Ghana’s path to economic recovery in the wake of recent crisis is receiving a renewed hope from three major global financial and development institutions on debt operations. The three institutions – International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group and the Group ... Read More

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated midwifery training tools and equipment to the Nursing Department of Midwifery, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The items worth $30,000, is part of the Funds’ efforts at contributing ... Read More

President Joe Biden US President Joe Biden will return to his roots in County Mayo on Friday on the final day of his visit to Ireland. Mr Biden has links to the county through his great grandfather Edward Blewitt. The president is ... Read More

Kristalina Georgieva -IMF Boss The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, is optimistic that the fund’s Executive Board would grant final approval to Ghana’s bailout request soon. Ms Georgieva said at the ongoing World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in ... Read More

Ghana has become the first country to approve a new malaria vaccine described as a "world changer" by scientists who developed it at the University of Oxford. The mosquito-spread parasitic disease kills more than 600,000 people every year. The majority are ... Read More

Paulo Medas (left), Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF, during the press launch of the Fiscal Monitor The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that Ghana will need austerity measures in the coming months to bring inflation back to the single ... Read More

The US believes the UN Secretary General is too willing to accommodate Russian interests, according to fresh revelations in classified documents leaked online. The files suggest Washington has been closely monitoring Antonio Guterres. Several documents describe private communications involving Mr Guterres and ... Read More

The Late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi African journalists have been paying tribute to Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, President of the Atlantic Federation of African Press Agencies (FAAPA), who died on Saturday April 8, 2023, in Rabat, Morocco. The journalists, who received the news of ... Read More

Ghana has placed first in access to electricity rate in sub-Sahara Africa, a latest report by the World Bank has stated.  The World Bank’s April 2023 Africa’s Pulse Report, which assessed electricity access rate between 2015 and 2021 scored Ghana 81.2 ... Read More

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers' boats, the U.N. migration agency reported Wednesday, citing delays by nations in initiating rescues as a contributing ... Read More