The US Ambassador to Algeria, Ms. Joan A. Polaschik has paid a courtesy call on Ghana’s Ambassador Extraordinary plenipotentiary to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, His Excellency Mr. Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo, at the Ghana Embassy in Algiers. Welcoming the US Ambassador, H.E Nyamekye-Marfo recalled the excellent relations between Ghana and the USA dating back to […]
To address some of these challenges facing agribusiness in Ghana, USAID-FinGAP have trained personnel from financial institutions, including commercial, rural and community banks and business advisory service (BAS) providers, to better use cash flow-based financing along with traditional collateral-based financing. As of September 2014, the USAID-Financing Ghanaian Agriculture Project (USAID-FinGAP) has trained 64 participants from […]
Emirates Airlines has pledged its commitment to strategically focus on Africa in the coming decade by increasing operations by over 40 per cent. Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airlines, made the commitment at the Africa Global Business Forum 2014. Speaking at the conference on the theme: “Connectivity and Trade – Supporting Dubai as the […]
Mr George Kumi, a former Ambassador to Libya, has appealed to people seeking to seek job opportunities in the North African country to stay home. He said the war-ravaged country was in serious economic downturn with many migrants, including some Ghanaians, seeking international assistance to return to home. Mr Kumi, who served under the Kufuor […]
Government has lifted the ban on the export of vegetables to the European Union. This was after the European Union threatened to sanction Ghana over worm-infested vegetables to European markets. Government subsequently banned vegetable exports, a situation which some of the farmers, exporters and carrier airlines complained was impacting negatively on their businesses. Stakeholders involved […]
Thiery Regenass, FIFA Director of Member Associations and Development, has described the Ghana-Germany second Group G match at the last World Cup in Brazil as high quality football. Regenass, leading the FIFA/CAF conference for national coaches and technical directors for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil in Cairo, Egypt said that “Ghana-Germany game was […]
Ghana’s commitment to fighting corruption, giving exemplary leadership and maintaining good governance structures convinced the United States of America (USA) to make it a beneficiary of the second batch of funds disbursed under the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), the US Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Gene A. Certz, has disclosed. The country’s status as a beneficiary […]
The US Embassy in Accra, Ghana has revealed that over one million Ghanaians applied for the 2015 Diversity Visa (DV) programme, popularly referred to as US Visa Lottery. Of the one million Ghanaians applicants, about 2000 were selected, the embassy revealed on Accra-based radio station, Citi FM. This represented 0.65 per cent of the applicants. […]
President John Dramani Mahama arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday, to join other African leaders for the Africa Global Leaders Forum scheduled to take place today. The President had earlier been in the United States where he attended the 69th United Nations (UN) General Assembly. According to the Head of Communications at […]
The United States (U.S) Government through the Agency for International Development (USAID), is supporting the Government of Ghana’s efforts to improve access to treated drinking water at the community and household levels in urban and rural communities, as part of measures to reduce vulnerability to cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases. A press statement signed by […]
