Accra gets tough on hawkers.

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), or city council, has renewed its efforts to decongest city centre streets with the demolition of temporary wooden structures used by petty traders around Kwame Nkrumah Circle and outside the School of Law at Makola....

Ghana@50 under investigation.

Investigations are under way into allegations of misappropriation of public funds in the celebration of Ghana’s golden jubilee in 2007. The inquiry is being carried out by an independent three-member commission chaired by Mr Justice Isaac Douse, an appeal court...

Malaria drops in Accra

Following measures undertaken in a collaboration between Cuba based Biological and Pharmaceutical Laboratory Enterprise Group (LABIOFAM) and Ghana’s ministry of health, the incidence of malaria in Accra dropped by 62.2 per cent during the 10 month period from February 2008...

Petrol price hike in Ghana.

The government of new president John Atta Mills has increased the price of all petroleum products in Ghana by 30 per cent. Under the new tariff structure petrol costs GH¢5.10 per gallon compared to the previous GH¢3.80, while diesel is...

Reporting Oil and Gas Project

Ghana’s International Institute for ICT Journalism has launched a project to support journalists covering the country’s nascent commercial oil and gas industry. The initiative, known as “Reporting oil and Gas”, involves the provision of information and resources through the dedicated...

Obama to visit Ghana in July.

United States president Barack Obama will be in Ghana from 10-11 July on his first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office in January. The trip is expected to highlight “the critical role that sound governance and civil society...

Kwame Nkrumah memorial park to get facelift.

Kwame Nkrumah memorial park in central Accra is to get a facelift, vice president John Mahama has said. The site, which includes a mausoleum containing the remains of independent Ghana’s founding father and first president (1909-1972) and his Egyptian wife Fathia...