Ghana will have to make a case to the World Health Organisation (WHO) to secure Ebola vaccines as a buffer to protect its citizenry, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, has said.

According to him, that had become necessary after three people had been reported dead in Guinea from Ebola.

Kaba Nialé is both discreet and efficient, with a perfect knowledge of numbers to her advantage, which she handles with ease. She and Alassane Ouattara first worked together in 1991.

Anne-Désirée Ouloto was Alassane Ouattara’s spokesperson for a long time. Many Ivorians discovered her during the 2010 presidential campaign and the post-election crisis that followed.

Kandia Camara is well known for the services of Alassane Ouattara, of whom she is a close relative. The story goes back to the year 1994.

Pure natural product of the PDCI-RDA, Raymonde Goudou Coffie will start as a grassroots activist. Since 1986, Dr Raymonde Goudou Coffie has been discreetly involved in the activities of the PDCI-RDA.

The semiconductor crunch that has battered the auto sector leaves carmakers with a stark choice: pay up, stock up or risk getting stuck on the sidelines as chipmakers focus on more lucrative business elsewhere.

Car manufacturers including Volkswagen, Ford and General Motors have cut output as the chip market was swept clean by makers of consumer electronics such as smartphones - the chip industry’s preferred customers because they buy more advanced, higher-margin chips.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has congratulated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her “historic” appointment as the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation.

Google is teaming up with the European Investment Fund (EIF) and two other organisations in Latin America and Asia to provide $75 million in funding to small- and medium-sized companies suffering from the impact of COVID-19.

The funds are part of an $800 million initiative announced in March last year in response to the pandemic.

In light of the ongoing desert locust infestations in Kenya, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has teamed up with the company 51 Degrees to get control of the situation — via tracking software integrated with a hotline system, scouts and dispatched aircraft.

At least 60 people have drowned after a boat capsized in the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials say.

Some 300 people have been rescued but as many as 200 others are unaccounted for following the accident on the Congo River, officials added.

Locals said the boat hit a rock east of the capital, Kinshasa, while travelling at night, which is prohibited.