Jean-Michel Basquiat occupies star billing on the auction block in New York this season, catapulting the artist into the rostrum of 20th century greats nearly three decades after his death. Riding...
Sudanese Prime Minister Hassan Saleh announced a new government on Thursday, with changes to economic ministers including the oil, investment and finance chiefs. Sudan's constitution was amended in...
Saudi Arabia's budget deficit fell by 71 percent in the first quarter of this year, the finance minister said on Thursday, after the kingdom made sweeping spending cuts. The deficit dropped to 26...
Chuck Nelson spent 30 years underground in nearly every mining job available but today he is in no doubt about it: "There is no future in coal." For the fourth-generation retired miner, the...
US President Donald Trump will receive Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov at the White House Wednesday even as a political firestorm has put Moscow's alleged meddling in the US election back in the...
There has been a sharp rise in infant mortality and maternal death rates in Venezuela. In the first figures released for two years, the Health Ministry said the number of women dying in childbirth...
Some economists are predicting that Ghana’s economy will be 5 percent by the end of this year. This is lower compared to government’s 6.3 percent and the World Bank’s 7 percent projections....
A total of about 60 people are said to have been injured after a gas explosion at a company in Sekondi-Takoradi Tuesday morning. Ghumco, a utensils manufacturing company was said to be receiving...
Gross sales volumes of crude oil in the first quarter of 2017 averaged approximately 132,500 barrels of oil per day (bopd). This comprises 82,500 bopd from the Jubilee fields and 50,000 bopd from...
Galamsey: An enemy of Ghana’s arable lands and water bodies Galamsey as it is called in Ghana has resulted in serious degradation of vegetation, lands and pollute major water bodies in recent years...
In spite of his persistent pledge to fight corruption when given the nod ahead of last year’s election, President Akufo-Addo says addressing challenges facing the country’s economy remains his...
The Akufo-Addo government on March 2 presented its 2017 Budget and Economic Policy statement dubbed the Asempa Budget to the nation through Parliament. The Budget read by Finance Minister Ken Ofori...
AngloGold Ashanti has said it has set new safety records and achieved its first-ever March quarter without a fatal accident, as it reported operating results for the three months to 31 March 2017....
The West African Gas pipeline Company Limited (WAPCo) has assured that the temporary shutdown of FPSO Kwame Nkrumah by Tullow will not put pressure on gas that will be required to be transported to...
The small, palm-fringed fishing town of Palma was meant to become a symbol of Mozambique's glittering future, transformed by one of the world's largest liquefied natural gas projects. But...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Saturday said he doubted coal could make a comeback, dismissing a push by US President Donald Trump to revive the declining American industry. "If you are tied...
Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano on Saturday held talks in Tripoli with top Libyan officials on peace efforts for the war-wracked country and ways to curb illegal migration to Europe. Alfano...
The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) has committed US$1.2 billion to support Ghana’s economy over the next three years. The allocation, which will span July 2017 to June...
The Western Regional Minister, Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, has said that even though the Western Region produces over 50 percent of the country’s natural resources, the level of development the region has...
If successful, the experimental project could produce up to 10 times more energy than an existing conventional gas or oil well, by generating electricity from the heat stored inside the earth: in...
