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 […]
The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Global Shea Alliance (GSA), Wednesday, launched the Action for Shea Parklands (ASP) initiative, under which 20,000 shea trees will be planted in Ghana this year. Spearheaded by GSA, the initiative seeks to promote, plant, and protect the shea parklands while advancing […]
Today, on International Youth Day, we celebrate the dynamic, resourceful, hardworking and aspirational young people of Ghana particularly those at the forefront of Ghana’s battle against COVID-19 across the country, YDG Delegates, Alumni Community, participants in YDG events, our incoming cohort and all those connected to YDG in one way or the other. The International […]
Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara says he will seek re-election in October, through an address delivered to the nation in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on August 6, 2020. Ouattara, who has governed since 2011, said in March he will not run again. But his preferred successor, then-Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, died in July, leading the […]
The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), Wednesday, donated sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA). The donation was organised under the GIZ-ComCashew project, a regional cashew project, with funding support from the Federal Republic of Germany’s Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).Items donated included 100 pieces […]
