The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked countries to support Ghana’s efforts to restructure its debt in other to secure a bailout from the Bretton Woods institution. The fund urged bilateral creditors to quickly form creditor committees to help fast track the external debt restructuring process as well as provide financial assurances for the fund-assisted […]
THE European Union (EU) and global buyers of cocoa have to do more to raise cocoa prices to sustainable levels, as the current price is insignificant and not protecting the crop farmers enough. The Head of Cooperation EU delegation to Ghana, Massimo Nina, said in a meeting with the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) in Accra […]
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Commission (EC) has urged African states to use public funds efficiently. They said prudent spending of public funds would help to maximise its impact and build more resilience for the benefit of the whole economy. In a joint statement issued Tuesday, the two institutions said transparent and […]
AN awards scheme aimed at recognising the efforts and contributions of individuals and institutions towards achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been launched in Accra. Known as the “Think Energy SDGs Awards,” the event, which is being organised by the African Global Response Energy Environment (AGREE) Limited), with support from the […]
Claude Lorius, a leading glaciologist whose expeditions helped prove that humans were responsible for global warming, has died at the age of 91. He led 22 expeditions to Greenland and Antarctica during his lifetime. It was during one trip to Antarctica in 1965 where an evening of whiskey with ice cubes led him to prove […]
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 […]
