Ghana and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), have proposed the establishment of a new Centre of Excellence in Engineering Innovations, Manufacturing and Technology Transfer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister of Education, who announced this on Tuesday at the ongoing 212th session […]
Ghana and Japan, have signed a $36.50 million grant agreement for Tema-Motorway Roundabout Phase II construction project and additional funding for the rehabilitation of the National Truck Road N8 (Assin Foso-Assin Praso Section) Phase II. Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, Finance Minister, signed for Ghana, while Mr Araki Yasumichi, Chief Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Ghana […]
Human rights activist Julienne Lusenge of the Democratic Republic of Congo was recently proclaimed the winner of the 2021 Aurora Humanitarian Prize for her work with wartime victims of sexual violence. She was one of five humanitarian finalists who were up for the award, often referred to as the Nobel prize for humanitarian work. The […]
Major Western donors have pressed the World Health Organization to launch a deeper external probe demanding how a major sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo involving its staff was allowed to happen, diplomats told Reuters. Some 83 aid workers, a quarter of them employed by the WHO, were involved in sexual exploitation […]
The United States will lift restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico for fully vaccinated foreign nationals in early November, ending historic curbs on non-essential travelers in place since March 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement the administration next month “will begin allowing […]
The United Nations’ migration agency has recalled a staff member identified by two U.N. sources in Addis Ababa as the head of its mission to Ethiopia over audio recordings containing criticism of senior U.N. officials. In the recordings, two women who say they work for the U.N. in Ethiopia but do not give their names […]
The United States is sending more than 3.5 million doses of the two-shot Pfizer vaccine to Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, a White House official told VOA on Tuesday. “We are sharing these doses not to secure favors or extract concessions,” the official said. “Our vaccines do not come with strings attached. We are doing […]
The Young Democrat Union of Africa (YDUA) under the leadership of its President Louisa Atta-Agyemang has conferred an honorary award for visionary leadership on the Malawian President, Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera for his role in ensuring food security and rule of law in Malawi. The conferment of the award took place at the Presidential Palace of […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Monday received the Medal of the Republic of Serbia, the highest state Order, for scaling up ties and cooperation between Ghana and Serbia. The Order was awarded by decree of the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić, at a ceremony at the seat of the Presidency in Belgrade. A citation accompanying the […]
Some days, all Tsimamorekm Aly eats is sugary water. He’s happy if there’s a handful of rice. But with six young kids and a wife to support, he often goes without. This is the fourth year that drought has devastated Aly’s home in southern Madagascar. Now more than one million people, or two out of […]
