The use of child labour on cocoa farms in top producers Ivory Coast and Ghana has risen over the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, according to a draft of a U.S. government-sponsored report seen by Reuters.
More than 2 million children worked in the sector last season...
Ghana has recorded 70 new cases of Coronavirus, increasing the total confirmed cases to 636 as of 3pm on Tuesday, 14th, April, 2020. Out of the total confirmed cases, the country has also recorded 17 recoveries with eight deaths.
For the past two weeks, some parts of the country that...
The Amenfiman Rural Bank Limited at Wasa Akropong in the Wasa Amenfi East district in the Western Region has donated items tothe government through three local assemblies to support the fight against COVID-19.
The items worth about GH¢67,000 were presented to Wasa Amenfi West Municipality, Wasa Amenfi East Municipality and Wasa...
GLICO, the one-stop shop for insurance and financial services in Ghana, has donated various essential items to the Ghana Prisons Service to assist in measures taken to prevent spread of COVID-19.
The essential items included large quantities of Veronica-buckets, gallons of hand-sanitisers, boxes of vitamin C tablets and thermometer guns.
In...
The telecom companies have provided services for free for customers who browse educational sites and all websites for the Ghana Health Service and the Ministry of Information, the Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has revealed.
This, she noted at a press conference organised by the Information Ministry, forms part of efforts...
“These are no ordinary times.” Those were the words of President Akufo-Addo when addressing the nation for the very first time on steps being adopted by government to mitigate the harsh effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those words truly encapsulate the general feeling all over the world as this...
Growth in sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020 - the first recession in the region over the past 25 years according to the latest Africa’s Pulse, the World...
The novel coronavirus has caused nations lots of unprecedented encounters, and especially to their automobile sectors. Confidence has dropped significantly in creating stock for the automobile industry and buyers of cars.
Hit by the COVID-19 virus-led factory closures, automobile companies have been issuing sweeping leaves of absence for the majority...
The government of Ghana is making frantic effort to reposition the country as regional center of academic excellence, technological innovation and human capital development, Dr. Baffour Adjei Bawuah, Ghana’s Ambassador to the United States of America, has said.
Consequently, the necessary infrastructures and policies are being put in place towards...
Lockdowns and border closures decimate tourism
Tourist dollars help fund conservation efforts
Conservationists worried about poaching
As airports and borders closed last month to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, Africa’s wildlife tourism sector evaporated, along with revenues many conservation projects rely on to protect some of the...