The Kingdom of Morocco led by the Moroccan Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Imane Ouadil has participated in a two-day bazaar held at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel Accra. The event organized by the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in partnership with selected foreign missions in Ghana was its first Christmas charity bazaar which commenced on Saturday, November […]
Madam Louise Paris, the Deputy Director of Operations at the Canadian High Commission in Ghana has hinted of a 125 million Canadian dollar grant from the Canadian government to help improve the agriculture sector. She said the Canadian government was already partnering the government of Ghana to modernise the sector in the area of rehabilitation, retooling […]
Namibia’s ruling party has selected Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the party’s vice president, putting her in line to be the country’s first female presidential candidate when the current leader steps down in March 2024. During a prolonged party congress that ended Monday night, members of Namibia’s ruling Swapo party re-elected Netumbo-Nandi Ndaitwah, the country’s deputy prime […]
Russia has donated 260,000 metric tons of fertilizer it produced that was sitting in European ports and warehouses for use by farmers in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday. “This will serve to alleviate humanitarian needs and prevent catastrophic crop loss in Africa, where it is currently planting season,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters, […]
Nato has pledged to give more weapons to Ukraine and help fix critical energy infrastructure badly damaged by massive Russian missile and drone strikes. At a summit in Bucharest, the secretary general of the military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, accused Moscow of “trying to use winter as a weapon of war”. The Russian strikes have left […]
The European Union (EU) has pledged its support for Ghanaian companies to add value to the country’s raw materials and export them to the European market. The EU said it was ready to support local businesses to import machinery and technology at lower cost for production of finished goods under the EU-Ghana Interim Economic Partnership […]
Mrs Simone Giger, the Swiss Ambassador to Ghana has praised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo’s government for appointing more women to leadership positions. She said women had huge potentials and their active involvement in government could spur rapid socio-economic growth and holistic national progress. Mrs Giger gave the commendation when she paid courtesy call on Madam […]
Rishi Sunak has said the so-called “golden era” of relations with China is over, as he vowed to “evolve” the UK’s stance towards the country. In his first foreign policy speech, the PM said the closer economic ties of the previous decade had been “naïve”. He said the UK now needed to replace wishful thinking […]
The Gender Center for Empowering Development (GenCED) has called on the government to ratify the ILO C190 as it joins the rest of the world to mark the UN’s “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence” campaign. The 16-day campaign is to enhance awareness and deepen advocacy against gender-based violence (GBV) to be concluded with […]
From refugees to elected office, 14 Somali Americans have won legislative seats across the U.S. this year. Some also have been elected to city councils, school boards and the boards of parks and recreation in their respective cities. The U.S. midterm elections have proved to be historic for Somalis, with more women elected to public […]
