Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Matteo Renzi, will arrive in Accra on Monday for a two-day working visit.

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday announced that government through the Ministry of Chieftaincy Affairs is working around the clock to promote more chieftaincy divisions to paramountcy levels.

Robert Porter Jackson has been sworn in as the new United States (US) Ambassador to Ghana. This was contained in a press release from the Public Affairs Section of the Embassy on January 13, 2016 and signed by Sara Veldhuizen Stealy, an Information Officer. The Oath was administered by the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Linda Thomas –Greenfield.

Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development has inspected the ongoing redevelopment of the Kejetia Lorry Park and Central Market project, in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.

President John Dramani Mahama has appointed Mr. Kenneth Wujangi, a management and integrated rural development specialist as a deputy chief of staff (operations) at the flagstaff house.

 Ghana is among 56 countries in the world that have taken about 680 detainees that were transferred from the Guantanamo Bay, following the decision of the American government to close the camp that has become a blot on the latter's human rights record.

President John Dramani Mahama and the Prime Minister of Norway, Ms Erna Solberg, have been appointed Co-Chairs of a group of sixteen (16) eminent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Advocates to support the Secretary-General in his efforts to generate momentum and commitment to achieve the SDGs by 2030.  

The vice President, His Excellency Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has criticized the lack of progress on the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union, otherwise referred to as the Economic Integration Agenda or the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Single Currency Programme.