Webinar offers strategies for communicating new findings1 April 20218:00 AM EDT // 3:00 PM EATRegister here New York, USA , 30 March 2021 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Last week, the Partnership for Evidence-Based COVID-19 Response (PERC) released findings from its third survey, which polled more than 25,000 adults from 19 African Union Member States on the social…
Ghana-Press-Review April 07, 2021 to 10:45 168 APA – Accra (Ghana) The assurance by a lawmaker that government has released enough funds to ensure that the country generates enough electricity to sustain demand and the release 38 of the dolphins that were washed ashore at Axim-Bewire last Sunday back into the sea are some of the leading stories in the Ghanaian press on Wednesday.
The Graphic reports that the government has released enough funds to ensure that the country generates enough electricity to sustain demand.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Dormaa East, Mr Paul Apraku Twum Barimah, said the government released $130 million in November last year to support the power sector.
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The third survey by the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) has established that 80 per cent of Ghanaians are satisfied with the government s COVID-19 pandemic response.
The survey suggested that the country was above the regional average of 78 per cent although it had dropped by six percentage points as recorded by the second survey conducted in August 2020.
The report, however, revealed that income loss and problems with food access were severe in almost all African Union (AU) member states and had largely worsened since August.
“Income loss and food access are severe, and about 77 per cent of households have lost all or some of their income since the beginning of the pandemic (62 per cent some, 15 per cent all) on the continent,” the Public Affairs Director for sub-Saharan Africa of IPSOS, Virginia Nkwanzi Isingoma, said.