The United Kingdom (UK) government, through its High Commission in Ghana, has carried out a repatriation exercise of its stranded citizens in Ghana amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The exercise, carried out last Friday at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Accra saw about 700 UK nationals sent home...
…unprecedented crisis could push up to 60million into extreme poverty
The World Bank Group has announced its emergency operations to fight COVID-19 (coronavirus) have reached 100 developing countries – home to 70 percent of the world’s population.
Since March, the Bank Group has rapidly delivered record levels of support in order to help countries...
As the COVID-19 pandemic takes a toll on African health systems and their economies, African governments are staking a claim for debt relief or outright cancellation of debts owed to China and the west.
Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, and the South African Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, have been leading...
Absa Bank Ghana, in collaboration with Genser Energy Ghana and its partners namely Barak Fund and Africa 50, has made a donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) and other key medical supplies to the Ghana Armed Forces COVID-19 Task Force & the Ashanti Regional Hospital, to complement government’s effort...
When India’s government announced, with four hours’ notice, a nationwide three-week lockdown to stem the spread of the coronavirus, millions of the country’s poorest citizens faced the risk of hunger and destitution. Many migrant laborers, suddenly jobless, walked hundreds of miles from cities to their native villages. There, too,...
Chinese power company TBEA has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) worth GH¢100,000 to the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), as part of measures to support the power transmitter in fighting spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, several corporate organisations in the...
Insurance group, Hollard Ghana, as part of efforts to join the fight against COVID-19 across the country, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Western Region Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in addition to an awareness campaign on regional radio and TV.
GPRTU PPE donation
The presentation was made...
Two more persons who tested positive have been confirmed dead, raising the death toll of Ghana’s COVID-19 cases to 31.
Number of positive cases have also risen to 5,918 out of which 1,754 have recovered.
This is according to an update from the Ghana Health Service on May 19, 2020.
The Greater...
The predicament of hospitality facilities, emanating from the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic lingers on as there is no sight to the end of the COVID-19 crisis.
COVID-19 precautionary and control measures like border closures, ban of public gatherings including conferencing and other social event weddings have culminated to paralyze...
COVID-19 pandemic has affected price stability in Ghana’s economy. Consumer Price Index (CPI) entered double digit for the first time since the CPI was rebased in August 2019. In April 2020, Ghana recorded a year-on-year inflation rate of 10.6percent from 7.8 percent in the previous month. The 3.2 percent...