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The Gomoa West Security Council in the Central Region has in consultation with families of the 13 teenagers who drowned in the sea at Apam on Sunday has set Thursday, March 11, 2021, for the mass burial of the deceased. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting held yesterday. …

Women in Africa are less likely to die from Covid-19 than men, but more likely to succumb to maternal complications due to limited access to reproductive services since the pandemic started, the UN said Thursday citing reports. A study of 28 African countries including Guinea, Mauritius and Uganda showed that …

A recent Senior High School graduate, John Appiah alias Omega who was named by Police as leader of a team of robbers who attacked an ambulance and killed the driver while sexually molested a female paramedic still remains on the run. The said John Appiah is believed to have turned …

The COVID-19 pandemic has so far had three lessons for all member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) agency itself, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said here on Monday. Addressing the 148th session of the WHO Executive Board, Tedros said that first of all “all of …

The head of the World Health Organisation has said he is “very disappointed” China has denied its experts access to investigating the origins of coronavirus. A ten-strong team of international scientists and virologists had been due to set off in early January as part of a long-awaited mission to probe …

The December 7, 2020, parliamentary and presidential election, has ended across the country with many big names shot down. Both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) suffered some shocking defeats. Per the results trickling in now, former Minister for Inner Cities and Development, who doubles as …

General Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia known popularly as General Mosquito has advised electorates to curse any politician who comes to them to buy votes. According to him, for four years, politicians who were given the power and money to help in the development …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to investigate allegations that aid workers tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo sexually abused and exploited women. WHO and other aid agency staff were accused by 50 women in a joint investigation by two news agencies. Local women were …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed rules for the testing of African herbal remedies to fight Covid-19. Sound science would be the sole basis for safe and effective traditional therapies to be adopted, it said. Any traditional remedies that are judged effective could be fast-tracked for large-scale manufacturing. Madagascar’s …

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years. Speaking in Geneva on Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu of 1918 took two years to overcome. But he added that current advances in technology could enable …