The Resiliency in Northern Ghana (RING) project is to scale up the cultivation and utilisation of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP) to reach more than 3,000 vulnerable households in the region. Mr Philippe LeMay, the Chief of Party of USAID RING, announced this at a media conference in Tamale. More than 1.5 million OFSP vines have […]
Emirates Airlines, has announced that it would operate its flagship A380 on services between Dubai and Guangzhou from October 1, to coincide with the 67th National Day of the People’s Republic of China. This follows the airline’s recent announcements of A380 deployments on its Milan and Johannesburg routes. A statement issued by the airline and […]
Trade volume between Ghana and China by the end of May 2016, has hit $2.4 billion, Mr Emmanuel Habuka Bombande, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has stated. He said in 2015 the trade volume between the two countries reached $6.6 billion. Although the general trade by 18 per cent in 2015 due […]
Ambassador Robert Peter Jackson, the United States Ambassador to Ghana, has pledged to engage the Ministry of Agriculture in promoting the Building Business on Values Integrity and Dignity (B-BOVID) model of farming in the country. B-BOVID, a Ghanaian agricultural business based in Pretsir in the Ahanta West District, promotes sound agricultural practices and ecological farming. […]
A funding agreement has been signed between the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on the “Project for Improving Community-Based Primary Healthcare Through CHPS Strengthening (CHPS+)”. The documents to seal the nine million United States dollar funding agreement, was signed by Dr Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira, the Director General of the Ghana […]
Does ‘Brexit’ signal the end of Globalisation as some pessimists seem to suggest today? Definitely not, but it certainly poses a significant threat – and most certainly provides a puzzle for students of Complexity in International Relations too. That development, together with the weak recovery of the global economy, terrorism, the ongoing refugee crisis in […]
The United States (U.S.) Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson and Western Regional Minister John Evans Aidoo inaugurated a USAID-funded Kindergarten school in the Diabene community of the Western Region of Ghana on Tuesday. A release from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Accra, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said USAID […]
UNESCO will on September 6, launch a new series of reports entitled the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Reports, which will monitor the state of education in the new framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first report in the series, the 2016 Report, would establish a new monitoring framework for education post-2015, and examine […]
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) and the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) are to explore ways to deepen their relationship to enhance trade between the two countries. At a meeting between officials of the two institutions in Accra, they agreed to seek ways to combine their strengths to promote exports of goods and services […]
Ahead of Ghana’s December 7, general election, a joint high-level mission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) has ended a three-day meeting in Accra. The Mission comprised senior officials from the three institutions: Marcel Alain de Souza, the President of the ECOWAS Commission […]
