The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended Ghana for achieving Maturity Level 3 (ML3), a global regulatory benchmark set by the organisation. The WHO last year ranked Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) ML3 for its medicines regulatory system that ensured the safety, quality and efficacy of all medical products imported, manufactured or distributed in […]
COVID-19 has stalled and slowed the art scene but life still goes on. That seems to be what the Colombian Ambassador, Ms Claudia Turbay, and her staff are saying as they rolled off an Exhibition of Pictorial Art this week. Dubbed: “Abstract and Surrealistic View of the World”, the event which is hosted in the […]
Mr Sugandh Rajaram, Indian High Commissioner to Ghana has arrived in Tamale at the start of a week-long official visit to the Northern Region to engage various stakeholders for mutual interest. The High Commissioner arrived in Tamale on Sunday, May 23, and will end his visit to the region on May 28. This is the […]
The Chinese government will not condone the participation of Chinese in illegal small-scale mining in Ghana. Besides, the Chinese government did not approve the procedures some Chinese nationals and other foreigners used to mine. The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Lu Kun, who made this known, said: “They [Chinese illegal miners in Ghana] were neither […]
Ghana has been selected to host the seventh Ubuntu Safe City Hub, a safe space for human rights campaigners who are under threat on the continent. The country will, therefore, be the first English-speaking country in West Africa to play host to the hub. The Ubuntu Hub Cities initiative is a city-based relocation initiative for […]
Former President John Dramani Mahama has, in a letter to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, withdrawn his acceptance of the continental body’s appointment as its High Representative for Somalia. While thanking the AU for the confidence reposed in him, Mr Mahama noted that, “the high political importance of the proposed assignment requires that […]
The President is expected to be away for nine days. He will be in France, Belgium and South Africa. In France, President Akufo-Addo will attend the Summit on Financing African Economies to be hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday, May 18. The Summit, which will bring together several African and European leaders, and […]
A former UK High Commissioner to Ghana, Craig Murray has been jailed for contempt in the United Kingdom. The 62-year-old was sentenced to eight months in jail for breaching strict rules around identifying witnesses in the Alex Salmond trial. The former Dundee University rector breached a strict court order passed to protect women who gave evidence at […]
Ghana has been ranked 95th in the just released 2021 World Happiness Report. This indicates a drop by 30 places from Ghana’s 65th position last year, 2020. Ghana trails Mauritius at the 50th position, Libya at the 80th position, Ivory Coast at the 85th position, the Republic of Congo at the 83rd position, and Cameroon at the […]
The European Union (EU) Ambassador to Ghana, Ms Diana Acconcia, has paid a working visit to the Bunge Loders Croklaan facility in Tema to get a better understanding of the shea business and learn more about the company’s operations in the West-African sub-region. Ms Acconcia who was accompanied by some officials from the EU office […]
