Africa Archive

The southeastern city of Mardin, home to a rich mix of cultures with their heritage prevalent in its narrow alleys and splendid manors, enjoyed a fivefold increase in tourists. This boost comes in the wake of security operations that weeded out

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has allayed the fears of customers of Premium Bank and Heritage Bank that their deposits are safe and fully accessible. The licences of the two banks have been revoked by the apex bank. At a press

Ghana’s Auditor-General’s Department has retrieved about GHS67 million as surcharges paid by state institutions that committed financial wrongs between 2013 and November 2018, according to a Special Audit report. “Our follow-up on the status of implementation of recommendations in the Auditor-General’s

  Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, in consultation with the Council of State, appointed a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, as the Chairman of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC). In accordance

Hackers have posted personal data from hundreds of German politicians from major parties including credit card details and mobile phone numbers, with Chancellor Angela Merkel among those affected, local media reported on Friday. Germany’s BSI national cyber defense body met early

Two female Turkish university students, aged 20 and 22, who were studying in Ukraine have been found slain in their apartment in the northeast city of Kharkiv. After failing to get in contact with the students for three days, one of

Qatar Airways, the national airline of Qatar, is expected to soon complete arrangements to fly Ghana this year. “We have already gone far with talks with the Aviation Authorities in Ghana and will be flying to that country by middle of

Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah’s church at Odorkor, Accra has been flooded by heavily armed police officers deployed from both the Odorkor Police Station and the Accra Regional Police Command after some young men vandalised his church on Wednesday, 2 January 2019