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Continental expansion

Premium badgeZipline’s drones set to fly high in Africa on $330m funding Zipline, which has operations in five African countries, has once again hit the headlines by raising $330m, an amount the US start-up will be using to...
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presidential ambition

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things about Kwabena Duffuor, the man daring to jinx Mahama’s fourth coming As early as 2017 the idea of Kwabena Duffuor contesting to become the opposition National Democratic Congress’ flagbearer began floating in the media....

Leaving daily

Premium badgeWhy are Ghana’s nurses emigrating in droves? UK, Ireland, Australia, and Canada are calling and Ghanaian nurses are answering loudly. Offering better working conditions, flexible work schedules a...
© Street-hop musician Seyi Vibez is credited with the appearance of the Afro-Adura term. (photo: twitter)

Street Hop gimmick?

Afrobeats to Afro-Adura: Much ado about a sub-genre? Afro-Adura is posited as a new subgenre of Afrobeats for which Seyi Vibez may be the lead, but this Adamic expedition might be a branding exercise. We...

Ghana top stories

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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...
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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...
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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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no losses

Premium badgeGhana: 10 things about maverick NPP flagbearer aspirant Kennedy Agyapong Barring any last-minute U-turns, Kennedy Agyapong will be the dark horse in the highly anticipated New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer election later...
© People walk past the Bank of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, November 28, 2018. REUTERS

Domestic debt gloom

Premium badgeGhana: Debt restructuring, macro challenges stoking fears over banks’ solvency With Ghana’s much-discussed Domestic Debt Exchange (DDE) programme squeezing its financial ecosystem, the banking sector’s solvency could be facing ri...
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road to manufacturing

Premium badgeGhana overshadows Nigeria, catches VW’s eye as West Africa hub Motor vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) has set eyes on Ghana as the gateway to its West Africa operations as it seeks to expand its footprints on ...
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LEAKED REPORT

Premium badgeGhana: Ombudsman probes Akufo-Addo’s officials over illegal mining Tongues are wagging in Ghana after a former minister of science, environment, technology and innovation ruffled feathers with a leaked report. The doc...
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To the top

Premium badgeGhana: Gertrude Araba Torkornoo to take the helm as chief justice Supreme Court judge Gertrude Araba Esaaba Torkornoo is set to become Ghana’s 15th chief justice after a presidential announcement expected by the end ...
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Doing Afrobeats live

Meet The Compozers: The backbone to Afrobeats When Nigeria’s newly minted superstar Asake appeared on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Jimmy Fallon in the US this past March, the biggest takeaway was the p...