Africa Faces The Challenge of Sustaining Growth – Worl...
Sub-Sahara African countries are continuing to grow, albeit at a slower pace, due to a more challenging economic environment.
According to new World Bank projections, Growth will slow in 2015 to 3.7 per cent from 4.6 per cent in 2014, reaching ... Read More
Africa’s Economic Growth To Slow Down – African Union
The African Union (AU) has projected economic growth to slow to about four per cent this year, and part of 2016 because of the fall in commodity prices.
Mrs Fatima Haram Acyl, AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry, said economic growth ... Read More
Japanese Government Constructs School Block For Ivorian Refu...
Mr Nopiaki Sadamoto, Press Secretary, Japanese Embassy in Accra, on Thursday inaugurated a classroom block for the St Mathews basic school at the Ivorian Refugee Camp at Fetentaa in the Berekum Municipality of Brong-Ahafo Region.
The six unit classroom block, constructed ... Read More
Ghana Launches 2015 International Year Of Soils
The celebrations of the International Year of Soils (IYS) 2015, has been launched in Accra, with a call on Ghana to lead the way for showing Africa the need to keep soil safe in ensuring food security and human survival ... Read More
World Bank Releases Zoomlion From Blacklist
The World Bank has released Zoomlion Ltd from its blacklist of companies found guilty of corrupt practices while executing projects funded by the Bank, and the company can now bid for contracts from the institution and its affiliates.
“Zoomlion has been ... Read More
President Asks ECOWAS To Apply Good Governance In Extractive...
President John Dramani Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has urged ECOWAS member states to adopt elements of good governance in leveraging their mineral and petroleum potential, to maximise their contribution to sustainable development.
He said because ECOWAS countries depend on minerals ... Read More
IMF Revises Global Economic Growth Projection Downwards
Christine Lagarde - Managing Director of IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has downgraded its global economic growth forecast to 3.1 per cent and warned of rising debt levels in emerging economies, in a new report.
Down from the global real ... Read More
Ghanaian Children Ranked Seventh In Violent Discipline – U...
A research by the United Nations Children’s Fund has shown that children in Ghana experience the seventh highest rate of “violent discipline” in the world.
To this end, as the World commemorates the International Day for Non-Violence, Challenging Heights, a Non-governmental Organization (NGO) that envisions ... Read More
Karén Breytenbach To Participate In The 9th Powering Africa...
Following the overwhelming success of the South Africa: Gas Options(SA:GO) meeting in Cape Town last week - which welcomed over 300 investors to learn about South Africa’s Gas IPP programme Karén Breytenbach and the IPP Office team will attend Powering ... Read More
Presidents Mahama And Hollande Hold Talks At Elysee Palace
President Francois Hollande of France (left) welcoming President Mahama of Ghana
French President Francois Hollande on Monday commended President John Mahama for helping to bring stability to the West African sub-region during his tenure as Chair of the Economic Community ... Read More