Ms Diane Abbott, British Labour Party’s Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, on Tuesday met with key women’s advocacy and activist groups to interact and learn more about their participation in Parliament. Ms Abbott, who is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, is on a week-long visit to share […]
West Africa and the European Union (EU) are gearing up for the finalisation of the signatures for the onward commencement of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). To this end, the Regional Preparatory Task Force (RPTF) and the joint implementation preparatory held meetings on February 5, to February 9 2016 in Brussels to give the desired […]
The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has hailed Child’s Rights International (CRI), a child centred civil society organisation, for putting together the Child Protection Code of Ethics for Journalists. Ms Johanna Eriksson Takyo, Chief Protection Programme, UNICEF Ghana, said code of ethics would be instrumental in promoting good reporting ethics among journalists, and support […]
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former secretary general of the UN, has died aged 93. His death was confirmed by Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, the president of the UN Security Council. As an Egyptian, Mr Boutros-Ghali was the first Arab to hold the UN’s top position. He took office in 1992 at a time of increasing influence […]
A five-day workshop on advancing universal health coverage in Africa by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has opened in Accra. The workshop being held in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and Ghana’s Ministry of Health and National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) would run from Monday February 15 to Friday February 19, […]
The Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy is to prepare Ghanaian media practitioners on strings of topics about effective online election reporting ahead of the November Polls. The training programme scheduled Tuesday, February 16, is expected to sharpen skills of reporters, editors, producers, bloggers and anyone reporting or writing about elections in Ghana […]
The race is on to get 100,000 signatures, by Monday February 15, on a petition on the White House website to force President Barack Obama to act on ending US sanctions against Sudan, which the petitioners says are “oppressing the poor and killing innocent people”. At the time of writing, over 75,000 signatures have been […]
President John Dramani Mahama, would from Sunday, February 14, pay a state visit to Iran in consonance with other world leaders who have been to Tehran in the immediate post-sanctions era. President Mahama, who would be visiting Tehran at the invitation of President Hassan Rouhani, will hold bilateral discussions and address a joint press conference […]
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, will this year pay a state visit to Ghana, the Turkish Embassy in Accra has announced. According to Ms Nesrin Bayazit, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Ghana, the visit is to strengthen the bilateral relation and enhance economic cooperation between the two nations. Ms Bayazit made the […]
The US has downplayed the emerging dominance of China in Africa, advising leaders of the continent to make the best out of the two world powers. China’s trade with African states shot up about ten times in the last decade, with the total value tipped to hit $300 billion at the end of 2015, according […]
