The Government of Ghana in partnership with the United States (US) has launched a $25 million support programme to improve healthcare delivery in Ghana. The Government-to-Government (G2G) agreement would support the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to improve the quality of primary healthcare delivery at Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) and health centres across the […]
A delegation of auto investors from the United Kingdom (UK) is in the country to explore investment opportunities and partnerships that would lead to the growth of the automotive sector. The delegation, which included investors from Comline, Afrivolt, Meridian Generic, Spencer West LLP, Metfinn as well as representatives from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and […]
Tanzania’s political opposition held its first major protest in years on Wednesday to demand constitutional changes to reduce presidential powers and reform of the electoral commission ahead of a general election due next year. President Samia Suluhu Hassan last year lifted a ban on most political rallies that her predecessor John Magufuli had imposed in […]
The president of Chad Idriss Deby met with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow. The Russian leader congratulated Deby on his success in stabilizing Chad, saying that Russia was closely monitoring the country’s security situation. “We are glad that it was possible to hold a referendum on the constitution,” Putin said during the […]
The World Bank has approved $300 million in funding to help Ghana’s economic recovery, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The decision comes after the West African country reached a deal to restructure $5.4 billion of loans with its official creditors, a milestone in Ghana’s quest for debt relief as it charts its way out of […]
The upper house of the British Parliament has urged the Conservative government not to ratify a migration treaty with Rwanda. It is a largely symbolic decision, but one which portends greater opposition to the contentious plan to return some asylum seekers to the African country, which has stalled. On Monday evening, the House of Lords […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said Tuesday that his country and Russia are on “a new brilliant page”. He made the comment during a foundation laying ceremony for Egypt’s first nuclear plant. El Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant will be built with Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom. El-Sissi said during the ceremony that El Dabaa will […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday the United States is committed to growing its partnerships across the African continent and increasingly sees African countries “leading on issues of global consequence.” “The United States is determined to be and remain a strong security partner for Nigeria,” Blinken said in Abuja during a joint press […]
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley vowed to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday after former President Donald Trump won the party’s New Hampshire primary. Trump had about 54% of the vote compared to Haley’s 45%, with 56% of the vote counted. That was enough of an advantage for Trump to […]
I am compelled to write this open letter to you because I am inclined to believe that the US Consular section that deals with visa fee enquiries/complaints is either trying to defraud me of USA visa fees paid through GT Bank or they are demonstrating shear incompetence or both, in response to my very simple […]
