Month: August 2025

Singapore, Ghana to deepen green and agribusiness partnership.

Ghana and Singapore on Wednesday discussed cooperation in sustainable development and value-added agriculture, anchoring their talks around a pioneering carbon markets agreement and plans to scale agro-processing and jobs in Ghana. Speaking during bilateral talks with President John Dramani Mahama in Singapore, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said, “the first Asian country to sign the implementation of a carbon credit agreement with Ghana and the first in Africa, is Singapore,” casting the deal as a platform to channel investment into low-carbon growth. He added that “other areas of interest are agribusiness, downstream…

EJN Grantee’s Report On Illegal Logging Generates Community Debate and Pushes Government to Investigate National Forest Authority

Kiundu Waweru First Published, 29 August 2025 Uganda’s forests house a plethora of flora and fauna, including charismatic species like the mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and the most studied chimpanzees in the world, in Kibale National Park. The country is known as the “pearl of Africa”, a phrase attributed to Winston Churchill. In 1907, Churchill, then the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on a tour of East Africa. On visiting Uganda, its natural beauty had a great effect on him, and…

Swearing-in Ceremony of the New President of the African Development Bank – Exceptional Coverage by AFRICA24

On September 1, 2025, Sidi Ould Tah will officially take office as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), succeeding Akinwumi Adesina,according to an official statement issued in Abidjan,Saturday. Elected on May 29, 2025, with 76.18% of the vote, Sidi Ould Tah thus becomes the first Mauritanian to hold this strategic position for the continent’s economic development. Africa24,the statement said, will provide a full coverage of this historic ceremony and the related events surrounding the inauguration of the new president, offering its viewers exclusive insights into the key issues and…

Ghana’s Islamic Banking & Finance Journey: A cursory Glance

Background The issue of Islamic banking and finance(IBF) in Ghana was first put  into the Ghanaian public domain,way back  in 2002 when the country for the first time in her history, took a first and bold step towards joining of the Jeddah, Saudi Arabia based, Islamic Development Bank(IsDB) as a member country. This took the form of a maiden official visit to Ghana by an IsDB delegation during which meetings were held between the delegation and then Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Governor of Bank of Ghana and Economic…

President Chairs Follow-up Meeting on Airport Redevelopment Project

Seychelles,President Wavel Ramkalawan this afternoon chaired a follow-up meeting to review progress on the Airport Redevelopment Project according to an official statement issued by the Office of the President in Victoria,Friday. The meeting,the statement said, follows an initial site visit and working session chaired by the President at the Seychelles International Airport on 31st July, during which the committee committed to reconvening one month later to assess developments and further expand on the proposals put forward. Also in attendance, the statement  disclosed,were Vice-President Ahmed Afif, the Minister for Transport, the…

Al Mezan Refutes Israeli Claims of ‘Empty Areas’ in Gaza, Calls for an End to Forced Displacemen

Al Mezan is deeply alarmed by the false claims made by the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adree, that there are “empty areas” in southern Gaza to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who will once again be forcibly displaced, should Israel proceed with its plan to take over Gaza City,said the organisation in an official statement issued  in Gaza,Wednesday. Al Mezan stresses that these assertions are intentionally misleading, serving only to deceive public opinion and to justify Israel’s policy of mass forced displacement as part of its ongoing genocide. The Israeli…

New Report by Africa Union High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows Secretariat Says Africa Lags Behind in the Fight Against IFFs

The Secretariat of the African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows released a new report, Successes and Challenges of Implementing the Recommendations of the African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows, which indicates that most African countries fall short of meeting the institutional, policy and law enforcement requirements to effectively contain IFFs says an official statement issued in Addis Ababa,Friday. The report, launched on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, shows that the continent lacks an effective coordination mechanism for a coherent and coordinated action against the scourge of…

From the Era Miracles to the Era of Machines-By Anaba S A

Africa must trade superstition for science if we want to survive this century. 1.) The next 50 years will not be kind to slow thinkers. By 2075, nations will not compete on prayers, they will compete on patents. Your children will not eat because you fasted; they will eat because you built something people will pay for. Drones, AI, synthetic biology, quantum computing etc., these are the “miracles” of the next generation. And they will belong to whoever understands the natural laws that make them work. The Brutal Truth  2.)…

Statement of the Bureau of the General Assembly’s Committee on the Exercise of the InalIenable Rights of the Palestinian People

Statement UN Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau Calls for Urgent Action to End Gaza Famine New York, 27 August 2025 – A new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, with more than half a million people facing starvation, destitution, and preventable death. “The Gaza Famine”, as the UN Relief Chief called it, is only getting worse. If nothing is done to end the Israeli blockade and to ensure immediate and unfettered humanitarian aid to the Palestinian civilian population, famine is projected to spread to Deir al‑Balah and Khan Younis in…

Mahama courts Singapore investors, touts 24-hour economy as gateway to $3.4 trillion AfCFTA market

President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday used the opening of the 8th Africa–Singapore Business Forum to pitch Ghana as a “reliable gateway” to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), calling Africa “investable” and urging deeper South–South partnerships amid a more fragmented global economy. “We are here to learn, to partner, and to deliver,” President Mahama said at his first engagement on a three-day state visit to Singapore. “Africa is investable, and Ghana is your reliable gateway to the continent.” Framing Africa and Asia as the world’s “two youngest, fastest‑urbanising…