About 90 selected RegionalDistrict and Sub-district health information officers in the Upper East Region have been trained in Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) data management and utilization. The training was to enhance the knowledge and skills of the stakeholders to effectively collect, analyse, manage and utilise IPC data to identify […]

The Upper East Regional Minister, Stephen Yakubu, has handed over 164 motorbikes to all the 15 municipal and district assemblies (MDAs) in the region. It formed part of the implementation of the five-year Gulf of Guinea Northern Region Social Cohesion (SOCO) project in the region, which is also being implemented […]

The World Vision Ghana, a faith-based organisation, has called for concerted efforts to address the gaps among actors in the agriculture value chain to improve food productivity and income levels of smallholder farmers. Mr. Sergious Before, the Acting Northern Regional Operations Manager, World Vision Ghana, who made the call, said […]

The United Nations Development programme (UNDP) has, in partnership with the Ghana Health Service (GHS), inaugurated a new laboratory facility at the border in Paga in the Kassena Nankana West District in the Upper East Region.   It is the last facility to be handed over, as similar facilities have […]

The Pikworo Slave Camp at Nania in the Kassena-Nankana West District of the Upper East Region is receiving facelift and infrastructural development to enhance its attraction to attract visitors. It is part of the re-development process of tourist sites particularly slave routes, being carried out by the Ministry of Tourism, […]

Over 13,000 children in three districts of Ghana have benefited from World Vision Ghana’s ‘Improved Feeding Practices (IFP) for the first 1,000 Days’ project, which seeks to mitigate malnutrition challenges. These children who are under the age of two from the Kassena Nankana West District, Sekyere East District, and Kintampo […]