News link 2022-10-11 Fourth Edition
News link 2022-10-11 Fourth Edition
News link 2022-10-11 Fourth Edition
The United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)estimates that 54 countries, accounting for more than half of the world’s poorest people, now need immediate debt relief to avoid even more extreme poverty while giving them a chance of dealing with climate change. According…
Calls have been made for Ghana’s government to decentralize challenges bedeviling the development of the girl child. The call follows startling revelations that over two hundred thousand girls do not attend school. Correspondent Eric Mawuena Egbeta reports…
The Liberian Chief Justice—Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh is calling for a hundred percent female dominant Supreme Court bench. She noted that for too long, males have dominated the high court, and it’s time for more women to ascend to the bench of…
In Cote d’Ivoire, the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI), on Tuesday announced that the revision of the electoral list will take place from November 26 to December 10, 2022. Abdulahi Hassan has the details
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday launched a campaign to raise awareness and encourage suicide prevention in Africa, which has the highest rate of deaths by suicide in the world. According to its statistics, about 11 people out of…
The Nigerien government says nearly 200 lives have been lost and more than a quarter of a million affected, following flooding caused by heavy rains in the country. The Country’s Civil Protection Service revealed this on Thursday, describing the toll…
Ghana’s Agriculture Minister, Dr Owusu Akoto Afriyie says only two percent of the country’s cocoa farms are affected by illegal mining activities. He indicated that there is a lot of goodwill among stakeholders including traditional authorities in the fight against…
The Medicines & Health Products Regulatory Authority in Liberia has warned the public against buying medical products linked to the death of at least 66 children in The Gambia. Addressing a press conference in Monrovia on Thursday, the Regulatory Authority…
The Gambian government is seeking legal advice against an Indian pharmaceutical company Maiden Pharmaceuticals Limited that produced paracetamol syrups which are linked to 66 deaths in the country. This comes following an alert issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO)…
In Guinea, no fewer than 15 miners were killed on Thursday after a landslide hit an artisanal gold mine in the country’s northeast Siguiri region. An official of Norassoba town, Fatoumata Traore, confirmed that the landslide had killed eight people…