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04 Dec

United States Provides $3Million To Support Farmers And Healthcare In Northern Ghana

Wontumi10 CommentsBusinessfarmers, USAID

The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced a $3 million (over 48 million Ghanaian cedis) package to assist farmers impacted by a severe dry spell and to improve healthcare delivery in northern Ghana. The funds, part of the Feed the Future Resilience in Northern Ghana Systems Strengthening Activity, will be disbursed to select civil society organisations working in collaboration with the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Ghana Health Service. “This is an important step in ensuring that communities not only have access to nutritious food but also good health and social services,”…

10 May

Regional Food Security Key To ECOWAS Peace, Development – VP Bawumia

Kakra NunuBusiness, NewsBADEA, COVID-19, ECOWAS, Mahamudu Bawumia, USAID, World Bank

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has emphasized the importance of a regional food storage system for the ECOWAS sub region in order to ensure food security, peace and accelerated development for the millions of people in West Africa and beyond. Speaking at the virtual International Conference on the West African Food Security Storage System in Accra on Monday May 10, Vice President Bawumia said although individual countries are making efforts towards ensuring local food security, a concerted, collective effort is important to ensure security for all. “At a time when the global community, and indeed Africa, is reeling from…