The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama says continued focus on adolescent girls, is key to achieving many of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. Speaking at a High Level event on the sidelines of the ongoing 71st U.N. General Assembly in New York, Mrs Mahama who is also the President of the Organisation of […]
Madam Margit Thomsen, the Danish Ambassador to Ghana, has commended Ghana for its religious tolerance and expressed the hope that such mutual understanding would contribute to a peaceful election. Madam Thomsen said the mutual understanding between Muslims and Christians and the various churches with different doctrines and teachings was the key to national development and […]
The Ghana-Russia Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation (PJCC), has welcomed the agreement on cooperation in the field of the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes signed on June 2, 2015, in Moscow. The PJCC also established the Joint Coordination Committee of Experts, Dr Emmanuel Bombande, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, announced […]
I stand before you with gratitude for your support across the decade I have had the privilege to serve this great organization, the United Nations. In taking the oath of office in December 2006, I pledged to work with you for “we the peoples”. With the Charter as our guide, and the dedication of the […]
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable African airline, has won two coveted awards in the first East Africa Careers in Africa Choice Awards, at a top tier event in Nairobi, Kenya. Ethiopian was nominated in three categories, out of the 10 presented, and was crowned in two: Reward Employer of Choice, as the […]
The World Trade Centre (WTC) Accra, is organising a trade and investment mission to China for 20 participants to explore business opportunities for the mutual benefits of the two countries. The 12-day trip, from September 19 to October 1, would take the officials to tour four cities in China- Beijing, Shanghai, Shizen and Guangzhou. Officials […]
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in collaboration with the Ghana Revenue Authority is to hold a five-day training workshop in Accra, for Trade Facilitation stakeholders. The workshop, sponsored by West Blue Consulting under the Ghana National Single Window Programme, would run from Monday September 19 to September 23. It aims to train participants […]
The UN has designated 15 September “International Day of Democracy”. This year the theme is “Space for Civil Society”. Both have a particular resonance in Ghana as it looks towards elections on 7 December. A free, strong and active civil society is a crucial part of any functioning democracy: it ask questions, it convenes, it […]
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has introduced solar-powered irrigation schemes in northern Ghana to safeguard farmers the trouble of relying on erratic rains for farming activities in the country’s poorest regions. “USAID is introducing solar-powered irrigation systems in northern Ghana, the US Ambassador, Mr Robert Jackson said, “farmers will no longer have […]
Mr Emmanuel Bombande, a Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, has said the Heads of State of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are working to abolish resident permits for the citizens in member states. He said they also mandated the ECOWAS Commission to work out the modalities for the adoption […]
