Robertson Jackson Mr Robert Porter Jackson, newly appointed United States Ambassador to Ghana is arriving in the country today to take up his appointment. Mr Jackson swore the oath of office administered by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary of State for African ... Read More

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday January 14, 2016, declared the end of the most recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia and says all known chains of transmission have been stopped in West Africa. But the Organisation says ... Read More

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) will launch its report, World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2016, on Tuesday, January 19. A statement issued by the ILO and copied to the Ghana News Agency on Thursday said the launch would be ... Read More

Queen Elizabeth II Archbishop Kwaku Frimpong Manson, a United Kingdom based Ghanaian community leader, was among recipients who were awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) by the Queen of England. The British Empire Medal (formally British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) ... Read More

Africa has changed enormously over the past 10 years, with an emerging middle class promoting growing consumer power - an area the likes of Coca Cola and others know all too well. Other conglomerates are now starting to follow suit ... Read More

US President Barack Obama The United States government has expressed gratitude to the Government of Ghana for providing refuge for two Yemeni detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and for assisting in the closure of the facility. The two Yemeni ... Read More

Dag Hammarskjöld Library, UN headquarters A doctoral thesis on how to be immune from war crimes prosecution, turned out to be the most checked out book in 2015 of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at the United Nations’ headquarters. The library, named ... Read More

With 110 journalists killed in connection with their work or for still unclear reasons in 2015, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a non-governmental organisation that promotes and defends freedom of information and freedom of the press, is calling on the UN ... Read More

Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has commended Professor William Kwabena Ampofo, whose term as Chairman of the WHO Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Advisory Group (PIP is coming to an end. The Ghanaian Head of PIP is an ... Read More

The European Union (EU) and Africa are committed to the Paris Climate Change Agreement for the future of the planet. A statement issued by the EU, which was made available to the Ghana News Agency by British High Commission in Accra ... Read More