The Inteleos Foundation today announced five recipients of its 2026 MedMissions Award, supporting maternal health ultrasound access in Malawi, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, and Côte d’Ivoire. The annual award advances locally led nonprofit …
The Member of Parliament for Anlo, Richard Kwami Sefe, has warned that more than 100 communities in the Volta Region risk being wiped out by tidal waves if urgent action is not taken.
The warning follows renewed tidal wave destructi…
The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced that the government has approved the payment of outstanding salary arrears owed to newly recruited teachers under the 2024 financial clearance.
The approval, according to the Service, wa…
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has outlined a comprehensive investment programme aimed at addressing persistent reliability challenges and strengthening its network capacity, the Acting Managing Director, Kwame Kpekpena, has anno…
The Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) has disbursed GH¢199.47 million to senior high and technical school heads to settle outstanding feeding arrears, easing mounting pressure over delayed payments that had threatened to disrupt schoo…
The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) has rejected allegations circulating on social media that a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defence received unearned salaries amounting to GH¢427 million over a 29-month …
The Minister for Communication, Technology and Innovation, Sam George, says Ghana is seeking to learn from Zambia’s approach to reducing energy losses and improving efficiency in power distribution.
According to him, inefficiencies …
A new initiative aimed at reshaping environmental education among young people has been launched in Accra, with a focus on making climate issues more engaging and action-oriented.
The initiative is designed to move beyond traditional …
The National Fisheries Association of Ghana (NAFAG) has backed the government’s decision to establish a Marine Protected Area (MPA), describing it as a timely and critical intervention to restore the country’s declining fish stocks.
T…
A Chief of Staff at the Presidency, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, has called for the continuous recognition of women as a daily culture and an integral part of the country’s national fabric.
This she said must not become an annual ritual, a t…
A Professor of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Joseph Aggrey-Fynn, has attributed Ghana’s declining fish stocks largely to illegal fishing practices and weak enforcement of existing regulations, warning that the country risks further depl…
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called on the youth to use education and new technologies, including digital tools and artificial intelligence, to make Africa “borderless” in practice.
He explained that the continent had b…
Government is moving to digitise how Ghanaians report power outages, with plans to introduce a WhatsApp-based system that allows users to flag faults instantly and trigger a rapid response from technical teams.
The initiative, accor…
The Vice-President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, says the government will continue to provide the necessary infrastructure to support agribusiness, especially within the tomato value chain.
She said the initiative would genera…
The Minister for Communication, Technology, and Innovation, Sam George, has disclosed plans for the consideration of a framework that would allow mutual recognition of fintech and payment service licences between Ghana and Zambia to ea…
Ghanaians living abroad remitted nearly $7.8 billion to the country in 2025, significantly exceeding foreign direct investment (FDI), but much of the inflow continues to be channelled into consumption rather than productive investment.
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President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Ministry of Finance to fund the Tamale water expansion project from domestic resources after the European Union withdrew a €277 million facility.
He announced this when he cut the sod f…
Across various health facilities in the Central River Region (CRR), The Gambia, a quiet but impactful collaboration is unfolding: one that places frontline health workers at the heart of improving health outcomes nationwide. As hea…
Ghanaian mining firm Engineers and Planners Limited has taken over operations of the Damang Mine, with its Chief Executive Officer, Ibrahim Mahama, pledging a wave of infrastructure investments aimed at transforming surrounding communiti…
The Government of Ghana has said it will assist undocumented Ghanaians in Spain to obtain the documents required to qualify for legal residency under Spain’s migrant regularisation programme.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Samue…
While the world debates a path towards reducing carbon emissions and addressing the climate crisis, Africa continues to face one of its most consequential challenges yet: energy poverty. Across the continent, more than 600 million …
In the architecture of Africa’s future economy, two forces are colliding:
An historic demographic surge.
The rapid ascension of Artificial Intelligence.
In the wake of the Pan African AI Summit team’s meeting with the Ministry…
“Recently, at Dodowa, where I launched the Free Primary Healthcare Programme, we handed over equipment, including vehicles, for distribution to CHPS compounds. Among them were tricycles. Let me be clear for those who don’t understa…
The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has published a sweeping list of 62 institutions that are not recognised in Ghana, warning the public to exercise due diligence with regard to any certificates issued by these entities due t…
The Ghana Police Service has promoted and decorated nineteen senior officers in a move aimed at strengthening leadership within the security service.
The ceremony, held at the National Police Headquarters in Accra on April 17, was led…
As the Pacific recovers from a severe cyclone season and Asia braces for the monsoon, flood readiness has become a defining test of sustainable urban development.
