World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a model essential medicines lists (EML) in a new advice on which antibiotics to use for common infections and which to preserve for the most serious circumstances. It said in a release to the Ghana News Agency that other additions include medicines for HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis and leukaemia. […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated in New York that Ghana seeks to achieve the 2030 United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), by way of a strong industrial growth. He stressed that the country was entering a new era when industrial transformation would be the major driver of the economy. The President made the […]
Ghana is to benefit from a €100 million grant under Germany’s” Compact with Africa” programme. The facility will be used to improve conditions for sustainable private sector investment, infrastructure, economic participation, and employment. Tunisia and Cote d’Ivoire are two other African countries currently benefiting from the programme This was made known by the Minister of […]
The US Agency for International Development, Ghana Mission (USAID-Ghana) is providing new technologies and improved seeds to boost rice production to promote food security and incomes in Upper West Region. The USAID five year funded “Feed the Future Ghana Agricultural Technology Transfer (ATT) project” is to increase the competitiveness of rice, maize and soybean value […]
The United Nations (UN) on Monday articulated its willingness to support the Ministry of Interior and the Small Arms Commission in Ghana to tackle the increased circulation of small arms and light weapons. Madam Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Resident Coordinator, speaking in Accra to mark the end of the observation of the “Global Week […]
Madam Christine Evans-Klock, the United Nations Coordinator in Ghana, has commended the Government’s efforts to improve the regulation of small-scale mining and end Galamsey. The move is to protect legitimate livelihoods in the mining sector and to bring to justice to those who abuse the environment. In a statement to mark World Environment Day, Madam […]
While pledging Russia’s support for Africa’s development, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has urged African leaders to find sustainable solutions to problems confronting individual countries on the continent. “We support the principle that African problems require African solutions. We are convinced that African countries know better than anyone else how to overcome difficulties on the […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has released a new tool that offers water-scarce countries and river basins a way to boost productivity, by measuring how the resource is efficiently used in agriculture. The WaPOR open-access database has gone live, tapping satellite data to help farmers achieve more reliable agricultural yields and allowing for the […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday donated five Land Cruiser Prados to the Ministry of Education to support the USAID Ghana Partnership for Education: Learning Activity (PELA). The vehicles would be used in monitoring the programme, which aims at enhancing teaching and learning in Ghanaian schools. Speaking to the Ghana News […]
Africa’s largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, has won the African Aviation ‘African Airline of the Year’ Award for 2017, for the second year in a row, during the 26th Annual Air Finance Africa Conference & Exhibition held in Johannesburg, South Africa. A statement issued in Accra by Mrs Hanna Atnafu, Manager Corporate Communications, and Ethiopian […]
