Ghana and Qatar are seeking ways to boost multi-faceted bilateral cooperation between the two countries, with Ghana seeking to leverage on Qatar’s expertise in the oil and gas sector to enhance its energy infrastructure. This was the outcome of discussions when President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, called on the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh […]
The African Union Commission (AUC) has called on Africans attending the ongoing UN Conference of Parties (COP23) underway in Bonn, Germany, to push for an outcome of concrete treaty that would ensure long-term financing for climate change. That financing, the AU noted, during the Africa Day event, held along-side COP23, should also help Africa to […]
The number of Ghanaians currently studying Chinese language and culture has exceeded 10,000. Over 1,000 Ghanaian students have also won the Chinese government scholarship awards, with more than 5,500 Ghanaian students studying in China, which has ranked the first in Africa for four consecutive years. Madam Sun Baohong, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, said this […]
Ethiopian Airlines has landed with 235 passengers to the Kotoka International Airport in Accra with its newest Boeing 787-9 aircraft. The aircraft, tagged ‘Big Brother’, touched down with 11 business class and 225 economic class passengers. Mr John Attafuah, the Chief Executive Officer, Ghana Airport Company Limited, who welcomed the crew to Accra, said the […]
Researchers from the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, the Directors of African Centres of Excellence based at the University of Ghana and a researcher from University in Benin met at the Noguchi Conference Hall. The meeting was held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of […]
The state visit of Danish monarch, Queen Magrethe II and her entourage, including a business delegation to Ghana, is expected to reinforce the strong and cordial Ghana-Denmark relations while boosting trade levels between the two countries. The visit of the Queen, at the invitation of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will take place from November 23-25, […]
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has urged the global community to work faster on emission, adaptation, finance, partnership and leadership in its resolve to reduce and mitigate the climate change phenomenon. Speaking at the opening of the high-level segment of the UN Conference of Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Wednesday, Mr Guterres also called […]
Delta Airlines has announced a change in schedule of its Accra-New York JFK flights for next summer to offer more services and new times to improve onward connection availability in the United States. A statement issued in Accra, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, on Wednesday, said the move would commence on March 26, next year, […]
The Sixth session of Ghana-Iran Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC) underway in Accra. The two-day meeting seeks to enhance the levels of partnership and cooperation to incorporate new thematic areas of policies concerns and initiatives between the two countries. The thematic areas for cooperation include agriculture, transportation and housing cooperation. Others are political and […]
Mr John Peter Amewu, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, has addressed a World Bank side event on Accelerating Climate-resilient and low-carbon development in Africa at the ongoing COP23 in Bonn, Germany. He said Ghana’s commitment towards climate change mitigation could be found in it various initiatives being undertaken currently to address environmental degradation. He […]
