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 […]
A charismatic 37-year-old, Burkina Faso’s military ruler Capt Ibrahim Traoré has skilfully built the persona of a pan-Africanist leader determined to free his nation from what he regards as the clutches of Western imperialism and neo-colonialism. His message has resonated across Africa and beyond, with his admirers seeing him as following in the footsteps of […]
Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff. “I too address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the […]
The United States Government has donated 14 mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored personnel carriers (APCs) valued at over $6 million to the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). The official hand over, which took place on Wednesday at Burma Camp in Accra, symbolized the deepening of the U.S. and Ghana security partnership and a demonstration of the bilateral defence […]
Mr. Roey Gilad, the Israeli Ambassador to Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, has expressed strong belief in the possibility of peace between Israelis and Palestinians despite the current bleak state of affairs. Mr. Gilad stressed that although the long-standing conflict had reached one of its lowest points, there remained hope for a peaceful resolution that […]
