US President Joe Biden will return to his roots in County Mayo on Friday on the final day of his visit to Ireland. Mr Biden has links to the county through his great grandfather Edward Blewitt. The president is due to speak at a homecoming celebration outside St Muredach’s Cathedral in the town of Ballina […]
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, is optimistic that the fund’s Executive Board would grant final approval to Ghana’s bailout request soon. Ms Georgieva said at the ongoing World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington D.C. that her optimism stemmed from the swelling goodwill that the country was getting from the […]
Ghana has become the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine described as a “world changer” by scientists who developed it at the University of Oxford. The mosquito-spread parasitic disease kills more than 600,000 people every year. The majority are children in sub-Saharan Africa. A statement issued Wednesday by Oxford University says its new […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Ghana will need austerity measures in the coming months to bring inflation back to the single digit territory. The fund said the process could be long and painful, as sustained fiscal imbalances over the years had pushed inflation to higher levels. Ghana’s inflation peaked at 54.1 per […]
The US believes the UN Secretary General is too willing to accommodate Russian interests, according to fresh revelations in classified documents leaked online. The files suggest Washington has been closely monitoring Antonio Guterres. Several documents describe private communications involving Mr Guterres and his deputy. It is the latest from a leak of secret documents, which […]
African journalists have been paying tribute to Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, President of the Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA), who died on Saturday April 8, 2023, in Rabat, Morocco. The journalists, who received the news of his demise with shock, have on various digital media platforms, expressed their condolences to the bereaved family and […]
Ghana has placed first in access to electricity rate in sub-Sahara Africa, a latest report by the World Bank has stated. The World Bank’s April 2023 Africa’s Pulse Report, which assessed electricity access rate between 2015 and 2021 scored Ghana 81.2 per cent. Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Senegal, and Nigeria followed the ranking order, scoring 77.0 […]
The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday, citing delays by nations in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along the dangerous sea route […]
Prince Harry will come to the King’s coronation, but Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will not be attending, says Buckingham Palace. There had been speculation about whether the couple would travel to the coronation – but it has now emerged that Prince Harry will attend alone. Prince Harry will join more than 2,000 guests at […]
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised Ghana’s growth downwards in line with concerns that debt pressures and funding constraints would make it difficult for African economies to expand at full potential this year. The fund cut the country’s growth forecast to 1.6 per cent for 2023 this month, down from 2.8 per cent in […]
