Ivory Coast has begun an Ebola vaccination programme following the confirmation of its first case since 1994. The country’s health ministry said the family of the infected teenager and health workers involved were the first to be given the jab. Health official Serge Ehole said that they planned to have vaccinated by Wednesday “all the 2,000 people […]
Government has taken delivery of 249,600 doses of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine delivered under the COVAX facility. The double-schedule vaccines presented by COVAX were donated by the government of the United Kingdom. That brings to 1,765,050 the total number of vaccines that have come into the country, out of which 1,566,450 were AstraZeneca double-schedule vaccines. […]
Parliament has approved a Visa Waiver Agreement between Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The agreement is in respect of diplomatic, service/special and ordinary passport holders. The agreement, which was approved on Thursday, August 05, 202, follows the adoption of the Foreign Affairs Committee Report on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the government, […]
Two envoys who have completed their duty tours of the country yesterday bade farewell to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House in Accra. They are the outgoing Ambassador of The Netherlands, Mr. Ron Strickker, who has been in the country for five years, and his Angolan counterpart, Mr. Augustus Da Silva Cunha. […]
The ECOWAS Commission has organised with the support of GIZ a two-day retreat for Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC), as part of the ECOWAS Vision 2050 development process. The event which was held at Transcorp Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria, started from August 5-6, 2021. In his keynote address, the ECOWAS President, Dr. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, welcome […]
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has approved two (2) more COVID-19 vaccines for importation, distribution, and use in Ghana. The two new vaccines are Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer-BioNTech (Comirnaty) bringing the total number of approved COVID-19 vaccines for use in Ghana to five. The FDA in a statement said it continues to use the […]
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and bitter rival Laurent Gbagbo have embraced in their first meeting since the civil war 10 years ago. The conflict was sparked by Mr Gbagbo’s refusal to admit defeat in an election, and 3,000 people were killed. Mr Gbagbo returned to Ivory Coast last month after the International Criminal Court […]
Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu-Ankomah has urged Ghanaian entertainers to become the country’s tourism ambassadors. The diplomat asked that arts personnel promote Ghana through their works and performances. Speaking to organizers and musicians billed for this year’s “Ghana Party In the Park”, Papa Owusu-Ankomah reiterated the President’s commitment to getting Ghanaians […]
More than 100,000 people will die from COVID-19 around the world between now and the end of the Olympic Games, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Tokyo that “the pandemic is a test and the world is failing”. […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has commended the Ghanaian government for its proactive response to the COVID-19 pandemic which mitigated its economic impact but contributed to a record fiscal deficit and increased public debt vulnerabilities. The IMF executive board also noted that the cedi has remained stable against the US dollar within this period. In […]
