Switzerland Embassy in Ghana has pledged to support celebrated Ghanaian Presenter, Doreen Avio, to empower female Disk Jockeys in Ghana. Earlier, the radio and TV personality had announced her intentions to fight the gender imbalance in Ghana’s music industry during a live radio broadcast on Hitz 103.9FM. Her campaign was after a survey by the […]
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Wednesday that the worsening conflict in Ethiopia risks “peace and stability” in the wider Horn of Africa. Blinken made the comments in Kenya’s capital Nairobi after meeting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and holding the second-ever official US-Kenya strategic dialogue with Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs […]
The speaker of Libya’s eastern-based parliament has said he will run for the presidency in next month’s election. Aguila Saleh’s announcement on Wednesday follows that of several other prominent Libyans including Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya’s former dictator, and Khalifa Haftar, the powerful military commander. Both men are highly divisive figures accused of war crimes. In a […]
The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the Ghana Ministry of Industry will host the Ghana Agribusiness Investment Summit November 16-18, 2021. The virtual summit, which opens today, will bring together over 400 stakeholders in the agribusiness sector, transaction advisors, financial institutions, and investors, along with representatives of the United States and […]
Germany is in the grip of a “dramatic” fourth Covid wave, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said on the eve of a crisis meeting with regional leaders. Daily infections hit a new German record of 52,826 on Wednesday as European governments responded to a surge on much of the continent. Belgium announced a series of measures in […]
The United States continues to be a top destination for international studies among Ghanaian students. For the most recent (2020-2021) academic year, 4,229 Ghanaians studied at colleges and universities in the United States, a slight increase over last year. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ghanaians showed strong interest in studying in the United States. In […]
Mr Albert Kofi Owusu, the General Manager of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), has urged the European Union to provide technical assistance to aid the Agency’s digitisation and capacity building agenda. That, he said, would enable the Agency to satisfy its subscribers with diversified news content to serve their multimedia platforms. Mr Owusu said this […]
Forty eight Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from Ghana are exhibiting at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2021 which opened Monday (November 15, 2021) in Durban, South Africa. The one-week fair which is being organised by the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement secretariat has “Building Bridges for a successful AfCFTA” as theme. It aims at […]
The United Nations expressed alarm Tuesday at surging arrests in Ethiopia since the country introduced a state of emergency November 2. The U.N. human rights agency said most of those detained in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa as well as in Gondar, Bahir Dar and other locations were of Tigrayan origin. “According to reports, […]
In an upper-class estate on the northern fringes of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a black gate with iron bars leads into a cream-colored duplex that offers a good view of the city. It is home to businesswoman Torkwase Kuraun and her husband Jeffrey Kuraun, a geologist with the Department of Petroleum Resources. And for two months, […]
