Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame met Saturday with his Benin counterpart, Patrice Talon, promising military support to help the country contain spillover from jihadi conflict across its northern border with Burkina Faso. West Africa coastal nations Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast are preparing for a potential spillover as Burkina Faso struggles to contain an Islamist […]
Ghana’s path to economic recovery in the wake of recent crisis is receiving a renewed hope from three major global financial and development institutions on debt operations. The three institutions – International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group and the Group of 20 Presidency (G20), have all pledged to increase concessional financing to Ghana to […]
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated midwifery training tools and equipment to the Nursing Department of Midwifery, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The items worth $30,000, is part of the Funds’ efforts at contributing to the effective and efficient training of midwifes to acquire the needed skills that […]
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 […]
