As the second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across Africa, bringing steep increases in infections and deaths, the battle between facts and conspiracies – especially around the safety of COVID vaccines – has also intensified. For anyone who has worked on crop improvement in Africa over the last three decades, the […]

Scientists in South Africa have managed to persuade pied crows that it’s a bad idea to rob eggs from other birds’ nests — by tricking them into stealing eggs that taste nasty. It is hoped this could turn into a conservation tool for endangered shorebirds. The study was carried out at […]

Source:www.modernghana.com/ Cabinet, after a meeting at Peduase Lodge has approved a blueprint expected to put Ghana’s economy back on track in the post-pandemic era. In the blueprint, known as the Post COVID-19 Economic Recovery Programme, the Nana Akufo-Addo administration’s priority is to pursue policies and programmes that will build a […]

Source: face2faceafrica.com If Aaron Mike Ocquaye has opinions, you are going to hear them. And as Ghanaians have come to know, the septuagenarian is a strong-willed polemicist with views he would have hoped were not considered contrarian, as far as national narratives are concerned. A lawyer and political science professor, Ocquaye’s […]

The First Lady of the Republic, Rebecca Akufo-Addo has underscored the need to uphold the rights and fully leverage the potentials of women leaders in pandemic preparedness, response, and recovery. She was of the belief that the perspectives of women and girls, in all of their diversity, must be integrated in the […]