Psychiatrist Launches New Podcast to Reduce Pandemic-Induced Stress and Anxiety
Meet Dr. Ericka Goodwin, a Harvard-trained Board-Certified Psychiatrist, who has launched a new podcast called Better with Dr. Ericka that offers a reprieve for busy, stressed, and overwhelmed professionals that…
Uganda Steps Up Use of Clean Technology to Mitigate Climate Change
When it comes to climate change, Uganda has been doing one thing right, and that is maintaining a small carbon footprint. According to the information from Our World in Data,…
GHS receives medical equipment from Nilex Company to fight COVID-19 in schools
Nilex Company Limited, a company that produces and supplies medical equipment, has donated 10,000 test kits and 10 analyzers to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to tackle the uptick of…
Sierra Leone’s Parliament Votes to Abolish the Death Penalty
Sierra Leone has become the latest country to outlaw the death penalty, after its Parliament approved a Bill replacing relevant sections of the penal code. Until now the death penalty…
Ghana ranked number 1 African country with fastest internet
Ghana has been ranked the country with the fastest internet in Africa by Speedtest Global Index for June 2021. Ghana was ranked 79th in the world, with a speed of…
Meet the Three Sisters With Five HBCU Degrees
The Page sisters — Jamilah, Hadiyah, and Ayannah — have celebrated a special moment together as they all recently graduated with their respective degrees. The three sisters from Alabama, who…
Rwanda Records Steep Drop in Malaria Cases
A combination of more use of mosquito treated nets and indoor residual spraying preventive interventions has seen Rwanda slash malaria cases by 71 per cent between 2016 and 2021. Indoor…
Breonna Taylor’s name unveiled on Sankofa Wall in Ghana
Breanna Taylor, whose brutal killing by the police in Kentucky combined with George Floyd’s murder to spark an unprecedented Black Lives Matter-led global outcry for justice, had her name unveiled…
First African American to Win National Spelling Bee Overwhelmed With Scholarship Offers
Zaila Avant-Garde, a 14-year old from Harvey, Louisiana, has made history as the first African American winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Since then, universities from all across the…
South Africa: Scientists Develop New Method of Diagnosing TB From Skin
A team of scientists, including those from the University of Cape Town (UCT), have developed a new diagnostic methodology enabling a non-invasive, fast and highly accurate way of detecting tuberculosis…
Rwanda: How rural youth project is reducing charcoal usage
Youth who have teamed up to form “Gicumbi New Vision Cooperative” in Gicumbi District are making a fortune from manufacturing modern cook stoves with a vision to set up a…
Rwanda to introduce Covid self-tests
Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) plans to introduce Covid-19 self-testing kits to facilitate people to carry out tests – urgently needed in the battle to curb the virus spread. Dr. Sabin…
1.2m doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines coming
The Manager of the Expanded Programme on immunisation (EPI) of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, has given an assurance that the country would soon take delivery of…
Brooklyn Academy For Girls Celebrates First Graduating Class With 100% College Acceptance
Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA) Charter School, an all-girls high school in Brooklyn, New York, is celebrating its first graduating class in the school’s history. Even more, all of the…
South Africa: Big Step Towards Vaccine Security for South Africa
South Africa will remain on Level 4 lockdown, but restaurants and gyms will be able to open, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday, adding that the country had taken a…
Scientists discover new tree hyrax species
Scientists have discovered a new tree hyrax species in the Volta region of Ghana. The new species has been described to Science as with the name; “Dendrohyrax interfluvialis”. Tree hyraxes…
Léonce Ndikumana | The Burundian professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts
Léonce Ndikumana has served as Director of Operational Policies and Director of Research at the African Development Bank, Chief of Macroeconomic Analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa…
Chez Lando’s Kantengwa scoops global economic prize
The General Manager of the Remera-based Chez Lando Hotel, Anne-Marie Kantengwa, has scooped the 2021 prize for women economic empowerment thanks to her significant contribution as the head of the…
Dr Kofi Amoah donates GH¢25k to 9-year-old girl who crawls over 1km to school
Agnes Mba, a 9-year-old class one pupil from Dasabligo Primary School in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region made headlines after her plight was shared by journalist Peter…
Tanzania to manufacture Covid-19 vaccine
Tanzania is pondering local manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in an attempt to reduce importation costs. Health Permanent Secretary Prof Abel Makubi said in Dodoma on Sunday that the factory would…