Kenyan President William Ruto says Nairobi has met all legal and constitutional requirements to deploy troops to Haiti to help the Caribbean nation out of political and socioeconomic turmoil. In an exclusive interview with VOA’s Hubbah Abdi shortly after concluding his state visit to the United States last week, Ruto said the East African nation […]
Kenya has agreed to help the European Union in dealing with maritime crime suspects in the region, amid a rising threat from pirate activity and attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The EU, which has a force operating in the Indian Ocean, is concerned that the insecurity which is also affecting ship traffic in the Gulf […]
South Africans began voting Wednesday in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory. At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in 1994. It is […]
The International Perspective for Policy & Governance (IPPG), an independent and non-profit foreign affairs and sustainable development think tank, is proud to announce its strong support for Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Ghana’s Minister for Foreign Affairs & Regional Integration, in her bid for the esteemed position of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. The election for the […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has held a consultative stakeholders’ validation workshop in Tamale on a survey on the agricultural value chain within the northern sector. The validation workshop was for participants to examine the findings of the survey, which was conducted to identify some of the livelihood options in the agricultural value chain, […]
Ghana loses about $1.9 billion of its crop production to post-harvest losses annually, the Head of Food System at the World Food Programme (WFP), Steven Odarteifio, has disclosed. “We have been able to estimate that we are losing $1.9 billion in post-harvest losses every single year,” Mr Odarteifio said at a day’s stakeholder engagement and […]
South Africans who received special permission to vote early were casting their ballots Monday ahead of main elections on Wednesday. Numerous residents sat eagerly at their retirement home to cast their special ballots, avoiding long queues expected on voting day. The special voting process is for registered voters who are unable to travel to a […]
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) have launched the second phase of the Global Health Security Agenda Project (GHSA) in Accra. The launch was commemorated through an exchange of memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea, Park Kyongsig, and […]
Diplomatic missions from various African countries yesterday organised a food bazaar to celebrate the unity and diversity of the continent as part of African Union Day. Held at the Togolese Embassy in Accra, the event which provided a platform for countries to experience one another’s culture featured traditional music and dance performances by representatives from […]
The High Commission of Rwanda in Ghana has organised a symposium to commemorate the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The symposium was to raise awareness about the genocide and provide recommendations to policymakers on how to fight against all forms of manifestations of genocide. The symposium, themed “Kwibuka 30, remember, unite and renew” […]
