Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a landmark visit to Uganda and Kenya this summer to mark 40 years since the July 4, 1976, Entebbe raid during which his brother, Yonatan, was killed in the legendary ... Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an appeal to raise $56 million to fight the Zika virus. The WHO in a statement issued Wednesday February 17, 2016 said it needs $25 million to fund its own response plan, and an ... Read More

Ms Diane Abbott Ms Diane Abbott, British Labour Party’s Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, on Tuesday met with key women's advocacy and activist groups to interact and learn more about their participation in Parliament. Ms Abbott, who ... Read More

West Africa and the European Union (EU) are gearing up for the finalisation of the signatures for the onward commencement of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). To this end, the Regional Preparatory Task Force (RPTF) and the joint implementation preparatory held ... Read More

The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has hailed Child’s Rights International (CRI), a child centred civil society organisation, for putting together the Child Protection Code of Ethics for Journalists. Ms Johanna Eriksson Takyo, Chief Protection Programme, UNICEF Ghana, said code ... Read More

The Late Boutros Boutros-Ghali Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the former secretary general of the UN, has died aged 93. His death was confirmed by Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, the president of the UN Security Council. As an Egyptian, Mr Boutros-Ghali was the first Arab ... Read More

A five-day workshop on advancing universal health coverage in Africa by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has opened in Accra. The workshop being held in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO)  and Ghana’s Ministry of Health and National ... Read More

The Public Affairs Section of the United States Embassy is to prepare Ghanaian media practitioners on strings of topics about effective online election reporting ahead of the November Polls. The training programme scheduled Tuesday, February 16, is expected to sharpen skills ... Read More

President Barack Obama The race is on to get 100,000 signatures, by Monday February 15, on a petition on the White House website to force President Barack Obama to act on ending US sanctions against Sudan, which the petitioners says ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama, would from Sunday, February 14, pay a state visit to Iran in consonance with other world leaders who have been to Tehran in the immediate post-sanctions era. President Mahama, who would be visiting Tehran at the invitation ... Read More