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Ghana’s population was 31.73 million in 2021. ...

To date 1.2 million students in Ghana have benefited from a free senior high school social intervention programme rolled out by the government in 2017. The programme, Free Senior High School (SHS), is meant to extend guaranteed access to free quality education for all children of school-going age fr...

As of February 2020, there were only 67 ICU ventilators and no non-invasive ventilation machines for a population of 30 million people in Ghana. This is equivalent to an estimated ventilator capacity of 0.22 ventilators per 100,000 people in Ghana. Even if operating room ventilators are used as a ba...

No. According to the World Bank’s latest Global Findex database, 73% of adults in Kenya had a mobile money account in 2017. In Uganda and Zimbabwe, the figure stood at about 50%.The share of adults owning a mobile money account in Ghana in 2017 was 39%. ...

Ghana’s electoral register has 17,027,655 registered voters.The West African nation went to the polls on December 7 to elect a president and 275 members of parliament.More: ELECTION 2020: EC publishes voters register again...

Dr Elisa Granato, a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford’s zoology department, received one of the first two jabs administered at the start of a Covid-19 vaccine trial at the University of Oxford. She has denied reports of her death.More: ‘I’m very much alive.’ No, first volunteer in UK Cov...

If true, this would have been widely reported. The World Health Organization has not recommended any medication to treat or cure Covid-19 to date....