The United States Forest Services is implementing a three-year Coastal Sustainable Landscapes project in 17 communities in the six coastal districts of the Western Region. The United States Agency for International Development is funding the 3.3 million dollars project. Dr Steve Dennison, Director of the project told journalists during a media field trip to project […]
The World Bank Board has approved a $45 million financing to support Ghana’s financial management information systems. According to the Bank, its Executive Board of Executive Directors approved the funds May 15, 2015 in Washington DC. The aim of the support for the ‘Ghana Public Financial Management Reform Project’ it says is to help the “Government […]
The Authority of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), has expressed satisfaction at the peaceful conduct of the presidential elections in Nigeria and Togo. The Authority warmly congratulated General Muhammadu Buhari on his election as the President of his country, and Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, President of Togo […]
Mr Scott A. Nathan, Special Representative, Commercial and Business Affairs of the US Department of State, has called on government to provide the enabling environment for joint venture businesses such as DTRT to thrive. He said the venture was the sort of thing that the US department of State wants to see happening over and […]
Member-States of the World Health Organization (WHO), had agreed to a new global malaria strategy for 2016-30, and approved the Organization’s proposed programme budget for 2016-17. A statement issued and copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra by Tarik Jasarevic, WHO Communications Officer, said the strategy aimed to reduce the global disease burden by […]
On Wednesday May 27, the three Rome-based UN food agencies – will publish the 2015 edition of their annual The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI) Report. The SOFI Report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the UN World Food Program (WFP), covers […]
In spite of the indifference expressed by civil society groups against the endorsement of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Secretariat’s biennium budget proposal for 2016-2017, delegates overwhelmingly approved it. The proposed biennium amounts to nearly $4,400 million overall, which comprises the base programmes for the various projects and interventions WHO deemed appropriate to undertake. These […]
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN-CRC) has chastised a section of the Ghanaian media for consistent abuse of the rights and dignity of children in the country. “Several media houses and journalists abuse and negatively portray children to danger and ridicule, especially those who had been sexually abused. The disrespect of […]
President John Dramani Mahama will address the Sixth Annual Oxford Africa Conference at the University of Oxford in United Kingdom on Friday. A statement from the Flagstaff House’s media office said he would be speaking on the topic, “A Continent on the Move: People, Politics and Business Across Borders”. He will, among other things, explore […]
The Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on Tuesday adopted the “Abidjan Ministerial Declaration”, on the eradication of statelessness at the 47th Ordinary Summit of Heads of State held in Accra. “It is a very important step in the fight against this plight which affects hundreds of thousands of people in West Africa”, said […]
