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UNDP supports women to enhance their productivity

The Country Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Ghana Dr. Kamil K. Kamaluddeen has visited the Multifunctional Platform (MFP) Project at Changnayili, a community near Tamale. The Country Director was joined by officials from Embassy of Japan in Ghana (Accra) and the Ministry of Foreign Affiars in Japan to monitor the usage of MFP and also interact with the Tizaa-dini Women’s Group. The activity was implemented by New Energy, an NGO based in Tamale, under the MFP project...

Ghana: Police gear up to prevent election violence

As Ghana counts down to its presidential and parliamentary elections on 7 December, the national police service says it has identified 1,399 violence-prone areas which could see unrest.

Ghana ALERT: Two newspaper journalists attacked, camera damaged

Mark-Anthony Vinorkor and Samuel Tei Adano, reporter and photographer respectively of the state-owned newspaper, Daily Graphic, were on October 22, 2008 violently attacked by security personnel of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC). Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)’s correspondent reported that the incident occurred at Community Four, where the two had gone to cover a demolition exercise by a combined team of TDC guards and police officers to rid the town of illegal structures. ...

GHANA: Pre-election violence escalates

Following an upsurge of pre-election violence that has killed three people and injured many others in northern Ghana, experts fear hostilities will continue in the months leading to December presidential and legislative elections. Charred remains of houses, walls riddled with bullets, and burnt cars and are talismans of last week’s violence in the Northern Region's capital of Tamale. Violence erupted  following a shooting incident on 31 August that abruptly ended a political rally organised by...

Ghana ALERT: Journalists attacked while working

Four journalists in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region of Ghana were on August 1, 2008 attacked by supporters of the country’s two main political parties, while covering the ongoing voters’ registration exercise in the city. Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)’s correspondent reported that the incident occurred at a registration centre in the Tamale Central Constituency, when confusion broke out between supporters of ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition party...