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Africa’s debt crisis continues to deepen, with 21 countries on the continent at high risk of debt distress and public debt has uncreased by over 180 per cent.

Research has revealed that a new mineral, Tantalum, has been discovered at Bewadze-Mankoadze in the Kibi-Winneba Belt of southern Ghana.

The bilateral trade volume between China and Ghana in the first half of 2024 reached nearly $ 6 billion, an increase of 13.3 per cent the previous year.

African countries are heavily indebted to the tune of $1.8 trillion as at 2022, according to data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and in 2024 alone, these countries would pay $163 billion in interests.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of the Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) says the Institute needs more funding to research extensively for the nation to meet her 1.2 billion ton of domestic demand for fresh tomatoes.

The Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, says government will spend $7.65 billion to complete the Ghana Priority Health Infrastructure Projects, popularly referred to as "Agenda 111 Project" to provide quality healthcare across the…

African governments have been called upon to re-invest monies recovered from corrupt entities into investigative journalism, because a weakened media starves democracy.

Banks reported GH¢63 million in fraud cases in 2023, up from GH¢52 million in 2022, a 21 per cent increase. 

Despite the obvious destructive impacts of illegal mining or galamsey in Ghana, the government appears to be looking on helplessly as the destruction continues to wipe out forest reserves, pollute water bodies and poison the country.

An academic at the University of Cape Coast has re-echoed the concern that there is too much power in the hands of politicians in Ghana.