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Does the mosque encourage BEGGING?
By Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria Islam encourages the given of arms to less privileged in our society but it does not say we should enable people to beg. In one of the hadith of the Prophet, though…
Intellectually Disabled Children Denied Enrollment In School
By Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria SDGS goal 4 talks about quality education for all. Also, the UN convention on the rights of the child talks about the right to education for all children without discrimination but the…
Mainstream feminism has turned into more of a brand than a movement
By Anne Snyder. This article was first published by www.statepress.com Strong women have been advocating for women’s rights under the title of “feminism” for centuries. The modern feminist movement is credited with meaningful accomplishments, such…
CABI and IFDC join forces to get soybean film out to farmers in Northern Ghana
By Duncan Sones – from an article which originally appeared on the Africa Soil Health Consortium (ASHC) website Farmers in Northern Ghana are reaping the benefit of village-based film screenings to inform them about agricultural practices. Film screenings…
Norsaac calls on Stakeholders and Individuals to Provide Communities with Water in support of Menstrual Hygiene
By Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria All over the world, 28th of May is celebrated as international menstrual hygiene day. On this day, many organizations and individuals support the girl child with sanitary pads and other materials to…
In Africa, pro-democracy leaders are punished for playing by the rules
This article was first published on THE HILL opinion section When considering obstacles to the consolidation of democracy in Africa, we tend to focus on the obvious — the legacy leaders who refuse to relinquish power,…
Political Handlers Take Their Election Playbooks to Africa. -part 2
By Dionne Searcey –nytimes.com Photography by NHYIRABA JOEY Riva Levinson, a political consultant once employed by Paul Manafort, has worked for both opposition parties and governments in Africa “They also seek to manipulate the election…
Opposition parties across Africa need to study the (NPP) 2016 campaign, in Ghana
This article was first published on THE HILL opinion section On Monday, 30 July, the people of Zimbabwe went to the polls in record numbers, and for the first time in three decades, 94-year-old Robert Mugabe was not…
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama
In this week’s In the Studio, we meet the man who is helping to put Ghana on the map when it comes to contemporary art. Ibrahim Mahama’s architectural installations have already been seen in cities…
The Need for a Community Library
Story by Abubakar Zulaiha The basic aim of a children’s library is to inculcate the habit of reading in them so that they grow with it. From Dungu in the Tamale South constituency and the…
