PROMEXICO, a Mexican Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, has undertaken the first Mexican business mission to Ghana to establish and deepen bilateral trade and investment relations. The delegation, led by Mr Francisco Gonzalez Diaz, Director-General PROMEXICO, which is made up of eight prominent business officials from sectors such as construction, infrastructure, services, farming, agro food […]
The World Bank is downgrading its 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4 per cent from the 2.9 per cent projected in January. A statement issued by the Bank, and copied to the Ghana News Agency, said the move was due to the sluggish growth in the advanced economies, stubbornly low commodity prices, weak global trade, […]
The maiden Turkish African Business Summit (TABS)-2016 to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from September 30 to October 2, has been launched in Accra. The three-day Business Summit, which is being organised by the Turkish African Business Association (TABA), would gather more than 5,000 African and Turkish business people in Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking at the […]
Ghana would hold the maiden the ECOWAS Industrial Summit on July 21, 2016, to bring together stakeholders to deliberate the Sub-region’s industrial development to enhance the socio-economic wellbeing of citizens. The Summit, which originally was to be organised by the ECOWAS Commission Secretariat, would now be hosted by Ghana with the participation by other ECOWAS-member […]
The Ministry of Education, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has begun the distribution of more than four million books in English and Ghanaian languages to public primary schools. The books are expected to improve the reading skills of nearly 2.8 million kindergarten and lower primary pupils across the 216 […]
EU member states cannot imprison foreigners simply because they illegally entered the country, the bloc’s top court ruled Tuesday, in a case involving a Ghanaian woman apprehended in France. The European Union has been grappling with an influx of migrants and asylum seekers since last year. Many member states are now seeking to crack down […]
At the core of the new phase of relations between China and Africa are fruitful collaborations between African governments and Chinese companies, geared towards socio-economic progress for both China and Africa. In Ghana for example, there are a number of such collaborations. In the area of hydro electric power generation, a Chinese-owned solar power generating […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has pledged to collaborate with media practitioners across the region to achieve the desired level of information flow on its activities. This is to achieve a more responsive representation of the people of the ECOWAS Community, a release from the Secretariat, made available to the Ghana […]
Emirates airlines says it would from Friday July 1, commence its seventh daily service between Dubai and Bangkok, for travellers from Ghana through Dubai to connect easily. The new service would allow the addition of a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, one of Emirates young and modern fleet of aircrafts on the route. A statement by the […]
The World Food Programme (WFP) has received a contribution of 20 million Canadian dollars (US$15 million) from Canada. The contribution would be used to implement a programme linking nutrition, agriculture and food processing, which would assist almost one million people over the next five years. A statement issued by WFP Ghana and copied to the […]
