The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced that there is no winner of the 2015 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The award is meant for a recent former African head of state that was democratically elected and demonstrated exceptional leadership and governance during their constitutionally mandated term. The foundation announced the decision after a […]
The Internal Steering Committee (ISC) of the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework (ECPF) says it is satisfied with the growing collective ownership of the framework by all stakeholders. “It is a veritable tool of bringing about greater stability in the region,” the Committee said. Dr Aeremi Ajibewa, the ECOWAS Director of Political Affairs, expressed the satisfaction […]
The governments of Ghana and India on Monday signed three agreements as part of the two-day official visit of Indian President Franab Mukherjee. The agreements are: The exemption of visa requirements of holders of diplomatic passports, Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the establishment of a joint Commission and the MOU on foreign services between the […]
The French Embassy has organised a training programme on surveillance and trailing techniques for staff of the Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. Addressing the opening ceremony of the five-day programme in Accra on Monday, Mr François Pujolas, the French Ambassador to Ghana, said the training […]
President John Dramani Mahama says although Ghana and India have had cordial relations over the years, the two countries would further strengthen the relations in the coming days for mutual benefits. He said while the two countries shared common values in democracy, trade, investment, commerce and business development, others that would lead to job creation […]
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 […]
