His Excellency Tom Nørring has been appointed the new Ambassador of Denmark to Ghana. He replaces Her Excellency Tove Degnbol who served a five-year tenure in Ghana. The appointment takes effect from today (September 1, 2020), the Danish Embassy said in a statement. “Tom is an accomplished career diplomat who has received prominent awards including […]
Ghana will on Tuesday, September 1, 2020, open its air borders to international travel, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced Sunday. Thus, the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), which was closed to international passenger arrivals since March 21, 2020, when the country recorded its first two COVID-19 cases, resumes operations Tuesday.The decision has been communicated to […]
Madam Stephanie S. Sullivan, the United States Ambassador to Ghana, on Friday donated critical medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) to the Ghana Health Service. The items are to assist frontline health workers in Kumasi and Sekondi in the fight against COVID-19.The Ambassador presented the supplies to Lieutenant General Obed Boamah Akwa at Burma […]
The French Embassy on Tuesday donated two vehicles to the Interpol Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to support the combat of transnational organized crime. The vehicles, a Peugeot 2008 model and Toyota Rav4 were stolen cars from Paris, the French capital, was seized by Interpol Accra.Mr Christophe Caze, […]
Enpact e.V, a German Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has opened applications for businesses to receive financial, mentoring and technical support to deal with challenges associated with the onset of COVID-19. The NGO’s COVID-19 Relief Programme, through its “Empowering Entrepreneurship Initiative,” has a financial support package of 9,000 Euros each for 50 promising Ghanaian businesses to enable […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Mali from all ECOWAS decision-making bodies with immediate effect. This follows a mutiny in the country on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, which has ousted a democratically elected President of the country, President Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita, from office. The ECOWAS Commission in a statement dated Tuesday, […]
Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has received open letters from Mr Jan Fury, the Czech Ambassador-designate to Ghana. The Minister congratulated Mr Fury on his new appointment and welcomed him to Ghana.She recalled with fondness the long-standing relations between the two countries, which dated back to the late […]
The Republic of Korea has supported the national COVID-19 response efforts with essential medical supplies worth about GH¢2.26 million ($393,000). The items include Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing machines and personal protective equipment (PPE). The support is in the form of $200,000 from the government of South Korea, through the Korea International Development Agency (KOICA), […]
The Indian Government will make available to Ghana and the rest of the world, three vaccines for the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that are currently under trial. The Indian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Sugandh Rajaram who made this known to the Daily Graphic in an interview on Saturday said India’s relationship with Ghana which […]
Liberia’s vice president and former first lady, Jewel Howard-Taylor, has been flown to Ghana for medical treatment after developing “respiratory complications,” her office said in a statement. Howard-Taylor flew out of Liberia on Tuesday following a four-day stay at a private medical facility in Monrovia, her press officer Solomon Ware told The Associated Press. The […]
