As the global trade landscape undergoes significant transformation, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which has been the lifeline to many African economies, has not been spared. The recent introduction of a 10-per cent tariff on all African exports to the United States, a policy enacted by the Trump administration, has led to a […]
Rwanda’s move to accept deportees from the United States has drawn criticism from Amnesty International. The rights group now says that the deal contravenes the Refugee Convention. They also faulted the asylum process, claiming it is a risk of violating international law on migration and that there is still no certainty in its success. “What […]
Director General of World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala met with the Japanese Prime Minister Tuesday during her three-day trip to Japan. “Trade is facing very challenging times right now and it is quite difficult,” she said during the meeting in Tokyo. The United States and China agreed to roll back most of the tariffs each […]
President John Mahama has called for a united Africa to enable the continent to address its escalating debt crisis, adding that unsustainable borrowing risks undermining development gains and sovereignty. Delivering a keynote speech at the African Union (AU) High-Level Conference on Debt in Lomé, Togo, yesterday, the President described Africa’s debt burden as a “paradox […]
Scotland’s deputy first minister says she is in “no doubt” that the country’s care system will suffer from UK government plans to tighten immigration rules. Kate Forbes said Scotland needed to take a “distinct approach” to the rest of the UK. It came as care home bosses claimed the immigration plans could lead to closures […]
As part of efforts to address climate change, President John Dramani has advocated the scaling up of green and blue bonds across the continent to finance environmental protection, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture. “Ghana is exploring these options alongside broadening the tax base, digitizing revenue collection, and enhancing domestic capital markets to reduce dependency on […]
Care homes will be prevented from recruiting staff from abroad as part of an overhaul of rules to drive down net migration, Yvette Cooper has said. In a change that will concern employers in the sector, the home secretary said providers should instead seek to employ foreign staff who have already come to the country […]
A group of 59 white South Africans has arrived in the US, where they are to be granted refugee status. President Donald Trump has said the refugee applications for the country’s Afrikaner minority had been expedited as they were victims of “racial discrimination”. The South African government said the group were not suffering any such […]
The European Union (EU) and its Member States, under the Global Gateway initiative, have committed more than €800 million, approximately GH₵13 billion – to major infrastructure projects across Ghana’s energy, health, and transport sectors, the EU Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Irchad Razaaly, has announced. The investment includes €55 million to support local vaccine production, €62 […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday to engage in direct talks to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. “We await a full and lasting ceasefire, starting from tomorrow, to provide the necessary basis for diplomacy. There is no point in prolonging the killings,” Zelensky […]
