We are proud and excited to announce that applications for the 5th edition of Youth Impact Workshop are now open! Youth Impact Workshop (YIW) is an annual social change, leadership and entrepreneurship training program organized for young people aged between 16 and 20. The 3-day workshop aims at effecting social change in Ghana by building … Continue reading
Port Harcourt is one of the busiest places in Nigeria, located in the Southern part of Nigeria. As the centre of Nigeria’s oil industry hosting major Oil companies (NLNG, Chevron, Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell), it attracts lots of local and foreign indigenes day by day. People often visit Port Harcourt to take up short … Continue reading
CNew Ebola cases in the three West African countries worst affected by the deadly outbreak of the virus are declining, weekly UN figures show. Sierra Leone and Guinea both recorded the lowest weekly total of confirmed Ebola cases since August. Liberia, which reported no new cases on two days last week, had its lowest weekly … Continue reading
Sierra Leone has declared lockdown of at least three days in the north of the country to try to contain the Ebola epidemic. Shops, markets and non-Ebola related travel services will be shut down, officials said. Sierra Leone has already banned many public Christmas celebrations. More than 7,500 people have died from the outbreak in … Continue reading
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said discrimination against aid workers who return home from the Ebola crisis in West Africa is “unacceptable”. Strict quarantine rules are hampering aid efforts when more health workers are needed in order to deal with the crisis, he told BBC News in Nairobi. International efforts have been insufficient but are … Continue reading
Thousands of protesters stormed Burkina Faso’s parliament and ransacked state television on Thursday, forcing it off the air ahead of a planned vote on a motion to allow the veteran president to extend his 27-year rule. Black smoke swirled in the air around parliament after demonstrators lit fires inside the building before looting computers and … Continue reading
The authorities in Mali have confirmed the death of the country’s first Ebola patient, a two-year-old girl. The World Health Organisation said the toddler had travelled hundreds of kilometres by bus from Guinea through Mali showing symptoms of the disease. More than 40 people known to have come into contact with her have been quarantined. … Continue reading
One million doses of an Ebola vaccine will be produced by the end of 2015, the World Health Organization has announced. It said “several hundred thousand” will be produced in the first half of the year. And vaccines could be offered to health workers on the frontline in West Africa as soon as December 2014. … Continue reading
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