The European Union will pledge 520m euros (£442m; $673m) to help rebuild Mali at a conference of international donors in Brussels on Wednesday.

The CSOs made up of the Regional Inter-sectoral Gender Network (RISEGNET), Action Aid Ghana (AAG), Past and Present Assembly Women Association, queen mothers, and women heads of department, made the call in a communiqué at the end of a public durbar held in Bolgatanga on Tuesday.

Mr Tsikata had claimed in his motion that some witnesses of the petitioners’ have alleged in their affidavits that the Electoral Commission (EC) annulled some of the polling stations’ results in their constituencies where there were over-voting.

This was after his challenger Mr Gyampong Okumawuo withdrew his nomination.

The report covered economic policies in SSA, including the SSA building momentum in a multi-speed world, strengthening fiscal policy space, issuing international sovereign bonds, and reforming energy subsidies for SSA countries.

The new technology being implemented by a consultant under the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme Two (WAAPP-2) would be piloted in some selected districts in the Northern Region.

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has set up a committee to investigate an alleged gay sex scandal involving one of its pastors, Reverend Kingsford Kusi-Kyere of the Abokobi branch of the Church in Accra

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Tony Adams visited Vice President; Kwesi Amissah Arthur – an ardent Arsenal fan during his stay in Ghana to launch Season III of the Airtel Rising Stars Competition.

Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, who disclosed this in Accra on Tuesday, stressed that with the attainment of such ranking; the new challenge is how to stay ahead of the competition and build on the existing foundation for the private sector to thrive.

Kwasi Gyamfi pleaded guilty to the offence.

“Since the inception of GSFP in 2005, we have always encountered the problem of delay in funds disbursement, inadequate foods supply and other essential commodities needed to help promote the GSFP”.

Madam Clara Osei-Boateng, Director of Programmes and Advocacy of SEND-GHANA, an NGO on promoting good governance said the issue must be tackled objectively and passionately rather emotional.

The two-day free ear screening exercise was organized by Ghana Lions club, in collaboration with the Audiology department of the University of Utah, U.S.A and the Audiology department of Korle-Bu.

To this end, he said, NADMO had carried out a census of all those living around disaster prone areas and also identified a place where they could be evacuated to in emergency situations.