Brighton, UK — The UK’s new Prime Minister (and former Foreign Secretary), Liz Truss, enters Downing Street with a full and urgent in-tray, dominated by the highest inflation rate for 40 years and concerns across the country about the cost-of-living crisis. Whilst urgent domestic policy is required, these national issues are symptomatic of a broader […]
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The fifth drought in as many years has brought Somalia to the brink, raising fears of a deadly famine. Hundreds of children have already died from severe acute malnutrition. Some 730 children have died in nutrition centers around Somalia already this year, the United Nation’s children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. Nutrition centers help children […]
Action is required to keep farmers on side and prevent traffickers from laundering proceeds through the legal market. Morocco has long been ranked as one of the world’s largest cannabis producers. In June last year, Parliament adopted a law to regularise the plant’s production for medical, cosmetic and industrial purposes, while production and consumption for […]
China has removed all tariffs on 98% of the goods imported from nine of Africa’s least-developed countries. Experts do not expect the measure to have an impact on African economies. But it could benefit China’s image. According to the online version of the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post the policy, which came into force […]
Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi has delivered his last address as the Executive President of the Ghana Baptist Convention (GBC), after eight years of excellence and transformational leadership. He delivered the address at the 59th Annual Session of the Ghana Baptist Convention held at Ejura in the Ashanti Region where he also announced his retirement as […]
The AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 (ACTIF2022) has ended in Bridgetown, Barbados, with a commitment by participants to remove the scars of the past and build a commercial bridge towards forging a prosperous future for Africa and the Caribbean. In the communique presented at the end of the Forum, the partners pledged the concrete […]
The IPC Famine Review Committee released their projection that, in the absence of an urgent increase in humanitarian assistance, famine is expected to occur in Buur Hakaba and Baidoa districts of southern Somalia this year between October and December. The United States is gravely concerned by this stark forecast and by the outsized scale of […]
A sod-cutting ceremony has been held for the construction of a community library and a school wall project for the Bantama Ahenbronum community in the Ashanti Region. The 100-seater community library, which is being funded by Member of Parliament of Bantama Constituency, Mr Francis Asenso-Boakye and friends, would have reading rooms, Information and Communication Technology […]
The Ghana Basketball Association (GBBA) has launched a new Logo, website as well as applications as part of a systematic set-up to rebrand and position the sport of basketball in the country. This, the association believes, is to help bring back the love and attractiveness to the once-revered sport which was loved by both male […]
An Environmentalist and the Chief Communications Officer(CCO) at aiScarecrowTechnologies, MsMary Aboagye, on Sunday won the fourth edition of the Israeli Green Innovation Competition (IGIC) in Accra. aiScarecrowTechnologies is an agrictech startup focused on biological pest control. MsAboagye won the competition with her startup’s innovative drone scarecrow developed to help farmers drive away pest birds from […]
Boss of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Mr Kurt Okraku, is excited to have betPawa on board as headline sponsors of the Ghana Premier League (GPL) – after seasons without a headline sponsor. He made the remarks during the launch of the betPawa Ghana Premier League on Friday at the Accra International Conference Centre. “After […]
The Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana has called on the government to take a relook at its agricultural policies as part of efforts to enhance food production in the country. According to the Chamber, most of the government’s policies and interventions have not yielded the desired results. Speaking in an interview with Citi Business News, Chief […]
Ghana’s Black Stars will face off with Brazil in a special friendly slated for Le Havre in France. According to the Ghana Football Association (GFA), the two teams will face off on Friday, September 23, as part of preparations towards the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 finals. Le Havre is a port city in the […]
Interest rates hit the 30 per cent mark as Treasury securities sold a little above 30 per cent on the domestic primary market. According to figures from the Bank of Ghana, the 91-day Treasury bill went for 29.04 per cent, about 0.44 per cent increase over the previous week. That of the 182-bill traded at […]
Shippers and maritime professionals from nine West and Central African countries are meeting in Accra to build their capacity on container weight verification requirements for cargo vessels and other regulations. The five-day regional sensitisation workshop, which opened yesterday, is to ensure that containers that bring cargo into the countries are not overloaded thereby causing accidents […]
Are you ready for the iPhone 14 launch? Good morning – or afternoon, depending on where in the world you are. It’s so nearly iPhone 14 launch day (which is September 7, if you’ve managed to forget and are desperately pawing at the walls hoping to guess when it’s coming). The thing is… there’s a […]
Nairobi — The Supreme Court has thrown out a petition that sought to block the swearing in of President-Elect William Ruto and his Deputy Rigathi Gachagua. The petition was aimed at barring the two from being sworn-in to their respective electoral offices should they win the presidential election. In the documents, the eleven petitioners argued […]
Ghana’s national netball team could miss participation in the 2023 Africa Games netball competition following its indebtedness to the World Netball. Information available to the Times Sports indicates that the Netball Federation of Ghana (NFG) has been inactive for the past 11 years on the competitive netball scene. Its last competitive engagement was at the […]