As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. Smog stopped choking New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and India’s getting views of sights not visible in decades. Nitrogen dioxide pollution...
Interview with
Joshua Owusu-Ansah, Country Lead, Talamus Health Ghana; and Daniel Marfo, General Manager, Zipline Ghana
How can technology complement health measures during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, and how will this impact the longer- term development of certain technologies?
OWUSU-ANSAH: A wider segment of the population can benefit from a...
Almost three billion people still rely on open fires or inefficient stoves to cook, filling their homes with harmful smoke and increasing their vulnerability to respiratory infections.
People exposed to air pollution are more likely to die from COVID-19 than people living in areas with cleaner air, according to a...
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million, due to the economic fallout of COVID-19.
WFP expects to need US$10-US$12billion to fund its assistance programmes this year, compared to a record US$8.3billion...
Africa is a wonderful continent endowed with rich resources, both human and material wise. It is the second-largest continent in the world and the second-most populous continent, after Asia. Almost every natural resource that one can think of is existent on this very continent at the expense of other...
Although some health professionals and lay persons have expressed their disappointment at President Akufo-Addo’s lifting of the 3-week partial lockdown on Sunday, April 19; Secretary-General of the TUC, Dr. Yaw Baah - an ardent advocate for a total lockdown at the onset of the novel virus - has come...
The issue of inequality at the workplace have been discussed extensively by many authors. But one sector in which women’s participation is below that of the broader economy, is the energy sector. Despite making up 48 percent of the global labour force, women only account for 22 percent of...
I will try as much as possible not to make this a research paper. This article is focused on how leaders can capitalize on emotional intelligence in dealing with the current nCov disease and post-recovery strategies.
Possessing emotional intelligence has been described by experts as a soft skill that can...