Two-way merchandise trade between Ghana and Canada reached $236.6 million in 2012, according to an official factsheet dated May 7, 2013 and obtained by ghanabusinessnews.com. Published by the Canadian government, figures in the document showed that the North American country exported $216.2 million worth of goods to Ghana while its imports from Ghana was just […]
Workers at Lonmin’s platinum operations in South Africa have gone on a wildcat strike. The action follows the shooting of a union official at the weekend and has reignited fears of the violence that hit the industry last year. Last August, 34 miners were shot dead at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine near Rustenburg. Lonmin, whose […]
Canada has hinted of its pursuit to sign a new trade and investment agreement with Ghana, a top official said May 13, 2013. Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has signalled his country’s intent to deepen trade and investment with Ghana which it sees as one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. According to a statement […]
Asamoah Gyan’s brace was enough to break the record for number of goals in a single UAE top-flight season but could not deliver three points as Bani Yas came from two goals down to draw 2-2 in Al Ain. The hosts, who were reduced to 10 men when Mohammed Salem saw red for two bookings […]
A delegation of high-level managers from 30 French companies in the infrastructural, banking, technology, telecommunications, oil and construction industries and public works will visit Ghana from May 22 to explore business opportunities. A statement signed by the French Ambassador to Ghana, Frederic Clavier and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Monday said the delegation […]
The US Government’s diversity visa lottery programme that allowed 55,000 applicants from other countries, especially developing countries to be selected at random and given residency in America is likely to be stopped, a report by the Washington Post says. According to the report, in the contentious debate over immigration policy, three groups have dominated public […]
China and Ghana established diplomatic relations on July 5 1960. The founding fathers of the two new-born republics laid a solid cornerstone for the development of the bilateral ties. In recent years, fruitful achievements have been made in various fields of bilateral cooperation, especially under the framework of China-Africa Cooperation Forum. China takes the unity and cooperation with developing countries as the basis of […]
Mr. Kofi Annan has been named Chair of The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. Mr Annan, the former UN Secretary General takes over from Archbishop Desmond Tutu who stepped down as Chair of the group after six years. Mr Annan’s deputy will be Norway’s first woman Prime […]
The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has opened a centre in Ghana to train experts to combat the rising tide of substandard and counterfeit drugs in sub-Sahara Africa. A press release issued by the US Embassy in Accra and copied to ghanabusinessnews.com says the Center for Pharmaceutical Advancement and Training (CePAT) has been launched in […]
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it is a great pleasure to welcome four leaders from Africa, all of whom are doing extraordinary work — President Sall from Senegal, President Banda from Malawi, President Koroma from Sierra Leone, and Prime Minister Neves from Cape Verde. The reason that I’m meeting with these four is they exemplify the progress […]
