Madam Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived in Accra, on Sunday, for a three-day visit. She was received by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, at the VVIP Lounge of the Kotoka International Airport. Madam Lagarde said she was happy to be in Ghana and looking forward for […]
Madam Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will pay a visit to Ghana from December 16 to 18, for bilateral talks with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The visit comes weeks ahead of the end of the country’s three-year IMF programme and marked an appreciation of the country’s […]
Ghana will in March 2019, host the Africa Climate Week, dubbed, “Climate Action in Africa: Navigating Change and Exploring Opportunities. The United Nations Climate Change and collaborating partners would partner the West African country host the event. It is expected that over 1,500 climate change stakeholders, made up of civil society actors, knowledge-base institutions, the […]
Professor George Gyan-Baffour, Minister for Planning, on Tuesday said Government will continue to consolidate gains made in the macro-economic environment, develop and implement transformational policies and create that enabling environment for the private sector to thrive. He said the stronger management of the economy has resulted in a significant increase in economic growth in the […]
Japan on Tuesday gave Ghana a grant facility of $57 million (¥6.49 billion) for the rehabilitation of the second phase of the national trunk road, N8. This followed the signing of an agreement between the Governments of Ghana and Japan after bilateral talks between President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, […]
Morocco and the African Union (AU) signed on Monday an agreement to set up the headquarters of the African Observatory for Migration and Development (OAMD) in Morocco’s capital Rabat. The agreement was signed by Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and chairman of AU Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat on the sidelines of a UN Intergovernmental Conference […]
President Akufo Addo left Ghana on Sunday for a 3-day visit to Japan. The visit is at the invitation of that country’s leader, Prime Minister, Shinzō Abe. A statement from the presidency said “the purpose of the visit is to deepen further the already strong relations that exist between the two countries, as well as […]
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Monday, said meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, reached in 2015, would reduce air pollution – saving more than a million lives each year by 2030, quoting the World Health Organization. He said the recent New Climate Economy report reveals that ambitious climate action could also […]
The 24th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, opened Monday, December 3, in the Polish City of Katowice. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Sir David Attenborough, a renowned broadcaster, described Climate Change as “humanity’s greatest threat in thousand years”. The naturalist warned that […]
The World Bank has cautioned Ghana against the continuous wanton degradation of its land, forest and other natural resources. It says the country risked not achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15, which is protecting the ecosystem to promote biodiversity, if the high rate of land degradation was not halted. Mr. Asferachew Abate, Senior Environmental […]
