A district road safety committee has been inaugurated for the Kassena-Nankana West District in the Upper East Region with the mandate to help ensure safety on Ghana’s roads in that part of the country while reducing road accidents to the minimum. The inauguration follows a directive from the Local Government […]

The Rural Initiatives for Self-Empowerment Ghana (RISE-Ghana), an advocacy Non-Governmental Organisation, has begun a project to advance access to sexual and reproductive health services among adolescents.  The one-year project, which will focus on border communities during emergencies, is dubbed: “advancing adolescent sexual reproductive health rights within Sahel and other emergencies […]

The people and chiefs of Manyoro in the Kassena-Nankana  East Municipality of the Upper East Region engaged in their annual Fao Kuri Festival Health Walk over the weekend. The health walk, the third in the series, saw participants walk from the palace of the overlord of Manyoro through Natugnia to […]

The International Organization for Migration [IOM], has joined some border communities from both Paga in the Kassena-Nankana West District and Namoo, in the Bongo District, to celebrate the 2023 edition of the International Migrants Day at Paga. This year’s celebration under the theme; “Honouring the contributions of migrants and respecting […]

A baseline survey report on the prevalence and drivers of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in some districts in Northern Ghana has been launched in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region. The survey was commissioned by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and conducted by Dr Matilda Aberese-Ako, […]