Ghana's Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the transfer of two former Guantanamo Bay detainees to the country was unconstitutional without parliamentary approval. Ghana had signed an agreement with...
All Kenyan schoolgirls are to get free sanitary pads, the government has said. It is hoped the move will improve access to education in a country where many cannot afford sanitary products like pads...
A total of 40 young Ghanaians have left the country to attend the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) in the United States. The 40 include the Head of...
Yesterday’s Parliamentary debate on basic schools with crumbling buildings and the subsequent revelation by the minister of education of a funding gap of $200m to fix the most critical ones, brings...
French President Emmanuel Macron is celebrating a convincing victory in National Assembly elections that gives him the mandate to push through wide-ranging social and economic reforms. Three-quarters...
The Board of Directors of the African Development (AfDB) has approved a US$ 15 million investment in Shore Capital Fund III, a multinational Private Equity Fund that aims to promote financial...
Private Equity Africa (PEA) has announced the full list of winners of the 2017 GP & Advisor Awards. The awards saw 22 firms collect much coveted accolades at the 6th Annual PEA Awards Gala Dinner...
Maria gave smugglers all her family savings and crossed three countries and the searing Libyan desert, but when she finally boarded a boat for Europe her dream was swiftly shattered. She was 24 and...
The project is expected to require an investment of approximately $120 million and to start operations early 2019. ENGIE and eleQtra, a developer of power and transportation projects in sub-Saharan...
A UNAIDS report on HIV prevalence in women shows that Ghana is among countries with the highest prevalence rate in West Africa. As many as 160,000 women and girls in Ghana are living with the virus,...
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has hit hard at the minority members of parliament over their crusade against issuance of $2.25 billion bond. The Minister is admonishing the National Democratic...
A Deputy Minister for Finance, Mr Kwaku Kwarteng, thinks that it was needles for the minority members of parliament to have invited the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta to the House over the...
Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana (UG), has lauded the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), UG, for spearheading Africa's agriculture transformation....
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has corrected National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarians who are under the impression that global investment firm Franklin Templeton, is a person. The...
The quickest way out of Africa’s economic woes is through agriculture, Dr Rufaro Madakadze, Programme Officer for Training and Education at AGRA, has said. According to her, although majority of...
Seven migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been found dead in an abandoned refrigerator truck near the Libyan capital, a senior official in the fight against illegal immigration told AFP Monday....
Spanish coast guards rescued more than 170 migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe from northern Africa in four separate boats, they said Saturday. Morocco notified Spain's coast guards that a...
All Nation University’s giant steps towards putting Ghana in the ‘League of Nations’ exploring space technology will attract global attention on Saturday as the country’s first satellite,...
Earth is now on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and human activity is to blame, experts have warned. In a series of studies published this week, researchers around the world examined the...
Some kinds of vaginal bacteria may interfere with a gel meant to curb the risk of contracting HIV, which infects more than one million women worldwide each year, researchers said Thursday. The...
