Germany picks Ghana over Nigeria as West African centre of global health
The German government says it will support the launch of a German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention.
Christoph Retzlaff, German ambassador to Ghana, announced in a tweet on Thursday that the centre will be located in Ghana.
Retzlaff said the Ghanaian centre is one of eighth others worldwide. He, however, did not mention the locations of the seven others.
“Excellent news: Germany will support launch of a new “German-West African Center for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention,” Retzlaff wrote.
“It will be located in Ghana and be part of 8 new centers worldwide to fight global challenges.”
Excellent news: Germany 🇩🇪 will support launch of a new “German-West African Center for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention “ . It will be located in Ghana 🇬🇭 and be part of 8 new centers worldwide to fight global challenges #sciencediplomacy #weareinthistogether pic.twitter.com/nv2Yk12XfY
— Christoph Retzlaff (@GermanAmbGhana) April 15, 2021
Advertisement
The development comes just when the dust is yet to settle on Twitter’s choice of Ghana over Nigeria for its African office.
There is an ongoing conversation over how Africa’s giant somehow manages to lose opportunities to neighbouring countries, Ghana especially.
Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, said the company’s choice of Ghana was based on the country’s history of being a “champion of democracy” and “a supporter of free speech, online freedom and the open internet”.
Check out TheCable’s analysis of seven times Ghana has beaten Nigeria to the prize here.
While Nigeria may pride itself as Africa’s giant, Ghana is gradually positioning itself as the apple of the continent’s eyes, especially to foreign investors.
Bad leadership based on religious & ethnicity,Corruption,Poor infrastructure has robbed us through the years this all coming to the foe now with the Twitter and now this.Lots more has positioned themselves in Ghana our corrupt inept leaders don’t care as long as they their friends families and cronies are controlling the resources of the country they don’t want to do the right things even Nigerians in Diaspora are relocating to Ghana to settle and invest have you tried opening or doing any business in Nigeria despite all the govt BS ease of doing business go talk to SMEs in any part of the country with Lagos in particular they at the mercies of the govt Double taxation,local govt tax, TV tax, Radio Tax, Generator Tax, water tax, lawnma tax, estimated billing, Diesel, staffs salary, Area boys the list is endless until we get our governance right sadly this trend will continue