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The African Development Bank has announced that Dr. Jennifer Blanke, Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, will be leaving the Bank effective July 4, 2020. Blanke joined the Bank in early 2017 and has overseen a number of the Bank’s key programs. “I thank President Akinwumi Adesina for his strong leadership, guidance and support which have undoubtedly motivated and helped my team and I to play a key role in the transformation of the Bank. “I feel privileged to have been given an opportunity to contribute to the Bank’s agenda for accelerating Africa’s social and economic transformation,” Blanke…

The Spokesperson of the King of Dagbon, Yaa-Naa Abukari Mahama II, says the eminent king did not support outright calls for the inclusion of the existing voters’ ID cards for the upcoming registration. Baba Issifu told Stephen Anti on TV3’s Midday Live on Tuesday, June 11 that what the Yaa-Naa said was that the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) must ensure that a large section of the voter population is covered during the registration. A group calling itself Anchoring Democracy Advocacy Movement on Wednesday petitioned the revered King of Dagbon over the EC’s resolve to compile a new register without recourse…

Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast Archbishop Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle has made a strong case for the renewal and transformation of the minds of Ghanaians in order to achieve government’s vision of Ghana Beyond Aid. He said as an ardent fan of the late reggae sensation Bob Marley’s, emancipation from mental slavery at all times must go hand-in-hand with the renewal of minds in order to put Ghana beyond over-dependence on foreign aid. Archbishop Palmer-Buckle was speaking at a virtual forum hosted by the Office of the Senior Minister on Thursday, June 11 on how the country can brace the coronavirus…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the spread of the coronavirus pandemic is “accelerating” in Africa, which has so far been the least affected continent. The outbreak is being driven by 10 countries, which accounted for two thirds of about 200,000 confirmed cases on the continent, WHO Africa head Dr Matshidiso Moeti said. South Africa was the worst hit, with the situation in the Western Cape looking similar to Europe. Most of the continent’s Covid-19 cases are concentrated in and around capital cities, but infections are now also spreading outside major urban areas, Dr Moeti added. She warned…

Ahafo Region became the final region to record a case of coronavirus in Ghana after a 38-year-old man was confirmed positive. As a result of the latest confirmation, Ghana has now officially recorded a case in each of the 16 regions. The patient is said to be an ambulance driver who transported a patient to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) on Thursday, May 21. The driver and health workers aboard did not know the status of the patient sent to KATH. It was on Monday, May 25 that the patient was confirmed Covid-19 positive. “Nineteen staff who came into…

The Medical Superintendent at the Ga East Municipal Hospital, Dr Eben Oduro Mensah, has revealed that the centre is reducing the number of Covid-19 patients at the treatment base because of limited space for the increasing numbers. He told Alfred Ocansey on the Sunrise morning show on 3FM Thursday, June 11 that the facility only has 20 out of the 100 beds left to accommodate the patients, hence the need to send some of them, especially the asymptomatic ones to other treatment centres. The number of Covid-19 cases in Ghana has gone up to 10, 358, the Ghana Health Service…

The country’s coronavirus case count continues to rise after hitting the 10,000-mark last Tuesday. The latest update from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has seen 157 new infections recorded. This brings the total cumulative number of confirmed cases to 10,358 after almost three months since the first two cases were recorded in the country. The disease has since spread nationwide as all 16 regions have recorded at least a case. Recoveries over the past few days have not been impressive as only 69 recovered from the latest update by GHS. There were no new deaths, fortunately, keeping the number at…

Government will on Thursday, June 11 hold a forum on the Covid-19 pandemic and the importance of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s vision of Ghana Beyond Aid. A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday and signed by Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam-Hadzide said the forum forms part of government’s broader strategy to capitalize on the opportunities presented by the Covid-19 to boost local capacity. It will be themed: ‘COVID-19 and our march towards Ghana Beyond Aid; Turning Adversity into Opportunity’. The statement said: “The forum aims at stepping up public education about the virus and at the same time mobilizing…

Second-tier football returned in Spain on Wednesday. Now the top flight is set to resume, with Sevilla hosting Real Betis in the Seville derby on Thursday (21:00 BST). There is plenty at stake in the remaining 11 rounds of this season’s La Liga with the title race, European places and the battle to avoid relegation all wide open. Games will be played behind closed doors every single day so the pace will be frantic, and there are a host of compelling storylines, such as Uruguay’s Luis Suarez returning from injury for leaders Barcelona, who are two points clear of Real…

A further 8,779 cases of coronavirus have been reported in Russia, bringing the country’s total above 500,000. The official national death toll rose to 6,532, after a further 174 Covid-19 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours. According to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, Russia now has the third highest number of infections worldwide, behind only the US and Brazil. But it has recorded lower numbers of deaths than a dozen other countries. Source: BBC