By Ohemeng Tawiah, Nhyira Fm/Kumasi/Ghana – Persons with vision impairment want government of Ghana to do more to improve their welfare. The Ghana Blind Association is worried four years after the Disability law was passed; its members are still denied rights and opportunities guaranteed by the Act. The leadership of the association says government is for paying lip-service to the plight of the Ghanaian blind. President of the association’s Youth Wing, Jacob Adongo Atule, says persons with vision impairment have been forced to live without any appropriate state interventions to make them self-reliant. The Ghana Association of the Blind, in... Continue Reading
By Gambian Correspondent – A national forum on Human Rights Approach to regional integration of West Africa was recently held in Banjul by the National Organisation on Human Rights (NOHR) based in Dakar. According to officials, the organization, which is a four-member country bloc comprising Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and The Gambia, is being supported by the European Union. Speaking at the forum, Djibril Badiane, the organisation’s programme coordinator, said the integration of West Africa should be a collective responsibility of all states that signed its conventions and treaties. He noted that the non-state actors also have a stake in... Continue Reading
London, MARCH 25, 2011 — Ivory Coast is experiencing a new spiral of violence that is endangering people’s access to medical care. Confrontations raging in parts of the city of Abidjan and in the western part of the country have displaced tens thousands of people. Facing the same insecurity as the rest of the population, health care workers are fleeing medical facilities in the conflict areas. Shortages of medicines are only exacerbating the problem of reduced access to care. In Abidjan, health authorities report that nearly all medical workers in six hospitals have fled as a result of the insecurity.... Continue Reading
By Nangayi Guyson – Harare – Zimbabwe which has been facing serious economic problems of inflation which was rated as the second worst inflation spike in history, behind the hyper inflationary crisis of Hungary in 1946, is now facing Humanitarian crisis with at least six of 10 provinces facing severe food shortages, and the government has ordered the country’s grain marketing board (GMB) to send grain to the affected areas, a state daily said on Monday. “The GMB is holding on to 270 000 metric tons and have to start helping our people,” Agriculture Minister Joseph Made told The Herald... Continue Reading
Médecins Sans Frontières is responding to latest outburst of violence in Abidjan, Ivory Coast – On March 17, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working with Ivory Coast’s Ministry of Health at the Abobo Sud Hospital treated 66 wounded people following violent attacks in the densely-populated Abidjan neighborhood of Abobo. The hospital is the only medical facility still functioning in the neighborhood. “These patients—including men, women, and children—suffered wounds from gunshots and shell explosions,” said Dr. Mego Terzian, MSF emergency manager. “Eight of the 66 patients admitted to the hospital died shortly after arrival. Nine additional bodies were brought to the... Continue Reading
