The United Arab Emirate (UAE) has topped the official 2014 foreign development-aid list as the world’s largest donor according to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Assistance Committee. A press statement issued by Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, the UAE Minister of International Co-operation and Development, revealed that the Gulf State […]
The government of Japan is supporting the Ghana rice sector with agricultural machinery worth GH¢9.7 million (around $2.5 million) under the Grant Assistance, according to local sources. The donated machinery comprises of 77 agricultural tractors with matching implements, 49 power tillers, 20 rice threshers, 11 rice reapers and six rice mills. The support is aimed […]
The World Bank has urged Ghana to use multi-sectoral approach to boost job creation for the teeming unemployed youth of the country. Ms Kathleen Beegle, the World Bank Programme Leader for Ghana, Sierra Lone and Liberia, in-charge of jobs, education, poverty, social protection and health, said, such a multi-sectoral approach by government to boost job […]
Ghana has unanimously been elected to serve on the United Nations (UN) Commission on Social Development and two other subsidiary bodies of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The rest are the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the Committee for Development (CD) Policy. A statement issued, in Accra, on […]
A report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) says Singapore is the world’s top network-ready country in 2015. The Global Information Technology Report 2015, titled; Revealed: the Digital Poverty Holding Back Gobal Growth and Development released today April 15, 2015 and copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, also finds that there is a growing digital divide within and […]
The Global Communities, an NGO implementing the USAID’s Water Assessment, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) project, has presented 9,600 strips of Aquatabs to the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. The drugs, used for making water potable, would be distributed to households in cholera endemic areas across the country in an effort to minimise the […]
Representatives of the Governments of the 15 ECOWAS member-states have declared their commitment to provide comprehensive health services to vulnerable populations in West Africa, official statement has said in Accra. The various governments declared their commitment at the end of a meeting held in Senegal, and organised by the United States Agency for International Development […]
About 800,000 children have fled their homes in north-eastern Nigeria because of the conflict with the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram, UNICEF said Monday. The number of child refugees has more than doubled in the past year as they fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon and within Nigeria, the UN children’s agency said. “Scores of […]
The World Bank says today that it is supportive of the agreement between Ghana and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF approved a $918 million three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Ghana April 3, 2015, but classified the country as “high risk of debt distress” under a new debt sustainability analyses. Speaking to reporters […]
The Norway and Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have signed a $ 4.5 million agreement for developing countries to monitor and report on their forest resources and changes in forest area. A statement by FAO and copied to Ghana News Agency on Monday said the project would facilitate countries’ access to earth observation data sources, […]
