The United States Embassy has partnered the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to build a pre-deployment training capacity for the Bundase Training Camp in the Greater Accra Region. Madam Stephanie S. Sullivan, the US Ambassador to Ghana, and Chief of Army Staff, Major General Thomas Oppong-Pepprah, participated in a ceremony highlighting the official transfer of a […]
Ms. Kati Csaba, the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, has called for more opportunities for women to enable them contribute effectively to the economic growth of the country. She said Ghana could not achieve inclusive economic growth and the Sustainable Development Goals if it failed to fully engage women as economic actors and provided equal […]
The head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Ghana, Diana Acconcia, says the European body remains committed to vaccine sharing with poorer countries. Clarifying issues the EU has with some vaccine producers and richer countries, Mrs. Acconcia said the posturing at that level would not affect commitment to countries like Ghana. The EU currently […]
On Wednesday evening she had the task of announcing to Tanzanians that President John Magufuli had died and now Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan is due to take his place as the country’s head of state. First elected as Magufuli’s running mate in 2015, she was re-elected last year along with him and according to the […]
Mr Mohamed M. O. Melad, the newly appointed Chargé d’affaires of the Libyan Embassy, has presented his Letter of Appointment to Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Accra. Madam Ayorkor Botchwey congratulated the Chargé d’affaires on his appointment and assured him of her support during his duty tour […]
Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has died aged 61, the country’s vice-president has announced. He died on Wednesday from heart complications at a hospital in Dar es Salaam, Samia Suluhu Hassan said in an address on state television. Magufuli had not been seen in public for more than two weeks, and rumours have been circulating about […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Tuesday for Cote d’Ivoire to attend the funeral of the late Ivorian Prime minister, Hamed Bakayoko. Accra, March 16, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo left Ghana on Tuesday for Cote d’Ivoireto attend the funeral of the late Ivorian Prime minister, Hamed Bakayoko. Bakayoko, 55, died […]
Mr Iain Walker, the United Kingdom (UK) High Commissioner to Ghana, has commended the country for being the first in Africa to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility. “I was delighted to stand alongside the Minister-designate for Health… as Ghana becomes the first country in Africa to take delivery of a vaccine […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration-designate, has appealed to Serbian investors to come and invest in Ghana. The Foreign Minister-designate, made the appeal on Tuesday, when Mr Djura Likar, Ambassador of Serbia to Ghana, paid a courtesy call on her in Accra. She noted that though bilateral trade between […]
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for the launch of a global vaccination plan under the auspices of the Group of 20 leading economies to help head off the coronavirus pandemic. Guterres told the annual Munich Security Conference that an emergency task force was needed to draw up a strategy along with overseeing […]
