Tag Archives: Ghana

President Joe Biden of the United States has nominated a daughter of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, to serve as a judge on the US district court for the Central District of California. Frimpong was born in the United States to Ghanaian parents domiciled in the US. …

                              Source: MyGhanaMedia.com

UN human rights experts have called on the government to reject a proposed anti-gay bill, saying it seeks to establish a system of state-sponsored discrimination and violence against the LGBTI community. The first reading of the bill took place on 2 August 2021, and its consideration is expected to resume …

    Source: MyGhanaMedia.com

Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire have signed the headquarters agreement for the establishment of the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative Secretariat in Accra. The agreement is in line with the fundamental elements of the initiative charter. These stipulate, among other things, that Ghana will provide a permanent place or office for the …

Ghana’s 4x100m team was disqualified in the men’s final, with Italy pulling off another stunning run to clinch gold.   The quartet of Sean Safo-Antwi, Benjamin Azamati, Emmanuel Yeboah and Joseph Paul Amoah, finished 7th in a very fast final with a time of 38.40s but eventually got were disqualified …

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The featherweight boxer Samuel Takyi has won his Olympic quarter-final to guarantee himself a medal at Tokyo 2020, a first Olympic medal for a Ghanaian athlete in 29 years. Takyi beat Colombia’s 32-year-old southpaw David Ceiber Avila, a far more experienced fighter, in the quarter-final in the men’s 52-57 kilogram category, taking two …

President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, Mr Edward Amoako Asante, has asked the government of Ghana and all Ghanaians to contribute to building the local economy in order to minimize the reliance on aids for survival. This, he said, will ensure that the …

A conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and development professional, Emmanuel Bombande, has noted that there will be more protests in Ghana to ensure that duty bearers work in the interest of the general public. To that end, he said there needs to be changes in how the Military and other security officers …