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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has revealed that six of the ten sports stadia being built by the government in the ten old regions are ready for commissioning. Speaking at the launch of the 100-day countdown to the African Games Accra 2023 in Accra on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, Dr. Bawumia, who also inspected facilities for the Games at Borteyman and the University of Ghana, said government's investment in the […]

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on Wednesday November 29, 2023, launched the 100-day countdown to the 13th African Games, Accra 2023. Ghana won the bid in 2018 to host the African Games this year, but the Games was rescheduled to March 2024, following unforeseen circumstances, which derailed preparations. With the government investing so much in developing multi-purpose facilities from the scratch in Borteyman, as well as completing  the University […]

Shri Upender Singh Rawat (IFS:1998), presently High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Uganda, has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Burundi, with residence in Kampala. He is expected to take up the assignment shortly.Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of External Affairs - Government of India.    

The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi, together with the Embassies/High Commission of the three other ASEAN member states with Missions in Nairobi namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, organized the ASEAN Food Festival on 26 November 2023 at the Two Rivers Mall in Nairobi.  The ASEAN Food Festival put a spotlight on the rich culinary traditions and authentic flavors of Southeast Asia, while also showcasing the collaborative efforts of ASEAN embassies, Southeast […]

Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi heads to Dubai, the United Aran Emirates, to participate in the presidential segment of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28). Spokesman for the Presidency, Counselor Ahmed Fahmy, said the President’s participation in COP28 comes upon an invitation extended by President of the United Arab Emirates, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose country will […]

Six months after Somalia emerged from a historic drought that pushed the country to the brink of widespread famine, another climate shock has struck as heavy rains and floods batter several areas of the country. Since October when the deyr rains started, about 2 million people have been affected by torrential rains, flash and riverine floods, with 750,000 people displaced from their homes and nearly 100 killed mostly in South […]

The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is reviewing the training Policy for its stand by Force in order to strengthen peace support operations. To this end, a review workshop on the draft training policy of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) begins on the 30th of November, 2023 in Abuja, Nigeria. The two-day Workshop which builds on the earlier one held by experts which reviewed the […]

The 8th Pan African Forum on Migration (PAFoM-8) themed “Bolstering Free Movement and Trade Nexus in AfCFTA: Optimizing Benefits of Migration, Human Mobility and Development”, was held in Gaborone, Botswana recently. The Forum was hosted by the African Union in collaboration with the Government of Botswana, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), which implements its activities on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of […]