The Canadian Government is supporting an initiative by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada (SickKids) and the Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives (GCNM) to train 1,500 paediatric nurses in Ghana. The 22-million dollar-project is aimed at training about ... Read More

Gene A. Cretz – US Ambassador to Ghana Mr. Gene A. Cretz, the United States of America (USA) Ambassador to Ghana has commended the country for its enviable democratic credentials. He observed that the country since 1992 had had multiple and ... Read More

President John Dramani Mahama on Saturday announced that Ghana and Brazil would soon establish a Joint Permanent Cooperation Committee that would enable them to have bilateral engagements in the socio-economic development of their countries. He said the two countries had over ... Read More

The Government of South Korea is providing a $1.5 million grant towards improving the transportation system in the Greater Accra Region. To this effect, the Ministry of Transport in collaboration with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on has launched the ... Read More

The Japanese Government is assisting Ghana’s health sector with a grant of $1.66 million in its efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goals targeted at preventing maternal and child mortality. Speaking at the signing for the Exchange of Notes, Mr Kaoru Yoshimura, ... Read More

Kofi AnnanFormer UN Secretary General In 2013, a United Nations report estimated that the cocaine trade through West Africa was worth at least $1.25 billion a year. This is higher than the combined government budgets of several countries in the ... Read More

As the world marks the International Day of Remembrance of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, the UN has called for an end to modern day slavery manifesting in various forms. The world body said though the horrific ... Read More

The 70th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations has been launched in Accra by the United Nations Association of Ghana (UNA – Gh). Ms Janet Edna Nyame, Secretary General of UNA - Gh said the UN’s 70th anniversary theme “Strong UN, ... Read More

The Australian High Commission in Ghana has held a dialogue for stakeholders in the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining (ASM) sector. The dialogue is the second Public-Private Dialogue on Mining Governance, supported by the Australian Government, in partnership with the African Centre ... Read More

A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). “We are calling for the intensification ... Read More