An estimated 34 percent of annual mineral exports, currently enjoyed by foreign firms and expatriates providing mining services in the country could revert to the locals if they take steps to provide these services, Ghana’s minerals managing body has said.
Entries from August 2009
Ghana: locals losing out on 34% mining revenue
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Economic Reporting
CSOs suggest alternatives to deal with global crisis in Africa
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments
Civil society groups (CSOs) working on finance, trade, investment and economic development in Africa have called on African governments to be innovative and not haste into clinching International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes to deal with the challenges posed by the current global economic crisis.
Tags: Economic Reporting
“OH, MY GOD I MISS YOU”
August 31st, 2009 · 2 Comments
Every day when I come to work the first thing I do is that I check my email. It seems to be an ordinary thing, but for me checking my email now has a different meaning. Every morning I am hurrying to open the mail and I already know that there will be lots of [...]
Tags: Sneak In
IT’S A SHAME: A SUMMIT ONLY FOR KADDHAFI’S ENJOYMENT
August 31st, 2009 · No Comments
The president of Lybia? Mouammar Kaddhafi has called afrin president to an african union extraordinary summit the 31st of august. Thz reason: celebration of his 40 years of power! it is amazing and shameful that the common interest of african unity to be so reduced to personnal concern.
Tags: Political reporting
Can not sleep and think about freedom
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments
It is about 2.30 am in Hanoi but what what I am doing now is writing a weblog, which I did not want to do when I was In Germany. It is like a film replayed in my mind since the first day I came to Hamburg and entered the beautiful EBH in a very [...]
Tags: Media Ethics · Press Freedom
Relationship between political parties and parliament: Need for public funding of political parties to promote the smooth functioning of parliament
August 29th, 2009 · No Comments
The workshop held at the Palais des congrès de Cotonou by the analysis of development policies of the National Assembly (Capan) on “political parties and parliament: what organizations for a better functioning of the parliamentary institution” was completed Wednesday 12 August 2009.
Tags: Sneak In
Budgetary allocations for health sector likely to be doubled
August 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Plan to double the budgetary allocation for health sector in Pakistan from the existing 6 to 12 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the much-delayed National Health Policy 2009 is under consideration to achieve the goal of health for all.
Tags: Sneak In
Census of Zimbabwean immigrants in Mozambique begins
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments
Maputo – The first census of Zimbabwean immigrants in neighbouring Mozambique is being launched this Friday in Chimoio, a border town in the central province of Manica. “We are going to carry out this two-week national population survey of all Zimbabweans who live in Mozambique due to the economic and political hardships back home,” Joseph [...]
Tags: Sneak In
A moment of deep reflection
August 26th, 2009 · No Comments
It was a moment of deep reflection for me as I went through the various offices of the STASI of Germany. The period of the STASI was the in German history where so many people detested to the rule of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a communist regime.
Tags: Political reporting
Ghana: Youth in agriculture gets GH¢10.7m government support
August 25th, 2009 · 5 Comments
The Government of Ghana has earmarked a GH¢10.7million to support youth who are into agriculture. The amount comes in the wake the country is in need of help towards food security and economic sustainability.
Tags: Poverty