Africa Archive

Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe has been laid to rest in the rural village where he was born, three weeks after his death at the age of 95. He was buried in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, about 90km

An auction house in Switzerland is set to sell 25 luxury cars including Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, and Lamborghinis that Geneva authorities seized from the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president in a money-laundering probe. Swiss authorities say the sale Sunday by auctioneer Bonhams

A U.S-based Ghanaian physician, Michael Nana Baako, has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison by a U.S Court for the federal charge of passport fraud. Baako, 50 years, was a physician who practiced in hospitals in Maryland and maintained

Buhari who was recently re-elected as President of Nigeria on Twitter reacted to the attempted ‘coup’ in Ghana and said the only form of governance in the 21st Century is through democratic elections. The only acceptable form of governance in our

The Australian High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr. Andrew Barnes has expressed shock at the level of corruption in Ghana, a nation dominated by Christians. To Mr. Barnes, corruption should not be an issue eating up a country in which Christian population

Egyptian authorities have detained more than 1,100 people since the weekend when protests were held in several cities calling on coup leader Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to quit, human rights monitors said Wednesday. Defying a ban on protesting without a permit, hundreds

A total of 22 Ghanaian nationals were on September 18, 2019 deported from Europe: Germany and the United Kingdom. Seventeen (17) of them arrived in Accra from from Germany on board chartered flight CT3721, a release from the Ghana Immigration Service

President Akufo-Addo has sacked four Municipal and District Chief Executives in the Volta Region. According to a report , the move comes on the back of an ongoing reshuffle particularly at the Local Government and Ministerial levels. The sacked Municipal and District