2008

President-elect Barack Obama said the U.S. recession will worsen before a recovery takes hold and that he will offer an economic stimulus plan “equal to the task” without worrying about a short-term widening of the budget deficit.…

Five people who posed as party agents for the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) at separate polling stations have been arrested by the police. The suspects whose names were not disclosed were arrested at Miamia and Gyamera polling stations in…

E-waste dumping is a major problem in Ghana, but Ghanaian authorities deny there is any amount of dumping going on in the country. Ghana’s Environment Ministry and Environment Protection Agency (EPA) all insist what is going on in…

Ghanaians are voting for a new president on Sunday, December 7, 2008 in a tight race between two foreign-educated lawyers hoping to lead the West African nation into an era of greater prosperity thanks to offshore oil. The elections are…

Ghanaians have gone to the polls to elect a new president and parliament, in a country often held up as an example of good government in Africa. President John Kufuor is stepping down after serving the maximum two terms and the race to…

Listeners to local radio stations were calling in, before dawn, with prayers for peaceful presidential and parliamentary elections. With the polls being held for the first time on a Sunday, many churches had held services the day before to…

Ghana is set to begin biofuel production very soon, despite mounting evidence of biofuels' effects on the current global food crisis. Only recently, the government of Ghana gave approval for a Norwegian biofuels firm ScanFuel to start…

One of the two Indian men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by the gunmen in the Mumbai attacks was a counterinsurgency police officer who may have been on an undercover mission, security officials said Saturday,…

The Ghana Consolidated Diamonds Limited, the state own diamond mining company that has been on the divestiture list for some years now, has finally found an investor. The company is to be taken over by an American investor, the Deputy…

The global financial crisis has crept into Zambia as a significant power project meant to aid the country’s power deficit will be delayed several months as a result of the slow down in the world economy, said an official from the World…