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Akufo-Addo’s Response To the Receipt of Burkina Faso Highest National Award

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Friday, May 5 decorated with the highest national award of Burkina Faso....

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We’ll Cut Down Our Cocoa Trees and Go Into Galamsey – Angry Mampong Chiefs Threaten

The Chiefs and people of Akwapim Mampong in the Akwapim South District of the Eastern Region are threatening to cut...

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Akufo-Addo Takes Galamsey Fight To Togo, Ivory Coast

President Nana Akufo-Addo is leaving Accra today, Tuesday 2 May for neighbouring Togo for talks on illegal small-scale...

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MEST Signs Partnership With PARIS&Co

Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) and PARIS&Co, the economic development and innovation agency of...

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Ivorian Drummer Boy Turned Globetrotting Virtuoso

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...

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Former Top General Jailed Over I.Coast Novotel Murders

A court in Ivory Coast has handed a former top general 18 years behind bars in connection with the abduction and murder...

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Kofi Annan Backs Fossil Fuels To Light Africa

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has backed African governments’ use of fossil fuels – especially the...

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Government Puts Moratorium On Small-Scale Mining Licences

The government of Ghana has put a moratorium on licensing of small-scale miners. Minister of Lands and Natural...

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Galamsey Cuts Water Production To Only 60%

The Ghana Water Company limited (GWCL), has lamented effects of illegal mining activities on its production capacity,...

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Ivory Coast Mad At Ghana Over Galamsey

Activities of small-scale illegal miners (galamseyers) in Ghana is destroying water sources in neighbouring Ivory...

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Galamsey In Ghana Affecting Ivory Coast – Frimpong-Boateng

Neigbouring Ivory Coast is unhappy with Ghana following activities of illegal miners in Ghana, which they claim is...

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Galamsey In Ghana Affecting Ivory Coast

Neigbouring Ivory Coast is unhappy with Ghana following activities of illegal miners in Ghana, which they claim is...

International

Ivory Coast Plays Blame Game For Cocoa Crisis In Top Producer

Ivory Coast’s cocoa regulator pointed to speculators and prospects for a glut as the reason for a slump in futures...

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Wiyaala To Speak At Impact Music Conference

If you’re a young musician, you probably know how difficult it is to break into the music industry. This is why the...

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Cobain’s Last Photographer Turns His Lens To African Music

Best known for taking the last professional images of Kurt Cobain before his suicide, French photographer Youri...

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Ivory Coast’s Former First Lady Simone Gbagbo Acquitted

A court in Ivory Coast has acquitted the country’s former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, of crimes against humanity. The...

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The Africa CEO Forum Needs Rethinking

I am still straggling to hypothesize a reason that might have informed the decision to host the Africa CEOs forum in...

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Rags, Not Riches, Defining Africa’s Urban Explosion

Anarchic architecture, unchecked pollution and high costs of living are the lot of African city dwellers, experts warn,...

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Goldstar Air To Offer Ghc 5000.00 Seed Money To Travel Agencies

Goldstar Air, a privately owned Ghanaian airline would offer seed money of GH?5,000.00 for travel agencies that have...