West Africa
[UPDATE] – Arrested and Humiliated Ebola Ghanaian Student Tested Negative for Ebola
A Ghanaian student in Czech Republic arrested, forced into a suffocating black polythene bag, wheeled away in a trolley...
UK Starts Screening For Ebola At Airports for People Traveling From Ebola Hit Countries.
People arriving in the UK from areas hit by Ebola face "enhanced screening" for the virus at Heathrow, Gatwick and...
250 Labone Senior High School (SHS) Sacked For Non-Performance
Two hundred and fifty students of the Labone Senior High School (SHS) have been sacked for their abysmal performance in...
2015 Presidential elections in Togo: So Many Things To Talk About
Togo is a relatively small country situated in West Africa with a population of about 5.5 million. Some of her...
More Ebola Outbreaks outside Africa – Nurse Infected in Spain
Spanish Health Minister Ana Mato has confirmed that a nurse who treated two victims of Ebola in Madrid has tested...
The Sudans: The Conflict and the Way Forward
After over 21-year-long civil war between north and south Sudan (supposed to have officially ended in 2005), and...
International Monetary Fund Hold Bail-Out talks with Ghana Government
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday it was holding talks with government officials in Ghana on possible aid to...
President John Mahama Visits West Africa Hardest Hit Ebola Countries – Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
Mr. Mahama, Chairman of ECOWAS, left Accra on Monday for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, to discuss with the...
Doctors Abandon Achimota Hospital over suspected Ebola Patient
Health workers at the Achimota Hospital in Accra have reportedly abandoned the facility over a suspected Ebola case...
Gates Foundation Pledges $50m to fight Ebola
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $50m on Wednesday to support emergency efforts to contain West Africa's...
Ghanaian Traditional Leader Calls for Improved Faciliation of Inter State Commerce in West Africa
(Notse, GNA) - Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State has said Africa could remain underdeveloped until the...
Here’s How The Number of People Who Have Been Killed By The Ebola Virus – 2000
More than 2,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the World Health Organization said on Friday,...
Sierra Leone Fights Ebola With Nationwide Lockdown, Experts Warn It Won’t Work
Sierra Leone's proposed countrywide "lockdown" will not help control an Ebola outbreak and could lead to the disease...
Kofi Annan on Ebola – Travel Ban on Ebola Countries May Hinder Eradication
The Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation, Busumuru Kofi Annan has warned that if measures are not put in place now to...
$800 Million Atuabo Gas Plant Is the Game Changer – President John Mahama
President John Mahama says the expected benefits to the country from the Gas Processing Plant in Atuabo will be the...
$800m gas plant is the game changer- President Mahama
(Accra, The Presidency) President John Mahama says the expected benefits to the country from the Gas Processing Plant...
The Politics and Economics of the Ebola Outbreak
Foreign policy strategies in many western nations is built on mutual benefit. “You scratch my back, I scratch your...
Education Minister Refutes Reports that 70% of WASSCE Candidates have Failed the Exams
Seventy per cent of candidates have not failed (Accra, GNA) – Prof Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the Education Minister,...
Introducing Recipe Tuesdays : Jollof Rice Made the Ghanaian Way
One of our goals at The Accra Report is to expose to the world the eclectic beauty of Ghana and the African...