August 2009

The Asante-Mampong District Hospital, has started a diet-related clinic as part of an initiative to help bring down the rising incidence of lifestyle diseases like hypertension and diabetes in the area. Dr Emmanuel Ahiable, Medical…

The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), has been urged to focus on delivering on its election campaign promises and stop blaming the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the country’s harsh economic conditions. Mr Emmanuel Aidoo, an N.P.P.…

Eight hospitality facilities in the Techiman municipality in Brong Ahafo have been operating without licences from the Ghana Tourist Board. They are Temple Guest House, J. O. Christ, Atomic Paradise, Great Abrafi, Atomic Paradise (annex),…

Burundi plans to increase state spending by 2.7 percent this year to 848 billion francs due to the impact of the global economic slowdown, the government said on Saturday. Finance Minister Clotilde Nizigama told parliament remittances from…

Zambia will triple the amount of white maize it will buy from small-scale farmers to keep them in business as they do not have a ready market for their produce, Minister of Agriculture Brian Chituwo said on Saturday. Zambian farmers…

A strike at Impala Platinum, the world's No. 2 producer of the precious metal, will continue and there is no scheduled meeting to resume negotiations between workers and the company, union officials said on Saturday. Some 20,000 workers at…

Encouraging figures this week suggested the US economy is at or near the trough of the recession. Output shrank in the second quarter at 1 per cent at an annualised rate, sharply down from the first quarter contraction of 6.4 per cent. The…

Vice President John Dramani Mahama, on Wednesday charged the National Communications Authority (NCA), to apply sanctions against telecom operators that fail to honour their licence requirements to provide quality service to the public.…

The Ghana government has decided not to license new telecom operators to safeguard the integrity of the industry, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Communications said on Wednesday. “Government has no intentions of adding a new telecom…

The Ghana Shippers’ Council on Wednesday held a day’s symposium in Kumasi, on the global economic crisis and its impact on the activities of exporters and importers in the Ashanti and Brong-Ahafo regions.      It was designed to broaden…