President John Mahama has declared the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) “technically dead” after the United States imposed fresh tariffs on African exports, including a 15% levy on Ghana’s goods. He made the remarks during his first presidential media encounter of his second term in office, warning that there is little hope of the […]
U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters. The supplies have been stuck for months in a warehouse in Geel, a city in the […]
Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday. The deaths last month are among the first to be directly attributed to cuts imposed by U.S. President Donald […]
Programmes to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid from the US, says the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO). US President Donald Trump has taken steps to close the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), arguing that […]
President John Mahama has asked the Finance Minister, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, to immediately find solutions to address the gaps in the country’s health sector funding following the suspension of USAID assistance. In a letter addressed to the minister, the president called for urgent action, as the situation is likely to affect Ghana’s efforts in […]
The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that it was going to put on leave all directly hired employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development globally and recall thousands of personnel working overseas. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally,” said […]
The Climate Change Conference that was recently organised by the United Nations in Glasgow, Scotland, is a reminder to world leaders and indeed everyone that unless a concerted, systematic, global action is adopted to stop negative human activities that destroy our planet, human survival could be at risk. Rising desert conditions and extreme heat waves, […]
More than 1.2 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States arrived in Ghana on Saturday morning. US Ambassador Stephanie Sullivan, Deputy Minister of Health, Honorable Mahama Asei Seini, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Honorable Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong, and the UNICEF Country Representative to Ghana Ms Anne-Claire Dufay received […]
A study by Agency for Health and Food Security (AHEFS), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has revealed that Ghana spends over US$100 million on the importation of vegetables annually. The vegetables, mostly tomatoes and onions, according to the study, were mostly imported from the neighbouring Togo, Cote Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Speaking at a media […]
The American First Lady, Mrs Melania Trump, arrived in the Accra yesterday, to begin her four-nation African tour. The Boeing 757 Presidential Jet carrying her touched down at the Kotoka International Airport at about 10am. She stood at the top of the airplane stairs, smiled broadly and waved enthusiastically at waiting dignitaries, including Ghana’s First […]
Melania Trump, the First Lady of the United States of America will be in Ghana on Monday 1st October, 2018 as part of her working visit to four African countries on a mission to promote child welfare. Ghana would be the first African country Donald Trump’s wife would visit before proceeding to three other countries […]
