Ghana reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday for a three-year aid deal worth around $1 billion aimed at restoring fiscal stability to the West African state, a source close to the talks told Reuters. The deal could represent a turning point for Ghana, a stable democracy and producer of gold, […]
The USAID-Financing Ghanaian Agriculture Project (USAID-FinGAP) says it has reserved an amount of $500,000 as grant to the Eximguaranty Company Ghana Limited (Exim Ghana). The grant it says, would be used to subsidize the cost of credit guarantee premiums on loans from financial institutions to agribusinesses in the rice, maize and soy value chains. “The […]
UK Trade Minister Lord Livingston embarks on his first official visit to Ghana to strengthen trade relations between the two countries. Ghana is the UK’s sixth largest export market in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2013 exports of goods and services totalled £650 million. To help spur economic growth, Ghana aims to attract more foreign investment. […]
The Japanese Embassy in Ghana has signed a 285,400 dollar grant with three Non-Government Organisations across the country for development projects in Health and education. The three organisations are Maata-N-Tudu Association, for the construction of a Health centre at Yong Dakpemyili in the Northern region, Institute of Sustainable Development (ISD) for the construction of 6-unit […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has chosen the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics as a designated reference centre to expand its access to state-of the-art technology in combating dangerous viral infections. The dangerous viral infection to be researched would include avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease, in farm animals and wildlife. […]
The Embassy of Israel will on Tuesday, 3rd March 2015 holda breakfast meeting for governmental officials, agricultural companies, big farmers, agro-processors, financial and investment institutions focusing on agriculture and major private and public sector players in the field of agro-business as well as the mediato serve as a briefing session on the prospects and projections […]
The World Health Organization (WHO), will on Wednesday, February 18, launch in Salle de Presse I, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland its report: “Investing to overcome the global impact of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)”. The report sets investment targets and makes the case for increased domestic investment to reach the targets of WHO’s Roadmap on […]
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 […]
