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  Elections of one sort or another have taken place in all 48 sub-Saharan African countries in the past decade. On a continent that has also experienced some 83 successful coups in half a century, this is often cited as a mark of progress.…

Nigerian aviation workers are spoiling for a face-off with the Ghanaian authorities over non-payment of severance benefits to 15 Nigerians who worked with the defunct Ghana Airways. While Nigeria Airways was liquidated in 2003, Ghana…

Ghana’s Cocoa Board bought 4.8 percent fewer beans from farmers so far this season because of cross-border smuggling to Ivory Coast that may result in annual output targets being missed, its Chief Executive Officer said. The Accra-based…

Amnesty International (AI), the global human rights pressure group has called on newsly installed President John Atta Mills to commit to human rights. In a statement published on the organization’s website Thursday  January 8, 2009, a…

Kosmos Energy has announced today, January 8, 2009 that the company has successfully appraised Jubilee Field-age reservoirs and made its third major oil discovery on the West Cape Three Points Block in Ghana. In a statement announcing the…

The Mobile Telecommunication Network (MTN) on Wednesday distanced itself from an e-mail scam falsely claiming that some individuals will receive Nokia N95 and NF90 if they forwarded an e-mail to eight and twenty people. The said e-mail…

Top Russian and Ukrainian gas executives are due in Brussels as the EU seeks to broker an end to the row freezing much of Europe's gas supplies. Both Alexei Miller, chief of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, and Ukrainian state gas company…

President John Evans Atta Mills says local businesses will thrive under his government. Speaking at his inauguration Wednesday December 7, 2009, he said, “I will create the atmosphere in which the resuscitation of local businesses will go…

Oil futures tumbled 12 percent, the most in more than seven years, after a U.S. government report showed bigger-than-expected increases in supplies of crude oil, gasoline and distillate fuel as consumption dropped. Inventories of crude oil…

In spite of its definition, a lot of people, particularly from this part of the world still believe that what is termed ‘Child Labour’ is too ambiguous and cannot be used. Child Labour is defined by the International Labour Organization…