Quarter Child Abuse Cases In 2021
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End of Year Message – MD
Dear Partners and Colleagues, What a year it has been! Learning to…
VSLA PROJECTS – 2022 Updates
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CHILD LABOR REMEDIATION -2022
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Child Abuse Cases Recorded In The 3rd Quarter Of 2021
In the third quarter of 2021, the PDA Child Abuse Tracker recorded a…
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Second Quarter Reported Cases of Child Abuse in Ghana, 2021
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Evaluating How Root Capital’s Client Businesses Impact Smallholder Livelihoods: Oil Palm In Ghana
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STATISTICS OF CHILD ABUSE FOR QUARTER THREE, 2020
The PDA child abuse tracker continues to record cases of child abuse in…
Evidence-Based Programming – Updates from the Research
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The Future of Work for Ghanaian Youth
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Analysis of Child Abuse Cases Recorded in First Half of 2020
The worrying trend of child abuse in Ghana continues to dent the country’s…
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Pandemics and the Use of NonPharmaceutical Interventions: Lessons from the 1918 Pandemic and Covid-19
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RETHINKING SOCIAL PROTECTION AND SAFETY NETS IN GHANA: WHAT THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS TAUGHT US
By: Alexander Afram The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taken the entire world by…
GHANA’S CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM AND COVID-19 PANDEMIC
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great deal of impact worldwide, Ghana inclusive.…
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF COVID-19 IN AFRICA
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Absorbing the Shocks or Irreversible Damage? The Impact of Covid-19 on Africa’s Political Economy
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STATISTICS OF CHILD ABUSE FOR QUARTER ONE, 2020
The PDA child abuse tracker continues to record cases of child abuse in…
Second half of 2019- Child Abuse Tracker
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Evidence Based Programming – Updates from the Research Evaluation and Learning Unit
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CMAC/PDA LAUNCH GOVERNMENT SERVICES ACCOUNTABILITY APP (GSAAPP)
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What We’ve Learned About Evaluating Impact in Rural Communities
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COMMUNIQUE-Protecting the Ghanaian School Child Improving Effective Partnerships between State and Non-state Actors
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Child abuse cases recorded in the 2nd quarter of 2019
In the 2nd quarter of 2019, a total No. of 31 child abuse…
Transitions from Primary to Lower Secondary School: A Focus on Equity
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Formative evaluation of the ‘I Am Aware’ social accountability project in Ghana
Download the executive summary and Final evaluation I Am Aware project CDD-Ghana collects and…
Research, Evaluation, and Learning (REL) – 2022
Community Needs Assessments in Practice It is always important, effective and cost-efficient when…
ADVOCACY AND COMMUNICATIONS UNIT ACU – 2022
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Child abuse reporting and tracking (ongoing)
PDA’s Online Child Abuse Tracker is an online platform where cases of child…
Report on Second Annual Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Child Protection
Executive Summary The Second Annual Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Child Protection was held…
2nd Annual Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Child Protection in Ghana
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UK Department for International Development IMPACT EVALUATION OF THE SADA MILLENNIUM VILLAGES PROJECT IN NORTHERN GHANA: ENDLINE SUMMARY REPORT
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How to enhance capacity to transform science into policy and practice in the field of food security
A training course targeting young African researchers with PhDsDate: 28 Jan – 1…
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PDA Child Abuse Tracker: an overview
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Why this 48-year-old woman is building Ghana’s biggest solar farm
For more than a decade, one 48-year-old entrepreneur in Ghana has been quietly…
Tension in Suame as Ghanaians allegedly attack Nigerian retailers
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Akufo-Addo Swears in Jean Mensa, 3 Others
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Prez Akufo-Addo Swears In Chinery-Hesse As New UG Chancellor
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NADMO/GNFS Sensitise Residents In Flood Prone Areas
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Ban On Fishing To Start On August 7 – MOFAD
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Expired Malaria Test Kits On The Market – FDA Warns
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UE/R: Neglected School Uses Pit Latrine As Office
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CDD I Am Aware Evaluation
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FDA warns pregnant women against bleaching pills
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Aid Agencies: Tens of Thousands of Kenyans Go Hungry after Floods
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Ban on tilapia import to boost local production
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Bird flu hits Ghana; Over 11,000 birds killed
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No more direct posting – Health Service Director General announces
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Akufo-Addo removes Charlotte Osei, two deputies from office
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Former Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur passes on
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Gov’t Moves To End Poverty In Agric Sector
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Efficient healthcare system a collective responsibility – Health Director
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Garu, Tempane districts beg gov’t to complete abandoned Hospital
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‘Football coach’ remanded for sodomising 10-year-old
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Pupils Learn Under Dangerous Conditions
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Flooding cuts off access to Mankessim Hospital
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Galamsey Activities Move To Bedrooms
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RUFORUM Young African Entrepreneurs Competition (RUYAEC) 2018 Open Awards Competition
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UN Says 6 Million Struggling to Get Food in Africa’s Sahel
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Cocoa prices tumble
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Proprietor issues fake index numbers to BECE
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Whale dies after eating more than 80 plastic bags
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Commercial drivers increase fares by 10%
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BECE starts today, GES extends SHSs selection to 3 weeks after BECE
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Nkoranza North pleads for fruit processing factory
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Security man remanded for impregnating minor
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Akufo-Addo Launches Ghana Zero Hunger Strategic Review Report
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GHS introduces new vaccine to eradicate polio
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Know where to register for your Ghana Card
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DRC Ebola Outbreak Threatens Children
The UN children’s fund warned the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo…
Registration for Ghana Card begins today
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GhanaThink leads discussion on solving unemployment in Upper East
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6th International Climate Change & Population Conference on Africa
The Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana is pleased to…
GIZ Ghana is recruiting
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UN: Education, Roads Key to Withstanding Food Crises
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GHS issues alert over potential cholera outbreak
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Group advocates training of more researchers to tackle HIV/AIDS
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Illegal abortion leaves JHS 2 student’s fate in the balance.
