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Twenty-nine countries have levels of hunger that are alarming or extremely alarming, says the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released today. The report, co-authored by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Concern…

President John Evans Atta Mills at the weekend congratulated Ex-President Jerry Rawlings on his appointment as the AU High Representative to Somalia. In a special message sent to Flt Lt Rawlings on his own behalf and that of the…

Hon. Kobbina Pra-Annan, Metropolitan Chief Executive of the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (STMA), has charged Muslims in the Western Region to champion the cause of cleanliness and lead the way to make the region very clean and a…

President John Atta Mills has  acknowledged the immense support and goodwill from chiefs both collectively as an institution and individually since coming into office. He said chiefs had been a tower of strength, offering invaluable…

President Mills has said the government would provide an irrigation facility on the Kamba River under the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority’s (SADA) programmes. He said the yearly appeals by the chiefs and people of the Lawra…

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr Cletus Avoka, has appealed to the clergy to keep themselves abreast with the work of the legislature to enable them educate their congregations about its activities. He said it would be important for…

Less than half of the estimated population of Ghana had been counted by Sunday’s expiry of the initial two-week period allotted for the 2010 Population and Housing Census. As a result, the Government Statistician, Dr Grace Bediako, has…

A new Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released today in Washington DC, has identified malnutrition among children under two years of age as one of the leading challenges to reducing global hunger, stating that it can cause lifelong harm to…

Ghana is said to be losing millions of dollars in tax revenue from expatriate workers employed by the oil companies, including Tullow Oil and other partners in the Jubilee Oil Fields. Some mining companies are also said to have engaged…

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) report for 2010 released today has confirmed that Ghana is on track to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of reducing by half the percentage of its population who are hungry, by 2015. “Only…