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The Ghana Export Promotion Authority in collaboration with the Ghana High Commission in Sierra Leone has launched a ten-day solo exhibition of “Made in Ghana” products’ at the Miatta Conference in Freetown.
Ghana’s Vice President John Mahama announced on Friday that the country generated $2 billion from the sales of cocoa in 2011 while during that period one million tons of cocoa target was achieved.
Ghana’s Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffour announced on Wednesday that the 2012 budget would focus on infrastructural development in the area of roads, railways, education and health as well as agriculture.
Ghana’s government is looking at ways to support people accused of witchcraft – mainly women and children banished by their communities to “witches’ camps” in the north – and to reintegrate them in their home villages.
The first batch of 266 Ghanaian pilgrims, out of the 4,300, are expected to be airlifted by an Egyptian airline for the Hajj on Sunday for Mecca, officials of Hajj Committee have said on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of children work on Ghana’s cocoa plantations – often doing hazardous tasks when they should be at school – but change is coming.
How People Arrived Here: child labor in ghana cocoa production
Two former leaders of Ghana and Nigeria have warned against the danger of Liberians descending into election-related violence once the polls did not to their way.
A civil society group based in the United States has joined the campaign to rid Ghana of so-called witches camps where women believed to be witches are maltreated.
How People Arrived Here: campaign on witchcraft in northern ghana in 2011
A bill before Ghana’s parliament aims to improve mental health care and encourage more health professionals to enter the sector by tackling one of the greatest impediments to both – stigma.
“Stigma is the top issue affecting the level of care...