The Embassy of the Republic of Angola Tuesday organised a colourful event to climax the celebration of the country’s 44th independence anniversary in Accra. The event brought together citizens of the country living in Ghana as well as other ambassadors, high commissioners, government’s officials, diplomats and representatives of foreign missions in the country. Independence anniversary […]
The German government has presented labour market information equipment to the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations to support the ministry to operationalise the Ghana Labour Market Information System (GLMIS). The German Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Christoph Retzlaff, handed over the items to the ministry yesterday at the opening of the Ghana-German Centre for Jobs, […]
Ghana has received 300 million Yuan grant and 250 million Yuan debt write-off from the People’s Republic of China, as part of efforts to boost the nation’s infrastructural development. Additionally, the rest of the $649 million being the first tranche of the Sinohydro Bauxite Barter Arrangement between the Chinese engineering and construction firm, Sinohydro Group […]
The United States of America, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ghanaian government have joined forces to advance health service delivery. USAID officials joined dignitaries from the Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ghana Health Service to celebrate collaborative efforts to improve the health of Ghanaians at the USAID Systems […]
The first tranche of Chinese development loan, known as the Sinohydro deal, has been released. Ghana and China signed the agreement in which China will have access to sites to mine bauxite as compensation for the development assistance. The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who revealed this at the Jubilee House in Accra yesterday, indicated that […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday underlined the need for an African framework, to pull investments into the different sectors of the continent’s economy. Speaking at a panel of African Heads of State ahead of the opening of the second African Investment Forum (AIF) in Johannesburg, South Africa, he said there was unanimity that […]
A Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Sun Chunlan, has applauded the stability of the Ghanaian economy and development taking place under the government of the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Paying a courtesy call on President Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 10th November, 2019, at Jubilee House, the seat of the […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, left Ghana on Sunday, 10th November, 2019, for Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the 2nd Edition of the Africa Investment Forum. The Forum, organised by the African Development Bank and its partners, is the largest multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary marketplace in the world, aimed at raising capital, […]
The President of Niger, Mr Mahamadou Issoufou, has called on the international community to support efforts of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to ensure peaceful elections in Guinea Bissau this year. He said the prevailing instability in that country could disrupt the elections which are scheduled for November 24, 2019, and also […]
The International Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison. Ntaganda was convicted of several atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers. He was found guilty in July on 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for acts committed when he was military operations chief for […]
