Nearly $10m in US-funded contraceptives to be burned rather than shipped to poor countries

U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters. The supplies have been stuck for months in a warehouse in Geel, a city in the […]

South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday. The deaths last month are among the first to be directly attributed to cuts imposed by U.S. President Donald […]

Trump administration puts on leave USAID staff globally in dramatic aid overhaul

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that it was going to put on leave all directly hired employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development globally and recall thousands of personnel working overseas. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally,” said […]

Climate change adaptability, food security, youth employment: B-BOVID ticks all boxes

The Climate Change Conference that was recently organised by the United Nations in Glasgow, Scotland, is a reminder to world leaders and indeed everyone that unless a concerted, systematic, global action is adopted to stop negative human activities that destroy our planet, human survival could be at risk. Rising desert conditions and extreme heat waves, […]

COVID-19: US donates 1.2million Moderna vaccines to Ghana

More than 1.2 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States arrived in Ghana on Saturday morning. US Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan, Deputy Minister of Health, Honorable Mahama Asei Seini, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Honorable Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, and the UNICEF Country Representative to Ghana Ms Anne-Claire Dufay received […]

US first lady’s visit: Melania Trump shows love to children at Ridge Hospital plus blow by blow report on her arrival

The American First Lady, Mrs Melania Trump, arrived in the Accra yesterday, to begin her four-nation African tour. The Boeing 757 Presidential Jet carrying her touched down at the Kotoka International Airport at about 10am. She stood at the top of the airplane stairs, smiled broadly and waved enthusiastically at waiting dignitaries, including Ghana’s First […]