Vodafone Ghana employees and the Vodafone Group Foundation have raised GH¢100,000 toward establishment of the Vodafone Ark Foundation Transit Shelter for survivors of domestic violence. The amount was donated to the Ark Foundation, a Non-Profit Organisation (NGO) that provides support for survivors of domestic violence.
The donation is part of...
The Rotary Club of Accra-Ridge, in collaboration with Rotary Club Cantonment, has embarked on another humanitarian mission to support market women and frontline workers in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The club donated some PPE to the Mallam Atta Market Government Clinic, and also to the women selling...
Newmont Ghana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) to support the nation’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the MoU, Newmont Ghana will procure PCR equipment, ancillary equipment, reagents and other consumables to augment the capacity of KCCR...
Oxfam in Ghana has committed GH¢100,000 to support the National Commission for Civic Education’s (NCCE) campaign on COVID-19 awareness-raising.
The campaign’s goal is to deepen public awareness on the prevention and management of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as well as government’s measures and directives in response to the pandemic.
The entire campaign...
Nominations for the 2020 edition of the Ghana Energy Awards (GEA) have opened under the theme: ‘Excelling in crisis: the energy sector in a COVID-19 era.’
The nominations remain open until September 30, 2020. In all there are 18 categories, both competitive and non-competitive, including the topmost Energy Personality...
Southern Africa’s economic output will shrink by as much as 6.6% this year due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said.
The bank’s best-case scenario sees output growth at -4.9% with a 6.6% contraction forecast under its worst-case scenario. That is against its...
Management of indigenous transport firm S.O Frimpong Transport Company (SOFT) has partnered the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology at the School of Biological Sciences in the University of Ghana (UG) to use chlorine disinfectant toward the company’s fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Chlorine kills pathogens such...
The Vice-President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated the US$7.5million Infectious Diseases Centre built by the Ghana COVID-19 Private Sector Fund, at the Ga East Municipal Hospital.
The project has a Level 2.5 biomedical laboratory, a triage unit, waiting areas, a nurses’ station, VIP and general wards, and a 21-bed Intensive...
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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank group president David Malpass have offered debt relief to developing countries.
A debt service relief package has been approved by some of the world’s biggest lenders for more than 25 African countries. The arrangement includes the World Bank, the International...
The Centre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR) has stated that the nation has no medically approved herbal drug that can be used to manage or treat patients with Coronavirus.
According to the centre, it has received tonnes of medication for the management and treatment of Coronavirus, but none passed the potency...