Ghana: Finance Minister to move for adoption of Mid-Year Review Budget

Ken Ofori-Atta, Minister of Finance ACCRA, July 17 (NNN-GNA) — Ghana’s Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, is expected to move for the adoption of the Mid-Year Review Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government next week.The Mid-Year Budget, which is the Government’s supplementary estimate for the 2021 financial year, would…

Nigeria and Ghana negotiate special bilateral framework to end trade disputes

Ghana and its neighbouring community, Nigeria have had closed ties for years ABUJA, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The long standing dispute between Ghanaian retail traders and their Nigerian counterparts who have been engaged in retail trading activities in contravention of local investment laws – but allowed under ECOWAS protocols –…

US to see ‘several more months’ of high inflation, Treasury Secretary Yellen says

WASHINGTON, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Inflation will remain high in the United States for months to come but eventually retreat, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.    The comments come after Labor Department data earlier this week showed record-setting increases in the consumer and wholesale prices, again fanning the debate over…

Covid-19: WHO eyes China lab ‘audits’ in next phase of Covid origin probe

   GENEVA, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization said the second stage of an investigation into the origins of coronavirus should include further studies in China and lab “audits”.   In a closed-door briefing to members states, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said one priority in the probe…

Europe reels from worst floods in years as death toll passes 120

l Rhineland-Palatinate is flooded by the high water of the Kyll BERLIN, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Devastating floods have torn through entire villages and killed at least 128 people in Europe, most of them in western Germany where stunned emergency services were still combing the wreckage. Unsuspecting residents were caught…

All aboard survive after Russian plane makes emergency landing – Russian officials

Antonov planes seen at an airport Elizovo outside Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia MOSCOW, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — All people on board the An-28 plane that disappeared on radar earlier on Friday have been found alive after the aircraft made an emergency landing in Russia’s Tomsk region, officials said. Two children were among…

Update: Huge floods leave at least 110 dead in Europe

BERLIN, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from devastating floods in Europe soared to at least 110 on Friday, most in western Germany where emergency responders were frantically searching for missing people. Adding to the devastation, several more were feared dead in a landslide in northern Germany on Friday…

African leaders mobilize vaccines, finance at Abidjan summit

Leaders gather for the IDA for Africa summit in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ABIDJAN, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Several African leaders attended the International Development Association (IDA) for Africa summit in Abidjan to discuss ways to support economic recovery on the continent after the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.Many countries,…

Meet the woman running to become Somali president: Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam

Mogadishu, Somalia´s former Deputy Prime Minister Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam  MOGADISHU, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — When Somalia’s former Foreign Affairs minister Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam announced her candidacy for president in the next elections, the reaction in Mogadishu was mostly muted.Yet Fawzia, from a prominent family of scholars, is not…

Covid-19: Russia reports record daily deaths for fourth day running

MOSCOW, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia on Friday reported 799 coronavirus-related deaths, the most in a single day since the pandemic began and the fourth day in a row it has set a record. Russia is in the grip of a surge in cases that authorities have blamed on the contagious…