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Iran is winning the strategic struggle for influence in the Middle East against its rival, Saudi Arabia, according to a study by the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Iran’s regional rivals have spent billions of dollars on Western weaponry, much of it from the UK. Yet for a fraction of that cost, sanctions-bound Iran has been able to ...

Director for the Regional Bureau for Africa at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has challenged African countries to move beyond aid and graduate towards a high and long-term investment plan to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Ahunna Eziakonwa speaking at the UNDP High-Level Dialogue in Accra on November 7 said the move is required to close the current ...

The ambush, which also wounded 60 people, was the third deadly attack on the Semafo mining company in 15 months. Gunmen in Burkina Faso killed at least 37 people on Wednesday in an attack on a convoy carrying employees, suppliers and contractors of a Canadian mining company, one of the deadliest episodes in a recent tide of violence that has ...

Chairman of the Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah has asked the government to pay attention to the road and health sector in the 2020 budget. The Finance Minister is expected to present the 2020 budget and financial policy of the government to Parliament next week. It will be the fourth budget of the Akufo-Addo administration, in accordance with Article ...

We are living in an Era and despensation when most prophesies have turned out to be death, coffin, buried, accident, blood etc targeted at Celebrities, politicians, Religious leaders and ordinary people. The Presiding Bishop of Victory Bible Church International, Bishop N A Tarkie-Yarboi has caution the end time doom prophets to see beyond death. “Death is supposed to be a ...

The Ghana ‘beyond aid’ policy by President Akufo-Addo has gained global attraction as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has adopted it for its policy direction for the entire African continent. The adoption was manifested in the UNDP High-Level Dialogue with African influencers held at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel, today Thursday, the 7th of November, 2019 which was themed, ...

The Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, has kicked against the call for the decriminalization of Attempted Suicide in the country, describing the attempt to take one’s life as an unacceptable behavior that must rather be punished and deterred. He stated that criminalizing an attempt to commit suicide would go a long way to discourage Ghanaians, especially the youth, to appreciate ...

An Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Ghana is calling for the re-assessment of government spending as well as a consideration for improving its tax effort. Prof Abena D. Oduro delivering the fourth Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Memorial Lecture said government’s budget is skewed towards consumption expenditure which makes it difficult to achieve its target for development expenditure. “The fiscal position must ...

Three social investment organisations have inaugurated a new rural water delivery model that ensures the sustainability of safe water systems in small towns and villages. United States of America-based Water4, working through its local partner, Access Development Ghana, with the support of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), has provided access to safe water systems to 54,000 people in the Wassa ...

Ours is a culture that would need a lot of tweaking to align with 21-century thinking when it comes to women-related issues. Some such issues, including childlessness in marriage, leave a lot of women traumatised because culturally, they are considered as failures and therefore misfits no matter their other life achievements. And so, it gladdened my heart to hear our head ...