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Floods wreck havoc in Accra, Ghana Several hours of rain overnight in the heart of Ghana’s capital, Accra and its industrial city, Tema, have wreaked havoc causing floods in many homes ...

US EXIM Bank to support small businesses in Ghana US Export and Import Bank says it is determined to invest more in the Ghanaian economy with special focus on small and medium scale enterprises.

Africa’s new look: glossy and glamorous Higher levels of consumer spending mean that publishers in Africa’s biggest markets feel that the time is right to target the African lifestyle sector

African Banks: Fitter, faster, more profitable Banks in Africa’s most competitive environments are streamlining their operations, shoring up their procedures and training their employees to adapt t...

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© File photo of an artisanal miner climbing out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

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Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag ‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...
© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

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Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.

Ghana top stories

© File photo of an artisanal miner climbing out of a gold mine with a bag of rocks broken off from inside the unlicensed mining site of Nsuaem Top in Ghana. (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra)

rigid regulation

Premium badgeGhana needs stricter regulation and technology to fight off gold-smuggling hub tag ‘The State of the Illicit Economy’ report, presented at the AfCFTA Business Forum in Cape Town, South Africa last month by OriginAll, a company that c...
© Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta speaks during a news conference in Accra, Ghana December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

purse manager

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things to know about Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta is steering the affairs for Ghana’s long journey towards a $3bn IMF bailout. The investment banker turned politician e...
© Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Visual Art Awards, London, 2016. John Phillips/Getty Images via AFP

Gifted & Black

Premium badgeGhana-UK: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s figurative Black portraiture After showing at the Tate, this painter is being welcomed by the Guggenheim, where 70 of her works are showcased.

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The Bronze Venus Last winter, the Ghanaian-born Edward Enninful styled nine black women for a photo shoot titled “Black Allure” for Vogue Italia. This was the second t...

Cuban Government offers to train 250 Ghanaian students as doctors A total of 250 Ghanaian students from deprived districts are to be train as doctors next year in Cuba following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) si...

Ghana to support Cuba fight U.S. economic blockade The Ghanaian government has promised to support Cuba in fighting the Latin American country’s economic blockade and facilitate the release of the five...

UN asks Ghana to be practical on homosexuality UNAIDS has urged Ghana to institute measures to protect the rights of homosexuals in order to fight HIV/AIDS.

Ghana: Over 64 percent work in the agricultural sector Anthony Doku (AD), managing director of research, monitoring and planning at the Ghana Revenue Authority as well as MD of O.G Farms Limited, speaks ab...

African credit default swaps: Everything’s relative Some African sovereign debt looks rather attractive as the eurozone continues to flounder.