The World Health Organisation (WHO) has tweeted to celebrate the first baby in Ghana receive the new malaria vaccine being piloted in selected regions. Ghana is one of three African countries selected to pilot the new malaria vaccine, known as RTS,S. The vaccine will be made available to children up to two years of age. […]
Police say gunmen have kidnapped a traditional ruler in Daura who is distantly related to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. Musa Umar was seized on Wednesday evening from in front of his house by abductors who fired shots into the air, Katsina state Police Spokesman Gambo Isa told the BBC’s Nasidi Adamu Yahya. Local police say […]
The United States Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, attended the premiere of Season 5 of the megahit Ghanaian TV series, “You Only Live Once” (YOLO) at the Silverbird Cinemas in West Hills Mall on May 1. Ambassador Sullivan joined representatives from the Ministry for Water Resources and Sanitation, the Ghana Health Service, and the […]
Barack and Michelle Obama have unveiled their first batch of projects in development with Netflix. The diverse seven-title run from the Obamas Higher Grounds Production company addresses social and political activism. It includes a film on early slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass, adapted from David W. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. The former US president said he […]
Liberia’s President and former international football star George Weah, has resumed working from his official office, exactly two weeks after he abandoned it because two snakes were found in the building where it is located. The building had to be thoroughly fumigated before the president was advised to return on Wednesday. One of the first […]
The Government of Ghana and United Kingdom on Tuesday signed a new strategic partnership to deepen and strengthen the existing ties and open up new areas for co-operation. The two nations agreed to focus their collective efforts in three main areas, including building economic development and mutual prosperity by leveraging on the work of the […]
The second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) has been held successfully in Beijing from Thursday, April 25 to Saturday, 27, under the theme: “Belt and Road Cooperation: Shaping a Brighter Shared Future”. Nearly 5,000 foreign guests from more than 150 countries and more than 90 international organizations came to China. They included […]
Mr Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, said one factor that could aid African nations to crackdown on corruption was by strengthening and sustaining media freedom. This, he said, would enable the media to play complementary roles in the development process. He lauded Ghana for being the beacon of democracy […]
Pope Francis on Sunday called for the evacuation of refugees held in detention camps in Libya as fighting in the country escalates. Speaking after the Regina Caeli prayer at the Vatican, Francis said the already grave conditions of those in the camps had worsened due to the conflict under way. “I invite you to join […]
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, will visit Ghana today, Monday April 29, for a two-day official duty aimed at boosting trade and bilateral relations towards Ghana’s drive to self-development. In furtherance of this, he would be joined by the Africa Deputy Trade Commissioner, Martin Kent and a business delegation from the UK, […]
