The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto says the recent outbreak of transborder animal diseases, including Bird Flu, has negatively impacted the progress of the government’s flagship Rearing for Food and Jobs programmes. He said the outbreaks “threaten government’s agenda of attaining self-sufficiency in meat production by 2025 as envisioned under the rearing for food and jobs programme.” Available ...

Burkina Faso’s ousted president, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, “is physically well” and is being held by the army in a villa, a source in his party said on Wednesday. Kabore’s state and whereabouts have been a key issue since he was overthrown by mutineering soldiers on Monday. “President Kabore is physically well, but I cannot say anything about his state ...

Mobile money Association of Ghana has petitioned the Minority Caucus in Parliament to ensure the new Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) is rejected when it is put before the house. According to the group, the analysis they did on the E-levy following its introduction in the 2022 budget shows its implementation will pose a challenge not only to Ghanaians and agents ...

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed in the COVID-19 Households and Jobs Tracker Wave 3,  that borrowing became more frequent coping strategy in Ghana last year. Approximately eighty-seven percent, 86.7%, of households used some sort of coping strategy to deal with the negative effects of COVID-19 since March 2020, the tracker said. “The most common coping strategies included relying on savings ...

For the United Nations’ Secretary General, Brigadier General Constance Emefa Edjeani-Afenu, who passed away this week in her home country, Ghana, was “a true pioneer.”  In a heartfelt statement released on Tuesday night, António Guterres said Brigadier Edjeani-Afenu “made history in peacekeeping as the first female Deputy Force Commander in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).” Through a ...

Newmont Ghana has said it is supporting the relief efforts for the victims of the tragic explosion that occurred at Appiatse on Thursday, 20th January 2022 with construction materials and consumables. The donated items including roofing sheets, iron rods, cement, and other consumables were donated in response to the government’s call to support the rebuilding of the Appiatse community. “We ...

Prof. Godfred Alufar Bokpin, an Economist and Professor of Finance at the University of Ghana Business School has underscored the need for stronger reforms in Ghana’s tax regime to curb inequality and poverty. The 2021 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) index report ranked Ghana 3rd in West Africa, 20th in Africa and 121 globally, on its commitment to tackling inequality. ...

The latest Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International shows that Ghana scored 43 out of a possible clean score of 100. The West African country thus placed 73 out of 180 countries. The latest report also suggests the country didn’t make any progress in its fight against corruption. “This CPI score indicates that, Ghana failed to make progress in ...

The Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs has directed that trainees under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCo) be allowed to leave post. This follows the completion of the programme back in October 2021. NABCO was introduced by the Akufo-Addo led administration in 2017 as part of measures to address graduate unemployment in the country. In November 2021, the NABCO secretariat ...

MindFreedom- Ghana, a Mental Health Advocacy Organization has embarked on nationwide round table consultations with Civil Society Organizations to make case for the recognition of human rights of persons with psychosocial disabilities in the 4th Cycle Universal Peer Review (UPR) process. The UPR is a unique process that involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. ...