Ghana and Burkina Faso have agreed to engage the services of a Transaction Advisor to assist in the implementation of the Railway Interconnectivity Project. In a communiqué issued by the Joint Committee of Experts (JCE) on the Railway Connectivity Project, read by Mr Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, Co-Chairperson of the Committee, at the end of a […]
Amnesty International (AI), Ghana, has called on government to adopt and enforce a ban on shackling and to invest in appropriate community-based services to support people with mental health conditions. It also called on the government to fully implement the Mental Health Act 2012, which, among other things, requires the establishment of regional mental health […]
Five police officers and a soldier have been shot dead during a raid on their station in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. In a statement, the South African Government News Agency said three officers were killed instantly. The off-duty soldier was shot as the assailants fled, taking two other officers hostage. Their bodies were found […]
South African members of parliament have begun debate over the country’s new President Cyril Ramaphosa’s first state of the nation address last Friday. While others want the works of predecessors duly recognised, other members demanded prudent spending by government. “Parliament must put an end to unnecessary, wasteful and redundant spending by ministries and government entities.” […]
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice will on Tuesday, February 20, deliver Judgment in a suit filed by Yoda Yacouba, a Burkinabe for alleged violation on his right to property and protection of law by Togo government. Mr Yacouba alleged that some vehicles he ordered from Italy were impounded on the orders of the country’s […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations with financial support from the United States government has presented veterinary laboratory equipment, reagents and consumables to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The equipment, which are for the Veterinary Services Department were to enhance the diagnostic capacity of the National Veterinary Laboratory System in […]
Young survivors of Wednesday’s school shooting in Florida have announced a national march on Washington to demand political action on gun control. Student organisers told US media that they were determined to make Wednesday’s shooting a turning point in the national gun debate. The attack, which left 17 students and staff members dead, was the […]
The Canada Ghana Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) says the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer an excellent framework for transforming current global realities to that of a much better world. Mr Frederick Attakumah, the President of the CGCC, said organisations must have a purpose that enables them to contribute positively towards enhancing the basic humanity and […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the African Union (AU) to urgently find a lasting solution to the perennial conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He said the depressing news of the continuing and deepening crisis in the DRC, leading to the massive displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, […]
Gambian President Adama Barrow on Sunday announced a moratorium on the death penalty as the West African country rebuilds its international standing following the removal last year of its longtime authoritarian ruler Yahya Jammeh. Capital punishment is on the decline across Africa, where governments executed 22 people in 2016 compared to 43 the previous year, […]
