US$100,000 Africa Food Prize Award Launched
With agriculture emerging as Africa’s best bet for increasing food security and expanding economic opportunity, officials gathered in Ghana for a critical agriculture meeting and launched a prestigious new US$100,000 award called the Africa Food Prize, which is intended to ... Read More
Italian Investors to Construct mini Dams in Volta Region
Italian investors from Ambiente Pressagio are expected to begin the construction of mini hydro dams on nine sites in the Volta Region.
Togbe Afede XIV, the President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, announced this at the first general meeting ... Read More
Ghana, Czech Republic Partner to Strengthen Cultural Ties
Ghana’s Tourism Ministry is to partner its Czech Republican counterpart to help develop and promote the cultural products of both countries.
Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, made this known when she paid a working visit ... Read More
Ghana, Ethiopia to Move Bilateral Relations Higher – P...
PM Desalegn of Ethiopia & President Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama stated on Saturday that Ghana and Ethiopia were set to strengthen the existing cooperation and bilateral ties which the two nations had enjoyed for more than five decades.
He mentioned ... Read More
ECOWAS Citizens don’t Need Visas to Enter Ghana –...
Hannah Serwaah Tetteh – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Hanna Tetteh has stated that citizens of ECOWAS countries are not required to apply for visas on arrival in the country, ... Read More
EU Ghana meets on migration
A High Level Dialogue has been held in Accra to discuss issues of migration between the European Union (EU) and Ghana. The meeting brought togetherHon. Hanna Tetteh, Foreign Affairs Minister and her counterpart from Netherlands, Bert Koenders, who was in ... Read More
Ghana’s Ag Power Minister Hon. John Jinapor confirms atten...
Hon. John Jinapor
1.2 billion people currently live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion people are without clean cooking facilities. With over 95% of these people located either in sub-Saharan Africa or developing Asia, clearly there exists ... Read More
FAO Holds Consultative Workshop on Antimicrobial
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO has held a one-day consultative meeting in Accra to assess Ghana’s situation with Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in Agriculture.
The workshop was to brainstorm and begin the process ... Read More
US Invests $145m in Ghana to aid Economy – Ambassador
Robertson Jackson
Mr Robert Jackson, United States of America (US) Ambassador to Ghana, on Thursday said that the US government through the United States Agency for International Development (US AID) has invested $145million in Ghana to aid socio-economic transformation.
He said ... Read More
UNICEF Monitors Stunted Growth and Malnutrition in Volta Reg...
Food Specialists from the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) are monitoring the progress of child malnutrition in the Volta Region (V/R) following interventions introduced to cut-down stunted growth and boost nutrition in pregnant women.
Among the entourage included Dr Victor ... Read More