The Price we pay for ‘The Love of Chocolate’

Reporters have travelled across Ivory Coast where the main cocoa plantation business takes place. They documented rainforests cleared for cocoa plantation, villages and far...

Last week, Google Doodle introduced billions of people to an incredible woman: Esther Nkulenu Ocloo, a Ghanaian entrepreneur, advocate for women, pioneer of microfinance an...

World’s First Malaria Vaccine Will Be Tested In Kenya, Ghana And Malawi

The world’s first malaria vaccine will be tested on people from three African countries—Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. On April 24, the World Health Organization anno...

Desert 'fog catchers' make water out of thin air

Fog harvesting was devised in South America in the 1980s and there are active projects in various countries including Chile, Peru, Ghana, Eritrea, South Africa and Californ...

Serge Attukwei Clottey : The Artist Urging African Men To Dress As Women

Serge Attukwei Clottey walked through Ghana’s capital city in his dead mother’s clothes to honour her memory – and to highlight injustice against women. I...

Prioritizing Maternal And Newborn Survival: Time To Look To The Developing World For Affordable Solutions

With America unique among developed and most developing countries in its rising maternal mortality, it's especially encouraging to see significant progress in mothers' and ...

Group Pioneers Cheap Tricycles To Transport Women In Labour

Despite huge efforts to bring down maternal and infant mortality and the strides already achieved, one new-born child dies every 15 minutes with 30,000 new-born deaths reco...

Calling A Solution To Closing The Gender Gap Is Literally In The Palm Of Your Hands

Women in certain countries are less likely than men to own a key tool for fighting gender inequality: smartphones.
A recent studyby the Pew Research Center identified...

Shawn Mendes Exceeds Fundraising Goal To Build School In Ghana.

Singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes has announced that he exceeded his goal to raise $25,000 through his Represent Campaign to benefit Pencils of Promise (PoP). The “STITC...