The British Council in collaboration with the UK Department of International Development (DFID) has inaugurated phase three of the Connecting Classrooms programme in Accra. Connecting Classrooms, a programme the British Council has run since 2008, has developed long-term, sustainable partnerships, support schools and the wider community in developing successful, educational partnerships between schools in the […]
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has announced that the Bank would nearly triple its annual climate financing to reach $5 billion annually by 2020. AfDB’s climate spending would increase to 40 per cent of its total new investments by the targeted date. “Climate change is both an urgent threat and […]
Ghana is to host the 2015 edition of the annual Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend, scheduled to take place in Accra from November 20 – November 22. The annual flagship event of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation would focus on Africa and discuss issues that are likely to affect the continent’s burgeoning urban population and find solutions […]
Lord Mayor of London, Alan Yarrow, says if Ghana will attract significant capital from foreign private from UK and other parts of the world, the country must resolve associated risks that come with investing in the economy. The visiting Mayor of London said ensuring that effective laws are in place to protect investors can help […]
A business delegation from French company, HAROPA, has met Ghanaian maritime companies in order to present transport and logistics solution offers available to and from the Seine gateway for efficient service delivery. The decision for the HAROPA, an alliance of ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, team to invest in Ghana is based on […]
Godfred Biney, 48, a Ghanaian resident in the US has crafted a state-of-the art generator. It is solar and said to be noiseless. The generator was produced by Fenyi Renewable Energy Incorporated, said to be a green energy Company. According to information gleaned from the Company’s website, ‘fenyire.com’ the generators are “powered by solar panels […]
Sub-Sahara African countries are continuing to grow, albeit at a slower pace, due to a more challenging economic environment. According to new World Bank projections, Growth will slow in 2015 to 3.7 per cent from 4.6 per cent in 2014, reaching the lowest growth rate since 2009. The latest figures were outlined in the World […]
The African Union (AU) has projected economic growth to slow to about four per cent this year, and part of 2016 because of the fall in commodity prices. Mrs Fatima Haram Acyl, AU Commissioner for Trade and Industry, said economic growth would slow down to about four per cent, from over five per cent that […]
Mr Nopiaki Sadamoto, Press Secretary, Japanese Embassy in Accra, on Thursday inaugurated a classroom block for the St Mathews basic school at the Ivorian Refugee Camp at Fetentaa in the Berekum Municipality of Brong-Ahafo Region. The six unit classroom block, constructed by Anstak Constructions, a Sunyani-based building construction firm, was funded by the Japanese government […]
The celebrations of the International Year of Soils (IYS) 2015, has been launched in Accra, with a call on Ghana to lead the way for showing Africa the need to keep soil safe in ensuring food security and human survival on earth. “The people of Africa and indeed the world will be looking up to […]
