The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), with funding from the European Union Trust Fund For Africa (EUTF) under the GrEEn project in Ghana, has entered a partnership with Grow For Me (GFM) – an innovative Ghanaian company managing a digital agricultural financing platform.
GFM enables anyone to participate in farming...
TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana has commissioned its first Electric Vehicle (EV) charging unit in Ghana. This is part of efforts to boost the increasing demand and usage of electric vehicles in the country.
Managing Director of TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC, Olufemi Babajide, in his address, indicated that the EV charging unit...
For a productive and sustainable agric value chain to exist, there is need for a well-structured and integrated market system to be in place, which allows all integral units of the value chain to complement and feed into one another.
What then is a market system? A marketing system is...
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has so far committed a total of XOF 294 billion (equivalent of about US$450million) into the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire’s economy to finance projects in various areas such as infrastructure, health, industry and agriculture.
The President of EBID, Dr. George Agyekum Donkor,...
Powerful communication skills are an indispensable facet of any leader’s portfolio of skills and experience. The true mark of influential leadership centres on knowing how to communicate within all spaces of the organisation, internally and externally, crossing over from employees, managers, clients and investors. Each distinct stakeholder group requires...
About fourteen (14) bilateral trade deals and memorandums of understanding (MoUs) aimed at deepening economic ties between Africa and the Caribbean have been signed at the just-ended three-day AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum 2022 (ACTIF2022) hosted in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the Caribbean.
The agreements - expected to form the foundation...
The image of Absa Bank's Managing Director, Abena Osei-Poku, gliding along the busy and complex streets of Ghana's capital city in search of her customers, is not unfamiliar to many. At the start of this year, it was Abena who took to the streets of Kantamanto, sliding her way...
Bora Capital Advisors has launched two collective investment schemes, the Bora Fixed Income Unit Trust and Bora Balance Unit Trust, at an event in Accra.
The schemes are targetted at Ghana’s retail and institutional markets to service a growing client demand and also meet a regulatory directive from the Securities...
Home to about 1.4 billion people, approximately a quarter of Africa’s population is impoverished – a staggering 460 million people in the region are living below the extreme poverty line of US$1.90 a day in 2022, an egregious situation that has characterised Africa as poverty-stricken. But the truth is that Africa is not poor – the...
Climate change is intensifying food insecurity across sub-Saharan Africa, where Russia’s war in Ukraine and the pandemic are also adding to food shortages and high prices.
Climate events - which destroy crops and disrupt food transport - are disproportionately common in the region. One-third of the world’s droughts occur in sub-Saharan...