The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has observed that nutrition is one of the biggest challenges confronting people in the Northern, Upper East, and Upper West Regions. To help address this, USAID is investing $ 50 million out of a total of $ 150 million spent annually countrywide to improve agriculture and nutrition […]
The Ghana government has secured a $48-million loan from the World Bank to connect communities within the Adentan-Madina area to the main lines of Ghana Water Company. Mr Sampson Ahi, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing said communities, including Ashaley Botwe, Nmaadjor, American, House, Adjiringano and Madina should expect water running through their […]
The World Food Programme (WFP) would in September end food giving food rations to the Ampain Refugees Camp, in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region. The Manager of the Camp, Mr. Kelly Forson, had told journalists during the launch of Refugees Arts and Culture Festival, at Ampain, as part of activities to mark this […]
The European Union in Ghana has organized a Climate Info Session to discuss the impact of climate change on Ghana, and to also prepare the country for the upcoming Paris Global Agreement. Over 50 climate stakeholders in Ghana attended the session to exchange views on the state of international climate negotiations and Ghana’s preparation to […]
The Ghana Federation of the Disabled (GFD), is organizing series of stakeholder meetings, aimed at pressuring government to speed up the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (UNCRPD). Since the ratification of the UNCRPD in August 2012, the Federation said Ghana was yet to initiate actions for the […]
A Japanese woman, Ms Midori Tatsuki, on Tuesday donated medical equipment valued at $5,000.00 to the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help in the improvement of emergency healthcare services in the country. The equipment includes an AED Heart Start Machine with infant key, which helps in reviving unconscious patients, especially those with cardiac arrest or […]
The European Union has announced a €600,000 financial support to Ghana to fight cholera outbreaks in the wake of the June 3 flood which wreaked havoc in Accra. About 152 lives were lost two weeks ago in a fire and flood disaster that rocked Accra. Health officials fear there could be cholera outbreak on a […]
Ghana and France have signed an agreement in Accra to help promote and facilitate an exchange programme in the education of Ghanaian students in France and French students in Ghana. Formerly, it was difficult for Ghanaian or French students to further their education in either country with certificates from their Universities. With this agreement, students […]
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and in collaboration with the Ghana Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), are set to launch the Partnership for Education: Learning activity. Learning will reach over 2 million children in Ghana through a broad- based, national project that […]
President John Dramani Mahama says Ghana will take advantage of the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in September this year to increase its exports to the United States of America ( USA). Ghana has been exporting a number of traditional and non-traditional products to the US under AGOA but suggestions are […]
