The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has taken delivery of a set of items from a stakeholder in the cocoa sector in support of the fight against COVID-19, particularly in cocoa-growing communities in the country.
Barry Callebaut, a cocoa processing company located at Tema in the Greater Accra Region, has presented...
President Ramaphosa expressed appreciation for the Bank’s commitment of $26 million for the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
South Africa’s President and African Union chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa and the Nobel peace laureate and former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf have commended Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development...
Severe falls in output and new orders
Rate of job cuts remains sharp
Input costs and output prices fall further
The economic downturn in Ghana as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic intensified in April, with declines in output, new orders and purchasing activity much steeper...
Olam Grains, producers of the popular First Choice and Royal Gold wheat flour brands have teamed up with prominent bakeries in Accra, Kumasi and Tamale to provide Ghc 70,000 worth of freshly baked bread to frontline health workers and patients.
The month-long initiative, launched on April 1, started with the...
The second tier of the country’s pension scheme is better placed to make relief payments to workers affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), rather than from the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), an analysis of the pensions scheme, has shown.
With the National Pensions Act making the Tier...
Ghana Police Service (GPS), in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has commenced a nationwide disinfection and fumigation exercise to disinfect all Police Stations in the country against COVID-19.
The ‘Police-Zoomlion National Disinfection and Fumigation Exercise,’ which was launched at the National Police Training School, Tesano, Accra, on Wednesday, would also...
Labour Day or May day constitutes an annual acknowledgment of the contribution and commitment of workers in their fields of work.
This year’s Labour day was celebrated under very peculiar circumstances. It was celebrated virtually and without the usual march past and fanfare due to the Coronavirus or COVID -19...
The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) has launched a COVID-19 Response Plan of Action to assist African countries to improve access to sustainable and resilient health services and protecting economies. In this interview with Africa Renewal, the CEO of AUDA-NEPAD Ibrahim Mayaki discusses the scope of this initiative. These are the excerpts.
What...
In the early parts of this year, especially starting from mid-January, the whole world was struck with a pandemic that came as “ghost” and seems to have, yet, put the world in so much distress and unrest. This pandemic is known as the novel coronavirus, otherwise called COVID-19.
It is...
With no end in sight, companies need to consider and take all necessary actions to mitigate all associated risks
The compounding effects of the corona virus and oil industry disruptions pose unique and significant challenges, particularly on the African continent where the economies of producing countries are largely dependent on...