SANATU ZAMBANG STUDIOS (Podcast)

Adding another feather to her cap, Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of a Nobel peace prize, has now secured the highest grades possible in UK's national school exams. The 18 year old has obtained six A-grades and also four As, which are the second highest in her O-level exams. She attends the Edgbaston High School in Birmingham and has achieved particularly well in Sciences, with top A* grades in Biology, Chemistry and Physics as well as in religious studies. Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala's father said, "My wife Toor Pekai and I are proud of Malala getting 6A*s and 4As. #education for every child," as reported in PTI. The youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai recently announced a new partnership with UNICEF to support and develop education policies for the Syrian refugee children in Jordon. She even celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls, repeating her call for world leaders to invest in ...

Crisis often generates a tension between fear and compassion. Much of the reaction to Ebola in the United States last year was evidence of fear trumping compassion. We saw public health policy being guided by fear rather than by the best available science. We observed sufferers of Ebola — and even healthy individuals who simply volunteered to fight the virus — being treated not like victims or heroes but criminals and threats to the public. These attitudes broke my heart, not just for the casualties of this public attitude but also for the public itself. When we discriminate against those for whom we ought to have compassion, we lose our sense of empathy. We become callous, and our humanity is eroded. We too quickly give up on caring for people with a protracted need for help, leaving the defenseless to fend for themselves. My wife, Amber, and I, along with our two children, recently returned to Liberia — where I contracted Ebola one year ago — to visit friends and colleagues. We h...

AFRICA HAS reported some genuinely good news in the battle to eradicate polio. Late last month , Nigeria passed a full year without a case of wild poliovirus. As of Aug. 11, it has been a year since the last case was detected anywhere on the continent (it was in Somalia). These anniversaries are unofficial milestones, but they point toward continued progress against polio, a scourge that once claimed hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Unfortunately, polio has shown a fierce tendency to return. Hopefully this time will be different. Nigeria’s accomplishment is impressive. The country suffered a major setback in the struggle against the disease more than a decade ago when a state governor and religious leaders in the predominantly Islamic north put into effect a year-long vaccination ban, claiming that the vaccines were contaminated by the West to spread sterility and HIV/AIDS among Muslims. This led to a wider outbreak of the virus, which is highly contagious, largely strikes ...

IFDC is the institution implementing the "Feed the Future - Ghana Agriculture Technology Transfer project in collaboration with Digital Green organised a 8 day workshop to train extension agents on how to facilitate, mediate, film and produce a agriculture video and disseminate to farmers in their communities. The project which aims at increasing the yields and improving the lives of farmers across the region. One of the challenges the farmers and agriculture agents face is effective communication, and with video agriculture agents will be able to use both visual and audio " video " to communicate better and effectively. At the end of the workshop agents can produce agriculture videos using farmers in various communities to further more enhance farmer to farmer learning. As the saying goes " Seeing Is Believing " The workshop kicked stated with Retika Pandey speed dating session method of introduction where participants briefly introduced themselves to...

MORE FARMERS TO BENEFIT FROM THRESHERS The Feed the Future - Ghana Agriculture Technology Transfer (ATT) project worked with Agromite Limited to demonstrate the use of threshers at the Zebilla Bazua, Gushegu, and Northern Regions of Ghana. Approximately 330 people consisting of lead farmers, tractors operators, out-growers and service providers participated in the demonstration The second demonstration became necessary due to the positive impact the threshers had in the lives of the previous years beneficiaries. Abu Nabong, a farmer in Nwanduonu in the Sissala East District of the Upper West Region, for instance, was able to thresh more the 255,900 bags of maize in two communities. " I have had a 100 percent turnover increase from 30 to 60 and I hope to expand my farmer base from 150 to 225 - the livelihood of my nuclear and extended family has improved " he said. The equipment which de-husks and shells maize and also threshes soybean, saves time and labor. Traditio...

USAID Ghana's Mission Director Jim Bever, the Director of USAID Economic Growth Division, Peter Trenchard, Ghana's Deputy Minister of Agriculture in charge of crops, honourable Dr Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, and the three Regional Directors of Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( MOFA) from Upper East, Upper West and Northern Regions broke ground in Tamale for the construction of three new seed testing and inspection laboratories for the three regions in Northern Ghana. The Feed the Future Ghana Agriculture Technology Transfer project is facilitating the construction and equipping of these laboratories to support the public sectors regulation of quality of seed produced in the three northern regions. When completed the facilities will be use international standards to ensure farmers have access to high quality seed. The laboratories will be manned by the Ghana Seed Inspection Unit ( GSIU ), a unit of MOFA directorate, which is in charge of supervising and ensuring seeds produced ...

Ampe is a game played long before anyone can remember,Since African history has not been put on paper and pen due to lack of formal education back in the centuries no one can really tell the exact origin of ampe. So its history remains a mystry but ampe is still the game little girls love to play when they have nothing to do...The game has been in existence for more Than 200years. African children play this game during their childhood to teen age. Some believe it originate in Ghana. Elders in the northern part of Ghana believe that people of the ashanti region developed/created ampe. They say the game was played by old women, when they had nothing doing. They form a round circle, then pick a leader to be in the middle. They jump and clap their hands at the same time and put forward their legs. If both the leader and the one she picks to begin the game put forward their right leg at the same time then the leader has lost, if she loses for the second and third then she joins the ci...