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Ghana performing better than most African countries in Agric – US

Ghana performing better than most African countries in Agric – US

Africa News, Ghana News, International
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield has praised Ghana as a leader in food security in Africa ahead of her visit to the country on Friday. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield is currently on a three-nation trip to Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde. She is expected to discuss the impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine, specifically the impact it’s having on global food security tomorrow in Accra. Before she departed for her first stop in Uganda today, Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield told a U.S. Department of State Africa Regional Media Hub Briefing, that all three countries face serious food security situations because of the significant rise in the cost of food and energy. However, she said Ghana had been a leader in dealing with it and she will be visiting a market, mee...
Ghanaian Cardinal elected Head of the Catholic Church in Africa

Ghanaian Cardinal elected Head of the Catholic Church in Africa

Africa News, Ghana News, International
The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) (www.SECAM.org), the association of Catholic Bishops of Africa, Madagascar, and the Islands, has elected His Eminence Richard Kuuia Baawobr of Ghana as its new President. His Eminence Richard Kuuia Baawobr is now the highest-ranking member of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa. The election took place in Accra, Ghana, during the 19th Plenary Assembly of SECAM, whereby 130 participants, including cardinals and bishops representing over 600 catholic bishops of Africa came from all corners of the continent. The new President succeeds His Eminence Philippe Cardinal Ouédraogo from Burkina Faso. Another Cardinal, His Eminence Fridolin Besungu Ambongo of the Archdiocese of Kinshasha, in the Democratic Republic of...
Ghana face Switzerland in pre-World Cup friendly in November

Ghana face Switzerland in pre-World Cup friendly in November

Africa News, Ghana News, Sports
The Black Stars of Ghana will for the first time in history play against Switzerland in an International friendly before their opening match at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 toumament. The game will take place on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at the Baniyas Club Stadium in Abu Dhabi -United Arab Emirates. The match will give Coach Otto Addo a perfect opponent for the Group H opener against Portugal at the 974 stadium. The Black Stars will later take on South Korea (November 28) and Uruguay (December 2) while Switzerland face Cameroon (24 November), Brazil (28 November) and Serbia (December 2) on the same days as the “Black Stars” in Group G. The international friendly match against the Swiss national team will complete the calendar of the Black Stars – going into the FIFA World ...
E-Levy yields GH¢93.7m in 2 months

E-Levy yields GH¢93.7m in 2 months

Ghana News
The government mobilised GH¢93.7 million revenue from the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) in the first two months of implementation. The amount, mobilised in May and June this year, was about 93.59 percent lower than the GH¢1.46 billion target set in this year’s budget. Due to this, the government has revised the revenue target for the levy from the initial annual projection of GH¢6.96 billion to GH¢611 million in the Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review released last Tuesday. From the revenue side, data from the fiscal policy review indicated that the lower-than-targeted outcome reflected the performance of almost all the revenue lines. “Total revenue and grants consisting of domestic revenue, tax revenue and other major revenue lines churned out lower than projected, after yieldin...
Countries with cheapest mobile data: Where does Ghana rank?

Countries with cheapest mobile data: Where does Ghana rank?

Africa News, Ghana News, International
Ghana has made it onto the list of countries with the cheapest mobile data in the world. This conclusion came from a survey conducted by The Worldwide Mobile Data Pricing 2022 report. It was compiled by Cable.co.uk which saw data from 5,292 mobile data plans analysed from 233 countries. The findings were based on how much one gigabyte (GB) of data costs in the selected countries. Ghana placed 40th with an average price of $0.61 (¢5.12) per gigabyte after 12 data plans were examined. In Africa, however, Ghana is ranked second after Libya. Somalia and Morocco came in third and fourth, respectively. In all, Israel comes top with $0.04 per GB, followed by Italy, San Marino and Fiji as countries whose users enjoy the cheapest mobile data. According to Cable.co.uk,...
Ghana wins 45 medals at African Armwrestling Championships

Ghana wins 45 medals at African Armwrestling Championships

Africa News, Ghana News, Sports
The national armwrestling team, the Golden Arms have returned to the country after winning a total of 45 medals to finish third at the 11th Africa Armwrestling Championships which ended last Friday (July 22, 2022) in Lagos. The Ghanaian team comprised 21 pullers (as armwrestling athletes are known) claimed 18 gold medals, 22 silver and five bronze medals to finish behind hosts Nigeria (27 gold medals) and Egypt (24 gold medals).Each of the pullers - 10 males and 11 females - won at least two medals each during the Championship. Twelve countries participated in the competition which started on July 19, 22. Addressing a press briefing yesterday (July 25, 2022) in Accra, the President of the Ghana Armwrestling Federation (GAF), Charles Osei Asibey said the exploits of the pullers...
Ghana: Greater Accra has more than 50% of monkeypox cases

Ghana: Greater Accra has more than 50% of monkeypox cases

Ghana News, International
The total confirmed cases of the monkeypox outbreak in Ghana is now 34 with the cases recorded in six regions. More than 50 percent of cases are in the Greater Accra Region. The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said Greater Accra, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Eastern and Upper West are the regions where the cases have been identified. The monkeypox outbreak was Saturday (July 23, 2022) declared a global Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO). The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases. It came at the end of the second meeting of the WHO's emergency committee on the virus. Ghana cases The last confirmed...
Ghana to write 2022 WASSCE alone

Ghana to write 2022 WASSCE alone

Africa News, Ghana News
Only Ghanaian candidates are left to write the West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), scheduled from August 1 to September 27, 2022. This is because the other four-member countries of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) — Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia — have returned to the May/June calendar and had administered the WASSCE for their school candidates from May 9 to June 24, this year. The four countries have had their academic calendars streamlined to enable them to write the examination in May/June, as Ghana sticks to the ‘new normal’ calendar occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Notwithstanding the late sitting, Ghanaian candidates will still compete for the National Distinction Award and the WAEC Excellence Award with c...
Ghana retains spot as the second most peaceful country in Africa

Ghana retains spot as the second most peaceful country in Africa

Ghana News, International
Ghana has retained its spot as the second most peaceful country in sub-Saharan Africa behind only Mauritius on the 2022 Global Peace Index (GPI). Ghana was also ranked the 40th most peaceful country in the world on the index published by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. The GPI covers 163 countries comprising 99.7 percent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the de...
Police Service Ghana’s most corrupt institution – Research

Police Service Ghana’s most corrupt institution – Research

Africa News, Ghana News
The Ghana Police Service is the most corrupt institution in the country, a research conducted by Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) together with other stakeholders has stated. In total, 24 institutions were sampled for the said survey.  The research was christened; Corruption in Ghana, Peoples Experiences and View. The survey aimed to unearth corrupt institutions and provide data that will guide the formulation of policies in arresting the menace.  According to the survey, more than 17.4 million bribes were paid in 2021 with police officers topping the list of officials who take bribes at 53.2%. The Ghana Immigration Service Officers and GRA customs officers followed in that order. The two institutions garnered 37.4% and 33.6% respectively, while elected g...
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