Category: Obiter

-Efosa Ojomo | Christensen Institute, USA To say that COVID-19 is affecting everything, not just healthcare, is no hyperbole. So far, it’s responsible for more than 395,000 cases and more than 17,000 deaths, and those numbers keep increasing. Across the globe schools are shutting down….

–Raquel Kasham Daniel  This is one of the top three questions I get asked every single time I have a speaking engagement or make a post about volunteering and nonprofits. After so many requests and countless hours of consultation with non-profits leaders, I’ve opened my…

–Madeleine Stone  Human activity has made an ocean circulation pattern misbehave—triggering a weird confluence of events that has caused the infestations. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, where such numbers haven’t been seen in a quarter-century….

–Johann Hari Across the world, more and more people are asking: Why is marijuana banned? Why are people still sent to prison for using or selling it? Most of us assume it’s because someone, somewhere sat down with the scientific evidence, and figured out that…

–Africa Feeds Ghana has legalized the use of cannabis for health and industrial purposes as it joins other African countries hoping to derive economic and health benefits from the substance. On Friday the country’s Parliament passed into law the Narcotics Control Commission Bill, 2019. The…

–Bloomberg Ghana’s cedi, the world’s best-performing currency against the dollar this year, extended its advance as investors await a Eurobond sale that would bolster the government’s coffers. The currency of the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer has strengthened 3.9% in 2020, the most among more than…

Barry Newell | Christopher Doll – United Nations University A famous anecdote describes a scheme the British Colonial Government implemented in India in an attempt to control the population of venomous cobras that were plaguing the citizens of Delhi that offered a bounty to be…

–Stefanie Eschenbacher | Cynthia Osterman | Reuters Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness recently declared the island of Jamaica a disaster area because of the threat of coronavirus infection and said his country is seeking 100 Cuban nurses to help it to cope. “We are trying…

-Sebastian Kettley | Express Three prophecies of plague that eerily sound like coronavirus. Coronavirus (Covid-19) has evolved into a full-blown pandemic as tens of thousands of people fall ill with Covid-19 – but did Nostradamus predict the viral threat nearly 500 years ago? The coronavirus…