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Mother pours boiling water on son for taking her GH¢1 to buy food
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Nana Addo leaves for US for SDGs event
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Adopt A Bin Campaign Launched
The OneGhana Movement, in partnership with Citi FM, Ministry of Sanitation and Water…
Biannual Learning Meeting of Youth Forward Initiative
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Four Women Drown On Afram River
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Rural Kenyans Beat Rising Heat With Mud-brick Homes
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20,000 For Pollination Project
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KMA Launches Dustbin Project
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Sabre Trust’s Fast Track Transformational Teacher Training (FTTT) Programme wins prestigious UNESCO Hamdan bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Prize
Participatory Development Associates (PDA) Ltd wishes to congratulate Sabre Trust and GES and…
Ga Homowo: Ban On Noise Making Starts May 14
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We will soon use drones to supply blood and essential medicines – Bawumia
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Punish teachers, heads severely for sexual abuse – Child’s Right Int’l
The government has been urged to institute stiffer punishment for teachers and school…
Upper Manya Kro Bank Builds Teachers Bungalow
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KMA starts enforcement of its sanitation by-laws
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Boy, 6, Kills Brother, 4, With Grandpa’s Gun
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International short course on Coastal Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Coastal Areas
The Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC),…
Pitch AgriHack Seeks to Promote Greater Engagement of Young Women
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Nigeria ‘sex-for-grades’ lecturer suspended
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Car Owner Arrested Over Kids’ Death
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Boy 6, kills 4-yr old brother accidentally with father’s gun
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Tweneboah Koduah SHS Head interdicted over sexual misconduct claims
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Bongo District Hospital: Patients share beds, ‘container’ used as morgue
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Women everywhere should be able to speak freely about sex and love -Amanpour
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In Libya, Migrants Fight for Survival
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Malaria experts fear disease’s resurgence
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Police ‘rescue’ 21 children from being trafficked, suspect in custody
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Within Ghana’s prison walls; the myth, the truth and all
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Foreign-labelled goods flood shops
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Police, others ordered to immediately enforce ‘action plan’ to deal with road accidents
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Urban Millennials Go to Farmer School
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Ghana card issuance postponed again, now to begin in May
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BECE candidate referred to Komfo Anokye after alleged ‘gang rape’
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Google releases new Africa app to beat slow internet speeds, high data costs
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Akufo-Addo leaves Ghana for Commonwealth meeting in London
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Aid Groups Seek to Raise $1.7B for DRC, Over Congo’s Objections
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Night owls have 10% higher mortality risk, study says
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Girl ‘set ablaze’ during WASSCE prayers, dies from injuries
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Akufo-Addo launches 7-year devt plan
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Baby’s Dad Brought GHS533 Bill 2hrs After Doc Cut Oxygen
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Scientists attribute low crop yields in Ghana to substandard fertilizers
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PASE Board Chair to Speak at an International Workshop on Palm Oil
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Tanzania launches early-age cervical cancer vaccine
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Pharmacy Council moves to stop drugs sale by unauthorised persons
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Planting for Food & Jobs receives €20m support
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Two get 66 months imprisonment for jailbreak at Kwabenya
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Agric Minister leads delegation to Agro fair in Czech Republic
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Two Kwabenya cell breakers get 66 months jail sentence
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Do we really need new regions in Ghana?
