Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
AMANDA SEITZ Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in a report […]
An Australian oil and gas exploration company says it has found high quality natural gas deposits in northeastern Zimbabwe, after months of exploration. Invictus Energy announced that the analysis of samples it collected last year in the north of Zimbabwe, near the border with Mozambique, “definitively proves the presence of hydrocarbons in multiple reservoirs pay […]
KOFI AYIM Charles III was crowned king of the United Kingdom and 14 other sovereign states of the Commonwealth realms on May 6. More than 18 million viewers in the United Kingdom were estimated to have tuned in to watch the elaborate ceremony for the first time in 70 years. Among the royal regalia in […]
The coronation of King Charles III has rekindled calls for Britain to return to South Africa the world’s largest diamond — the centerpiece of the scepter he held at Saturday’s May 6 ceremony. The 530-carat First Star of Africa was unearthed in 1905, when South Africa was under British rule, and donated two years later […]
RHITU CHATTERJEE The world has made headway against the practice of child marriage, but progress has been frustratingly slow, according to a new report by UNICEF.The percentage of women age 20-24 who were married in their childhood fell from 23% to 19% in the past decade. And yet, every year, 12 million girls across the […]
The United States of America, as its annual rite released the 2022 Human Rights Report on the West African nation of Ghana early this year. The country report included a gamut of infractions covering arbitrary and/or unlawful and extrajudicial killings through torture and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment by or on behalf […]
USHA LEE McFARLING Black people in counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, according to a new national analysis that provides the strongest evidence yet that increasing the diversity of the medical workforce may be key to ending deeply entrenched racial health disparities. The study, published Friday April 14, in JAMA Network Open, […]
UN experts are deeply concerned over delays in reaching an agreement on the restructuring of Zambia’s debt and its corresponding negative human rights impact on peoples’ lives. “We are worried that despite positive reforms undertaken by the Government of Zambia, the delays in sovereign debt restructuring compromise its ability to mobilize and maximize resources for […]
The west African country has cleared its use in children aged between five months and three years FAUSTINE NGILA An Oxford University-developed vaccine against malaria has been approved and cleared for use in Ghana, its first such approval in the world. R21/Matrix-M has shown great success during its trials in Burkina Faso. While the WHO’s […]
JOANNE SILBERNER Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists impressed him. So did the archaeological discoveries of ancient humans by the Leakey family showing, as he saw it, that “to be human […]