The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is hosting experts from the Americas and Africa to deliberate on the outbreak of the Fall Armyworm (FAW) infestation that is rapidly spreading across Africa. The FAW is said to be destroying farm crops, especially, maize across the continent, thereby causing significant yield losses and posing a serious […]
Mr Robert P. Jackson, the United Sates Ambassador to Ghana has urged the government of Ghana to take concrete steps to rein vigilante groups who answer to powerful individuals rather than the of rule law. He said President Nana Addo Akufo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration rode to power on a message of fighting corruption; and therefore, […]
Shirley Ayorkor-Botchway, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has hinted that the United States (US) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to repatriate another batch of Ghanaians. According to her, the Ghana Mission in the U.S was yet to be provided with the details of the number of deportees to be repatriated by […]
China, on Thursday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ghana, for the provision of a 50-million Chinese Yuan Renminbi aid to the Ghana Armed Forces to execute its mandate effectively. The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sun Baohong, signed on behalf of the Ministry of National Defence of the People’s Republic of China, while […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), is scaling up the GES’s Early Grade Reading Programme to 6,866 schools. The programme would develop improved teaching and learning materials and train 28,000 teachers, head teachers, and curriculum leads on the phonics-based […]
Participants at the Sudan-Ghana Business, Culture and Education Expo have expressed optimism about future trade prospects between Sudan and Ghana based on relations established during the Expo. The Expo had been a success with several Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) due to be signed between some of the companies and their Ghanaian counterparts. Speaking to the […]
Ghana and Switzerland have agreed to expand co-operation and explore opportunities to boost the volume of bilateral trade for the mutual benefit of its peoples. Thus, the two nations have committed themselves to undertake joint projects aimed at increasing cocoa production in Ghana and enhancing value addition to the commodity, and to improve the competitiveness […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), has begun to scale up GES’s Early Grade Reading Program to 6,866 schools in 100 districts. The reading program will develop improved teaching and learning materials and train 28,000 teachers, head teachers, […]
Mr Osama Faisal, State Minister for Investment of the Republic of Sudan, has urged Africans to increase trade among themselves as the continent could achieve more when countries act together. Speaking at the opening of the Sudan-Ghana Business, Culture and Education Expo 2017, he said while politics was the main course in bilateral relations, business […]
Ethiopian Airlines, the largest and the leading Pan-African airlines, has finalised preparations to start scheduled thrice weekly services to Kaduna, Nigeria, from August 1. Kaduna, located in North-Western Nigeria, is a trade centre and a major transportation hub for the surrounding agricultural areas with its rail and road junction. Mr Tewolde GebreMariam, the Group CEO […]
