President Nana Addo’s revelation of the projected cost for the Ghana at 60 celebrations has generated mixed reactions among Ghanaians. Whereas some are incensed owing to their perception that the...
“We reject any attempts to prescribe new rights that are contrary to our values, norms, traditions and beliefs. We are not gays”. – Robert Mugabe “If you do it in Gambia, I will slit your...
Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had...
The quake struck at 2:32 a.m and was felt across the lake in Tanzania and in Congo The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported that an earthquake hit northern Zambia early on Friday....
The jagged, ice-capped Rwenzori Mountains stab at the sky above Mpondwe, a bustling border town in western Uganda. Trucks move slowly and one at a time across a rickety metal bridge above the...
Kenya has been ranked top in Africa in cases of police shootings and killing of civilians according to a report by Amnesty International shows. The report indicates that by October 2016, a total of...
Former President Mahama has been named among the 2016 African Leadership Persons of the Year, having won ALM’s African Political Leader of the Year Award. Immediate past Ghanaian President, John...
After more than three years of non-payment of dividends to its shareholders, mining giant AngloGold Ashanti is to resume payments after lower operating and interest costs helped it nearly double it...
Barclays has reached agreement with its African subsidiary about the details of their divorce, a key step before the British bank can sell more shares in its Johannesburg-listed offshoot. Two people...
A South African private equity firm has acquired the Kenyan unit of global insurance broker Aon for an undisclosed amount. Johannesburg-based Capital works have bought out Aon interests in Aon Kenya,...
Every big city has its own peculiar problems when it comes to road traffic and the congestion of road networks. Accra is experiencing rapid urbanisation largely due to a natural increase and...
By Cletus D Kuunifaa The first hundred days of any presidency could be measured by the successes and accomplishments as of the time of assumption of office. We are in a cruise for President Nana...
A Digital Services Finance Consultant, Kwame Oppong has described as untrue suggestions that the Bank of Ghana (BOG) is committing an amount of GHC 4.6billion of public funds into the proposed switch...
PRESS RELEASE Accra-17th February, 2017- Mantrac Ghana Limited, the authorised dealers of Caterpillar products and services in Ghana has announced the graduation of the first batch of Eight (8)...
The mediator in Burundi's nearly two-year political crisis on Sunday asked regional leaders to call an urgent summit as deep discord and a government boycott hamper peace talks. Former Tanzanian...
Countries in Africa's Great Lakes region launched an intelligence nerve centre in Uganda Saturday to better coordinate the fight against a rebel group responsible for massacres in neighbouring DR...
Despite constitutional injunctions that allow freedom of movement, persons with albinism are still prevented from entering or living in some communities in Ghana. Article 17(2) of the 1992...
Burundi's government on Friday asked Tanzania to arrest several leaders of the main opposition attending peace talks in Arusha in a bid to resolve a nearly two-year political crisis. The talks are...
For the past decade, one topical issue that has been exhaustively debated especially during the electioneering campaigns was “free SHS policy”. The then candidate (now president) rightfully...
(This February 15 story has been corrected to fix spelling of mediator's last name to Mkapa in fifth, sixth paragraphs) The government of Burundi has said it will not attend peace talks scheduled to...
