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A man poses with a flag of Wagner group mounted on top of an old tank exhibited at the Leninist Komsomol park in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Stringer/AFP)

Russian ruffians

Premium badgeGhana: Pro-Wagner Group campaigners arrested for ‘planning to overthrow government’

Five Ghanaians are facing prosecution after staging a protest in solidarity with Russia last August in the port city of Takoradi.

Portrait of Alpha Condé, former president of Guinea, by the artist Kehinde Wiley, on exhibition at Quai Branly Museum. © Courtesy Musée du Quai Branly

exotic and exuberant

Kehinde Wiley’s portraits of African presidents unveiled in Paris A new Paris exhibition of American artist Kehinde Wiley’s work reveals vibrant portraits of 11 African leaders.
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, chief of Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO website)

WOMAN OF FIRSTS

Premium badgeGhana: 7 things about Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, organised crime fighter Battling human trafficking, cybercrime and money laundering are all in a day’s work for Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, chief of Ghana’s Economic & Orga...
Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) members came out in droves after their candidate President Nanan Akufo-Addo won. Who will will the candidate seat this time around? (Reuters/Luc Gnago)

SHOWDOWN

Premium badgeGhana: Bawumia vs Agyapong, who will win NPP flagbearer race? Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) goes to the polls on 4 November to elect its presidential candidate for the 2024 elections.

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A man poses with a flag of Wagner group mounted on top of an old tank exhibited at the Leninist Komsomol park in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Stringer/AFP)

Russian ruffians

Premium badgeGhana: Pro-Wagner Group campaigners arrested for ‘planning to overthrow government’ Five Ghanaians are facing prosecution after staging a protest in solidarity with Russia last August in the port city of Takoradi.
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, chief of Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO website)

WOMAN OF FIRSTS

Premium badgeGhana: 7 things about Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, organised crime fighter Battling human trafficking, cybercrime and money laundering are all in a day’s work for Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, chief of Ghana’s Economic & Orga...
Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) members came out in droves after their candidate President Nanan Akufo-Addo won. Who will will the candidate seat this time around? (Reuters/Luc Gnago)

SHOWDOWN

Premium badgeGhana: Bawumia vs Agyapong, who will win NPP flagbearer race? Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) goes to the polls on 4 November to elect its presidential candidate for the 2024 elections.

Ghana top stories

A man poses with a flag of Wagner group mounted on top of an old tank exhibited at the Leninist Komsomol park in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Stringer/AFP)

Russian ruffians

Premium badgeGhana: Pro-Wagner Group campaigners arrested for ‘planning to overthrow government’ Five Ghanaians are facing prosecution after staging a protest in solidarity with Russia last August in the port city of Takoradi.
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, chief of Ghana’s Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO website)

WOMAN OF FIRSTS

Premium badgeGhana: 7 things about Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, organised crime fighter Battling human trafficking, cybercrime and money laundering are all in a day’s work for Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, chief of Ghana’s Economic & Orga...
Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) members came out in droves after their candidate President Nanan Akufo-Addo won. Who will will the candidate seat this time around? (Reuters/Luc Gnago)

SHOWDOWN

Premium badgeGhana: Bawumia vs Agyapong, who will win NPP flagbearer race? Ghana’s governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) goes to the polls on 4 November to elect its presidential candidate for the 2024 elections.

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© Former Ghana New Patriotic Party member, former minister Alan Kyerematen is running for president as an independent. (Ozge Elif Kizil / Anadolu Agency via AFP)

Independent man

Premium badgeExclusive: Ghana’s Alan Kyerematen talks about presidential ambition Alan Kyerematen, once a stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), speaks to The Africa Report about running for president as an independent.
Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo attends the 78th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 20, 2023. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Talking Shop

Premium badgeGhana’s Akufo-Addo plays to domestic gallery with UN climate, debt pitch Debt relief was top of the agenda for the countries in the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF).
Ghanaian former NPP party stalwart Alan Kyerematen, is going alone and running for president as an independent. (AFP /Fabrice Coffrini)

renegade candidate

Premium badgeGhana: Alan Kyerematen goes independent after jumping NPP ship After withdrawing from the NPP’s upcoming flagbearer race, Alan Kyerematen will contest Ghana’s 2024 presidential election, a source within his campai...
Ernest Addison, Governor of the Bank of Ghana talks during the bank’s Monetary Policy Committee news conference in Accra, Ghana March 21, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

survivor

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things about central bank governor Ernest Addison Ernest Addison’s six-year spell at the Bank of Ghana has witnessed some of the most dramatic happenings in the country’s banking sector history.
Who’s who in Vice President and presidential candidate Mahamudu Bawumia.

inner circle

Premium badgeGhana: Who’s who in VP Bawumia’s campaign team? Ghana’s VP Mahamudu Bawumia stands on the verge of history at the presidential primaries of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) on 4 November.
© Edward Gyambrah, the officer-in-charge of the Domestic Tax and Revenue Division at the Ghana Revenue Authority. Photo supplied

taking a gamble

Premium badgeGhana: Betting tax stirs public anger, experts’ doubts over economic impact Controversy is brewing in the West African nation as the government’s recent introduction of a 10% withholding tax on betting and lottery winnings ign...