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African leaders have been urged to commit more resources to agriculture development to reverse the escalating food crisis and  renewed violence in parts of the continent.      Dr. Jean Ping, President of the African Union (AU) Commission,…

The relocation of Nigerian companies to Ghana is causing stirs in the country’s industries, the Nigeria Stock Exchange, Manufacturers Association and Lagos Chamber of Commerce have all joined in calls to check the trend before the worse…

A downpour that lasted from dawn to mid-day on Wednesday, paralyzed business and the social activities that characterise public holidays in the Wa Municipality. While all commercial activities at the Wa Central market came to a standstill,…

Ghanaians have been asked to stop attributing socio-economic problems in the country to witches and demons. An economist, Dr Nii Moi Thompson, has urged Ghanaians to rather cultivate a development-oriented consciousness for reliable and…

Mr. Emmanuel Zumakpeh, Garu-Tempane District Deputy Director of Education in the Upper East Region, has observed that the long term effect of conflicts is the tendency to deny the nation of the requisite human resource, needed for…

The Rockefeller Foundation has unveiled a 100-million dollar initiative to make health care much more accessible in developing countries. The "Transforming Health Systems" project aims to help countries in Africa and Asia that lack the…

We are often haunted by the unknowns If the ancestors inhabit the living or the dead. So we try to appease their souls as a way of life Keeping them in everyday activities and places To become part of the living community, For they do…

Today July 2, 2009 excellence in business journalism on Africa will be recognized and awarded at a remarkable ceremony in London at the Park Lane Hotel. We at ghanabusinessnews.com would like to congratulate the eventual winners for the…

The lone survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash, who clung to wreckage for 13 hours before being rescued, lay in a hospital bed with a broken collarbone Wednesday, asking for little — except for a chance to see her mother. But relatives said…

China, the largest holder of foreign currency reserves, reiterated its call for a stable dollar and a diversification of the international monetary system. “We hope that as the main reserve currency the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar…