An analysis of climate finance flows in Ghana shows that an annual average of USD 830 million was tracked in 2019 and 2020. This is a meagre 5-9% of its required investment — estimated between USD 9.3-15.5 billion — highlighting the pressing need to bolster climate finance to achieve Ghana’s …
Ghana has suspended a trial for an Ebola vaccine after complaints that locals were being needlessly used as "guinea pigs" in a country currently free of the deadly disease. A spokesman for the West African nation's health minister told a local radio station on Wednesday that many Ghanaians had contacted …
Girls' and women's health is in transition and, although some aspects of it have improved substantially in the past few decades, there are still important unmet needs. Population ageing and transformations in the social determinants of health have increased the coexistence of disease burdens related to reproductive health, nutrition, and …
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) unanimously endorsed Ghana's ambitious investment plan to transform and promote its renewable energy sector. The plan, which is slated to receive $40 million in funding from the CIF's Programme for Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP), is structured around four key projects: …
Mr Kamal Kar, Founder and Chairman of the World-wide Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Foundation, has asked government to demonstrate the political will towards eradicating open defecation in the country. Dr Kar’s Foundation is spearheading a world-wide campaign to eradicate open defecation in countries where the practice is a major …
Up to 90% of the world’s electronic waste, worth nearly $19bn (£12bn), is illegally traded or dumped each year, according to the UN Environment Programme (Unep). Computers and smart phones are among the ditched items contributing to this 41m tonne e-waste mountain, which could top 50m tonnes by 2017, Unep …
Cape Town — THOUSANDS of attendees from around the globe have converged in South Africa for the annual African Utility Week and Clean Power Africa to explore measures of securing the future development of the continent’s power and water industries. The event, said to be the biggest such gathering in …
The optimal management of water resources requires that the collected hydrogeological, meteorological, and spatial data be simulated and analyzed with appropriate models. In this study, a catchment-scale distributed hydrological modeling approach is applied to simulate water stress for the years 2000 and 2050 in a data scarce Pra Basin, Ghana. …
Rapid urbanization in Ghana over the past three decades has coincided with rapid GDP growth. This has helped to create jobs, increase human capital, decrease poverty, and expand opportunities and improve living conditions for millions of Ghanaians. Ghana’s urban transformation has been momentous, but it is not unique: a similar …
Nigeria and other countries of the Sub-Sahara African region have the world's worst access to electricity, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its latest report. The report said that the sub-region has 13 percent of the world's population, but 48 percent of the share of the global population without …
A national plan that could see local governments spend as little as N109.9 million every year until 2018 to cut malnutrition among children under five years has stalled since last year. The National Strategic Plan of Action on Nutrition (NSPAN) approved by the National Council on Health is estimated to …
AFRICA Finance Corporation (AFC), on Friday, effected the ground-breaking of the $900 million Kpone Independent Power Project (Kpone IPP) in Ghana, implemented by the Cenpower Generation Company Limited. AFC is the lead project developer, mandated lead arranger and largest equity investor in Kpone IPP, which reached financial close in December …
Two hundred and twenty thousand children were not immunized last year against the six killer diseases - polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pertussis (whooping cough), measles and tetanus, according to Dr. Joan Awanyo-Akaba, the Civil Society rep on the board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). The alarming figures, …
Accra — GHANA is turning to solar energy to avert the incessant power crisis. This follows the installation of photovoltaic solar systems to more than 150 schools drawn from 98 districts of the country. The sole purpose is to ensure power outages do not disturb classes. The project is a …
Between now and 2030, every country will experience population ageing—a trend that is both pronounced and historically unprecedented. Over the past six decades, countries of the world had experienced only a slight increase in the share of people aged 60 years and older, from 8% to 10%. But in the …
Malnutrition in children can manifest in different ways; malnourished children can be underweight or obese, or their height can be stunted. Global health experts used to measure progress toward meeting childhood malnutrition goals on the basis of improvements in weight. But now stunting is the top priority. That’s because children …
The QUALMAT (Quality of Maternal and Prenatal Care: Bridging the Know-do Gap) project has introduced an electronic clinical decision support system (CDSS) for pre-natal and maternal care services in rural primary health facilities in Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Tanzania.
Minna — The government of Germany has earmarked 50 million Euros to be expended in 10 West African countries for training and research on climate change and land use management. Executive Director of West African Service Center on Climate Change and Adaptation Land Use, Dr. Laurent Sedogo, made the disclosure …
A new report released by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) says Africa must embrace agricultural innovations to better compete in an evolving global bio-economy The report, entitled "GM Agriculture Technologies for Africa," analyzes the benefits and constraints of adopting genetically modified (GM) …
Almost 40% of the world’s waste ends up in huge rubbish tips, mostly found near urban populations in poor countries, posing a serious threat to human health and the environment From the air, the Mbeubeuss waste dump 12 miles north of Dakar in Senegal looks innocent enough. Now 45 years …
ACCRA - China on Monday provided Ghana with 5 million yuan (833,000 U.S. dollars) worth of equipment and medical supplies to help the country battle Ebola outbreak which has claimed over 3,000 lives in African countries. Sun Baohong, the Chinese ambassador to Ghana, urged the international community to stand together …
