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Accra, Ghana//-The Director-General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, today toured key health facilities in Accra to assess the country’s preparedness for a possible Ebola outbreak.

Accra, Ghana The World Bank says it is strongly desirous to see the Government of Ghana operationalise and open the unused Weija Pediatric Hospital as soon as possible.

Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Benjamin Quashie, says the first group of Ghanaians being evacuated from South Africa amid renewed xenophobic tensions is expected to arrive in Accra on Wednesday, May 27.

Kigali, Rwanda// — The Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI) (https://GABI.UNGlobalCompact.org) has shifted its new Digital and Health Action Pathways into a higher gear in order to accelerate the continent’s economic transformation by identifying and driving solutions to problems that slow progress.

USA//-The Gates Foundation is committing an initial $15 million in emergency funding to support the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak affecting communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda.

Accra, Ghana// – Chairman of the Ghana Hajj Board and Pilgrims Affairs Office of Ghana (PAOG), Alhaji Abdul-Rauf Tanko Ibrahim, has commended MTN Ghana for its longstanding support for the Hajj pilgrimage through the provision of communication services.

Africa is at a crossroads. Already grappling with constrained domestic resources and structural headwinds, including decades of underinvestment, the continent is facing an additional pressing challenge: stark cuts to official development assistance (ODA).

C Raina MacIntyre, UNSW Sydney; Ashley Quigley, UNSW Sydney; Mohana Priya Kunasekaran, UNSW Sydney, and Noor Jahan Begum Bari, UNSW Sydney The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is grappling with a rising Ebola epidemic, with almost 600 cases detected so far and more than 130 deaths.

At current growth rates, per capita income in sub-Saharan Africa would take roughly half a century to double. Our chapter in the IMF’s latest Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa shows that implementing well-designed structural reforms—especially in governance, business regulation, and market openness—could lift output by around 20 per cent within a decade.

Ghana’s Vice President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has commissioned 100 new buses for Metro Mass Transit Limited, calling it a key step toward improving public transport and driving economic growth.