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Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative hits one-year milestone

Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative hits one-year milestone

Africa News, Ghana News, Science & Technology
The Mastercard Foundation and Africa CDC initiative – Saving Lives and Livelihoods – which has so far greatly helped the continent deal with the Covid-19 pandemic, is one year old. The initiative is said to be the largest public health partnership between a global philanthropic organisation and an African institution. A joint statement issued by the partners said the initiative has proven to be catalytic and is now a $1.5 billion partnership with four key objectives, namely: To purchase COVID-19 vaccines for at least 65 million peopleTo drive millions more vaccinations by enabling the delivery and administration of vaccines.To lay the groundwork for vaccine manufacturing by focusing on human capital development.To strengthen the capacity of Africa CDC. “The Saving Lives and Liv...
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Twitter rolls out testing of long-form ‘Notes’ feature with Ghanaian writers

Twitter rolls out testing of long-form ‘Notes’ feature with Ghanaian writers

Science & Technology, World News
In a recent announcement, Twitter revealed that a small group of writers from Ghana are joining others from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom to test the latest feature from the social media platform, “Notes”. Notes is a new way to write and publish long-form content on the social media platform, and will give your favourite writers on Twitter the chance to go beyond 280 characters for the first time, using a rich-text editor to capture articles, thought pieces, and other kinds of content. The selected writers now have access to Notes as part of this initial testing phase, using a new “Write” tab, where they can write and access all of their Notes. Their followers and people on Twitter will be able to access their long-form content by clicking on the new “Notes” ta...
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WHO to convene on June 23 to decide if monkeypox presents health emergency

WHO to convene on June 23 to decide if monkeypox presents health emergency

Ghana News, International, Science & Technology
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has announced he would convene an emergency committee meeting on Thursday, June 23 to assess the implication of the outbreak of the monkeypox virus. He says the committee will be tasked to determine “whether this outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.” Mr. Ghebreyesus explained that the decision to convene the committee is also due to a recent “unusual” behaviour shown by the virus as it keeps spreading in countries beyond Africa. https://youtu.be/cWK-rYCkGOU “We believe that it needs also some coordinated response because of the geographic spread.” In a press briefing on Tuesday, June 14, he added that the Organisation is working with experts to offici...
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IFC launches EDGE Green Building Challenge for students, young professionals in built environment

IFC launches EDGE Green Building Challenge for students, young professionals in built environment

Science & Technology, World News
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched the EDGE Green Building Challenge for architectural and engineering students as well as professionals in the built environment at the Green Park, Cantonments City, Accra. The Challenge is in two strands: the Net Zero Ready Design Competition, which is aimed at getting architecture and engineering students and recent graduates in the built environment to exhibit their understanding of green buildings using the EDGE App and utilizing knowledge from the Design for Greater Efficiency (DfGE) course. The DfGE course covers the basics of energy and resource efficiency measures in design from the technical and commercial perspective, and seeks to encourage and incentivize resource efficiency in the construction sector. The second stran...
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Ghanaian scientists identify two germs that cause eye infections in Ghana

Ghanaian scientists identify two germs that cause eye infections in Ghana

Africa News, Ghana News, International, Science & Technology
Appropriate antibiotics for treating eye infections are crucial, especially now that Antimicrobial Resistance has made a considerable incursion in the bacteria treatment space. In Ghana, the treatment of eye infections among eye doctors is based on signs and symptoms without an adequate idea about the exact germs causing them. Therefore, there was the need to find the actual bacteria implicated in the various eye infections in persons reporting to eye hospitals for treatment. Globally, eye infections caused by bacteria are one of the causes of blindness, and the bacteria which causes these infections vary across regions and populations. A joint study by researchers from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, and the University of Ghana, Legon, has ...
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PENTECOST UNIVERSITY TO HOST 2ND STEM CONFERENCE

PENTECOST UNIVERSITY TO HOST 2ND STEM CONFERENCE

Ghana News, International, Pentecost News, Science & Technology
Pentecost University, one of the highly-rated universities in Ghana and Africa, in partnership with EL-Empire and BeScience of the United Kingdom, is set to host the second edition of the STEM Social Ghana Conference in Accra. This is in line with the University’s efforts to champion a campaign in additive manufacturing, robotics, and animation in Ghana and beyond. The event, scheduled to take place on 9th December 2021 at the Pentecost International Worship Centre, Atomic (PIWC-Atomic), aims at stimulating the study and exploration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and related fields. It would also educate participants on career opportunities that exist in STEM fields, according to a press statement released by the University yesterday. The statement further...
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back online after widespread outage

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back online after widespread outage

International, Science & Technology
Social media giants–Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back online after a widespread outage on Monday, October 4, 2021. The social media apps were offline for about six hours. They used Twitter to update their subscribers on the development. A lot of people took to Twitter to make jokes about the situation, as the impact of the outage was felt by individuals and businesses who rely on such platforms to connect with their audience and business associates. “To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who depend on us: we’re sorry. We’ve been working hard to restore access to our apps and services and are happy to report they are coming back online now. Thank you for bearing with us,” Facebook announced. WhatsApp also apologised for the glitch. “Apologies...
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Ghana Ranked No. 1 African Country With Fastest Internet

Ghana Ranked No. 1 African Country With Fastest Internet

Africa News, Ghana News, International, Science & Technology
Ghana has been ranked the Number One country in Africa with the fastest internet speed. In a global index for fastest internet speed, Ghana’s internet was ranked the fastest on the African country, ahead of South Africa and Egypt. Ghana was ranked 79th in the world, with a speed of 53.28 mbps, which is the fastest in Africa. South Africa placed 85th in the world and 2nd in Africa, while Egypt was ranked 91st in the world and and 3rd in Africa with speeds of 47.32 mbps and 42.42 mbps. The global internet speed is measured by Speedtest Global Index, and it looks at the internet speed of about 180 countries. With Ghana undertaking a massive digitization drive, its internet connectivity having been ranked among the fastest in Africa should be a major boost to the government’s di...
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