The European Union (EU) has pledged an additional €10 million to Ghana to support the most vulnerable populations facing escalating global food security crisis exacerbated by Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Mr. Pieter Smidt Van Gelder, the Deputy Head of the European Union Mission to Ghana, announcing the new Special Measure in Accra […]
Mr Abdourahamane Diallo, UNESCO Country Director, says Ghana can reduce the impacts of earthquakes through proactive measures and planning that are well coordinated and executed. The country in 2019 was said to be on earthquake alert as it experienced a series of earth tremors between March 2018 and March 2019. He said the measures and […]
Ghana and four other ECOWAS member countries have benefited from a $250 million fund from the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID). The other beneficiary countries are Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. A copy of its release to the Ghana News Agency said the Board of Directors of EBID approved the fund to boost oil and gas, […]
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered an immediate lockdown and imposition of a dusk-till-dawn curfew for three weeks in two districts in a bid to stop the spread of Ebola. Places of worship, markets, bars and entertainment will be closed and restrictions have been placed on movement in and out of the two central districts of […]
The African Union’s chief has called for an “immediate, unconditional ceasefire” in the two-year-old conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. An AU statement, released on Saturday, said Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat is “following with great concern reports of increased fighting in the Tigray Region”, and is calling for an immediate ceasefire and urging the resumption […]
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Tunisia’s capital to demonstrate against the president. Parallel demonstrations by political movements who are deeply opposed to each other were held in Tunis. Both groups denounced Kais Saied as an autocrat who is reversing the democratic progress made since the 2011 uprising. They also demanded accountability […]
The United Nations’ refugee agency has said it is “deeply distressed” by the discovery of almost 100 naked men at the border between Greece and Turkey. The two countries have blamed each other for the plight of the 92 migrants. Greece laid the blame at Turkey’s door, saying its “behaviour” was a “shame for civilisation”. […]
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has called Liz Truss’s original economic policies “a mistake”. In an unusual intervention, he said the economic turmoil that followed the government’s mini-budget had been “predictable”. Speaking at an ice cream shop in Oregon, Mr Biden was asked by reporters about the prime minister’s attempt to boost […]
Britain’s finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng said on Friday that he had resigned after Prime Minister Liz Truss asked him to stand aside as chancellor of the exchequer. Below is the full text of his letter, which he posted on Twitter: “You have asked me to stand aside as your Chancellor. I have accepted. “When you […]
A new report finds half of all countries globally lack early warning systems that could save lives by alerting communities of impending disasters, including typhoons, droughts, and heatwaves. The joint report by the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or UNDRR, and the World Meteorological Organization is being released to mark the International Day for […]
