China is very carefully watching how Washington and the world respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but has not yet crossed the line of providing lethal aid to Moscow, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. Speaking on the heels of a visit to Moscow by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Blinken told a […]
Canada’s population grew by over a million people for the first time ever last year, the government has said. The country’s population increased from 38,516,138 to 39,566,248 people, Statistics Canada said. It also marked Canada’s highest annual population growth rate – 2.7% – since 1957. The increase was in part fuelled by government efforts to recruit […]
There’s an old adage in politics, coined by the former American President Ronald Reagan: “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” Boris Johnson has had to do one heck of a lot of explaining. Explaining his record in government. Explaining why, in his view, he didn’t lie to parliament about the parties in government during the pandemic. Explaining […]
Donald Trump’s prediction that he will be arrested this week has yet to come true – but as the waiting game for criminal charges goes on, the former president is plotting a strategy designed to both keep him out of jail and turbo-boost his historic bid to return to the White House. It is a […]
Ethiopia’s government has rejected a U.S. assertion that all sides in the two-year Tigray war committed war crimes, calling the statement “inflammatory.” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday on Twitter that the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies, Amhara region forces and Tigray People’s Liberation Front forces all committed “atrocity crimes” during the Tigray war […]
The United States government has announced a $5 million partnership funding for Ghana’s health insurance system. According to a press release from the US Embassy in Accra copied to Ghana Business News, the US Ambassador to Ghana, Virginia Palmer Monday March 20, 2023, announced $5 million in new funding to improve the performance of the […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has cut the sod for the construction of the Ministry’s office annex building. The $20 million building project is being financed with a grant from the Chinese Government. Yanjian Group Company Limited, which constructed the existing Foreign Ministry’s building, won the bid once […]
French journalist Olivier Dubois returned home on Tuesday following nearly two years in captivity in the Sahel. He was greeted by his family and President Emmanuel Macron at an airport near Paris. Dubois, 48, and 61-year-old U.S. aid worker Jeffery Woodke, who was seized in southwest Niger in October 2016 — arrived in the Niger […]
Ghana on Monday commemorated the 53rd Anniversary of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) with a flaghoisting ceremony at the forecourt of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Accra. Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration hoisted the flag of Ghana, while that of the OIF […]
The world has the tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to secure a sustainable future if more ambitious actions are taken, a United Nations report has said, noting that actions taken so far are not enough to tackle the growing threats posed by climate change. A UN panel of scientists stressed in a synthesis […]
