Trade union-led protests have called on the government to reign in runaway inflation and rising costs. South Africa is still reeling from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Workers took to the streets in the South African city of Pretoria on Wednesday, following calls from the country’s biggest trade unions to protest rising inflation and […]
Gambela, Ethiopia — Tigrayan forces say Ethiopia’s federal allies have launched an offensive against their southern positions in violation of a months-long cease-fire, but Ethiopia’s government blamed Tigrayan rebels for the flare-up in violence. Officials told VOA Tuesday they are ready for peace talks mediated by the African Union. The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, known […]
In 2021, the Federal Government of Nigeria introduced a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax. It is embedded in the Finance Act of 2021, which levies a ₦10 tax on each litre of all non-alcoholic and sugar sweetened carbonated drinks. Fiscal policies like this can help curb the excessive consumption of sugars as was seen in Mexico, […]
The government in Addis Ababa has said Tigrayan rebels launched an offensive after Tigrayan rebels said the opposite. One thing is clear, though: a months-old cease fire has ruptured, and fighting has resumed. Rebels in the Tigray region of Ethiopia accused the central government in Addis Ababa and militias aligned with them of launching what […]
Voters have cast their ballots in one of Angola’s most competitive elections yet, pitting the ruling MPLA against the opposition UNITA. Observers say the youth could decide the outcome. Vote counting is underway after Angolans went to the polls on Wednesday in a tight race in which the main opposition coalition has its best chance […]
As part of efforts to mark this year’s World Humanitarian Month, the charity arm of Vodafone Ghana, Vodafone Ghana Foundation, has embarked on a series of socially impactful projects within the Ashanti, Oti, and Ahafo regions of Ghana. These activities include its homecoming initiative to rescue distressed patients, the Instant Schools activation to introduce its […]
Corporate support for the government’s Free Senior High School Policy (Free SHS) has played a very significant role in meeting the infra-structure needs of some deprived schools. Notable among these inter-ventions is the announcement by Tullow Oil Ghana in 2018, of $10-million to improve senior high school infrastructure across the country over a period of […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has declared his neutrality in election of a new presidential candidate for the New Patriotic party to contest the 2024 general election. “I have no preference in the upcoming NPP delegates’ conference to elect a new presidential candidate for the 2024 elections however, I will do all I can to […]
The Bono East Regional Director of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), Mrs Cecilia Kegya -Agyemang, has asked stakeholders in the private sector to partner the government to find innovative ways of preventing perennial glut of yam. She explained that government alone could not prevent yam glut and said that industrialization was the best […]
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Ghana: AfCFTA Tours Local Companies
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat begins familiarization tour of local companies ahead of continental guided trade. The AfCFTA Secretariat has commenced preparations towards the AfCFTA Guided Trade Initiative, slated for September 26, 2022, with a familiarisation visit to three companies in the Western Region. The Secretariat on July 25, 2022, unveiled the AfCFTA […]
The National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Opare Addo, has asserted that the NDC is battle-ready to win Election 2024 to uplift the crest-fallen spirit of the citizenry. “We are within our time frame, in the last two years, after 2020, the kind of exercises and strategises we have undertaken, if we […]
Dr Paul Herzuah, a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ), has recommended to the government to amend the Local Government Act 1993, Act 462 (7) to prevent partisanship in the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly (MMDA) elections. He explained that the Local Government Act 1993, Act 462 (7) 1 […]
The small, dilapidated clinic serves residents of Intabazwe, near Harrismith – but it is overwhelmed and under-stocked Staff and patients at the Intabazwe Clinic near Harrismith, Free State, say the facility is dilapidated and floods when it rains. Staff want the health department to build a second clinic in the community after the only other […]
Mogadishu — In a televised speech Tuesday night, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced that his government will launch a “total war” against al-Qaida-affiliated militant group al-Shabab, after the group staged a deadly hotel siege in Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 100. Mohamud said that it is time […]
The Ad Hoc Joint Committee on Flood Disaster Relief and Recovery has asked officials in eThekwini Municipality to provide it with a definite deadline by when repairs at the Tongaat Water Treatment Plant will be completed. The committee is currently in KwaZulu-Natal on a three-day oversight visit to assess, among other things, progress in the […]
Municipal water has not been restored to Tongaat’s 40,000 residents since the April floods Taps have been dry in Tongaat since the April floods devastated KwaZulu-Natal. The Tongaat Civic Association says that despite being declared a disaster zone government had all but abandoned them. eThekwini only expects the Tongaat Water Treatment Plant to be restored […]
The Coalition of Progressives – a civil society organisation has called on President Adama Barrow to show care and address the high youth unemployment, rampant corruption and corrupt public servants. In press release issued on 16 August, Coalition of Progressives urges the president to ensure measures are taken to stabilise prices of essential commodities. Coalition […]
In a bid to improve regulatory governance system in the country, The Gambia Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) last Wednesday validated its Strategy Plan 2022-2024 at a ceremony held at a local hotel. The authority’s new strategy plan intends to improve regulatory governance, enhance corporate governance and image, improve quality of service framework, enhance infrastructure […]