The number of homeless people sleeping in shelters and streets altogether went up by 12 percent in Los Angeles and 14.4 percent in Washington, D.C. in 2015, says a new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report issued Thursday. The nationwide homeless population was 549,928, compared with 564,708 in the previous year, finds the […]

The shrinking in the euro area is due to building construction falling by 1.1 percent, while civil engineering rose by 0.4 percent. In the EU, the monthly decrease is due to building construction falling by 0.7 percent, while civil engineering rose by 1.8 percent. On a year-on-year basis, production in construction rose by 1.8 percent […]

Research and development on civil projects during the year was just over 24 billion U.S. dollars, a six percent rise over 2014, while defense research and development expenditure decreased by four percent in 2015 to 1.9 billion U.S. dollars. ONS said expenditure on research and development performed in Britain last year by foreign-owned businesses increased […]

The number of employed people amounted to 43.7 million between July and September, a year-on-year increase of 0.9 percent, German federal statistics office Destatis reported. “Although employment increased year on year in the summer months, it did so at a slower pace than in the first two quarters of 2016,” the report said. The year-on-year […]

A Sudanese entrepreneur said that Sudan hopes to establish a long-standing partnership with China in developing its Port Sudan harbor, as the country’s economy is suffering from lack of major resources. “We have important and strategic partnerships with the Chinese companies which have greatly helped us to modernize Port Sudan harbour and increase its efficiency,” […]

Following a weekly humanitarian taskforce meeting, the Special Envoy’s Office reported “it was regrettable that no UN inter-agency cross-line convoys were able to proceed so far in November.” Chaired by the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy, the meeting also took note of the rise in violence in areas including Aleppo, Raqqa […]

Published in the November issue of the journal Energy, the study by researchers at Stanford University in the United States and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Germany focused on California, where battery electric cars are growing in popularity while only a few manufacturers have begun offering fuel cell vehicles. The researchers created future […]

Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project leader, Murenga Mwimali, told an agricultural forum in Nairobi that Kenya loses about 13 percent of its maize production to the stem borer pest. Mwimali said that the losses were equivalent to 400,000 metric tons of maize production annually. “Farmers currently use cultural, chemical, biological methods to control […]

“The report published by the International Federation for Human Rights with the contribution of the Burundi-based Iteka Human Rights League is biased and full of lies,” said Willy Nyamitwe, Senior Adviser in charge of Communication at the Office of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza. According to Nyamitwe, the Burundian government has rejected the content of the […]

Qatar’s Energy Minister Mohammed Al-Sada made this announcement Thursday in a press conference on the sidelines of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum held in Qatari capital. Al-Sada, the current president of OPEC said “we will have a meeting, and it’s going to be an informal and consultative meeting,” adding that 11 countries had confirmed their […]

While presenting a pre-election survey, the Center for Democratic Development-Ghana (CDD-Ghana) said the findings of the survey should prompt Ghanaian security agencies to be proactive rather than reactive. Out of 2,680 respondents from the 10 regions (provinces) of the country, 15 percent said they would prefer their candidates emerged victorious even if it was done […]

Economic forecasts before the Brexit vote on June 23 warned of a slowdown in GDP growth and in wage growth if Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU). So far, this has not materialized, with economists arguing it is too early to feel the full effect of the vote. These retails sales figures — […]

“That means that not even those countries that have been in favor of the relocation have been successful in these terms. On one hand, we have a mouth full of words about human rights, but on the other hand, we see every migrant as only a statistical number,” said Kalinak. He said the EU only […]

The 23-year-old economics graduate is unable to comprehend her rapid conversion into an online shopping guru whose expertise is widely sought by peers and relatives. Like millions of Kenyan youth, Kanana is a beneficiary of a digital boom that has triggered transformations in key sectors of the economy like financial services, retail, transport and communication. […]

Oil prices declined Thursday as strong U.S. dollar offset market’s optimism over an oil output freeze deal. The West Texas Intermediate for December Delivery lost 0.15 U.S. dollars to settle at 45.42 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for January delivery erased 0.14 U.S. dollars to close at […]

The United Kingdom’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Jon Benjamin has implied in a publicly shared tweet that the newly opened Kwame Nkrumah interchange is nothing exceptional, based on his travel experience. When a Twitter user, @ZimmAconcept mentioned the commissioner in their tweet that said they were looking forward to knowing Mr. Benjamin’s impression about […]

The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources in-charge of Mines, Mr Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has urged mining companies to engage communities to seek their input before embarking on rehabilitating mined out lands on their concessions. He made the call at Perseus Mining (Ghana) Limited in the Central Region, when he toured the Mine’s rehabilitation […]

Ghana’s enviable reputation for free and fair elections must not be taken for granted, Mr Jon Benjamin, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Ghana has warned. “The UK is a great supporter of Ghana’s democracy and its electoral record. Whilst we admire the open and energetic nature of (the) campaigns, we also believe that violence […]

Nestlé Research and Development (R and D) Centre in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, has expressed commitment to tackle diabetes and other non-communicable disease in Africa. A statement signed by Joëlle Abega-Oyouomi, in charge of Manufacturing Services at Nestle Central and West African Region and copied to the Ghana News Agency said in a region where non-communicable […]

There are 152 polling stations in the Bolgatanga East and Bolgatanga Central Constituencies in the Upper East Region from where 108,080 registered voters are expected to vote in the Presidential and Parliamentary elections on December 7. At the Bolgatanga East Constituency, which was carved from the then Bolgatanga Constituency in 2012, about 20,134,000 registered voters […]