There is an urgent need to modernize the cocoa value chain in order to boost productivity and hedge against exogenous economic and climate-related shocks, a World Bank survey has said. The Bank said phasing-out inefficient public input-supply programme could reduce fiscal costs and create space for greater private sector participation in the cocoa value chain. […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged his counterparts in the West African sub-region to address speedily the political impediments to regional integration in order to make ECOWAS a more effective economic bloc. He said ECOWAS leaders ought to demonstrate the political will for a faster integration process as this would promote the envisioned economic […]
A Security Expert says the role of the United Nations in peacekeeping remained relevant, but should do more to end sexual exploitation by some peacekeepers. He suggested that peacekeeping should be reduced to four months rather than one year. Mr Irbard Ibrahim, Executive Director of IRBARD Consult told the Ghana News Agency that armed conflicts […]
Information Technology outsourcing giants, Liranz Limited, last week hosted Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar, a researcher from Oxford University, in a grand meeting for a number of discussions including IT related research and other opportunities to be explored between the two parties. The meeting created the opportunity to also finalize arrangements for an Information Technology (IT) […]
A parade and flag-raising ceremony was held in Accra on Monday at the forecourt of the statehouse to commemorate the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers. The ceremony brought together high powered personalities including; diplomatic missions and Ministers of state to observe the day. Wreaths were laid to pay tribute to and honour UN Peacekeepers. […]
Ghana and Mali have pledged to work towards strengthening the ties of co-operation that exist between them, after the Presidents of the two countries expressed satisfaction with the current state of the relations. In a joint communiqué issued at the end of a day’s working visit to Mali by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on […]
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has expressed concern about the impact of natural hazards and disasters on food security in the sub-region, saying the phenomenon is further exacerbated by climate change. The Organisation said globally, from 2003 to 2013, 1.9 billion people in the developing regions were affected by natural hazards and disasters, causing […]
Ghana and Sierra Leone have agreed to ratify the agreement for co-operation them, in order to provide the legal framework for addressing their trade and investment concerns. Despite the good relations that exist between the two countries, there is no framework for co-operation to guide them. Thus, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured that […]
The President will leave for Liberia Friday as part of his tour of some West African states. President Nana Akufo-Addo will be expected to hold bilateral talks with President Sirleaf Johnson and also address the Ghanaian community in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. He will then jet off to Mali to hold similar talks with his […]
The Ethiopian Airlines (ET) has expressed interest in assisting Ghana set up a National Carrier. Mr Tewolde Gabrielmariam, the Group CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, made this known when he called on the Minister of Aviation, Mrs Cecilia Abena Dapaah at her office in Accra. He outlined the desire of the Airlines to re-establish the partnership […]
