Ghana and  the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), have proposed the establishment of a new Centre of Excellence in Engineering Innovations, Manufacturing and Technology Transfer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Dr Yaw Osei ... Read More

Ghana and Japan, have signed a $36.50 million grant agreement for Tema-Motorway Roundabout Phase II construction project and additional funding for the rehabilitation of the National Truck Road N8 (Assin Foso-Assin Praso Section) Phase II. Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister, signed ... Read More

From left to right: Nobel peace laureate Layman Gbowee, Julienne Lusenge, winner of 2021 Aurora Prize and Mary Robinson, former Irish President, Rome, Oct. 9, 2021. (S.Castelfranco/VOA) Human rights activist Julienne Lusenge of the Democratic Republic of Congo was recently proclaimed ... Read More

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - Director General of WHO Major Western donors have pressed the World Health Organization to launch a deeper external probe demanding how a major sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo involving its staff was ... Read More

The United States will lift restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, ending historic curbs on non-essential travelers in place since March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Homeland Security ... Read More

FILE - Antonio Vitorino, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, at the United Nations in Geneva, March 3, 2020. The United Nations' migration agency has recalled a staff member identified by two U.N. sources in Addis Ababa as the ... Read More

A man is administered a Moderna COVD-19 vaccine outside a mosque on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 8, 2021. The United States is sending more than 3.5 million doses of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, ... Read More

H.E Louisa Atta-Agyemang (left) presenting the award to President Dr Lazarus McCathy Chakwera The Young Democrat Union of Africa (YDUA) under the leadership of its President Louisa Atta-Agyemang has conferred an honorary award for visionary leadership on the Malawian President, Dr Lazarus ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Monday received the Medal of the Republic of Serbia, the highest state Order, for scaling up ties and cooperation between Ghana and Serbia. The Order was awarded by decree of the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić, at ... Read More

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2020, photo, children sit by a water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoaivo, Madagascar. Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He’s happy if there’s a handful ... Read More