The United States has issued a new warning to Ghana over its lack of compliance with removing citizens who are under deportation orders. Two years ago, the U.S. began cracking down on countries – several African nations among them – after conservative lawmakers in Washington called for the application of…
This week Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid will be awarded the 2018 UNESCO-Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize during World Press Freedom Day, hosted this year by Ghana. As with the many recipients before him, he won’t see the conference sessions or attend the gala dinner in Accra. The Egyptian, known…
Remember the Ghanaian teacher whose social media post went viral after people saw he was teaching IT classes without a computer – and drawing the entire Microsoft Word interface in chalk every day? Richard Appiah Akoto, the teacher at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Sekyedomase, is now in…
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo Addo will meet Wednesday with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany, where he is finishing up a 10-day tour that also took him to Togo and the United States. The two are expected to discuss bilateral relations with an emphasis on economic partnership. Ghana is one of…
Emmanuel Mensah, a Ghanaian immigrant living in the United States, is being hailed as a hero for saving the lives of four neighbors before he couldn’t escape from what is now New York City’s worst fatal fire since 1990. Twelve people died in Thursday’s blaze, among them the 28-year-old member…
The value of copper and other recoverable materials in the e-waste generated around the world in 2016 was an estimated USD$55 billion, according to the new Global E-Waste Monitor 2017 report. That’s more than the GDP of most countries in the world, the authors said. Yet most of the 44.7 million…
Most Africans want to pay their taxes, according to a new paper from the Ghana-based Afrobarometer research network, but good governance is the key to seeing those citizen dollars go into the public coffers for much-needed revenue. Overall, 63 percent of respondents said taxes are necessary for development, while 72…
President of Ghana Nana Akufo Addo welcomed France’s Emmanuel Macron to Accra on Thursday, fresh from an African Union-European Union summit in Abidjan that was laser-focused on the crisis in Libya but, according to critics, at the expense of real diplomatic advances on pressing issues. Akufo Addo has been outspoken…
Two months ago, officials in Ghana noticed refugees from Togo showing up at border crossings, fleeing from the escalating political tensions and the first reports of fatal violence next door. Now there are more than 500 Togolese who have been registered by Ghanaian authorities, and Benin and Burkina Faso are…
Earlier this year, some of the world’s biggest names in chocolate – The Hershey Company, Mars and Nestlé among them – pledged to clean up their supply chains and end the deforestation damage that’s been part of doing business in West Africa. At least 12 companies met in London with…
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is headed for Niger to discuss progress on a long-awaited common currency for the region’s West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ). Buhari, along with Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun and Nigerian Central Bank head Godwin Emefiele, leave Tuesday for Niamey along with other common currency task…
Ghana has now converted the fuel at its only nuclear research reactor in Accra, successfully completing an international project meant to replace the use of high enriched uranium (HEU) to low enriched uranium (LEU) fuel. The three-year effort completed last week makes Ghana the first of five countries outside of…
Ghana is tightening border security following reports that frightened Togolese are trying to leave their small West African nation amid continuing political unrest. Alex Adu, a superintendent with the country’s immigration service, told Ghana News Agency that border control points remained calm but that Ghana – leading among its neighbors…
The Minamata Convention on Mercury enters into force today, following a 90-day period since the necessary threshold of 51 ratifications was achieved in May. The Minamata Convention enters into force with 128 signatory nations and 74 ratifying countries, including the most recent addition of Brazil last week. Among the countries…
Malaysian officials say they have seized another illegal shipment of pangolin scales as it passed through Kuala Lampur International Airport (KLIA) late last week. The 288 kilograms of pangolin scales were packed in sacks inside 12 cardboard boxes labeled as oyster shells, according to a report Wednesday by the Malaysia…