A large number of children in the world about 230 million of them, do not have birth certificates, an AU official said citing a UNICEF report released in 2013. Making a presentation at the launch of a publication “General Comment on Article 6 of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child” […]
Children are increasingly vulnerable to recruitment and use by armed groups as conflicts around the world become more brutal, intense and widespread, UNICEF and the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict said on Thursday. This was contained in a statement issued and copied to the Ghana News Agency to mark the International Day […]
The World Bank Group has mobilized 15 million dollars to provide 10,500 tons of maize and rice seeds to over 200,000 farmers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone for the April planting season to avert hunger, which has hit these countries. This has become necessary because the Ebola crisis had taken a heavy toll on […]
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Consultations between the Governments of Germany and Ghana are ongoing in Accra at the Ministry of Finance on February 3rd and February 4th 2015. According to a news release from the German Embassy in Accra copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), discussions will centre on the focal areas and adequate instruments for bilateral cooperation […]
In pursuit of its international development cooperation aims, the German government committed a total of €157.7 million to support development activities in Ghana. The amount was given in two years; 2012 to 2014, according to a press release from the German Embassy issued in Accra Tuesday February 3, 2015 and copied to ghanabusinessnews.com. “The commitments […]
The government of India has given Ghana a $150 million line of credit to support the country’s agriculture sector, according to a report by the Indo-Asian News Service. According to the report, the fund would go to support the implementation of an Agricultural Mechanisation Service Centre (AMSEC), and the projects are intended to provide farmers […]
President John Dramani Mahama has announced that the Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) had put in a special appeal to development partners and the international donor community to forgive the debts of the most affected Ebola countries in the sub-region. The forgiveness, the President explained, would enable the countries – Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone […]
The total of bilateral trade between Ghana and India was $1.2 billion in the 2013/2014. While Ghana imported goods valued at $ 830.76 million from India, the country exported goods valued at $370.57 million to India in the same period, according to information from the Indian government’s Department of Commerce. Ghana’s exported gold, cocoa and […]
A Malaysian company, Yinson Holdings Bhd, has been awarded a $2.54 billion contract by Eni Ghana Exploration & Production Ltd., for the chartering, operation and maintenance of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel. The vessel would process oil and gas from the Offshore Cape Three Points (OCPT) block in the Tano basin, which […]
