Côte d’Ivoire will simultaneously observe this year’s closed fishing season which started July 1. 2023 with Ghana. Under the auspices of the joint Fisheries Committee for West and Central (FCWC) gulf, joint fishing patrol operations would ensure among others compliance with the closed season. This is an attempt to ultimately implement a sub regional closed […]
Elon Musk has joked about Twitter’s temporary daily reading limits after users vented their fury over the site’s new limitations. “Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits,” the billionaire tweeted. Earlier Musk had said Twitter applied the limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. He said verified Twitter […]
Clashes between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensified on Sunday, as the war in the country’s capital and western regions entered its 12th week with no attempts in sight to bring a peaceful end to the conflict. Air and artillery strikes as well as small arms fire could be heard, particularly in […]
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is due to travel Thursday to China to meet with senior officials in the latest effort to address strained relations between the two countries. The Treasury Department said in a statement Sunday that Yellen’s visit would take place from July 6-9 and follows a directive from President Joe Biden to […]
Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a former Commissioner of the African Union Commission, has charged businesses in Africa to grow intra-continental trade in finished goods. She said: “We need to trade in our own goods… so that in 50 years [when Agenda 2063 is due], we will be able to celebrate free trade and say, I can […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Strengthening the Care Continuum Project, from 2019 to date, has provided 36, 429 People Living with HIV access to care and treatment in the Western, Western-North and Ahafo Regions in Ghana. The move was in line with USAID Strengthening the Care Continuum Project to assist implementation partners […]
Hajia Alima Sagito Saeed, the Executive Director of the Savannah Women Integrated Development Agency (SWIDA-GH), has called for the active involvement of women as role models, to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She referred to the Goals five and 10, which targeted gender equality, saying said it was important for women, who survived various […]
Businesses in Ghana are encouraged to enhance their manufacturing capacities and expand into Asia, a ready market for their products. “There are enormous opportunities in using start-ups and technology companies to solve Asian challenges using Ghanaian innovations,” Mr Rahul Ghosh, the Sub-Saharan Africa Director of Enterprise Singapore, said. Mr Ghosh, therefore, advised Ghanaian businesses not […]
The Ethiopian Airlines Group, the fastest-growing airline brand globally and the continent’s leading airline brand, has been crowned “The Best Airline in Africa.” The airline was awarded the title at the prestigious SKYTRAX 2023 World Airline Awards during the Paris Air Show held in Paris, France. A statement issued in Accra said the award was […]
Seven African countries are working towards developing local institutional capacity to build resilience and promote disaster preparedness. In line with that, experts from the participating countries converged on Accra for a workshop on approaches to early warning and anticipatory actions for predictable extreme events. The participants were drawn from Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mozambique, South […]
