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Medical institutions across the country to have been urged to engage sign language interpreters to promote effective communication between hearing impaired patients and health practitioners. This would give confidence to…

“Disability isn’t inability”, the recurrent verse on the lips of persons living with disability is undoubtedly true taking into consideration the amazing works of some disables in Ghana especially King…

Eddie Ndopu, a South African activist and humanitarian, has plans to book a flight on a commercial trip into space and deliver an address to the UN while he’s up…

Deaf philanthropist, Chidi Olujie met with the President of the Korean Republic Association of the Deaf, Byun Seung ll, at the ongoing 18th edition of the World Federation of the…

Leroy Moore, who has been an activist for black artists with disabilities since the 1990s, uses his music and writing to share the experience of being a black, disabled man.…

Mr Deaf South Africa Phumelela Mapukata did the country proud at the Mr Deaf World pageant. The international pageant was held in SA for the first time. Twenty contestants from…

Reporter Liam O’Dell American academic Joseph Murray has been announced as the new President of the World Federation of the Deaf. Dr Murray, who takes over from Colin Allen, will…

Vidisha Baliyan, a 21-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar city, was crowned Miss Deaf World 2019. The international beauty pageant was held in Mbombela, South Africa and Vidisha, being the…

•River blindness An Ophthalmologist, Dr. Valentina Ideh, has raised the alarm that about 40 million Nigerians are at risk of contracting river blindness (Onchocerca volvulus) in the country Dr Ideh,…

Two Kenyan representatives in the just-concluded Miss and Mister Deaf International beauty contest in Moscow Russia scooped top honours. The duo jetted back into the country on Tuesday morning to…

The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says no fewer than 50,000 children are yet to be reached with wild polio vaccine in some parts of North-East Nigeria, due…

The curtain was on Friday night drawn on the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Egypt with Algeria emerging champions. The North Africans stunned their Senegalese opponents by taking…

As part of an unusual social experiment, a Mexican mayor disguised himself as a disabled person in need of assistance to test the attitude of local public servants first-hand. After…

Algeria have won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. The Desert Warriors defeated Senegal after scoring an early goal at the Cairo International Stadium in Egypt on Friday, Details soon.

Mr and Miss Deaf Kenya pulled an impressive performance during the just concluded Miss & Mister Deaf International pageant in St.Petersburg, Russia. Catherine Ngovi, 22, and Wilson Obange finished at…