Over 3000 workers in Zimbabwe’s youth ministry have been laid off, as president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government tries to make good on its promise to cut the bloated civil service and sort out the country’s finances. Public sector salaries account for more than 90 percent of Zimbabwe’s $4 billion national budget — a situation seen as […]
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) established to look into alleged human rights violations during the 22-year rule of former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will begin hearings on Monday, January 07th 2019. To prepare for this long-awaited event, an outline of a 12-month work plan has been developed and is being drafted, the Commission’s […]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been widely praised for introducing sweeping reforms aimed at ending political repression, writes BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane after visiting the country. The crowd at the airport in Jimma in Ethiopia’s Oromia region was handpicked and universally rapturous. But these were not the praise-singing party hacks who so often […]
Ethiopian Airlines will from January 2019 be taking Ghanaian aviation students for training in Addis Ababa through a collaboration with the Ghana Aviation Training Academy. Located in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian Aviation Academy (EAA) is ranked amongst the world’s top aviation training centres providing competitive global standard aviation training services. Speaking to JoyBusiness, the country […]
Mr Shi Ting Wang the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana has completed and inaugurated the renovation of dilapidated basic school projects at Akyem Awisa. The rehabilitated projects are; the Akyem Awisa Methodist Kindergarten, Primary, and Junior High School classroom blocks, a toilet facility and a school park in the Birim South District of the Eastern Region. […]
Ethiopian Airlines in collaboration with ASKY Airlines, on Monday, December 17, commenced their maiden flight to Los Angeles, United States of America (USA), with 128 passengers on board. The close 15 hours flight, saw passengers flown to Lome, the capital of Togo, to join the main flight to Los Angeles, with a maximum transit time […]
A former president of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has died at the the age of 93, his grandson confirmed on Twitter, late Friday. I regret announcing the death of my grandfather, H.E Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who died right now after brief illness at the National hospital, Abuja, Bello Shagari wrote. Shagari is on record as […]
The national airline of Qatar, Qatar Airways, is expected to soon complete arrangements to fly to Ghana by next year. “We have already gone far with talks with the Aviation Authorities in Ghana and will be flying to that country by middle of 2019”, the Group Chief Executive Officer of the Airline, Abkar Al-Baker told […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has handed over a 25-seater pontoon boat to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to increase health care access in the Volta Region. The medical boat, according to the Ghana Mission Director of the USAID, Sharon Cromer was created to give healthcare to about 141 island communities in […]
Ms Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Monday, urged Sub-Saharan African (SSA) governments to develop deliberate policy measures in education and digital connectivity to harness the benefits of new technologies that would ensure an ‘Africa Arisen’. According to her, achieving an ‘Africa Arisen’, one of three scenarios of the ‘Future of Work’ in sub-Saharan […]
