The President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, on Friday, May 5, 2017, decorated Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with his country's highest national award, La...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Friday, May 5 decorated with the highest national award of Burkina Faso. The award, the Grand Croix de l’Ordre National, was conferred on Ghana’s...
The Chiefs and people of Akwapim Mampong in the Akwapim South District of the Eastern Region are threatening to cut down cocoa trees in the town and go into illegal mining, popularly known as...
President Nana Akufo-Addo is leaving Accra today, Tuesday 2 May for neighbouring Togo for talks on illegal small-scale mining (galamsey). The Ghanaian President will hold talks with his Togolese...
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and PARIS&Co, the economic development and innovation agency of Paris, last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the...
Paco Sery was a kid banging on tin cans before a job at a Club Med in Ivory Coast opened the way to drumming for Congo's rumba king Papa Wemba as well as Nina Simone and other jazz greats. The...
A court in Ivory Coast has handed a former top general 18 years behind bars in connection with the abduction and murder of four foreigners from the Novotel hotel in Abidjan. The four -- two...
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has backed African governments’ use of fossil fuels – especially the continent’s large endowment of coal – to bridge Africa’s huge energy gap. In the...
The government of Ghana has put a moratorium on licensing of small-scale miners. Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu, says the moratorium is aimed at helping fight the illegal...
The Ghana Water Company limited (GWCL), has lamented effects of illegal mining activities on its production capacity, as it currently produces forty percent below its national production capacity....
Activities of small-scale illegal miners (galamseyers) in Ghana is destroying water sources in neighbouring Ivory Coast, Ghana’s Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation,...
Neigbouring Ivory Coast is unhappy with Ghana following activities of illegal miners in Ghana, which they claim is affecting water bodies in that country. The Minister of Environment, Science and...
Neigbouring Ivory Coast is unhappy with Ghana following activities of illegal miners in Ghana, which they claim is affecting water bodies in that country. The Minister of Environment, Science and...
Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator pointed to speculators and prospects for a glut as the reason for a slump in futures that forced the nation to cut the price it pays farmers. There was something it...
If you’re a young musician, you probably know how difficult it is to break into the music industry. This is why the Impact Music Conference, which is being held in Accra, Ghana, on April 26 and 27,...
Best known for taking the last professional images of Kurt Cobain before his suicide, French photographer Youri Lenquette's newest exhibition reveals an eye now firmly fixed on Africa's most vibrant...
A court in Ivory Coast has acquitted the country’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, of crimes against humanity. The charges related to the violence that followed the 2010 presidential poll when...
I am still straggling to hypothesize a reason that might have informed the decision to host the Africa CEOs forum in Geneva–Switzerland. On the 20th and 21st of March, 2017, over one thousand...
Anarchic architecture, unchecked pollution and high costs of living are the lot of African city dwellers, experts warn, as living standards fail to keep pace with rapid urban growth on the continent....
Goldstar Air, a privately owned Ghanaian airline would offer seed money of GH?5,000.00 for travel agencies that have registered with the Ghana Tourist Authority for over a year. The agencies must...
