The pledge to eradicate hunger and poverty must go hand in hand with rapid transformations of farming and food systems to cope with a warmer world, FAO said today in a new report. Agriculture, including forestry, fisheries and livestock production, generate around a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture must both contribute more … Read more
Despite conflicts and instability in some parts, Africa’s fast growth and development, at least during the past decade, has attracted several external countries mainly from Asian region, European Union (EU) and the United States. In this special interview, David Shinn, an Adjunct Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs, a former U. S. Ambassador … Read more
Deputy Minister for Finance, Ms Mona Quartey has underscored the importance of an efficient and transparent procurement system in ensuring the achievement of Ghana’s pursuits in economic development. The Deputy Minister said various surveys and studies had attributed the failure of procurement systems to achieve good value for money and economic growth within Sub-Saharan Africa … Read more
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic extremists have overrun a remote military camp in the northeast, leaving 13 soldiers wounded and an unknown number missing, the army said Wednesday. Monday’s attack comes a week after one faction of Boko Haram released 21 of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped from northeastern Chibok town, and as Nigeria’s government is … Read more
More than 300,000 students are studying in Ghana, with 10,398 of them being international students, Mr Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a Deputy Minister of Education, has said. He said at the continental level, Sub-Saharan Africa’s higher education sector had expanded massively over the past two decades; with student enrolments across all levels growing from about 200,000 … Read more
1.3 million Kenyans in 23 counties are in need of food aid – Report Despite the progress Kenya has made in reducing hunger, it is among 50 countries where levels of hunger remain serious or alarming, a new global report reveals. Kenya’s score of 22 places it at number 72 out of a list of … Read more
Imagine seeing your child suffering from malaria, one of the biggest killers of children across the world. Symptoms include high fever, sweating, vomiting and convulsions. But it’s OK, you think, because you bought medicine to combat the disease from a local drugs market. Now imagine what it must be like to see your child die … Read more
Kenya is ranks third in Sub Saharan Africa for access to credit, a survey by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales shows. Kenya trails Rwanda and Zambia for ease of credit financing, the study released yesterday shows, where Sub-Saharan Africa performs relatively poorly in terms of getting credit compared to other regions … Read more
I delve into this debate not because I want to hold brief for either Dr. Prosper Yao Tsikata or Mr. Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo in their recent friendly intellectual feud that erupted as a result of the revelations by Dr. Tsikata and Dr. Dotse of what can best be described as bad academic practices especially … Read more
A new World Bank study on poverty and shared prosperity says that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warns that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality may be a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. According to … Read more
The ongoing discourse on academic credentials and credible outlets for knowledge production and dissemination is not for “much ado about nothings,” who have absolutely nothing to contribute to the discourse in ways that challenge the status quo for the betterment of our educational prospects in UPSA, Ghana, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is an … Read more
The malaria death rate in sub-Saharan Africa has declined by an estimated 57% since 2000, according to new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That’s from 12.5 deaths per 10,000 population per year in 2000 to 5.4 in 2015. The four countries with the highest rates of malaria deaths in 2000 – … Read more
In the war between humanity and disease, perhaps the greatest victory of recent years took place in Africa. At the turn of the millennium, serious analysts expected HIV/AIDS to kill up to half the people in some southern African countries. But then the price of anti-retroviral drugs fell from $10,000 a year to as little … Read more
Automobile dealers have threatened they will halt the importation of new cars into the country should government refuse to reduce further the sulphur content contained in imported diesel. According to them, a further reduction in sulphur content will protect their brands and consumers from further damage of their engines. Their assertions follows recent concerns over … Read more
The inconvenient conversation UPSA and other African Universities must have By Prosper Yao Tsikata, Ph. D. and A .Kobla Dotse, Ph.D. The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees and the credibility of the institutions that confer them has exposed the vulnerability of our institutions—especially our educational institutions and their administrators to substandard … Read more
The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees and the credibility of the institutions that confer them has exposed the vulnerability of our institutions—especially our educational institutions and their administrators to substandard academic practices, manipulation of academic processes, and the outright use of subterfuge by some individuals to buy space in our academic … Read more
The World Bank President says he does not think Ghana and other African countries with high debt levels are at risk of falling into debt distress or “Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC)” category. Jim Young Kim was responding to a question about how the rising debt levels of some African countries, especially for those that … Read more
A new World Bank study on “Poverty and Shared Prosperity” indicates that extreme poverty worldwide continues to fall despite the lethargic state of the global economy. But it warned that given projected growth trends, reducing high inequality might be a necessary component to reaching the world’s goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. “Inequality reduction … Read more
Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank Alhassan Andani has projected positive growth prospects for the country in 2017. At the Standard Bank West Africa Trans-regional Conference held in Accra, Mr Andani said the country Ghana has taken the “tough decisions” that will restore the country onto the path of growth from 2017. He thus urged investors … Read more
The Addis Ababa light rail that officially began its services in November 2015. Photo Anadolu Agen Ethiopia’s economy is expected to overtake Kenya’s this year, buoyed by massive government spending on infrastructure that has kept the Horn of Africa nation in the list of the world’s fastest economies in the past 10 years. The International … Read more