The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has urged MPs to help in promoting and deepening what he termed Parliamentary Diplomacy with other countries to help share ideas and foster development. He said in an era of globalization it is important to share best practices to enhance governance and parliamentary practices. Mr. Doe Adjaho said […]
Nana Oye-Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social protection on Monday said her Ministry would work with the Women for Africa Foundation to train women in leadership. She said Ghana would learn a lot from the Foundation, which was founded by leading female political leaders. Nana Oye-Lithur made the remarks when Mrs. Maria Teresa Fernandez […]
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday donated nine AG Motorbikes and assorted items valued at about 50,000 dollars to the Upper East Regional Health Directorate to support health delivery in the region. Some of the items included desk-top and lap-top computers, colour printer, cartridges and scanning machines. Dr. Victor Ngongalah, Chief Officer in charge […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and other partners, has officially launched the West Africa Zero Hunger Initiative at an inception workshop held in Accra on the 24th February, 2014. The three-year initiative would seek to accelerate efforts of member states within the sub-region […]
Mr. Benjamin Gasamagera, Chairman, Rwanda Private Sector Federation has expressed the readiness of business people in Rwanda to invest in Ghana in efforts to boost trade relations between the two African countries. He said businessmen in Rwanda were also ready to learn from their counterparts in Ghana and to explore business opportunities for investment. Mr.Gasamagera […]
The Chinese Ambassador in Ghana, Mr. Jung Gong, has cut the sod for work to begin on the Gong Agricultural Project at Anyaboni near Asesewa in the Upper Manya District. The project, which is being supported by the Ghana Chinese Friendship Association, is for crop production under irrigation on 500 acres of land and aqua […]
A leading Moroccan real estate company, the Addoha Group, is to invest 100 million euros in affordable housing and cement production in Ghana. The company intends to construct an initial 5,000 housing units. Officials of the company have begun discussions with Ghanaian authorities for suitable land for the project. The General Manager of the group, […]
Since the mid-1980’s, Ghana’s impressive development and growth have made the country one of the strongest performers in Africa. Ghana attained lower middle income status in 2011, following three decades of robust economic growth fostered by political stability and a relatively conducive investment climate compared with most other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. As a result […]
The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Ghana has teamed up with the media in reporting extensively on agricultural-related issues. This new initiative by the organization is to make agricultural information and research materials of the FAO more accessible to the media in order to help promote the organization’s goal of alleviating hunger in the […]
A United Nations new report finds that growing inequalities will undo significant gains in health and longevity made over the past 20 years. To sustain these gains, the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Beyond 2014 Global Report argues that governments must pass and enforce laws to protect the poorest and most […]
