Ghana and Malawi are improving biodiversity data access by training key stakeholders to centralise, manage, and share national information through the Bioland Clearing House Mechanism (CHM) Portal. The two-day capacity-building workshop, held in Accra, was organised by Ghana’s Ministry of Environment, Science, and Technology (MEST) in collaboration with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences […]
Kofi Iddie Adams, the Minister for Sports and Recreation has embarked on a working visit in the United Kingdom to discuss long-term solutions and commercial viability of Ghana’s sports infrastructure. Key among these infrastructures is the country’s only multipurpose sports facility, the Borteyman Sports Complex. The complex, first of its kind in Ghana has a 1,000-seater […]
Ukraine and Ghana have committed to advancing bilateral cooperation in cybersecurity, digitalisation, and information technology following a high-level virtual meeting between officials of both countries on Tuesday, June 4, 2025. The engagement, which took place between Ukraine’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Anton Demokhin, and Ghana’s Minister for Communications, Information Technology, and […]
Media stakeholders, civil society groups and regulators are urging Parliament to pass Ghana’s broadcasting bill, describing it as necessary to address challenges facing the country’s growing and evolving media sector, especially in community broadcasting. The call was made at a consultation meeting organised by the UNESCO Accra Office on Thursday, June 5, 2025. The event […]
The Wagner Group has announced it is withdrawing from Mali following what it called “the completion of its main mission” in the West African country. The Russian mercenary group has been operating there since 2021, working with the military to challenge Islamist militants. In a message on its Telegram channel, Wagner said it had “fought […]
Rwanda says it is pulling out of a central African regional bloc after a diplomatic row over its involvement in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country was supposed to take up the chairman role of the Economic Community of Central African States (Eccas), which rotates between its 11 […]
Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Embassy of Japan have signed the Exchange of Notes on Japanese Grant Assistance for the “Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship,” a substantial grant of 420 million Japanese Yen. The Foreign Affairs Ministry in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency said Mr Ramses Joseph Cleland, the Chief […]
Zambia’s former President Edgar Lungu has died at the age of 68, his party has said in a statement. He had “been receiving specialized treatment in South Africa” for an undisclosed illness, the Patriotic Front (PF) added. Lungu led Zambia for six years from 2015, losing the 2021 election to the current President Hakainde Hichilema […]
Unless the decision is overturned, Ivorians will not be able to tick the box next to any of these names in October’s presidential elections: Tijane Thiam, Laurent Gbagbo, Charles Blé Goudé and Guillaume Soro, all four candidates for opposition parties, have been barred from the electoral lists, which were published in their final version this […]
Japan has reaffirmed its commitment to finance the construction of the Volivo Bridge over the Volta Lake, a critical component of the Eastern Corridor road project. The assurance was given by the Senior Executive Vice-President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Miyazaki Katsura, during a courtesy call on President John Mahama at the Jubilee […]
