Social protection policies can play a key role in the fight against child labour, which currently affects some 215 million children worldwide. The International Labour Organization (ILO), an body of the United Nations’ Organisation, in its report on child labour, economic ... Read More

President Mahama with President Abdullah Gul of Turkey Ghana and Turkey have affirmed their commitment to increase their trade portfolio from the current $500 million to $1 billion by 2015. President John Dramani Mahama and the outgoing Turkish Ambassador, Mr Aydin ... Read More

Ghana was on Wednesday given thumbs up for her consistent peacekeeping role in over 50 years despite the country’s budgetary and developmental constraints. “It is never easy for countries that are themselves facing budgetary and development constraints to muster courage and ... Read More

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) of Ghana has received some equipment and tools from the British government to aid its work in the areas of organised crimes such as human trafficking. The equipment were given to the EOCO’s Human ... Read More

Ban ki-Moon – UN Boss Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the President of the World Bank Group and Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General will from May 22-24 make a historic joint visit to Africa’s Great Lakes region. This is in ... Read More

Obama addressed Ghana's parliament on his July 2009 trip to the west African county US President Barack Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania in June, the White House has said. Mr Obama is expected to meet lawmakers as well ... Read More

A boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary SchoolCredit: AP At least 91 people, including 20 children, are feared to have been killed by a huge tornado which tore through Oklahoma City suburbs, officials ... Read More

…second biggest in West Africa, more than entire East Africa Chinese investment and development aid to Ghana totaled $13.96 billion between 2000 and 2011, a new compilation of data has shown. According to global research firm Open Data for International Development (AidData), ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama Mr Frederick Clarier, French Ambassador and Mr Ali Halabi, the Lebanese Ambassador to Ghana on Friday paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing. Alhaji Dauda, the Minister, said Ghana is committed ... Read More

Chinese ambassador to Ghana, GONG Jianzhong. On May 3, 2013, the Chinese Ambassador H.E. Gong Jianzhong honored and addressed the inauguration ceremony for the 1st generating station of the Bui Hydroelectric power Project in Bui, a small town in the ... Read More