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Countries Evacuate Diplomats/Citizens Out Of Sudan

  • April 24, 2023

Countries are rushing to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Khartoum, Sudan’s capital as fighting between the two rival factions in the Northeastern African country’s capital continues. Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United States are among the nations using aircraft and convoys to bring foreign nationals out of Sudan. More than 420 […]

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Ghana Party In The Park And Expo Ghana’23 Launched

  • April 21, 2023

INTERNATIONAL Ghanaian Marketing Communications Company, Akwaaba UK, in collaboration with the British High Commission in Ghana, launched this year’s editions of the Ghana Party in the Park and Expo Ghana at a colourful event at the residence of the British High Commissioner to Ghana in Accra recently. Ghana Party in the Park, currently the biggest […]

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Ugandan Leader Declines To Sign Anti-LGBTQ Bill

  • April 21, 2023

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni declined to sign a bill that would require the death penalty for homosexuality in some cases and sent it back to Parliament for “strengthening.” Museveni’s decision was announced late Thursday after he met with lawmakers in his ruling National Resistance Movement party, almost all of whom supported the bill. The meeting […]

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Foreign Affairs Minister In Rome For Ghana’s 66th National Day Celebrations

  • April 20, 2023

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, was welcomed to Rome by Ghana’s Ambassador to Italy, Merene Botsio Benyah, in a strategic diplomatic collaboration to showcase Ghana in Italy, with a focus on trade and investment. Speaking during the national day celebration to commemorate Ghana’s 66th independence at the Cavalieri Waldorf […]

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Nigerian Agency Says Malaria Vaccine Could Protect Millions

  • April 20, 2023

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, announced a provisional approval of the R21 vaccine during a media briefing on Monday. The regulatory agency’s consent came days after Ghana approved the vaccine. NAFDAC said the vaccine is 70 to 80 percent efficient in preventing the mosquito-borne disease and could protect millions […]

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Syria, Tunisia Reestablish Diplomatic Relations

  • April 19, 2023

Syria’s chief diplomat is on a three-day official visit to Tunisia meant to restore diplomatic relations that have been cut off since 2012 during the civil war that followed President Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on mass protests against his rule. Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad had a meeting with Tunisian counterpart Nabil Ammar shortly after […]

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Minister Urges Latvian Investors To Make Ghana Preferred Destination

  • April 18, 2023

Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Monday urged Latvian investors to make Ghana their preferred destination in Africa. She said this at the opening of the Second Ghana-Latvia Business Forum in Accra, being attended Mr Edgars Rinkēvičs, the Latvian Foreign Minister, among other delegates. Madam Botchwey described the Forum […]