Ghana will be on the centre stage at the 69th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in New York when President John Dramani Mahama addresses the assembly on Thursday. The address which is expected to last 15 minutes is expected at 15:00 GMT. It would be the third by President Mahama. The first was […]
President John Mahama yesterday hosted a meeting of Heads of State and Government on the establishment of a South-South Energy Initiative (SSEI) in New York. The meeting, one of many the President participated in yesterday, was organized under the auspices of the United Nations, with Mr. Mahama as the key speaker. After the closed door […]
Mrs. Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Minister of Justice and Attorney General on Tuesday assured Ghanaians of a favourable outcome of the maritime boundary arbitration between Ghana and the Cote d’Ivoire. She said Ghana has initiated arbitration proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to establish its maritime boundary with Cote d’Ivoire […]
Unless Ebola control measures in West Africa are enhanced quickly, experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Imperial College, London, predict numbers would continue to climb exponentially. According to a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine released six months after WHO was first notified of the outbreak in West Africa, […]
President John Mahama has held discussions with the Chief Executive of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Dana Hyde in New York. The Monday morning meeting, which was also attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hanna S. Tetteh (MP), is a follow-up to the signing of the new Ghana Compact in August. The MCC is […]
Emirates airlines would, from 1st October 2014, upgrade its operating aircraft on the Abuja route to a Boeing 777-200ER, only two months after launching its operations to the Nigerian city. Emirates launched a daily service to Abuja – its second Nigerian gateway and 22nd passenger destination in Africa on August 1, 2014, using the […]
President John Dramani Mahama arrived in New York on Saturday with his wife Lordina Mahama, to attend the 69th United Nations General Assembly session. He is expected to joined his colleagues in the general Assembly deliberations, hold bilateral talks with other leaders and make a case for investment in Ghana and the West African […]
President John Dramani Mahama will today leave Accra for New York, US, for the 69th United Nations General Assembly session. He is expected to join his colleagues in the general Assembly deliberations, hold bilateral talks with other leaders and make a case for investment in Ghana and the whole of the West African sub region. […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has welcomed the contribution from the Government of the United States of America to significantly build upon their previous Ebola response in West Africa. A statement issued by the WHO and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Friday said the new commitment provides support to the United Nations and […]
Individuals and businesses should brace themselves up for more power outages in the coming days, following the decision of the Nigerian authorities to stop gas supplies to Ghana. The decision, which took effect from yesterday, followed labour unrest in Nigeria. “The Nigerian authorities communicated this bad news to us this afternoon. We are working out […]
