Africa Archive

The European Commission added Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and other jurisdictions to a blacklist of nations that pose a threat because of lax controls on terrorism financing and money laundering, the EU executive said on Wednesday. “The European Commission adopted

E-commerce giant Amazon said Thursday it has canceled plans to build a corporate campus in New York City. Amazon in November announced New York City and Arlington, Virginia, which borders Washington, D.C., would share the so-called HQ2 project, splitting some 50,000

Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST ) Otumfuo Osei Tutu ii , has inaugurated a three-member committee to probe the violence that occurred in October last year. There was a misunderstanding between the students and school authorities which

Albert Kan Dapaah, National Security Minister has stated that, until perpetrators engaged in electoral violence are punished, violence associated with elections are likely to recur. Mr Dapaah told the Emile Short Commission probing the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election shooting incident on

The government has  extended an invitation to the leadership of five transport associations together with the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC-Ghana) to dialogue following the groups’ threat to stage a demonstration on Monday, 19 February 2019 against government’s implementation of

Madam  Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Foreign Affairs Minister has downplayed suggestions that Ghana should retaliate the visa sanctions imposed on the country by the U.S. “Are you dealing at arm’s length [with the U.S.], there are more Ghanaians [seeking to travel] than

The anticipated Right to Information Bill, RTI, is scheduled to take effect only in the 2020 financial year should it be passed. This follows an amendment proposed by the majority leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on

MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong will not be expelled from parliament after the Privileges Committee presented its report today. An apology and a show of remorse by the embattled MP for Assin Central saved him from being expelled from Parliament