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International donors made pledged to mobilise 3.25 billion euro (US$4.18 billion) to support Mali’s reconstruction, the European Commission said Wednesday. “Donors have made public financial commitments on the basis of the Plan for the Sustainable Recovery of Mali 2013-2014 (PRED) presented by the Malian government,” said a statement issued after an international donor conference on [...]

A Zambia delegation is in Ghana to study the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) service migration process. The delegation, led by Mr Mwansa Kapeya, Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services of Zambia, visited the Ministry of Communications, National Film and Television Institute, National Media Commission and Ghana Broadcasting Corporation. Mr Kapeya told journalists on Thursday [...]

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Mr David Ania, Ghana Society of the Physically Disabled (GSPD), has expressed unhappiness about the discriminatory nature of the justice system to the members of the Society. “We need to sensitize the police and the judiciary on the need to support the disabled by helping them with the necessary information and providing them with interpreters [...]

The European Union has denied putting undue pressure on Ghana to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement. The International Trade Committee of Europe in March revised to October 2014, the deadline for signing the full agreement with Ghana. This nullifies the earlier decision by the EU parliament to extend the deadline to 2016 for further negotiations. [...]

Professor Stephen Adei, former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has called for the creation of a patriotic, committed national think-tank, to be used by political leaders for the management of the country. He cited the Korean Development Institute and National Economic Bureau operating in other countries, as examples, and [...]

Ghana and Japan on Monday signed a 14-million dollar grant for the improvement of a Power Distribution System project to be carried out in Brong Ahafo and Northern Regions. The agreement was signed by Ms Hanna Tetteh, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and initialled by Mr Naoto Nikai, Japanese Ambassador at a ceremony [...]

The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), has held a day’s workshop for entrepreneurs in the Central Region to enable them to come out with investment ideas and plans to enhance their businesses. The workshop which was organised in Cape Coast was attended by metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies district planning officers, as well as private [...]

Ghana’s Energy Minister Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah has lauded the oil find in Ivory Coast. France’s Total this week announced it has struck oil on a block off Ivory Coast adjacent to Ghana’s giant Jubilee Field. Joy News sources have confirmed that the oil discovery announced by Total is indeed located within Ivorian waters. The [...]

UT Bank is to leverage its partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to improve the lots of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country. The bank is hoping that through the Africa Micro Small Medium Enterprise (AMSME), one of the fruits of the UT-IFC partnership, SMEs in the country, especially those that are [...]