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 […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told world leaders at the G20 Bali summit that Russia’s war must end now. He also pleaded for an extension of a significant grain export deal due to expire soon. Mr Zelensky appeared in a video speech beamed to leaders gathered on the Indonesian island. Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia […]
The King’s staff are set to receive a bonus payment of up to £600 to help them with the cost of living crisis. The Sun newspaper reported that the bonuses – to be paid on top of this month’s salary to workers including cleaners – would amount to tens of thousands of pounds and would […]
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, last Saturday co-chaired the first ministerial meeting of the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP), with a call on developing countries to get their act together to tap into the $20-billion fund the partnership was mobilising to implement nature-based climate actions. Mr Jinapor, who co-chaired […]
The President of ECOWAS, Omar Aliou Touray, has called on member states to sustain efforts at reducing access to small arms and ammunition. “With the spate of terrorist attacks, banditry, and kidnappings in parts of our countries, the need for sustained effort towards reducing access to small arms and ammunition cannot be overemphasised,” he said. […]
The Ethiopian government and Tigray forces on Saturday signed an agreement laying out the roadmap for implementation of a peace deal that both sides reached in South Africa this month. Representatives from the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have been meeting in Nairobi since Monday to reach agreement on various aspects […]
As world leaders meet in Egypt for a two-week climate change summit, COP27, African leaders have been emphasizing the need for their western counterparts to increase their commitment to addressing climate change’s impact on Africa. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is the latest African leader to weigh in on the issue, saying African leaders are frustrated […]
