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AFP, SAPA End Content Deal
Global news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) has announced that its English news content will no longer be available via SAPA (South African Press Association) in the new year. Harry Lee-Rudolph, Commercial Manager for AFP southern Africa said “SAPA and AFP has had a long and mutually beneficial relationship and the decision to withdraw our […]
Another Multimillion Dollar Judgement Looms
In spite of the nagging cases of judgment debt assailing the nation and the huge tranches of cash being doled out by the State regularly to settle cases arising out of such negligence of politicians and technocrats, the canker goes on unabated, investigations by the African Eye News can reveal. Forestry Commission sources told the African […]
West Africa: Ebola Outbreak Sends Food Prices Shooting Up
Disruptions in food trade and marketing in the three West African countries most affected by Ebola have made food increasingly expensive and hard to come by, while labor shortages are putting the upcoming harvest season at serious risk, FAO warned today. In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, quarantine zones and restrictions on people’s movement aimed […]
Can Africa’s Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated By 2030?
With the year 2015 – the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) finishing line – approaching, post-2015 goals as they impact Africa need to be firmed. The goal of ending extreme poverty remains paramount. In this context, extreme poverty means living on a less than $1.25 a day (Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), 2005 prices). Given the continent’s […]
UNCTAD Book Assesses Impact Of Trade Policy On Poverty
A novel collaborative approach between academics and policymakers examines the impact of trade policy on poor people in eight developing and transition countries in a new book published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Virtual Institute. Trade Policies, Household Welfare and Poverty Alleviation: Case Studies from the Virtual Institute Academic Network, […]
Gov’t, UTAG Hold Crunch Meeting Today
University teachers are expected to hold a crunch meeting with government today to insist that the book and research allowance be maintained as a condition to end a protracted strike lasting over a month. “We expect that the [book and research allowance] should not be scrapped and should co-exist with the national research fund”, General Secretary […]
Solutions To Graduate Joblessness
Huge inroads will be made into graduate unemployment if universities begin to trace their students into the world of work to understand whether the skills they have acquired are relevant to their jobs, Prof. Clement K. Dzidonu, president of the Accra Institute of Technology, has said. He proposed that a mandatory annual “trace-your-graduates” study be […]
400 Delegates Storm World Cashew Festival & Expo In Accra
By M.A Kunateh, Accra, Ghana The African Cashew Alliance’s prestigious World Cashew Festival & Expo returns to Ghana for the second year running, with a four-day event beginning on 11th November 2014 at the Accra International Conference Centre. According to the organisers, over 400 delegates from all over the world and from all levels […]
Ghana faces major economic crisis since 34 years
A renowned economist, Kwame Pianim says Ghana is facing a major economic crisis since the dark days of the economic recovery efforts of the 1980s. However, he stated that; ” most public pronouncements seem to be in denial of the gravity of the crisis. It is being claimed the challenges are temporary or largely driven […]