The U.S. House of Representatives have passed the Electrify Africa Act, after nearly two years of trying to get the measure through both chambers of Congress. The bill will provide a framework for a major public-private partnership between the United States and sub-Saharan African countries to help millions of people gain access to reliable electricity. […]
In what is described as a major Sino-Africa deal making forum ever hosted on the African continent, the Africa-China Investment Forum (ACIF) will be held in Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa for the first time from 4-5 October 2016. The first edition is under the broad theme: “Broadening the frontiers of Sino-African Investments”. China
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Nigeria has asked the World Bank and African Development Bank for $3.5bn in emergency loans to fill a growing gap in its budget in the latest sign of the economic damage being wrought on oil-rich nations by tumbling crude prices. The request from the eight-month-old government of President Muhammadu Buhari is intended to help fund
The African Union has abandoned its plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence in Burundi.It rather plans to encourage political dialogue between Burundi’s opposing sides. Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza had fiercely opposed the AU plan’s to send peacekeepers. AU Peace and Security Council chief Smail Chergui said: “We want dialogue with the government,
A recent research conducted across the country in various schools particularly at the lower primary levels indicates that about 51 per cent of the pupils cannot read in both English language and the other local dialects. The Ashanti Regional Director of Education, Mary Owusu Achiaw made known at a durbar at Sanso in the Obuasi
The National Inspectorate Board formed by the Ministry of Education (MoE) Ghana to visit schools unannounced to check lazy and absentee teachers and also identify challenges for redress have been alarmed at the number of bedbug infestations in some schools in the Greater Accra and Western Region. In December last year, The Chronicle reported that
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is urging Ghanaians not to give up hope in the face of the high levels of economic hardships and poverty currently prevailing in the country under the leadership of President John Mahama. Rather, Nana Akufo-Addo is assuring Ghanaians that the NPP has
The latest meeting aimed at uniting the two factions in the age-long ethnic conflict in Dagbon ended inconclusively at the Manhyia Palace on Saturday, January 30. This was due to the absence of the Abudu gate, who sent a messenger to the Asantehene-led committee. The message from the Abudu representative, Alahji Adam, was not made
Ivor Kobina Greenstreet was elected presidential candidate of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP) after the party’s national delegates’ congress on Saturday, January 30, 2016 at the International Trade Fair Centre. Mr Greenstreet won the CPP presidential race with 1,288 votes, representing 64.2% of valid votes cast, beating closest contender Samia Yaba Nkrumah – the daughter
