The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under its Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEFSGP) has awarded grant of about $180,000, to eight Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Ghana. This is to enhance biodiversity management, governance, and sustainable livelihood activities of these CSOs. The grant is the fourth direct funding support to the Civil Society […]
Ghana should make sure the debt relief deal it negotiates with commercial creditors do not undermine the country’s efforts to recover from its economic crisis, International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva told President Nana Akufo-Addo. The comments were made on Sunday in a private meeting during Georgieva’s visit to the West African country, whose economy is recovering from its […]
The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s contentious bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament defeated the government and reinstated demands for greater protections. The government wants to relocate thousands of asylum seekers who arrive in Britain on small, inflatable boats […]
The United States on Wednesday pledged about $47 million in new humanitarian assistance for the emergency response in Sudan and neighboring countries, including Chad and South Sudan, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. The announcement brings total U.S. humanitarian assistance for people in Sudan and neighboring countries to more than $968 million since […]
Ghana and Denmark have signed the second phase of the strategic sector cooperation (SSC) on statistics to promote evidence-based decision-making in the country. This follows the successful implementation of phase one of an initial project which focused mainly on capacity building. Representatives from the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), Statistics Denmark (SD) and the Danish Embassy […]
The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a U.K. Supreme Court block on deportation flights returns to the House of Commons on Monday and could be passed into law within days. That would be a […]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says the United States remains determined to provide Ukraine with the resources it needs to fight Russian aggression, even as a U.S. Congress has yet to approve new funding for Ukraine. “The United States will not let Ukraine fail. This coalition will not let Ukraine fail, and the free world […]
South Africa seeks to limit the damage to its relations with Washington caused by its legal challenge to Israel’s assault on Gaza, a South African official said on Tuesday. Naledi Pandor, who is South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, is in Washington seeking to sway members of the U.S. Congress from a proposed […]
A groundbreaking partnership between the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) took center stage at the African Island States High-Level Meeting, held on the sidelines of the 37th AU Summit and hosted by the ECA. This innovative partnership is materializing through the RESIslands initiative, aimed at supporting the nine […]
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has urged managers of the economy to stay the course after achieving “many good indicators in this short period of time” in the country’s programme with the fund. “Your growth is better than expected, your inflation is lower than expected, the progress in debt […]
