As members of the National Democratic Congress await with bated breath, report of the Kwesi Botchwey-led committee on what led to the party’s humiliating defeat in last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, names of some prospective candidates; seen as front runners in the race to lead the party into the 2020 election are already trending […]
Safe Water Network, a not-for-profit international organisation, has commissioned a 100,000 dollar water station at Fodzoku in the North Tongu District of the Volta Region. The “H2OME Water Station” will serve 13 small towns and marks the end of 30 years without potable water in the Volta River Authority (VRA) resettlement community. Some children from […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appointed Mr Fred Kyei Asamoah, a Pharmaceutical Expert, as the new Executive Director of the Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET). His appointment takes effect from Monday, February 6, 2017. Mr Asamoah is an expert in Drug Design, Public Health, Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement, Policy Planning […]
A Canadian immigration lawyer said here on Tuesday he and others in his field had been swamped with immigration assistance requests from Muslims legally residing in the U.S. They’re seeking a new home in Canada following U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order that banned residents from seven Muslim-majority countries, said Richard Kurland, an immigration lawyer […]
About 4,500 Turkish public staff have been dismissed over their suspected links with the Gulenist Terror Group (FETO), a statutory decree announced on Tuesday. Under the statutory decree issued on the website, 2,585 from the Education Ministry, 893 from the gendarmerie, 417 from the General Security Directorate, 49 from the Interior Ministry and 520 from […]
RAMALLAH/GAZA — The Israeli parliament’s vote to legalize settlement posts in the West Bank outraged the Palestinians on Tuesday, who warned that the vote would bring a global wrath against Israel. On Monday night, the Israeli parliament voted in favor of legalizing 4,000 Jewish settlements that will be built on Palestinian-owned lands in the West […]
Macedonia is expected to invest 3 million euros (3.2 million U.S. dollars) in purchasing equipment that will enable fast detection of weather hazards, a minister said Tuesday. The equipment will arrive in Macedonia next month, Macedonian Minister of Agriculture Mihail Cvetkov told a press conference. According to him, such investment is crucial as the equipment […]
European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday decried the newly-adopted Israeli bill which legalizes settlements built on Palestinian land in the West Bank, warning that the bill “crosses a dangerous threshold”. “This law crosses a new and dangerous threshold by legalizing under Israeli law the seizure of Palestinian property rights and effectively […]
A large pig farm in the central Latvian municipality of Salaspils has to slaughter its whole 10,000 swine after it has been hit by African swine fever, the Latvian food and veterinary authority said on Tuesday. The Food and Veterinary Service said it had just received positive test results confirming the presence of the deadly […]
Algerian and Tunisian officials on Tuesday agreed on working to increase and optimize energy supply on the border areas of the two neighboring North African nations. The two nations held their bilateral energy committee in Algiers, as part of the visit of Tunisian Energy Minister Hela Cheikh Rouhou. The meeting focused on ways and means […]
A prestigious Spanish award was given to U.S. ecologist Gene Likens and Dutch scientist Marten Scheffer for their work in helping understand the responses of ecosystems to human-induced alterations of the environment, it was announced Tuesday. Likens and Scheffer was granted the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Ecology and Conservation Biology. Two […]
Algeria on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to support for the United Nations’ peace process in war-torn Libya. Algerian Minister for Maghreb Affairs, African Union and Arab League, Abdelkader Messahel, received in his office in Algiers a Libyan delegation representing a coalition of Libyan political parties, led by Ali Bashir Zouik, according to a statement of […]
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday discussed respective visions for the future of EU on Tuesday. “Poland and Germany are two important countries which cooperate with each other. We want to deepen this partnership cooperation,” Szydlo said in a press conference following a meeting with Merkel. Szydlo said a […]
The Zambian government said Tuesday that the plan by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to set up an office in the country was a clear endorsement by Europe that Zambia was one of the best investment destinations in Africa. Minister of Finance Felix Mutati, who has just returned from a tour of some European countries […]
A Tanzanian cabinet minister told Parliament on Tuesday the government was on the final stages of banning production and sale of illicit spirits packed in sachets that was taking its toll on the youth. Poorly packed liquor sold across the nation has been blamed for harming health of the youth and affecting the production chain […]
The People’s Party (PP) of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy would once again be the winner if a general election were to be held in Spain, with the same 33 percent of the vote they polled in the last election in June 2016, a poll showed on Tuesday. According to the quarterly barometer of public […]
China’s foreign exchange reserve fell to under the psychologically important 3-trillion-dollar mark as it hit a six-year low in January, officials said Tuesday. Forex reserves fell to 2.9982 trillion dollars, down from about 3.01 trillion dollars in December, China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange said, citing figures from the central bank. China’s forex reserves have […]
African leaders who win elections on the anti-corruption platform must ensure that they lived up to their pledges to deliver corruption-free services to their citizens, Transparency International (TI) has said. The global anti-corruption watchdog said in its Corruption Perceptions Index 2016: “They must implement their commitments to the principles of governance, democracy and human rights. […]
The inauguration of Nana Akufo-Addo on January 7, 2017 as President of the Republic of Ghana and the smooth transition of power from NDC’s John Mahama has clearly demonstrated who the true democrats in Ghana’s political terrain are. In 2012 when the same Ghanaian electorate elected John Mahama as President in genuinely run elections, the […]
Joining officials from the Ministry of Education and Technical Education (MoETE), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is supporting a conference today that will bring leaders of Egyptian business and technical schools into dialogue with private sector employees to discuss how best to prepare graduating students for the workplace. Contributing to USAID’s ongoing Workforce […]
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