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Use your power, Madam Attorney General
Dear Attorney General Gloria Akuffo: During your confirmation hearings, you spoke eloquently about…
RTI Bill: Open letter to 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament
I trust this finds you very well. I have decided to use this…
PhD Student Fellowship at MU Sinclair School of Nursing in USA, 2018
Scholarship Description: The Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri is…
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies (PhD)
Our research activity in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies focuses on a wide…
TUD Scholarship Program for Early-Career Female Scientists in Germany, 2018
The Technical University Dresden (TUD) is offering Scholarship Program for the Promotion of…
MBA Scholarships for Women at Berlin School of Economics and Law in Germany, 2018 FacebookWhatsAppTwitterLinkedInEmail
The Berlin School of Economics and Law is offering four partial scholarships every…
British Council India 70th Anniversary Scholarships for Masters in UK, 2018
Applications are invited for British Council India 70th Anniversary Scholarships held at UK…
Bristol University Think Big Scholarships
Brief description:In 2018, Bristol University is investing £500,000 to help the brightest and…
Transform Together Scholarships for International and European Union (non-UK) Students
Transform Together scholarships are open to international students and European Union (non-UK) students…
New Zealand Development Scholarships
New Zealand Development Scholarships (NZDS) give candidates from selected developing countries an opportunity…
New Zealand ASEAN Scholarships
The New Zealand ASEAN Scholar Awards (NZAS) recognise New Zealand’s close cultural, economic,…
FELLOWSHIP IN FOOD PROTECTION
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT FOR THE INTEGRATED FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM The IFPTI Fellowship Program is…
Odinga’s surprise package for new AU Chairman Paul Kagame
Last Monday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the 30th African Union (AU) Summit ended…
”The People’s President” – A mark of intense tribal politics in Kenya?
The objective of Africa’s development has been seriously undermined by tribalism, which provides…
Deputy Speaker’s Comments on RTI Bill Very Unfortunate, Misleading – MFWA
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has read with dismay comments attributed…
Ghana Not Progressing In Budget Transparency – OBS Report
Ghana’s performance on budget transparency, has aptly been described as stagnant, following its…
The refugee crisis isn’t about refugees. It’s about us
I was born in 1957, the same year China purged more than 300,000…
Gender equality at work is a matter of respect, not just money
Fifty years ago this spring, the sewing machinists at Ford’s Dagenham plant famously…
Kenya: U.S. and EU Criticise Odinga Oath, Call for Respect of Law
The US Department of State and the European Union have slammed Nasa leader…
Human rights bodies condemn media shutdown in Kenya
The Kenyan authorities “violated the public’s right to information” by blocking broadcasts of…
Zimbabwe appoints female High Court judge as new head of election body
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed High Court Judge Priscilla Chigumba as the…
Who protects the child?
Very often, we hear cases of child abuse which includes, emotional abuse, physical…
Address loopholes in Planting for Food and Jobs – Peasant Farmers to gov’t
The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) has called on government to address…
We can’t do without FDIs —Yofi Grant
There is the need to balance the debate around whether the country should…
Time to redeem Africa from corruption
Corruption is a major contributor to Africa’s stunted development. By corroding and weakening…
‘I was 12 when I married a 35-year-old’
All too often girls in countries across sub-Saharan Africa can be married off…
Algerian, South African scientists scoop AU accolades
Algerian professor Malik Maaza and South Africa’s Professor Robert Peter Miller have been…
Kenya govt declares Odinga’s resistance movement a criminal group
The Kenyan government has declared the main opposition National Super Alliance’s offshoot, National…
George Weah vows to change Liberia’s citizenship laws
Liberia’s President George Weah has called for the removal of a “racist” clause…
Odinga’s action is unlawful; AU must act – Chair of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament says Tuesday’s ceremony pronouncing Raila…
Why Rwanda’s Development Model Wouldn’t Work Elsewhere in Africa
Rwanda is often touted as an example of what African states could achieve…
One-district, one-factory – Challenges of quality, globalisation and environmental sustainability
There is no gainsaying that the initiative by the Akufo-Addo government to transform…
Africa: Study Shows African Migrants Are Better Educated Than U.S. Citizens
I’ll never forget my sister’s experience in undergrad with a Nigerian classmate that…
Tanzania: Punishment Won’t Stop Teenage Pregnancies in Tanzania Because ‘Bad Behaviour’ Isn’t the Cause
ANALYSIS In Tanzania, if you’re a schoolgirl and fall pregnant, it could mean…
Meet the woman challenging Arab notions of disability
It was 2008 in the Gaza Strip. When winter arrived, so did the…
We can still win the fight against climate change
As 2017 drew to an end, becoming one of the three hottest years…
Principles of service -A lost art in public service?
In September 2012, the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), organised a public lecture…
Rising internet shutdowns aimed at ‘silencing dissent
Governments around the world are increasingly shutting down internet access in an apparent…
Corruption in the churches and palaces – Let’s halt them
In a country of 28 million multi-cultural and ethnic groupings, it is very…