Category: Economy

ARUSHA, Tanzania, June 13, 2026/ — The East African Community (EAC) is scaling up regional efforts to respond to the ongoing Ebola outbreak and strengthen preparedness measures against communicable diseases across the region.

The government has rolled out interim measures to facilitate the implementation of Ghana’s newly enacted legal education framework, offering thousands of aspiring lawyers a clearer route to professional training while addressing a longstanding backlog of law graduates awaiting admission to the Bar.

Government, through the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has announced that the producer price of cocoa for the 2026 Light Crop Season will remain unchanged, despite falling prices in the international cocoa market.

In Ekumfi, a coastal district in southern Ghana known for its agricultural production, the work begins early.

WASHINGTON, US//—The conflict in the Middle East is expected to slow global growth to the lowest rate since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic amid higher energy prices, steeper inflation, and increased borrowing costs, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Global Economic Prospects report.

The Forestry Commission of Ghana confirms that on Tuesday, 9 June 2026, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the newly constructed accommodation for timber checkpoint personnel at Babatokuma in the Kintampo Forest District in the Bono East Region was vandalised and burnt by an irate mob.

Accra, Ghana// — enza Global announced that it has been awarded a Payment Service Provider Enhanced licence by the Central Bank of Ghana (BoG).

Switzerland// – Barham Salih, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, launched the agency’s flagship Global Trends Report today, which reveals global forced displacement has decreased for the first time in a decade while remaining unacceptably high.