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Africa and India – sharing the development journey

  • May 11, 2017

Africa, like India, is a continent of rich and compelling diversity.  Both continents share a similar landscape, a shared colonial history, and similar economic and demographic challenges.  This helps both India and Africa work especially well with each other. This cooperation is both a mutual privilege and priority. At the end of the 2015 India-Africa […]

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Ghana business delegation in the Netherlands to look for opportunities in food processing and packaging

  • May 8, 2017

A delegation of business people from Ghana are in the Netherlands to look for opportunities in food processing technologies and packaging, a joint press release from the Netherlands Embassy in Ghana, copied to ghanabusinessnews.com says. The 23-member delegation from Ghana led by the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) and GhanaVeg […]

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Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire to sign strategic partnership agreement

  • May 8, 2017

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that co-operation between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire would be facilitated by a new initiative dubbed “an Agreement For a Strategic Partnership”, that will be signed by the two countries. This agreement, according to President Akufo-Addo, would bind Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire “in even closer intimacy and go beyond […]

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USAID Promotes Investment in Ghanaian Agriculture

  • May 5, 2017

United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the U.S. government’s Feed the Future Initiative, hosted the 4th Annual Ghana Agribusiness Investment Summit to showcase investment opportunities in Ghana’s agribusinesses. The event brought together business service providers, financial institutions, agribusinesses, farmers, development partners and the Ghanaian government under the theme “Mobilizing strategic investment for agriculture.” […]

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EU, Christian Aid launches over €900,000 project in Ghana

  • May 5, 2017

The European Union (EU), and Christian Aid, a UK based non-governmental organisation, has launched a €946,000 project dubbed Growing Economic Opportunities for Sustainable Development (GEOP), at a ceremony in Accra. GEOP seeks to foster strong civil society and local authority partnership to promote local job creation, revenue mobilisation and expansion of economic activities in an […]

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Australia wants sustainable mine development in West Africa

  • May 4, 2017

West African beneficiaries of Australian-funded mining programmes have engaged in a forum dubbed “Investing in West African mining for sustainable regional development,” to discuss issues of sustainable mine development in the sub-region. The Alumni Forum, which centred on mining and mining governance, focused on themes of investment promotion, regulatory frameworks and incentives, political risks, social […]

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Ghana, Togo resolve to deepen cooperation, bilateral ties

  • May 4, 2017

Ghana and Togo have resolved to deepen cooperation as well as strengthen the ties of friendship that exist between the two countries. Some of the areas of cooperation are security, immigration, agriculture and water, health, trade, digital economy, environment, energy, transport and the issue of maritime borders. At the end of the official visit of President […]

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Ghana and Russia Building Stronger Economic ties

  • May 2, 2017

For nearly six decades, Ghana and Russia have had an excellent diplomatic relations and still looking to build a stronger economic cooperation. In this exclusive GNA interview, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botwe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, explains to Kester Kenn Klomegah, the Moscow Bureau Chief, a number of significant corporate projects being undertaken […]

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Ghana needs U.S. support to fight against galamsey

  • May 2, 2017

An appeal has been made to the United States’ government to support Ghana in the fight against illegal mining activities throughout the country. Dr Francis Nyagbenu, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) who made the appeal, when Mr Robert Jackson, U S Ambassador to Ghana visited the EPA office in Sunyani […]