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France offers to host African security summit on Boko Haram

  • May 12, 2014

France has offered to host a summit with Nigeria and its neighbours focused on Islamist militant group Boko Haram, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday. Global outrage over the Boko Haram’s abduction of 200 schoolgirls last month has focused attention on the group, which has destabilised large swathes of northeast Nigeria and its neighbours. “With […]

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World’s Largest Democracy Goes to Poll

  • May 8, 2014

A five-week National election process involving more than 814 million eligible voters kicked off in India, the world’s largest democracy, on Monday, April, 7th 2014.   The closely watched vote, in which the incumbent Congress Party is going head to head with the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for control over India’s lower house of […]

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2014 Presidential Elections Underway In South Africa

  • May 8, 2014

South Africans went to the polls on May 7th, 2014 to vote in the country’s fifth national democratic election.   According to the Electoral Commission of South Africa, 25.3-million of about 31-million South Africans who are eligible to vote had registered to vote.   The 2014 election, which takes place against a backdrop of service-delivery […]

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UN Secretary-General Rep Congratulates New ECOWAS Chair

  • May 8, 2014

Mr. Said Djinnit, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for West Africa, has congratulated President John Mahama on his election as the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).   Mr. Djinnit who paid a courtesy call on the President reiterated the commitment of the United Nations to continue to […]

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Ghana stands to benefit from EPA – Claude Maerten

  • May 8, 2014

Mr. Claude Maerten, Head of the European Union Delegation to Ghana Wednesday said Ghana and West Africa stood to gain if they endorsed the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).   He noted that Ghana is a country in transition and therefore needed integration with the outside world to boost its transition process.   Speaking at the […]

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USAID West Africa Holds Regional Partners Meeting

  • May 5, 2014

USAID West Africa Regional Mission Director Alex Deprez has observed that regional programmes of the Agency are instrumental in helping to unleash the potential of West African farmers.   Mr. Deprez made the observation during a conference hosted by USAID West Africa which was held from April 23 to April 25, 2014, for participants from […]

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Private sector investment in agriculture key to Ghana’s economic growth- Ambassador Cretz

  • May 2, 2014

The Ambassador of the United States of America to Ghana, Mr. Gene Cretz has called for more private sector participation in agriculture in order to promote economic growth. Ambassador Cretz said this at this year’s Agribusiness Investment Summit organized by USAID’s Financing Ghanaian Agriculture Project (FinGAP) in partnership with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture’s […]