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The world’s first successful malaria vaccine is expected to be used across the globe, but before this, preparations have begun this year for young children in Ghana, Malawi and Kenya to be immunised first with the vaccine in selected areas under a pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Programme (MVIP) for further …

The world has been battling poverty, and efforts are being made in different economies to reduce inequality, but those efforts won’t yield desired outcomes in the required funding gaps are not met, especially in some of the world’s poorest countries. A new report says some of the world’s poorest countries …

Ghana’s recent ratings by the Standards and Poor indicating that the economy has improved from a B – status to a solid B, with a stable outlook, is a confirmation that we’re in the right direction, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, said Tuesday. He explained: “We’re not where we want …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admonished Ghanaians not to buy-in to the vile propaganda and political machinations of his political opponents to discredit his policies and programmes. He pointed out that no amount of political spinning and falsehood would derail his unwavering commitment to implement innovative policy initiatives to …

The oil sector in Ghana received the largest chunk of foreign direct investments in 2017 with Italian oil company, Eni being the biggest foreign investor in the country that year. Ghana became an oil producer in December 2010 three years after the country announced it had found oil in commercial …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has given strong indication that individuals whose actions and inactions led to the collapse of some local banks, are not going to escape the law. “Those responsible for the sequence of activities that led to the banking crisis will face the full brunt of the …

China is increasingly making efforts to establish better and stronger relationship with Africa. The forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is a platform that Chinese authorities have created to build stronger win-win relationship with Africa. FOCAC was established by the Government of China in the year 2000 to help nurture, consolidate and …

Considering the availability of arable land and the involvement of a large percentage of the population engaged in agriculture in Africa, the continent is a potential food basket for the world, but that doesn’t seem to be the case presently. Africa has a population of about 1.2 billion, and about …

The year-on-year inflation rate for August was 9.9 per cent up from 9.6 per cent recorded in July 2018. The monthly change rate in August 2018 was zero per cent, compared with the rate of 0.4 per cent recorded in July 2018. The year-on-year non-food inflation rate for August 2018 …

About 4,092 Ghanaian migrants returned from Libya in 2017, figures from the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has revealed. According to Chief Superintendent James Hayford Boadi, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Head of the Immigration Information Centre of the GIS, most of the returnees were from Brong-Ahafo. Instead of leaving the country through …