Reallocate Ho Central Market stalls or face our wrath – Traders Association
Members of the Ho Central Market Traders Association have given a five day ultimatum to the Ho Municipal Assembly to reallocate market stalls in Ho or face their wrath. The over 100 members of the Association, at a press conference in Ho on Wednesday (June 23, 2020) at the Volta Press Center, were clad in […]
Bulgaria’s PM fined after breaking his own government’s COVID-19 rules
Bulgaria’s prime minister Boïko Borissov is to be fined for entering a church without a mask, according to the country’s health ministry. Under rules brought in by his own government, Borissov, his staff and some journalists will face fines of as much as €150. The compulsory use of facemasks in public indoor spaces was reinstated […]
Gabon MPs vote to decriminalise homosexuality
Members of Gabon’s lower house of parliament have voted to decriminalise homosexuality, becoming one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reverse a law that punishes sexual relations between people of the same sex. Last year, the central African nation criminalised homosexuality and made gay sex punishable with six months in prison and a […]
Ghana needs short code for sexual violence complaints – Plan Ghana
Plan International Ghana, in partnership with Days for Girls, both child welfare advocacy non-governmental organisations, have called on Government to expedite the acquisition of a shortcode for lodging of complaints of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) acts. The NGOs also appealed to government to develop policies to put standards in place for reusable sanitary pads. […]
Two arrested over demolition at Nigeria High Commission
Two persons have been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service in relation to the demolition of a building on the premises of the Nigeria High Commissioner in Accra. The two, according to a press release issued by the CID were arrested on Monday, June 22, 2020. “The Criminal Investigations […]
