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 […]
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 […]
