Food Crisis/Security
Ghana: USAID Contribution to Ghana's Food Security - NGO News Africa
NGO News Africa
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided $3.9 million to the people of Ghana through the World Food Programme’s Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation. The funding will benefit106,000 Ghanaians through nutritional food interventions, food for work, food for training, and income generating activities. The principal beneficiaries include malnourished children, pregnant women and nursing mothers, and people living with HIV and their families in the three Northern regions. [more]
Coalition Expresses Concern About Jatropha Farms
Ghana Daily Graphic
The Civil Society Coalition on Land (CICOL) has expressed concern over the scramble for large tracts of land across the country by multinational and local companies for the cultivation of jatropha. According to CICOL, as much as 510,000 hectares of land had already been acquired for the cultivation of jatropha in Agogo in the Ashanti Region, Yeji in the Brong Ahafo Region and other parts of the country, explaining that the activity had already displaced many farmers, thereby affecting food production in the areas and without adequate compensation. [more]
Local Government/Decentralization
Ghana's Decentralisation System Makes Limited Progress - According To Study
Accra Daily Mail
Ghana's decentralisation system is making remarkable progress in respect of devolution of power and women participation in politics. On the flip side, however, the system is unimpressive as far as fiscal decentralisation is concerned. These were highlights of the findings of a comparative study undertaken on the decentralisation regimes of four sub-Saharan African countries, namely Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Senegal. [more]
Oil Effects on Ghana
Ghana: Jubilee field (oil) will produce 120,000 by april, GDP + 12,6% in 2011
AfricaTimes
Ghana’s Energy Minister, Joseph Obteng Adjei confirmed in an interview with Chinas Xinhua News Agency that offshore production from Jubilee oil field due to be inaugurated on December 15, could reach 120,000 barrels a day by April . However, production could rise beyond this level in the future, as additional wells and expanded facilities are brought on line, he said. The Jubilee field, discovered in 2007 by U.S. firm Kosmos Energy and operated by Anglo-Irish company Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN), is estimated to contain some 1.6 billion barrels of crude. Recently (September) Tullow announced it had found another huge Ghana offshore oil basin, a 1.4 billion-barrel field called Owo-Tweneboa. [more]
Momentous Day For Ghana - Oil Flows
Ghana Daily Graphic
History was made at 10:15 a.m. yesterday when President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, symbolically turned the wheel on the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah to officially signify the beginning of oil production on a commercial scale at the Jubilee Field. [more]
Civil society to contest Ghana oil bill
Ghana Business News
The Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas says it will seek a review of the amendments to the Petroleum Revenue Management Bill that allows the government to use about 70 per cent of the country’s oil revenue as collateral. The Platform said it was aware that before amendments to the bill were concluded, the government was concluding a €500 million facility from the Dutch government in support of the activities of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), with the oil revenue as collateral. [more]
Ghana backs oil revenue collateral law
Reuters Africa
Ghana's parliament backed an amendment on Thursday allowing the government to collaterise up to 70 percent of revenues from oil due to start flowing next week, a parliament official said. Legislators had been divided over whether to approve such use of the revenues, an arrangement that carries with it the risk of increased government lending and weaker public finances. [more]
Coalition Expresses Concern About Jatropha Farms
Ghana Daily Graphic
The Civil Society Coalition on Land (CICOL) has expressed concern over the scramble for large tracts of land across the country by multinational and local companies for the cultivation of jatropha. According to CICOL, as much as 510,000 hectares of land had already been acquired for the cultivation of jatropha in Agogo in the Ashanti Region, Yeji in the Brong Ahafo Region and other parts of the country, explaining that the activity had already displaced many farmers, thereby affecting food production in the areas and without adequate compensation. [more]
Local Government/Decentralization
Ghana's Decentralisation System Makes Limited Progress - According To Study
Accra Daily Mail
Ghana's decentralisation system is making remarkable progress in respect of devolution of power and women participation in politics. On the flip side, however, the system is unimpressive as far as fiscal decentralisation is concerned. These were highlights of the findings of a comparative study undertaken on the decentralisation regimes of four sub-Saharan African countries, namely Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Senegal. [more]
Oil Effects on Ghana
Ghana: Jubilee field (oil) will produce 120,000 by april, GDP + 12,6% in 2011
AfricaTimes
Ghana’s Energy Minister, Joseph Obteng Adjei confirmed in an interview with Chinas Xinhua News Agency that offshore production from Jubilee oil field due to be inaugurated on December 15, could reach 120,000 barrels a day by April . However, production could rise beyond this level in the future, as additional wells and expanded facilities are brought on line, he said. The Jubilee field, discovered in 2007 by U.S. firm Kosmos Energy and operated by Anglo-Irish company Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN), is estimated to contain some 1.6 billion barrels of crude. Recently (September) Tullow announced it had found another huge Ghana offshore oil basin, a 1.4 billion-barrel field called Owo-Tweneboa. [more]
Momentous Day For Ghana - Oil Flows
Ghana Daily Graphic
History was made at 10:15 a.m. yesterday when President, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, symbolically turned the wheel on the FPSO Kwame Nkrumah to officially signify the beginning of oil production on a commercial scale at the Jubilee Field. [more]
Civil society to contest Ghana oil bill
Ghana Business News
The Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas says it will seek a review of the amendments to the Petroleum Revenue Management Bill that allows the government to use about 70 per cent of the country’s oil revenue as collateral. The Platform said it was aware that before amendments to the bill were concluded, the government was concluding a €500 million facility from the Dutch government in support of the activities of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), with the oil revenue as collateral. [more]
Ghana backs oil revenue collateral law
Reuters Africa
Ghana's parliament backed an amendment on Thursday allowing the government to collaterise up to 70 percent of revenues from oil due to start flowing next week, a parliament official said. Legislators had been divided over whether to approve such use of the revenues, an arrangement that carries with it the risk of increased government lending and weaker public finances. [more]