With agriculture emerging as Africa’s best bet for increasing food security and expanding economic opportunity, officials gathered in Ghana for a critical agriculture meeting and launched a prestigious new US$100,000 award called the Africa Food Prize, which is intended to inspire innovations in the field and the marketplace. “We want to celebrate individuals and institutions […]
Italian investors from Ambiente Pressagio are expected to begin the construction of mini hydro dams on nine sites in the Volta Region. Togbe Afede XIV, the President of the Volta Regional House of Chiefs, announced this at the first general meeting of the House for this year. A mini hydro is a type of hydroelectric […]
Ghana’s Tourism Ministry is to partner its Czech Republican counterpart to help develop and promote the cultural products of both countries. Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, made this known when she paid a working visit to the Ministry of Culture in the Czech Republic. Ghana’s Ambassador to the Czech […]
President John Dramani Mahama stated on Saturday that Ghana and Ethiopia were set to strengthen the existing cooperation and bilateral ties which the two nations had enjoyed for more than five decades. He mentioned agriculture, energy, security and the fight against terrorism as some of the areas of cooperation. President Mahama announced these in a […]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Hanna Tetteh has stated that citizens of ECOWAS countries are not required to apply for visas on arrival in the country, contrary to reports circulating in Nigeria. Sections of the Nigerian media reported that effective July 2016 citizens from that country would have to apply for visas […]
A High Level Dialogue has been held in Accra to discuss issues of migration between the European Union (EU) and Ghana. The meeting brought togetherHon. Hanna Tetteh, Foreign Affairs Minister and her counterpart from Netherlands, Bert Koenders, who was in Ghana on behalfthe High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy […]
1.2 billion people currently live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion people are without clean cooking facilities. With over 95% of these people located either in sub-Saharan Africa or developing Asia, clearly there exists a vast gap which must be closed. But how? The 18th annual Africa Energy Forum (AEF) will take place from […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO has held a one-day consultative meeting in Accra to assess Ghana’s situation with Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in Agriculture. The workshop was to brainstorm and begin the process of developing a “One Health” National Action Plan to address AMR in agriculture with […]
Mr Robert Jackson, United States of America (US) Ambassador to Ghana, on Thursday said that the US government through the United States Agency for International Development (US AID) has invested $145million in Ghana to aid socio-economic transformation. He said more than half of the amount was being invested in the Northern parts of the country […]
Food Specialists from the United Nations International Children Fund (UNICEF) are monitoring the progress of child malnutrition in the Volta Region (V/R) following interventions introduced to cut-down stunted growth and boost nutrition in pregnant women. Among the entourage included Dr Victor Ngongalah, Chief of Health and Nutrition, Ms Lillian Selenje, Nutrition Specialist as well as […]
