Africa Archive

Ghana is to receive $190 million as the second allocation of compact funds from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) after the Ghanaian government met all the required conditions to access the funds. The MCC on Thursday submitted a letter acknowledging Ghana’s

A business workshop has been held by Confluent media to encourage youth on need to venture into entrepreneurship which will help tackle the current rate of unemployment in the country. The event which was in partnership with Platinum Africa Solutions and

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