Africa Archive

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed that popular German car maker VW is set to establish an assembling plant in Ghana. Addressing a joint press conference with President Akufo-Addo, at the foyer of the Jubilee House, Chancellor Angela Merkel, said her

The Drug Law Enforcement Unit (DLEU) of the Eastern regional Police Command has destroyed an acre size marijuana farm at Nkurakan, a community in the Yilo Krobo district, an area notorious for the cultivation of cannabis. According to the Public Relations

A Non-Governmental Organisation, Wells Investment Company, a Saudi Arabian based charity, has constructed five boreholes in a number of communities at Bekwai Municipality in the Ashanti Region to provide access to clean water. Some of the beneficiary communities include Pekyi, Traboum,

It seems Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir has no intention of leaving the presidency in the near future – and his insistence on holding on to power will likely have grave consequences for his country. On August 9, Sudan’s ruling National Congress

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commissioned the Spring and Bolts Limited, one of the companies under Government’s 1-District-1-Factory initiative. The company, which is engaged in the manufacture of U-bolts, leaf springs, trailer suspension parts, bolts and nuts, can import machinery

The National Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has called for immediate auditing of activities of the Hajj Board. The call comes in the wake of a demand by the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for

Police in Nkrukan in the Eastern Region has impounded huge quantities of compressed dried leaves suspected to be marijuana. The compressed slabs of the suspected marijuana were concealed in dried pieces of cassava (Kokonte) hidden in two mini sacks en route

A 46-year-old illegal miner, Kwasi Antwi has been found dead in a mining pit at Akanteng in the West Akyem district of the Eastern region. The body of the deceased has been retrieved and deposited at the Morgue of St. Dominic