President John Dramani Mahama will leave Accra today to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to take part in activities to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, now the Africa Union. A statement signed by Deputy Minister for Information and Media Relations, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, said the President while in Addis […]
Ghana and Turkey have affirmed their commitment to increase their trade portfolio from the current $500 million to $1 billion by 2015. President John Dramani Mahama and the outgoing Turkish Ambassador, Mr Aydin Nurham, made the pledge yesterday at the Flagstaff House, Kanda in Accra. Mr Nurham, who has completed his one-and-a-half-year duty tour of […]
Boarder Information Centres to provide adequate information for travellers between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire have been established at the Elubo and Noe side of the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire borders. This is to ensure that adequate information was made available to first time visitors or travellers, shippers and all who use the entry point to avert the […]
The World Food Programme (WFP) says it has signed an agreement with a Chinese company, HNA Group to provide school meals for children in Ghana. The deal is worth $1.6 million. According to the UN agency, the new partnership with HNA Group is to fight hunger globally. The WFP says the funds will help it […]
Ghana was on Wednesday given thumbs up for her consistent peacekeeping role in over 50 years despite the country’s budgetary and developmental constraints. “It is never easy for countries that are themselves facing budgetary and development constraints to muster courage and resources to support the needs of others. “Yet this is what Ghana has done […]
The 2013 PANAFEST and Emancipation Day celebrations was on Wednesday launched to kick-start activities lined up for this year’s programme. The celebration, on the theme: “Re-uniting the African family; Pan Africanism and the African Renaissance, is aimed at assessing the current pattern of aligned African States and peoples, inclusive of the African Diaspora worldwide. Mrs […]
The World Bank Group has announced an amount of $1 billion in proposed new funding to help provide better health and education services, generate more cross-border trade, and fund hydroelectricity projects in support of the Great Lakes peace agreement that was signed by 11 countries in February. This was on the first day of a […]
The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) of Ghana has received some equipment and tools from the British government to aid its work in the areas of organised crimes such as human trafficking. The equipment were given to the EOCO’s Human Trafficking Unit (HTU) by the Drugs and Crime Team of the British High Commission […]
Ghanaian R ‘n’ B star Chemphe was in Nairobi recently to record a song for the African Union Golden Jubilee celebrations. The song was written and recorded by Dan “Chizi” Aceda at his Aces Media studio, and features the golden voices of Kenya’s Amileena and rapper Rabbit, as well as Jimmy Hope from Togo. I […]
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered the release of all women held in connection with “terrorist activity”, the defence ministry says. The decision was aimed at enhancing peace efforts in Nigeria, it added. The army is conducting an offensive in three states, where an emergency was declared last week to fight the militant Islamist group […]
