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 […]
Britain’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful, London’s Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, in a major setback for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has pledged to stop migrants arriving across the Channel in small boats. Under a deal struck last year, Britain’s government planned to send tens of thousands of asylum […]
Mr. Hisanobu Mochizuki, the Japanese Ambassador to Ghana, has reaffirmed the country’s continued support to Ghana’s socio-economic and infrastructure development drive. He said Ghana held strategically important position in developing quality infrastructure in the West Africa Growth Ring Corridor Development to enhance connectivity and promote economic activities in the sub-region. “Japan as a nation is […]
Four months into a social media ban, communications businesses and civil rights groups in Ethiopia are feeling the impact. Strict regulations are making it harder for them to reach audiences or verify information. In March, the country blocked access to Facebook, TikTok, Telegram and YouTube nationwide following a disagreement with the country’s Orthodox Church, where […]
Hundreds gathered in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Wednesday to pray for peace on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, but gunfire shattered the brief respite, residents said. Witnesses in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman late Wednesday reported airstrikes and anti-aircraft fire, despite separate unilateral truces announced by the warring generals for […]
U.S. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had “absolutely” been weakened inside his country by last weekend’s short-lived mutiny led by mercenary Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. But Biden, speaking to reporters at the White House, said it was “hard to tell” the extent to which Putin had been […]
The United States on Tuesday accused companies in the United Arab Emirates, the Central African Republic and Russia of engaging in illicit gold deals to help fund the mercenary fighters of Russia’s Wagner Group. The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement it has sanctioned four companies linked to Wagner and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, […]
A blistering new report by the U.N. human rights office shows that nobody in Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine is without fault and that Ukrainian civilians have been arbitrarily detained by both warring parties, but that the Russian Federation is guilty of most of the crimes and cases of abuse. The report, which was […]
