The U.S. Embassy in Ghana has served notice of its decision to sanction Ghana by discontinuing the issuance of all non-immigrant visas (NIV) to A3 and G5 employees of Ghana’s Foreign Service posted to the United States, effective February 4, 2019. The notice indicated that although the embassy will receive and process A3 and G5 […]
An Egyptian court has sentenced the deputy governor of the country’s second-largest city of Alexandria to 12 years in prison on corruption charges. The Cairo criminal court also sentenced Souad el-Kholy, to a one-year suspended sentence for bribery, profiteering and squandering public funds on Wednesday. The court acquitted five local businessmen in the same case. […]
Russia’s Nuclear Energy Corporation, Rosatom, is has opened its door to African students – accepting their applications for nuclear studies in a number of Russian educational institutions, the next academic year. Preference is for those from countries looking to adopt nuclear energy as it aims at helping develop the next generation of African nuclear scientists […]
Ghana and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Wednesday launched the “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3)” Programme to enhance Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the Africa. The Programme which is being supported by the Governments of Sweden and Ireland was also to scale up youth friendly sexual and reproductive […]
The Princess of Jordan, Her Royal Highness (HRH), Dina Mired, would be the guest of honour at this year’s national commemoration of the World Cancer Day, at the great hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNUST) in Kumasi on February 4. The event would also be attended by the First Lady […]
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR Ghana) has explained the rationale for calling on the Ghana Police Service to remove Sudanese refugees who had pitched camp at the entrance of its Accra office. “The Sudanese refugees were on Thursday January 10, removed and taken back to the Krisan refugee camp […]
More than 130 migrants were thought to be missing after two boats capsized Tuesday off the tiny East African nation of Djibouti, the U.N. migration agency said. Local police had found five bodies and search efforts were underway, the U.N. statement said. Witnesses said the boats were overloaded and large waves caused them to tip […]
Ethiopian Airline, Africa’s most profitable airline, is set to officially open to the public its newly constructed $65 million Ethiopian Skylight Five-Star Hotel today. The airline is set to open the million-dollar hotel whose construction began in 2016, officially to the public on the 28th of January, In a release copied to the Ghana News […]
French multinational automobile manufacturer, Renault, Monday said it is considering the establishment of an assembly plant in Ghana. This brings to four, the number of vehicle manufacturers intending to put up assembly plants in Ghana. German auto giant, Volkswagen, Japan’s Nissan and China’s Sinotruk hope to establish assembly plants in the country. Fabrice Cambolibe, the […]
Some readers sent me a link (January 22, 2019) titled, “Italy wants France sanctioned for ‘creating poverty in Africa’.” That morning, I had just watched a BBC report on that very same subject. From the link, Italy’s deputy Prime Minister, Luigi Di Maio, had accused France for their policies in Africa that “have created poverty […]
