The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has observed that the country’s agricultural goals were intended to be met by the second phase of Planting for Food and Jobs ( PFJ). He said there was great potential for the food and agriculture sectors in the new phase, which was still in its early phases of execution after being introduced in August ...

The Pan-African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) in collaboration with Abantu For Development and Keep Your Promise Campaign are pushing for a more hands on the deck approach to address climate change impacts. The group also wants African governments to as a matter of importance honour promises they make during international conferences relative to climate change. They note that Climate change ...

The UN climate change conference in Dubai is close to a big breakthrough on reducing the gases heating our planet, its United Arab Emirates hosts believe. Expressing “cautious optimism”, the UAE negotiating team believes COP28 is gearing up to commit to phasing down fossil fuels over coming decades. Maybe even ditching them altogether. Hosting a climate conference in a petrostate ...

The Inspector-General of Police( IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare says the security agencies will ensure that the 2024 elections is peaceful and incident-free. According to the IGP, just as elections in the country have been peaceful since he assumed office, the 2024 polls will be no different. Speaking at a meeting of the national election security task force at the Police headquarters, Dr. Akuffo Dampare also assured the chairperson of ...

Energy Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, outlined the country’s ambitious Energy Transition and Investment Plan during Ghana’s Energy Day at the Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, UAE. The plan aims to attract $550 billion in capital investments to facilitate a comprehensive transition in the country’s energy sector. The key components of the plan include scaling up renewable energy, introducing ...

The number of delegates at this year’s UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil and gas industries have been registered for the COP28 climate talks. This record number is more than the total attendees from the 10 countries most vulnerable to ...

An army drone strike accidentally hit a village in northwestern Nigeria killing dozens of civilians celebrating a Muslim festival, local authorities, the military and residents said on Monday. Nigeria’s armed forces often rely on air strikes in their battle against so-called bandit militias in the northwest and northeast of the country where jihadists have been waging a 14-year conflict. The ...

Some residents of Effutu in the Central region have taken to the streets to show their displeasure over allegations of the possible sale of the Ramsar site in Winneba to some investors for mining. The concerned residents clad in red apparel say the site being given to the investor is the same site they use in hunting deer for the ...

The past decade has been confirmed the warmest ever recorded, continuing an alarming 30-year trend that the UN weather chief said on Tuesday is “unequivocally driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.”  Marked by record breaking land and ocean temperatures, the decade between 2011-2020 saw continued rising concentrations of greenhouse gasses that “turbo charged” dramatic glacier loss and sea-level rise, ...

The Ghanaian government should provide rights-based mental health services and adequate support for housing, independent living, and job training for people with mental health conditions, Human Rights Watch said today, head of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2023. Human Rights Watch released a short film featuring three people who were locked up because they have a mental ...