Africa Ghana Ghana is ranked 7th among 122 countries contributing to peacekeeping in various missions, according to UN, having so far deployed 2.762 peacekeepers to various parts of the world; out of a total of 6.455 women deployed, Ghana has 429
Africa Ghana The 2023 edition of Green Ghana Day will be held on 9 June in Kumasi, with the title 'Our forests, our health', as announced by the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources
Africa Ghana The first cocoa fruit juice created in the country is called Koa Natural; the new drink, launched by Swiss-Ghanaian company Kao, is made from the pulp of the cocoa fruit that was previously unused, allowing farmers additional income
Africa Ghana Former Ghana star Opoku Nti has commended the Ghana Football Association for establishing the Ghana Football School, a platform to train new coaches, agents and administrators, fostering their growth and development within the football ecosystem
Africa Ghana Accra formally assumed the role of UNESCO World Book Capital 2023 from the Mexican city of Guadalajara
Africa Ghana The president cut the sod for the start of construction of DEKs Vaccines Ltd, a private sector-led consortium of Ghanaian pharmaceutical companies that will produce vaccines
Africa Ghana The use of the R21/Matrix-MTM malaria vaccine developed by Oxford University has been authorized by the Food and Drugs Authority
Africa Ghana Parliament has amended sections of the Criminal Offences Act 1960, which made attempting to take one's own life an offence, making it a mental health issue
Africa Ghana Gladys Brew, Safe Motherhood programme manager at the Ghana Health Service, says Ghana should consider making human papillomavirus vaccination a public sector programme
Africa Ghana The University of Ghana has been commissioned to set up a centre - Mosquito Ecology Research Facility - to foster research into the biology of mosquitoes and their role in the environment
Africa Ghana The country risks an epidemic of childhood diseases if the government does not address the current shortage of vaccines, says an alert issued by the Ghana Paediatric Society
Africa Ghana A $6,3 million project to minimise the use of mercury in mining has been launched in Accra by the government in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Industrial Organisation
Africa Ghana The country is optimistic that the ongoing negotiations with the IMF to obtain the fund's support by March will have positive outcome, with issues related to the domestic debt swap programme, one of the requests, "virtually concluded"