While most marketing executives would be thrilled to see an ad go viral around the world, this one’s getting attention for all the wrong reasons. The spot for China’s Qiaobi laundry detergent is...
Ghana is to build a $1.5 billion coal power plant at Ekumfi Aboano, in the Ekumfi District of the Central Region, beginning this second quarter.
The 2,000 megawatt power plant project is being...
Gunmen stormed a hotel packed with foreigners in the former French colony of Mali on Friday, taking 170 guests and workers hostages, U.S. Embassy officials and a hotel spokeswoman told NBC News.
Some...
A lot of people eat the tiger-nut popular known as 'Atadwe' without knowing the health benefits. Atadwe is a grass-like plant of the Trans-Saharan Island.
It has cylindrical tubers of several species...
Antoinette Delali Kemavor, a student of Central University College was crowned Miss Ghana 2015 at the Accra International Conference Centre, during the wee hours of Sunday, November 8, 2015. After...
A Chinese corruption suspect who has been at large for three years has been repatriated from Ghana to China, the Communist Party of China's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in...
Ghana's cedi and Zambia's kwacha are set to end 2014 as the worst performing African currencies among a small basket that are relatively liquid, as falling commodity prices take a toll on some of the...
By Camillus Eboh
(ABUJA,Reuters) - Nigeria expects economic growth for 2015 to reach 6.75 percent, an improvement on this year's forecast of 6.2 percent, despite the risks posed by falling global oil...
South Africa has denied a visa to his Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, for the third time in five years, one of his representatives said on Thursday, intensifying speculation about...
President Mahama has given a personal cash reward of GH¢10,000 to “amazing” junior Olympics gold winner, Martha Bissah and charged the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) to pay special attention to...
Over that period alone an estimated 6.8% of the continent's elephant population was wiped out by the illegal ivory trade, scientists say.
In central Africa, the worst affected region, poaching led to...
Attempts to recycle E-waste and donations of old electronic devices are harming poor people's health and devastating the environment, writes Nele Goutier. Agbogbloshie, once an idyllic landscape of...
With all the skill of a master weaver at a loom, Esther Ogble stands under a parasol in the sprawling Wuse market in Nigeria's capital and spins synthetic fibre into women's hair.
Nearby, three...
US President Obama, today met with over 50 African leaders, discussing issues such as investment, poverty, terrorism, corruption and deadly diseases. Almost 50 African heads of state attended the...
22 people were killed in a day of militia fighting for control of the international airport in the capital Tripoli has , a spokesman for Libya's interim government said.
In a statement early today,...
PayPal has signed up "tens of thousand" of Nigerians in its first week of operating in Africa's biggest economy, with consumers already purchasing items from Britain, China and the United States via...
We all know Africa is a pretty big continent, however, this infographic puts it in perspective. Behold: major countries of the world, overlaid atop an outline of the positively giant African...
