Eight months after governments and civil society united to catalyse global climate action at the Climate Summit 2014 in New York, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced the regional launch of the Global District Energy in Cities Initiative to a positive reception by local and national governments, and the private sector.
It is something extraordinary when a disease is eradicated from the face of the earth, as great a human accomplishment as inventing the internet or putting a man on the moon.
Central African countries have been once again admonished to increase their efforts at achieving the kind of regional integration that will foster sustainable growth in all the economies of the sub-region, especially in terms of monitoring the benchmarks of macroeconomic convergence they have set for themselves.
A new pan-African project has been launched to strengthen the continent’s great potential for increased trade in fish.
State security forces—mainly police, military and security intelligence officers—are the leading violators of the right to freedom of expression in West Africa, according to the latest monitoring report by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA).
Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) is distributing a total of fifty million improved cocoa seedlings free of charge to farmers in cocoa growing areas of the country this year.
Louis Berger, acting as the procurement agent for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), recently marked the completion of the agency’s $480 million poverty reduction program in Burkina Faso.
The MasterCard Foundation, a Canada based independent global organisation has announced a $50 million challenge fund to help improve the lives of smallholder farmers in Ghana and other African countries by enabling businesses to expand financial services in rural areas of Ghana and across Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Kasoa District Police have intercepted a large consignment of substances suspected to be Indian Hemp (wee) at Papaase, a small community situated along the Kasoa-Bawjiase road in the Central Region of Ghana.
The Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) and the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) today launched a ground-breaking event which seeks to bring together Ghana’s engineering fraternity and a wide range of local and international stakeholders interested in and committed to the development of Northern Savannah Ecological Zone (NSEZ) of Ghana.
