The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Feed the Future Ghana Fisheries Recovery Activity, has launched some supplemental livelihood programmes for the youth in coastal fishing communities. The programmes aimed at equipping the youth with employable skills and boosting the local economies and to help reduce the over reliance on the seemingly […]
World Vision Ghana has introduced a livelihood adaptation measure targeting the improvement of women and men’s economic conditions, social and resources mobilization dubbed Savings for Transformation (S4T). The measure is under the Landscapes and Environmental Agility across the Nation (LEAN) Project is being implemented in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region and Kassena […]
A vessel with around 400 people on board is adrift between Greece and Malta and is taking on water, support service Alarm Phone said Sunday, after a sharp rise of migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa. Alarm Phone said on Twitter they had received a call from the boat, which departed from Tobruk, […]
The Ethiopian government has said it intends to integrate all regional special forces either into the national army or the federal or regional police, a move likely to be perceived as an attempt to diminish the autonomy of individual regions. Ethiopia’s 10 regions currently enjoy a degree of autonomy, ranging from having their own armies […]
A new report by researchers from Johns Hopkins University is giving China better than expected marks for its performance in helping to restructure the crippling debt loads carried by some African countries. The report is based on a detailed evaluation of Beijing’s participation in the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, or DSSI, an international vehicle for […]
Ghana and The Netherlands have begun exploratory talks on the renegotiation of the 32-year-old Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) between the two countries. The BIT was signed in 1989 and operationalised in 1991 and the renegotiation is to review it to conform to current global economic dynamics. Speaking at the opening of the exploratory talks in […]
The husband of the Vice-President of the United States of America (USA), Douglas Emhoff, has advised students to be mindful of the choices they make as they climb the academic ladder. He noted that every choice came with consequences, stressing that to live a joyful, enriched and fulfilling life they needed to make more conscious […]
South Africa’s government has revoked a national “state of disaster” declared in February to manage a crippling electricity crisis. On February 9, President Cyril Ramaphosa invoked disaster regulations to fight the crisis that included daily rolling power cuts by state utility Eskom due to frequent breakdowns at its ageing coal-fired power stations and years of corruption. The […]
The United States Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Ghana jointly hosted a roundtable on “Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Innovation” at the Google AI Research Center in Accra. A statement issued by the US Embassy in Accra and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the event focused on developments in industry, […]
The European Union (EU) has signed a €5 million grant agreement with DEK Vaccines Limited to support Ghana’s vaccine manufacturing project. The grant, made available by the European Investment Bank, will among others serve as a seed-fund for the development of the vaccine manufacturing unit at DEK Vaccines Limited. It would also cover project-related expenditures, […]
