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The newly elected Secretary General of the Commonwealth and Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, says that her vision is to promote trade, education, skills training devel¬opment and innovation for the teeming numbers of young people across our the Commonwealth.
The former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, has congratulated Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, for her election as the next Secretary General of the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth has a new Secretary General, the first from Africa since Nigerian Chief Emeka Anyaoku left the role in 2000.
Ms. Botchwey 61, fended off challenges from Gambian foreign affairs minister Mamadou Tangara and his Lesotho counterpart Joshua Setipa.
The International Monetary Fund forecasts that Ghana will conclude the year 2024 with a growth rate of 3 per cent, as stated in the World Economic Outlook Report published in Washington, D.C., this week.
The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has ad¬journed the House sine die following a stalemate over which party constitutes the majority in the Parliament.
The Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has commissioned Phase II of the Tsatsadu micro-hydropower generation plant, constructed on the Tsatsadu waterfalls at Alavanyo in the Hohoe District of the Volta Region.
Those in this illegal mining industry are accused of environmental genocide or ecocide in Ghana.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana on Friday inaugurated a state-of-the-art Urology and Nephrology Centre of Excellence at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, marking a major step forward in Ghana’s healthcare system.
The African Development Bank and the Government of Japan recently concluded a joint visit to two projects funded by the Fund for African Private Sector Assistance in Ghana to assess their impact on stimulating the growth of small businesses and boosting private sector development.