Accra -Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) Executive Vice President David Bohigian today joined Appolonia City Chief Executive Officer Bright Owusu-Amofah and GHL Bank Chief Executive Officer Dominic Adu for a commencement ceremony at Appolonia City, a new city development near the capital, as construction starts on low- and middle-income homes supported by mortgages from GHL Bank, an OPIC client.

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Washington, DC -Four new partners have joined the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced at the recent U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.

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Statement by U.S. Mission to the World Trade Organization Attaché Neil Beck at the WTO Trade Policy Review of Ghana

An online U.S. Department of State press conference featuring Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield:

This piece by Forrest McKennie, director of finance, investment and trade for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), was published on the MCC's Poverty Reduction Blog on May 5.

Washington -U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the 20 American companies that will accompany her on an energy business development trade mission to West Africa, visiting Ghana and Nigeria May 18-23.

By adding Ghanaian percussion instruments to American jazz music, Kofi Ghanaba integrated African and American musical sounds to create the genre Afro-jazz. His first album, released in 1956, was called Africa Speaks, America Answers.

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Press Statement from John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State in Washington, DC

When Ghana identified post-harvest loss as a major inefficiency of its agricultural sector, the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation decided that agribusiness centers could help. It invested in building 10 centers throughout the country that could reduce losses by offering processing, drying, storage and marketing services for staple crops.