Ghana faces population explosion

Ghana’s population is expected to double in 35 years with the current growth rate of 2.6 percent. The chairman of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Professor F.T. Sai, has expressed worry about the soaring growth rate of the country’s population. Ghana’s population is currently around 23 million.Prof. Sai said the growth rate will lead to a loss in national development if government continues to inject money into the free health care deliver.He, therefore, called on the Ghana Coalition of Non Governmental Organisation (NGOs) in Health, to use their collective strengths to support government efforts at providing maternal health care to the average Ghanaian woman.He said family planning and support, adolescent sexual and reproductive health rights, were key to reducing the material mortality ratio in Ghana.

Crime worsens in Kenya

A demand for scrap metal by China is fuelling an unprecedented rate of crime in Kenya and vandalism of key installations to meet a growing demand for raw material. Electricity, phone cables and railway lines have been vandalized as the Chinese importers continue to pay premium prices for metal.State corporations have as a result lost millions of shillings in stolen cables and structures as thieves go for valued copper steel and aluminum metals all of which are in high demand in the rapidly expanding Chinese economy.But it is not only the big state corporations that are suffering abandoned houses in villages and town’s cattle dips, livestock inseminations centers and bus stops have all been stripped bare of iron sheet roofing.

Girl invents game for World Cup

A 12 year old school girl in South Africa is said to have invented a 2010 soccer mania board game which has already caught the interest of Supersport. The girl Fatima Docrat, a grade six pupil at Rustenburg Girls Junior, has already received interest from Supersport who wants to patent the game she designed.The girl has designed a slick-looking board game, using Microsoft Word adding that she spent three months working on the rules and technique of the game, according to a local newspaper Saturday Star.