From Climate Crisis to Community Action: ASA Leads the Way

Global textile brand Vlisco introduces Vlisco VIBE — a fresh take on its iconic prints, made for the contemporary wardrobe. Where the brand’s distinctive designs have been woven into moments of celebration and ceremony, Vlisco VIBE now extends that legacy into the rhythm of daily life – from professional to casual occasions, season after season.

A major constraint on trade financing across Africa has been overcome with the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry signing an international convention aimed at making goods moving by road, rail and other transport modes easier to use as security for bank loans.

Comprehensive geological mapping is essential to delineating concessions for small-scale and large-scale mining operators and preventing operational conflicts between local miners and multinational companies, Denis Gyeyir, Programme Manager for Resources Futures in Africa at the Open Society Foundations, has said.

Government faces mounting pressure to convert its expanding youth population into productive employment, with nearly two million young people neither working nor in education or training - highlighting the challenge of translating economic growth and macroeconomic stability into decent jobs.

Ghana’s lower-rate cycle is forcing banks to prove that growth can survive without the unusually high yields of recent years.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across all 16 regions are to benefit from a national business pitch competition aimed at improving access to funding, strengthening business capacity and creating jobs.

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA Ghana) has launched a one-year initiative to assess the institutional, regulatory and workforce requirements for Ghana’s nuclear power programme as the country works towards the stage at which it can invite bids or negotiate a contract for its first nuclear power plant.

Ghana Bauxite Company Limited (GBC) has signed a financing mandate with Ecobank Ghana PLC for proposed facilities of up to US$250 million to expand and modernise its mining operations at Awaso, in a move expected to strengthen production capacity and support Ghana's ambition to process more of its bauxite locally.