International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced on Monday, a $60 million investment to support small and medium-sized business loans in Ghana and seven other African countries. A press release to the Ghana News Agency, on Wednesday said, the move is tended to facilitate growth and job creation in the region. The funding will support Bank of […]
The Embassy of France has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Vice Chancellors’ Ghana (VCG) association, as part of efforts to boost academic cooperation between the Embassy and universities in Ghana. This MoU sets forth provisions which would serve as a foundation for additional specific bilateral agreements with member universities to formalise the […]
Ghana on Tuesday joined the international community to mark the World Environment Day with a call on the citizenry to all join hands in dealing with the plastic waste menace, by adopting the right attitudes towards waste management. Ghanaians were also urged to change their attitudes on how they use so many plastics to bag […]
Madam Anne Claire Dufay, UNICEF Representative in Ghana, has called for concerted efforts to eradicate Poliomyelitis (polio) from the surface of the earth. “You can all be Champions of polio eradication. As we join hands on the road to the Polio endgame, we can implement strategies and innovations to reach the non-immunised children, to bridge […]
The United States Agency International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the Ghana Health Services (GHS) has refurbished five Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in five selected districts of Ashanti to the tune of GH¢100,000.00. The beneficiary communities were Anansu-Atwima-Mponua, Narniekrom; Ahafo Ano South, Numesua in the Ahafo Ano North, Adobesu; Sekyere Afram Plains and […]
Cattle thieves have killed more than 20 people in Nigeria’s northern state of Zamfara, officials say. The thieves arrived in the village of Zanoka on motorbikes, shooting at people and setting fire to their homes. Clashes between vigilantes and cattle rustlers in Zamfara have intensified in recent months. Violence related to cattle has been going […]
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for enhanced climate financing to address what he termed the “world’s utmost priority”. He said to achieve a “full-scale transition to clean energy, we must see billions of dollars invested by 2020”. Speaking at the Austrian World Summit in Vienna, he asked governments, industry, and the financial […]
Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Minister of Communication, and Ms Anne Berner, the Minister of Transport and Communication in Helsinki, Finland, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in Information and Communications Technology (ICT). A statement issued by Mr Otto Stenius, the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Finland, Abuja (which has oversight for Ghana), […]
Ghana and South Korea would soon establish a bilateral committee to look at special relationships between the two countries and deepen agreements in various sectors of the economy, Mr Ken Ofori-Attah, Minister of Finance, has said. He said Ghana-Korea Strategy Committee would be a platform to learn and share the ingredients of accelerated industrial growth- […]
The World Bank is to support the implementation of the Multi-Sectorial Integrated Mining Project (MSIMP) of the government with US$ 50 million. Out of the amount, US$ 30 million would be loan and US$ 20 million would be a grant. Dr Isaac Bonsu Karikari, the Acting National Project Coordinator for the MSIMP disclosed this at […]
