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Dr Vladimir Antwi-Danso, the Dean of Academic Affairs, Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College, has urged the Africa Union (AU) to prioritise the engagement and integration of ordinary citizens to successfully drive the socio-economic advancement of the continent. “Look, one of the biggest problems of the integration of Africa is the neglect of the socio-economic partners of development, who ...

Country Director for SEND Ghana, George Osei-Akoto Bimpeh, has called on political parties in Ghana to include the citizenry in the drafting of their manifestos to ensure that there is social equality in the implementation of policies. According to him, SEND Ghana has discovered that most of the time, manifestos drafted by political parties focus on what the parties want ...

Ghana has called for a collective and coordinated global response to assist vulnerable countries to address the “unprecedented effects” of Covid-19. Such a response, Ghana Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Ministry reiterated, is needed to mitigate the harsh economic and financial effects of the pandemic. “With the benefit of immediate debt relief, developing countries could focus on protecting vulnerable populations, ...

Health Minister, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu has been elected to serve on the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO). He’s among the 34-member executive board who will serve a three-year term for the organisation. The announcement which was made on the Health Ministry’s Facebook page indicated that the Director-General of WHO, Dr. Tredos Adhanom Ghebreyesus congratulated Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, his Vice-Chairs, ...

Over 300 Ghanaian Canadians who were stranded in Ghana during the COVID-19 pandemic were flown to Toronto on Tuesday, May 19 night by the Canadian government on a special flight.Ethopian Airline plane was arranged by the Canadian Mission in Accra to fly those Ghanaian Canadians directly from Accra to Toronto after an abortive attempt to repatriate them on April 30.The Ghanaian Canadian ...

An Accra High Court has set June 23, 2020 to rule on an application seeking to restrain the government from obtaining the personal information of mobile subscribers for purposes of contact tracing in the Covid-19 pandemic fight in the country. The application seeks to put the exercise on hold until the determination of a substantive suit challenging Executive Instrument (EI ...

The 245 Ghanaians illegally living in Kuwait who are expected to be deported back to Ghana today have arrived at Terminal 3 of the Kotoka International Airport in a Kuwaiti aircraft. Starr News sources at the airport say the deportees arrived a short while ago and are undergoing arrival processes. Ghana’s Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah revealed the news of ...

The Auditor-General has once again revealed a harrowing tale of payroll fraud involving 21 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) which has resulted in the state losing GH¢467,634,792. According to the Auditor-General, a study conducted between June 2018 and January 2020, discovered that 7,823 ‘ghosts’ names were on the public sector payroll of the MDAs. Contained in a report presented to ...

Ghana has confirmed 173 new COVID-19 cases. This makes the total confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus stand at 6,269, according to the latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS). The increase, per the GHS update, is attributed to new cases found in Greater Accra, Ashanti, Western and Central regions. The update also indicated 125 more recoveries, raising the number of recoveries to ...

Over 400 structures including an orphanage have been demolished at Jamestown to pave way for the construction of a fishing habour in the area. The $60 million project will have a landing site, storage facilities and recreational area. However residents affected by the demolition protested the exercise, claiming that they were not informed ahead of time. Narrating the incidence, Joy ...