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  Three Ghanaian footballers in Sudan are among the Ghanaians who are being evacuated from that country due to the deadly conflict, Deputy Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister, Dr Kwaku Ampratwum-Sarpong has said. Dr Ampratwum-Sarpong said the three footballers and the Ghanaian students have been taken to a safe …

  The former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has responded to the Minister of Information regarding the latter’s reply to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) report. After that report was leaked, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah felt disappointed and denied the claims made in the March 19, 2021 …

  The Government of Ghana defaulted on its coupon payment for the 2030 Eurobond on April 14, 2023, due to the debt moratorium declared on December 19, 2022.   However, the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank has made a guarantee payment of $372 million on behalf of …

According to the 2023 International Monetary Fund Regional Economic Outlook Report (Sub-Saharan Africa), Ghana’s net international reserves are expected to end in 2023 at approximately three weeks of import cover (0.8 months).   This is in contrast to the Bank of Ghana’s Summary of Economic and Financial Data, which estimated …

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) is negotiating with the International Municipal Investment Fund (IMIF) to secure support for some selected projects. The KMA is considering support for the construction of the Krofrom Market complex project, the construction of a multi-storey car park, and the Bus Rapid Transit system. The Metropolitan …

“Pharaonic Egypt is an African civilisation, developed in Africa by Africans”: what seems obvious today – except, perhaps, for Nicolas Sarkozy and his “monkeys” – has long been passed over in silence, or even openly denied by the Egyptology developed in European laboratories. We owe it to the scientist, historian, …

Google Loses Billions Of Dollars After This Technical Error Google on Monday, February 6 unveiled it AI-powered chatbot Bard that will provide stiff competition to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, with the company averring that it would become “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.” It now appears the bot may have …

Ghana is near the end of approving a herbal product to support the treatment of COVID-19. Out of a total of 11 products being researched into by the Cen­tre for Plant Medicine Research (CPMR) at Mampong in the Eastern Region for possible treat­ment of the disease, “Immunim,” hitherto an immune …

  The Suhum District Police Command in the Eastern Region invaded the Amanase chief’s palace on Thursday to retrieve fresh human remains and skeletons held at the palace. The bodies and skeletons were claimed to have been stored at the palace for two years by the Gyaasehene, Nana Addo Agyekum, …

A former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, has gone to town with names of several New Patriotic Party (NPP) officials at the Jubilee House accused of actively involved in illegal small-scale mining called “galamsey” despite President Nana Akufo-Addo’s promise to put his Presidency on the line and fight …