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Ghana reaches $3 bn credit deal with IMF

ACCRA: Ghana has agreed on a $3 billion credit deal with the International Monetary Fund, the multilateral lender said on Tuesday, as the country...

Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars

Ghana's government is working on a new policy to buy oil products with gold rather than US dollar reserves, Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia said on...

Marburg: Ghana confirms first outbreak of highly infectious virus

Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola, its health service said on Sunday, after...

Hand-painted movie posters find homes abroad

With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a...

17 killed, 59 injured by explosion in western Ghana

ACCRA: At least 17 people were killed and 59 injured Thursday in a devastating explosion in a western Ghana town after a truck carrying...

Ghana culls thousands of chickens amid avian flu outbreak

ACCRA: Ghana has destroyed 4,500 chickens and restricted the movement of poultry after nearly 6,000 birds were found to have died of the highly...

Ghana plants 5 mn trees to battle forest depletion

Five million trees were due to be planted across Ghana on Friday as part of a massive government-led "Green Ghana" programme to save depleting forest reserves

Chocolate makers face ethical branding dilemma

Ivory Coast and Ghana’s threat to possibly halt the cocoa industry’s ethical branding schemes poses a major risk to chocolate makers operating in Western markets

Ghana cashes in on slave heritage tourism

This is “slave river,” where captured Ghanaians submitted to a final bath before being shipped across the Atlantic into slavery centuries ago, never to return to the land of their birth

Google takes on ‘Africa’s challenges’ with first AI centre in Ghana

"Africa has many challenges where the use of AI could be beneficial, sometimes even more than in other places," said Google's head of AI Accra, Moustapha Cisse

Final farewell to UN’s Kofi Annan at Ghana state funeral

Tributes were paid to former UN secretary general Kofi Annan as he was laid to rest in his native Ghana.

Gas explosion rocks Ghana’s capital Accra, causing fatalities: government

ACCRA: A natural gas station in Ghana’s capital Accra exploded on Saturday evening, killing an unknown number of people, a government official said. “Unfortunately there...

Ghana wakes up and smells the coffee

LEKLEBI FIAPE, Ghana: Like many people around the world, 80-year-old Kofi Afadi can't start his morning without a cup of coffee. "Every morning when I...

Slave bones traced to countries of origin

MIAMI: Using a new approach to DNA analysis, the 17th century bones of three African slaves have been traced to their countries of origin for the first time, researchers said Monday.

Guinea qualifies, Nigeria out of Africa Cup

ABUJA: Ebola-ravaged Guinea joined Ivory Coast, Mali, Ghana and DR Congo in qualifying for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday but defending champions Nigeria crashed out.

Ghana or S. Africa could replace Morocco as Africa Cup host

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa and Ghana have been asked by the Africa Cup of Nations organisers whether they are prepared to host the 2015 tournament if Morocco withdraw over Ebola fears.

FIFA World Cup: Record-equalling Klose salvages 2-2 draw for Germany

FORTALEZA: Germany striker Miroslav Klose came off the bench to score a record-equalling 15th World Cup goal and salvage a 2-2 draw against Ghana...

FIFA World Cup: U.S. beats Ghana 2-1

CURITIBA: United States started their FIFA World Cup 2014 campaign when Clint Dempsey scored the fifth fastest goal in tournament history but they needed an...

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