António Guterres – UN Secretary-General The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pointed out peace and security as well as climate change as the two major challenges the African continent presently faces. The UN chief made the remarks on Sunday while ... Read More

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Sunday, expressing his faith in a foreseeable prosperous Africa, urged the leaders to strengthen their commitment, and scale up momentum in their implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to meet the 2030 deadline. He ... Read More

The United Kingdom (UK) is using over 150 years of mining heritage to secure sustainable economic development in Africa for the next 150 years and beyond. A statement issued by the British High Commission in Accra and copied to the Ghana ... Read More

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took up the chairmanship of the 55-member African Union (AU) from Rwandan leader, Paul Kagame at its 32nd ordinary session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Sunday. During his tenure, el-Sissi is expected to concentrate ... Read More

Catherine Afeku, Minister for Tourism, Acts and Culture Mrs Catherine Abelema Afeku, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, has announced the Government’s preparedness to partner Cuban artists to mount cultural and historical sculptures to promote tourism. The sculptures would ... Read More

Ghana will host the Third German-African Business Summit (GABS) from Monday, February 11 to Wednesday, February 13 in Accra, to provide a platform for Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Africa and Germany to explore business opportunities. The GABS is Germany’s ... Read More

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the Economic Community of West African States Commission (ECOWAS) have signed an agreement for a study of the 1,000-kilometre highway linking Cote d’Ivoire’s commercial capital Abidjan, to Lagos in Nigeria. It marks a new ... Read More

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has set up a committee to investigate the reported outbreak of the Tilapia Lake Virus in Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake shared by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Tilapia Lake Virus is a deadly disease ... Read More

Ghana on Wednesday launched this year’s Africa Climate Week celebration as a lead-up to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in September this year. The Africa Week celebration, slated for March 18 to 22, would be held at the Accra International ... Read More

The former President of Cote d’Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, who has been freed by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hauge, is to stay in Belgium, one of the conditions of his release. This was agreed by the Belgian government after ... Read More