The Asia and the Pacific 2026 SDG Progress Report signals a hard trut…
A teenage girl was holding her sister while standing in a flooded area in South Tarawa, Kiribati. Seawater cuts access to the main road and children sometimes have to swim or use floating devices to go to school.
Rising …
For a long time, social life was all about late nights, loud music, and the idea that having fun meant drinking.
Now, things are changing, especially for younger adults, and this shift is changing how people think about connection, well…
Biovac, based in Cape Town, will become Africa’s first multi-vaccine manufacturing site after a R1.47 billion investment by the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group, the financing arm of the European Union, the European Commission and the …
Papyrus Global has announced a strategic partnership with Talentz MEDIA (https://www.TalentzMEDIA.com), a Ghana-based media organization dedicated to promoting African talent and impactful storytelling.
Download Infographics: https:…
The Transformative African Leadership (TAL) programme is a new pan-African initiative reshaping how leadership is practised across the continent. It moves beyond conventional models, grounding leadership in African realities and placing …
A new report by British International Investment (BII) highlights how lessons from the Ghana Investment Support Programme (GhISP) has helped inform its approach to market-building as a central part of its 2026–2030 strategy.
I…
New industry report, released on day one of Africa Travel Week, delivers an honest assessment of the continent’s current tourism landscape, and issues a clear warning:
the post-pandemic grace period is over.
Africa Travel Week, bu…
Following active participation in the 2026 ECOSOC Youth Forum at United Nations Headquarters, the Youth Charter (www.YouthCharter.org) is issuing a call for a more youth-centred and action-oriented global communiqué. This call urge…
Disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz – a critical artery for global trade that handles about 30% of the world’s fertilizer shipments – are sending shockwaves through fertilizer markets, driving prices up and raising serious question…
Beneath the waves of East Africa, vibrant coral reefs tell a story of both beauty and vulnerability. With reefs around the world disappearing at an alarming rate, Canon Central and East Africa (www.Canon-CNA.com) is stepping in, expand…
AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine has reinforced its commitment to youth development and innovation with the successful hosting of its maiden Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Bootcamp in Obuasi.
A surge of creativit…
New £100,000 initiative aimed at reducing child labour in four cocoa-growing districts in two regions has been launched at Goaso in the Ahafo Region.
Christened "Advancing Rights and Combating Child Labour in Cocoa Value Chains in Gha…
President John Dramani Mahama has outlined a raft of measures by the government to tackle the persistent glut of food crops, particularly maize and rice, in a move aimed at stabilising prices and protecting farmers’ incomes.
As part o…
President John Dramani Mahama has assured Ghanaians that recent power outages across parts of the country are the result of ongoing system upgrades and not a return to the prolonged electricity crisis popularly known as “dumsor”.
The …
The Ghana National Gas Company and Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) have announced a planned five-hour shutdown of the Gas Processing Plant at Atuabo from midnight to 5:00 am on Monday, April 20, 2026, to complete the replacement of a…
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has announced plans to extend its operational hours at selected offices nationwide, a move aimed at improving access to services and reducing congestion at its centres.
Under the new a…
The Central Regional Office of the Public Utility Regulatory Commission (PURC) has made notable strides in addressing consumer grievances in the first quarter of the year, conclusively resolving 93 per cent of complaints filed.
In its…
The Ghana Health Service is working towards integrating Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance into the national disease control strategy, expressing its commitment to collaborating with partners to build robust, responsive, and sustain…
Stakeholders in the health sector have called for the urgent repositioning of consumers at the centre of the country’s healthcare discourse, emphasising that a people-focused system is critical to improving patient safety, accountability, …
The Wastewater and Environmental Surveillance Meeting 2026 has opened in Accra, bringing together global health experts, scientists and policymakers to strengthen disease prevention through wastewater monitoring.
The meeting, organised…
THE Government of Japan, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has launched three major initiatives aimed at strengthening peacebuilding, advancing artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, and accelerati…
MEST Africa, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has officially announced 12 EdTech companies selected for the third cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship. The companies bring the number of Ghanaian-owned sol…
Motorcycle riders have been urged to observe road safety regulations to prevent accidents and loss of lives.
The appeal targets commercial operators, amid concerns over rising indiscipline and disregard for basic safety requirements o…
Ghana has begun the implementation of a 15-month climate risk modelling project under the Global Risk Modelling Alliance (GRMA) aimed at strengthening disaster risk management and building resilience across key sectors of the economy.
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