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  10 cases of measles recorded in Ketu South Acting Volta Regional Director of Health, Dr. Kwasi Senanu Djokoto, said the Ketu South Municipality has recorded 10 cases of Measles. He however disclosed to the media that the arrival of the vaccines was “timely, appropriate and God sent,” towards reducing the effect of an escalation of the outbreak of the disease”. Dr Djokoto however said the region’s exercise to immunise the babies would hopefully start today, Tuesday, March 14, 2023, as consignments were being distributed to the Municipal and District Health Directorates for onward transportation to the various facilities. He appealed to parents especially nursing mothers to avail their babies to the hospitals for vaccination, to make up for the missed opportunities. Dr Djokoto commended the media for bringing the shortage of vaccines onto the front burner, which resulted in expedited action to prevent a national calamity. There was a shortage of vaccines for three chi...

  US Vice Prez Kamala Harris to visit Ghana US Vice President, Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Dougas Emhoff will from Saturday, March 25 embark on a three-nation tour of Africa. The tour will begin with a visit to Ghana before successive trips to Tanzania and Zambia. “The Vice President’s visit will build on the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit that President [Joe] Biden hosted in Washington in December 2022,” a statement issued by the White House on Monday, March 13 said. Council on Foreign Relations, Michelle Gavin says the visit is very much of a piece with the US Africa strategy that was actually rolled out in South Africa not too long ago as the Biden administration tries to reframe its relationships on the continent in a much more global context and look for partners to try and build a reformed, rules-based international order. According to her, the high-level visits are absolutely intended to signal a commitment to finding overlaps in our Venn diagram inte...

  Ashaiman: Military officers arrest 72 residents over soldier’s death Some 72 residents of Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region have been arrested by the Military for questioning. It is unclear which barracks the residents have been sent to but the Member of Parliament for the Ashaiman constituency, Ernest Dogbey in an interview with the media said the number of residents arrested is likely to exceed 72 and they are still arresting people. Some soldiers on Tuesday, March 7, reportedly invaded Ashaiman, a suburb of Accra in the Greater Accra region, and brutalized residents in the area over the death of their colleague. According to the disturbed MP, the authorities are handicapped about the models of the operation revealing that the operation was ordered by a higher authority looking at the armored vehicles, heavy presence of military therefore calling of the higher authorities to call back their men because those whom have been arrested are innocent people who does not ...

  Mahama tackles EC over the use of Ghana Card for registration Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his frustrations towards the Electoral Commission (EC) for deciding to use Ghana Card as the sole identification to register for voters ID ahead of the 2024 general elections. Addressing the NDC supporters at Dzodze in the Ketu North of the Volta region as part of his campaign today said, Member of Parliament for Ketu North, Hon. James Klutse Avedzi and the Minority Caucus are fighting in Parliament against the constitutional instrument that says that if you don’t have Ghana Card you can’t register adding that, they can’t understand the sense of which the EC are pushing for this. According to him, though they are not against Ghana Card because he himself has a Ghana card and encouraged all Ghanaians including to his members to register for their Ghana card but NIA says they don’t have money stressing that, they (NIA) have the cards at the warehouse but they ca...