The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has expressed worry about the increasing rate of maternal deaths in the Northern Region and called on stakeholders to take immediate measures to mitigate the situation. Mr Jude Domosie, Programme Officer of the UNFPA in the Northern Region, said the Region has for the past seven years been recording […]

Africa’s future rests in the hands of its youth and efforts must be made to ensure they thrive, Bill Gates, the philanthropist and entrepreneur, said in South Africa on Sunday. Delivering the 2016 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of Pretoria (Mamelodi campus), Gates said he was optimistic about the future of the continent […]

The President of Family Health Medical School, the premier private medical school in Ghana, Professor Enyonam Yao Kwawukume, has been awarded by Impact Africa Summit; Ghana Health Laureate for his enormous contribution to the health sector of the country. Professor Enyonam Yao Kwawukume, Mb ChB, FWAC, FGCPS, FACOG, Adm. & Mgt. is also the Director […]

Ghana is an important partner to France, the Ambassador of France to Ghana, Mr François Pujolas, has said. He stressed that Ghana had a lot of potential and was very important to Europe. “Thanks to its geographical location, history and democratic values, and of course its dynamism,Ghana for us today, and without any doubt, is […]

The world’s best airline for 2016 is Emirates, according to a survey of millions of airline passengers conducted by Skytrax. The international airline, based in Dubai, won the top honors at Tuesday’s Skytrax World Airline Awards ceremony at the Farnborough International Airshow in England. As jet engines screamed from the Farnborough airfield and thousands of […]

Trade between Ghana and China rose to $6.6 billion in 2015, representing an 18.2 per cent year- on- year increase, ranking it the sixth amongst the African continent trading partners. In the same year, China made direct investments of $174 million to Ghana, with an over-all accumulated amount of $1.3 billion, ranking it fourth among African […]

Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing, most profitable and a technology pioneer African airline, has won SKYTRAX World Airline Award for Best Airline Staff in Africa, for the second time at Farnborough Air show in Hampshire, England. SkyTrax awards are solely based on customer survey and customer satisfaction measurement for their experience; from check-in to boarding, […]

Robert P. Jackson, United states Ambassador, has blamed government authorities for failing to prosecute or convict a single human trafficker in 2015. He said: “Though government did carry out investigations and some publicity campaigns, last year was marred by the complete lack of prosecutions or convictions of a single trafficker”. He said the number of […]

The Chairman of the World Trade Centre in Accra, Togbe Afede was on Thursday July 7, honored as the Business & Entrepreneurship Laureate at the maiden edition of the Impact Africa Summit: Ghana in Accra. The summit which was organized by Diplomatic Call attracted key members of the diplomatic corps, academia, government officials, civil society, […]

The ECOWAS Commission is to hold a capacity building programme for regional Civil Society Organizations, the media and the private sector on climate change. The three-day workshop, which commences from July 13 to 15, 2016, in Abuja, Nigeria, will enable participants analyse the Paris Agreement on climate change and identify potential contributions that can be implemented […]