A two-day workshop for public officials from various ECOWAS member States on the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) and the ECOWAS Minerals Development Policy (EMDP) opened in Accra on Monday. Organised by the Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa), with support from the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), the workshop is to help accelerate the implementation […]

US ambassador in Ghana, Mr. Gene A. Cretz, has lauded the partnership between DEM Ghana and the John Deere to distribute the John Deere range of building construction equipment, describing it as a win-win approach. Speaking at an exhibition and equipment demonstration day at the premises of DEM Ghana, Mr. Cretz said the partnership was […]

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Portal Welby, has lauded the level of religious tolerance among Ghanaians, which he said was of a high level and a model for other countries to emulate. Archbishop Welby, who was granted audience by the Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, at the Flagstaff House in Accra yesterday, stressed the need for […]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has decided to extend next Thursday’s special summit on the Ebola virus disease for another day to tackle the political situation in Burkina Faso. The ECOWAS Chairman, President John Dramani Mahama, made this known when he held discussions with a joint delegation from the United Nations, the […]

The Sunyani Municipal Assembly has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a Canadian developer and investors to convert all solid waste generated in the municipality into energy of not less than 25 megawatts. Under the agreement, additional 15 megawatts of solar energy plant would also be built. The projects are estimated at the cost of […]

Mr Kyun Jea Min, the outing Republic of Korea Ambassador, says his country would open the Korean Exim Bank branch in Ghana. He said the bank is to facilitate trade between Korean businessmen and their Ghanaian counterparts. Mr Jea Min stated this when he paid courtesy call on Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur at the Flagstaff […]

The Norwegian Government has approved the second tranche of $10 million to support  the development of Ghana’s oil industry over the next five years. The second tranche is to support the capacity building of Ghanaians for the oil and gas sector. The first component of $6 million ends this year. Approval of the $10 million […]

The Chinese Government on Friday presented preventive materials against Ebola worth five million yuan RMB ($ 817, 938) to the Government of Ghana for its preparation work and responses against the virus. The materials included protective equipment, sprayers, non-contact infrared body thermometers and body temperature detectors. Mrs Sun Boahong, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, speaking […]

Scores of Burkinabes in Ghana are picketing at their Embassy in Asylum Down, Accra. The teeming crowd wants the Mission staff to shut down, since “there is a state of emergency” in the French-speaking West African country. Ghana’s northern neighbour has been enmeshed in political turmoil since Thursday, after protesters set the country’s Parliament ablaze […]