Over the last three years, the World Bank provided new Credits and Grants totaling US$956 million to support 14 projects in Ghana. Of this amount, infrastructure, received the biggest support of US$316 million. Education, Health, and Social Protection received US$274 million, while Agriculture and Fisheries had US200.3 million, with US$130 million going to Public Sector […]
President John Dramani Mahama and the US Secretary of State, Mr. John Kerry, will on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 witness the signing of an agreement between Ghana and the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for the release of the second MCC compact of $498 million. The MCC will invest the amount in the transformation […]
Emirates Airlines has once again set industry standards, becoming the first airline to introduce Audio Description on movies for visually impaired customers on its in-flight entertainment system, ice Digital Widescreen. Emirates’ ice (information, communication and entertainment) was recently awarded the ‘World’s Best Airline In-flight Entertainment’ award at the SKYTRAX World Airline Awards for the 10th […]
The Moroccan Ambassador to Ghana, H.E Nesha Alaouvi M’hammdi, on July 30, 2014 held a festive reception at her residence in Accra to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the enthronement of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The event, which had the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth Ofosu Adjare in attendance, […]
The World Bank has announced that it is allocating $200m (£120m) in emergency assistance for West African countries battling to contain the Ebola outbreak. The money will be distributed to the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as to the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of people killed in the outbreak […]
President John Dramani Mahama and his wife, Lordina, will today, pay a 10-day official visit to the United States. President Mahama would be attending US/African Leaders Summit from August 5 to August 7, while the First Lady in collaboration with Mrs. Obama, US First Lady would be engaged in programmes bothering on girl-child and under […]
President Obama is to host the first ever US-Africa Leaders’ Summit from August 4 to 6, 2014 in Washington DC. It is aimed at strengthening the already existing strong relationship between the Unites States and Africa. The summit, which is under the theme; “Investing in the next generation”, is expected to advance President Obama’s administration’s […]
Mr. Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, has disclosed that, his visit to Ghana is to explore opportunities for investments in the Energy, Mining and Agricultural sectors of the economy. He disclosed this at a durbar of chiefs and people of the Akuapem Traditional Area, organized in his honour at Mamfe-Akuapem. Mr Barak said, […]
The French government, represented by the French Ambassador in Ghana, H.E Fredric Clavier, on Tuesday, July 30, 2014, signed a financing agreement with the Ministry for Local Government and Rural Development and Ministry of State for Public Sector Reform to implement a development project aimed at increasing accountability and citizen participation in governance. The project, […]
The Minister for Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 received an eight-member delegation from Uganda at her office in Accra. The delegation, led by the Ugandan Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Sports, Dr. Rose Nasali Lukwago, is in the country to familiarise with Ghana’s education system and learn […]
