Mrs Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has inaugurated the Premium Application Centre (PAC) in London. This is a premium service to complement the existing consular services provided by the mission. Prior to the establishment of PAC, the Ministry, led by Mr Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, in charge […]
Former US President Donald Trump has launched his third bid for the White House, declaring: “America’s comeback starts right now.” At his Florida estate, he said: “We have to save our country.” Mr Trump’s announcement comes as some fellow Republicans blame him for the party’s lacklustre performance in last week’s midterm elections. President Joe Biden, […]
World leaders at the ongoing United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) have taken a bold step towards addressing risks of water insecurity and water-related climate disasters. This follows the launch of the Action on Water Adaptation or Resilience (AWARe), an initiative to champion inclusive cooperation to address water-related challenges across climate change adaptation. The […]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has told lawmakers in parliament he is committed to a peace deal struck with Tigrayan leadership in South Africa earlier this month to end two years of deadly conflict in northern Tigray region. In his address to parliament Tuesday, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the warring parties must now […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has proposed six measures for the transformation of the Commonwealth to serve rich and poorer members equally. They include policies that will facilitate trade and investment; regulate, yet make the flow of labour within commonwealth countries easier and lead to greater investment in […]
Two trucks carrying medical supplies arrived in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Tuesday, the first shipment of international aid to reach the region since Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigrayan forces agreed to a cease-fire earlier this month. The convoy by the International Committee of the Red Cross or ICRC delivered 40 tons of “essential items, emergency […]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has congratulated Ghana for formalizing its bilateral agreement with Switzerland to transfer carbon credit. This is a result from UNDP’s project to promote climate smart agriculture in rice cultivation, in Ghana. Ghana is the first country globally, to launch a project and issue an authorization statement for the transfer […]
Diabetes mellitus took the lives of 416,000 people on the African continent last year and becoming one of the leading causes of death in Africa by 2030. Mr Francis Kasolo, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Ghana, who disclosed this in a statement read on his behalf at Ghana’s commemoration of the 2022 World […]
The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other international health stakeholders have opened a training in Accra to build the capacity of West African health workers on cholera elimination. The training forms part of measures to eliminate cholera from the West African sub-region by equipping the stakeholders […]
King Charles has begun the process of increasing the number of royals who can stand in for the monarch for official duties – proposing Princess Anne and Prince Edward as additions. At present the “counsellors of state” are Camilla, the Queen Consort, plus four other senior royals. But two of these are Prince Andrew and […]
