A new Swedish Honorary Consulate has been inaugurated in Accra to facilitate bilateral relations and cooperation between Ghana and Sweden. The Consulate will also promote trade investments in Ghana in sectors such as renewable energy, and transport. At the ceremony to inaugurate the Consulate, the Honorary Consul General of Sweden, Nickie Akosa, was introduced. New […]
The Ghana Mission in Qatar has begun preparations towards bringing the Ghanaian community in Qatar together to support the Black Stars to achieve success in the country’s fourth FIFA World Cup appearance in November. According to Harriet Gyamfuah, Public Relations (PR) Consultant based in Doha, the mission was keen on bringing the Ghanaian culture to […]
The Ghana Office of the United Nations (UN) has held a clean-up exercise at Ussher Fort, Jamestown, in Accra ahead of its Ocean Conference scheduled to take place from June 27 to July 1, 2022. Yesterday’s exercise was done in partnership with the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB), Zoomlion Ghana Limited, and UN Habitat. […]
Authorities in Zambia said they have arrested a Chinese citizen accused of selling exploitative videos of Malawian children. Malawian authorities say they are working to have the man, Lu Ke, returned to Malawi, where rights campaigners say he should face justice. Immigration officials in Malawi told VOA their counterparts in Zambia arrested Lu Ke on […]
The tooth of assassinated Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected leader, is scheduled to be handed over to his family Monday. The Belgium government will hand over the tooth to Lumumba’s family in an official ceremony in Brussels. Lumumba elected as Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister in 1960 and was hugely popular with his […]
China’s special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Xue Bing, has said Beijing is ready to help the region’s countries find peace and get rid of what he called external interference. Xue made the comments at China and the Horn of Africa’s first Peace, Governance and Development Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With six Horn […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Africa “a hostage” of Russia’s war during an address to the African Union (AU) on Monday. Russia’s invasion, and its blockade of Ukraine’s grain exports, have sparked grain and fertiliser shortages and put millions of people at risk of hunger. The chair of the AU commission said there was […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Sunday left Ghana to attend the 15th Edition of the European Development Days (EDD) Forum in Brussels, Belgium He will also attend the 26th Meeting of the Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations in Kigali, Rwanda after the European meeting. President Akufo-Addo is one of eleven leaders speaking […]
More than 100 people, mostly from the Amhara ethnic group, have been killed in an attack in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, according to witnesses, who blamed the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) for one of the deadliest attacks in recent memory. However, two other witnesses said more than 200 people have been killed. The regional government in […]
The UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency has disclosed that those displaced by war, violence, persecution, and human rights abuses at the end of 2021 stood at 89.3 million, up eight percent from a year earlier. According to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report made available to the Ghana News Agency in Tema, the figure was well […]
