COVID-19: Donor nations offer debts payment suspension
The chairperson of the African Union, Cyril Ramaphosa, has said the coronavirus pandemic is a major threat to developing countries’ efforts to meet their development goals – which include targets on education, health and eradicating poverty. Addressing a UN meeting on how to handle the pandemic’s economic fallout, the South African president repeated a call […]
St. Luke Health Centre calls for facility resource to meet healthcare needs
Management of the St. Luke Health Centre at Seniegya in the Sekyere East district of Ashanti Region is appealing to philanthropists and corporate institutions to help to resource the facility to meet the healthcare needs of its catchment communities. Among the critical needs of the Health Centre presently, are Oxygen devices like cylinders, adjustable beds, […]
Kintampo Health Research Centre gets $30,000 to support COVID-19 testing
The Kintampo Health Research Centre in the Bono East Region is close to testing for COVID-19. This is because a benevolent resident Razak Awudulai has donated a check for $30,000 to the centre for the acquisition of a COVID-19 testing machine known as Quantitative Polymeric Chain Reaction System, QPCR, needed to make it a COVID-19 certified testing […]
Africa Union chief condemns Minneapolis ‘murder’
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission, has condemned the killing of an unarmed black man in the US city of Minneapolis, calling it “murder”. George Floyd, 46, died in police custody on Monday. A white police officer was filmed kneeling on his neck, despite him saying that he could not […]
Nigeria hospitals rejecting patients over virus fears
More Nigerians are dying because they are not receiving hospital treatment for other diseases than are killed by the coronavirus itself, the head of the country’s Covid-19 task force says. Boss Mustapha told a media briefing that it was sad and unacceptable that both private and government hospitals were rejecting patients because of fears of […]
WHO reiterates COVID-19 treatments must be ‘global public good’
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation, reiterated on Friday that any COVID-19 treatments are “global public goods that must be accessible by all people”. “COVID-19 has highlighted the inequalities of our world,” he said, adding that it has also presented the world with an opportunity “to build a fairer world” in which […]
Rwanda: Ex-mayor sentenced to life over Rwandan genocide
Rwanda’s High Court has sentenced a former mayor to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide. Ladislas Ntaganzwa – who was arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo five years ago – was found guilty of personally leading a series of massacres of Tutsi civilians, including an attack on a church where […]
Malema virus warning: ‘Don’t go to church, you’ll die’
South Africa’s firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema has urged people not to fall for the “trap” of going to church, saying they will die after contracting coronavirus. Places of worship are set to reopen from 1 June after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced easing of lockdown restrictions to level three – but only 50 or less […]
BoG releases GH¢5.5 billion to support Covid-19 fight
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has released the first tranche of GH¢5.5 billion of the GH¢10 billion emergency facility the government is seeking to support residual expenditures to cushion the economy against the impact of COVID-19, the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has said. The release, he said, was consistent with global policy responses […]
Gov’t borrows GH¢10 billion from BoG to support COVID-19 fight – Finance Minister tells Parliament
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta has informed Parliament that government has borrowed 10 billion cedis from the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to help deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Section 30 of the Bank of Ghana Act, 2002, (Act 612) as amended, allows the Minister of Finance, the Controller and Accountant […]
Twitter hides Trump tweet for ‘glorifying violence’
Twitter has hidden one of President Donald Trump’s tweets from his profile, saying it violates rules about glorifying violence. But instead of being deleted, it has been replaced with a warning and can be viewed by clicking on it. The warning says “Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the […]
Reopening of schools: GNAT tenders 19 requests to government for consideration
The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has put forward nineteen requests it wants government to fulfill before taking any decision to reopen schools. Topmost among the list is a reduction in class size, fumigation of all schools and education offices as well as compulsory COVID-19 testing of all teachers, learners and supporting staff across […]
Testing police officers for COVID-19 should be continuous process — Nima Divisional Commander
The Divisional Commander in Charge of Nima Divisional Police Headquarters, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Abraham Quaye, has made a passionate appeal for the testing of police personnel and inmates to be a continuous process in the wake of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “The continuous testing of officers and inmates will enable us know […]
AfDB stands by president after nepotism probe
The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) says it has not asked the president of Africa’s largest multilateral lender, Akinwumi Adesina, to step down. It said it was treating allegations levelled against Mr Adesina with the seriousness they deserved. The US had rejected the findings of a probe made into allegations of nepotism – […]
