Gender Advocacy NGO, Bridge for Equity Ghana, has presented a petition to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, to nudge government to scrap taxes on sanitary pads and enable local production across the country.
In a six-month campaign dubbed ‘No Pad Tax’, the NGO believes that scraping the...
Ghanaian beverage manufacturer to upscale production of hand sanitisers
Standard Chartered has announced that Kasapreko Company Limited, the Ghanaian beverage manufacturer that is undertaking mass production of hand sanitisers and alcohol hand rubs, has become the first client to make a drawdown under the Bank’s US$1 billion financing commitment to...
Aker Energy Ghana Limited has reaffirmed its commitment to finding a solution that will allow for the commencement of a phased development of the Pecan field offshore Ghana.
“In a time when most other E&P companies are putting development projects on the shelf due to the COVID-19 situation and historic...
Are you a trader? Are you facing issues of unfair competition, especially from foreign competitors? Are you aware that there is an avenue to lay bare all your grievances and get them solved, or at least remedied? Well, that and many more, are the reasons the Ghana International Trade...
The COVID-19 crisis is stress testing the capacity of governance arrangements to deal with unexpected shocks.
Results point to considerable variation at the national level, but it’s difficult to give anything above a B minus to the response at the multilateral level.
UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report Update sets out how...
More flights for passengers will be available from 15th June between Dubai and 16 cities: Bahrain, Manchester, Zurich, Vienna, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin, New York JFK, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Taipei, Hong Kong, Perth and Brisbane
Travellers flying between Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas, can connect safely and...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a blow to an already fragile global economic outlook. The health crisis, sharp downturn in activity, and turmoil in global financial markets caught emerging market and developing economies at a bad moment. The past decade has seen the largest, fastest, and most broad-based increase in...
Recently a Nigerian friend who lives in the country that is also Africa’s biggest economy, after eating the popular Ghanaian snack “nkatie burgher”, posted on facebook, “How many countries can successfully export air to other countries?”
This did not come as a shock as I know that Africans have a...
This is very uncertain times for the world especially governments, businesses and individuals but what is important is it’s not time to panic rather time to prepare to weather the impact of COVID-19.
There are support systems and things businesses and individuals can do to mitigate the impact of covid-19...
The killing of an unarmed African-American by a Minneapolis police officer and resulting civil upheaval have set back U.S. efforts to strengthen its tenuous relationship with Africa and counter China’s growing influence.
Moussa Faki Mahamat, the chairman of the African Union Commission, joined senior officials from Nigeria, South Africa and...