Experts urge gender parity in provision of clean energy in Africa

xinhuanet.com - Nov 7, 2019 0

African governments must prioritize affirmative action to achieve gender parity in the provision of clean energy technologies that are key to boost the continent's...

Initiate reading policy to scale up reading – African governments urged

Ghana News Agency - Oct 30, 2019 0

The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has urged African governments to develop a comprehensive reading policy that will scale up interest in...

Religious leaders urge east Africa governments to shore up peace in South Sudan

xinhuanet.com - Sep 15, 2019 0

African religious leaders have called on east African governments to take action for peace in South Sudan, a year after the signing of a...

African Governments Charged to Prioritise Agro-Ecology

Ghana News Agency - Mar 25, 2019 0

Forty-five civil society organisations (CSOs) in agro-ecology and environment have called on African governments to place agro-ecology at the centre of their climate change...

WACREN Asks African Governments to Devote Funds for Research

Ghana News Agency - Mar 17, 2019 0

Professor Nii Narku Quaynor, Board Chair, West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), has appealed to African governments to invest in the...

AUC, AfDB design special ways to trace nutritional growth

Ghana News Agency - Feb 14, 2019 0

The African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and global partners have launched the Continental Nutrition Accountability Scorecard to raise awareness...

Antimicrobial susceptibility testing in petri dish

UN official urges Africa to lower demand for antimicrobials

xinhuanet.com - Jan 16, 2019 0

An official with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Tuesday urged African governments to lower demand for antimicrobials. Stella Kiambi, FAO's national antimicrobial...

AASU: Urges African gov’ts to pave way for women

Ike Dzokpo - Oct 29, 2018 0

The All-Africa Students Union (AASU) has tasked all African Governments to ensure that all challenges hindering the total participation of women in decision making...

What African Governments Must Do Right!

Sammy Adjei - Jul 6, 2018 0

Fortunately for Africa, its leaders are now taking the reality that required making sure key important paradigms of development were observed and followed on...

Kenyan scientists call on Africa to diversify uses of biotechnology

xinhuanet.com - Jun 18, 2018 0

Kenyan scientists on Tuesday called on African governments to diversify uses of biotechnology and begin to embrace the emerging applications, particularly in the crop...

African governments to must do more on Corruption

Ghana News Agency - May 25, 2018 0

As African marks AU Day on May 25, 157 Civil Society Organisations are calling African government institute measures end to corruption. We here by...

AASU urges African governments to respect press freedom

News Ghana - May 5, 2018 0

World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the twenty-sixth session of UNESCO's General...

African leaders asked to build an industrial policy framework

Ghana News Agency - Apr 17, 2018 0

Mr Valter Sanches, the General Secretary of IndustriALL, a Global Union Campaigner against Precarious Work, has called on Africa governments to institute sustainable industrial...

President Akufo-Addo delivering a speech at the graduation ceremony

Ghanaian president urges African governments to prioritize SDGs with urgency

xinhuanet.com - Dec 12, 2017 0

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday challenged African governments to use the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to move the continent beyond aid. Speaking...

Africa’s Tourism’s Prominence Moves Up

News Ghana - Dec 7, 2017 0

The tourism sector in Africa, which according to UNWTO saw an 8% increase in international arrivals in 2016, is progressively becoming prominent largely due...

Parliament charge ministry to investigate alleged slave auction in Libya

ABK - Nov 30, 2017 0

Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, has called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to collaborate with the United...

Governments and Off-Grid Energy Firms Fight for Universal Energy Access

News Ghana - Nov 18, 2017 0

At the first edition of the Off-Grid Government-Industry Dialogue (OGID) Day on 24 October 2017 in Abidjan, 80 representatives of African governments and practitioners...

Cross section of participants at the Third African Judicial Dialogue

Governments Urged to Improve Justice Administration

News Ghana - Nov 10, 2017 0

The African Continental Court has rolled-out mechanism aimed at improving judicial efficiency, Justice Sylvain Ore, President of the African Court on Human and Peoples’...

African authorities, AfDB and ALSF Discuss Infrastructure Governance

News Ghana - Nov 3, 2017 0

Representatives of African governments, the global private sector, and international institutions, including the African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) and African Development Bank (AfDB), are...

AfDB, OpenOil Report on Extractive Resources Management Launched

News Ghana - Oct 20, 2017 0

The African Development Bank (AfDB) and OpenOil, a Berlin-based financial analysis firm, have jointly produced a report on how African governments use financial models...

African Governments Asked to Rally Behind Women Entrepreneurs

News Ghana - Sep 18, 2017 0

Mrs Kate Quartey-Papafio, the Chief Executive Officer of Reroy Cables Limited, a leading manufacturer of electrical cables across the Sub-region, has called on Africa...

Kenya Backs African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Extension

ABK - Feb 9, 2017 0

The Government of Kenya has pumped one million dollars as the country’s contribution towards the extension of the mandate of the African Court on...

African Governments Tasked To Turn Justice Into Reality

ABK - Jan 2, 2017 0

The African Court on Human and Peoples Rights has tasked African Governments to turn justice into a reality for the less empowered in 2017. This...

Gov’t Urged To Prioritize Cancer Prevention And Control

ABK - Dec 19, 2016 0

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the government to make cancer prevention and control an urgent national priority. Dr. Jean Marie Dangou, Advisor, Cancer...

Calls to domesticate SDGs in Africa

News Ghana - Nov 30, 2016 0

Speaking at a two-day College of Research Associates’ Conference (CRAC) 2016, organised by the United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA),...

Custom Officials Urged To Help Stop Smuggling

News Ghana - Nov 4, 2016 0

Addressing the media in Accra, Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske said customers and a tautem border security would enhance trade, boost investments and fuel economic growth...

African Governments Urged Master Negotiation Skills in Oil and Gas Sector

News Ghana - Oct 27, 2016 0

George Lugalambi of Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) who made the remark noted that the extraction industry is one of the most complicated and...

Africa urged to create favorable climate to attract investments

News Ghana - Oct 7, 2016 0

Investors attending the three-day Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) that ended in Kigali Thursday emphasized on the need to review unfavorable investment policies, including...

African officials calls for inventive funding for the film industry

News Ghana - Sep 6, 2016 0

Speaking at a media roundtable ahead of the Africa Film Festival to be held in Nairobi from Oct. 12 to 16, the officials said...

African States asked to seek new sources of revenue for development

News Ghana - Jul 22, 2016 0

A report launched on the sidelines of the UNCTAD conference in Nairobi calls on the African governments to take action and prevent rapid debt...

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