Ghana News Agency opens China-Africa desk

Chinese Ambassador to Ghana Sun Baohong on Thursday officially opened a specialized China-Africa Desk at the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to promote the gathering and dissemination of news on both China and Africa.

The desk will focus on trade between China and Africa, international relations, industry and all other fields of endeavor that will go to promote the traditional friendship between the two sides in the spirit of a win-win partnership.

Sun said there were too many good stories in China-Ghana and China-Africa relations that were worthy of survey and publicity, stressing the need for the two sides to step up efforts to report and offer coverage on those issues.

"I firmly believe that the establishment of China-Africa Desk at GNA will call on more people to walk in the direction of promoting friendship and understanding, and the path will become wider and wider," she said.

Bernard Otabil, General Manager of the GNA, said China was a beacon of hope; hope as to how we can in the south-south cooperation exploit the things that the Chinese had been able to do.

He said the GNA, established in 1957 by Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, wanted to hold back its place as "the news agency that promotes fairness, credibility and also equity".

Enimil Ashong, Board Member of the GNA, said the China-Africa Desk was a desk for the future.

"We are in capable hands of people who love us," he said.

The GNA has played a very significant role in the development of the media landscape not only in Ghana but also across the continent. Endit