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Trisolace: Creating agribusiness opportunities for young Ghanaians

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– – For years, young people especially in Africa did not have the interest in creating business opportunities in Agriculture as they consider the sector unattractive and not worth the needed investment. That is however changing in countries like Ghana where a company called Trisolace Farms is helping to young people fall in love with snail and mushroom farming. Trisolace… Read More
Europe 

Turkey’s withdrawal from women’s protection treaty, ‘worrying step backwards’

Village Reporter
“This decision…sends a dangerous message that violence against women is not important, with the risk of encouraging perpetrators and weakening measures to prevent it”, said Dubravka Šimonović, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women.  She noted that it will only weaken laws which provide women protection and helps keep them safe, “and leaves them at further risk at a… Read More
Pacific 

Amidst ‘heightened intensity’ actions toward peace must be ‘in the best interests’ of Afghans

Village Reporter
More than six months after formal Afghan peace negotiations between the Government and Taliban representatives were launched in September, Deborah Lyons, who also heads the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said via video conference that now was “a timely moment to take stock” and assess what must be done to support the path towards peace.  She told ambassadors that… Read More
Pacific 

Human Rights Council strengthens rights office probe into Sri Lanka’s long civil war

Village Reporter
The 47-member council on Tuesday adopted a resolution on Tuesday, brought by Britain on behalf of a group of countries, boosting UN rights chief, Michelle Bachelet’s staff and powers, with a view to future prosecutions. 22 countries voted in favour of the text, 11 opposed and 14 abstained, including Sri Lanka’s neighbours, India and Nepal and most Muslim majority countries, except… Read More
Pacific 

UN teams assisting tens of thousands of refugees, after massive fire rips through camp in Bangladesh

Village Reporter
Though exact numbers are yet to be confirmed, initial estimates indicate that more than 87,000 refugees could have been affected in the fire, which started around 3pm on Monday (local time) in Camp 8W of the Kutupalong mega camp.  It is not currently clear exactly how the fire started.  The blaze then rapidly spread to Camps 8E, 9 and 10. In… Read More
Africa Gambia West Africa World 

Gambia lawmakers vote against lifting ban on skin bleaching

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– – Gambia lawmakers have voted against lifting a ban on skin bleaching and the use of creams for that purpose. The attorney general, presented to parliament the bill on the prohibition of skin bleaching for consideration. Former Gambian leader, Yahya Jammeh in 1996 imposed the ban which stopped the importation and sale of skin-bleaching creams. The current Adama Barrow-led… Read More
Africa Ghana West Africa World 

Ghana: Lecturer files suit against teaching of evolution theory

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– – A Ghanaian lecturer has filed a suit at the country’s apex court against the teaching of the evolution theory in schools. Dr Johnson Anane who is an Assistant Lecturer at the Sunyani Technical University wants the Supreme Court to declare that man was created by God and not through the evolution theory propounded by some scientists. Local newspaper,… Read More
Pacific 

Sharing the story of China’s development miracle: a UN Resident Coordinator’s blog

Village Reporter
Arriving in Guangzhou as a first-time visitor to China, I could not help but think of former U.S Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s description of what he saw as an underdeveloped provincial city in the 1980s. As I gazed at the city’s architecture and infrastructure from the airport and hotel during my 21-day quarantine period, I felt amazed as if my… Read More
Africa Business Ghana West Africa World 

How Basics International is lifting Ghanaian women out of poverty

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– – Women dominate the informal sector in Ghana but they also fall within the most vulnerable groups of people in dire need of economic empowerment. Many of them lack the needed skills to become employable or build successful entrepreneurial ventures. That’s what the Ghanaian social enterprise Basics International comes in to help with its recent initiative called Hedzole. The… Read More
Africa East Africa World 

Tanzania: Several people killed in stampede at Magufuli’s funeral

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There are indications the death toll could reach 40, with one family losing five members including children. Police say tens of thousands of people turned up at a stadium in Dar es Salaam to view the body of the former president. Many people also collapsed when the chaos erupted as some mourners braved security advice and forced their way into… Read More
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