Journalists for Human Rights

It’s been three days since the AMA vowed to enforce its directive that all taxi drivers in Accra must wear uniforms. Drivers who don’t follow the order will be punished and may have their cars seized. JOY NEWS hit the streets to check if the taxi drivers are complying with the directives. We discovered that although most are following the orders, not all of them are happy about it. JOY reporter Peter Mensah went to an Accra taxi stand to see how things are going.

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Julius Cuffie is one to watch in Sierra Leone.  Recently elected into parliament representing the All People’s Congress, Honorable Cuffie is the country’s first disabled member of parliament.  This former lawyer and activist says he got into politics to create change.  Sheku Sumalia reports.

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Less than a third of the city’s Muslim children are in school

Ghana’s hopes in reaching its millenium development goal of middle income status by 2015 rest largely on the shoulders of its young people.  But that means the countries literacy rate needs to improve greatly, and soon.  As the country’s second biggest city, Kumasi will play a big role in the success or failure of obtaining that goal.  And when it comes to education, the Muslim Community in particular has a long way to go.  Muftawu Mohammed reports.

Muftaw Mohammed Reports weith Files from  Brennan Leffler

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With a few days to go for the opening match of the Ghana 2008 tournament, people are catching the football fever. T-shirts,  jerseys and headgears in vibrant variations of red, gold, green and black are flying off seller’s stands. Meanwhile, people are arriving in the country to gear up for the games. And as Seth Kwame Boateng reports, the excitment is infectious.

Seth Kwame Boateng reports

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One morning I heard a man singing a loud African song outside my window. I looked outside and saw a man dressed in drag, with a plastic baby strapped to his back. I just had to know his story. So I asked SLBS TV reporter Cecil Nelson and we prepared this story about Mamusu and the lengths to which street traders in Freetown have to go to survive.

Kim Barry Brunhuber

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