Ministers, heads of bilateral and multilateral development agencies, donor organisations and civil society representatives from over 100 countries are to gather in Accra for an international forum on aid effectiveness from 2-4 September. The meeting, the first of its kind to...

Vodafone is to buy a controlling share in Ghana Telecom for US$900 million. The purchase, which still needs the backing of Ghana’s parliament before it can go through, would give the British mobile telecommunications group a 70 per cent stake in...

Work on the long-awaited Accra harbour project in James Town is due to begin in August, according to the director of the Old Accra Conservation Development Project Nii Teiko Tagoe. The redevelopment in the historic fishing community includes the creation of...

Ghana is to host the 2012 edition of the annual All Africa Golf Championship for amateur golfers across the continent. At least one golf club in the country will be upgraded to meet international standards prior to the event according to...

The late Kwame Nkrumah, political activist, pan-Africanist and Ghana’s first prime minister and then president, is the inspiration for a new academic research centre in the coastal town of Winneba about 50 km west of Accra. The Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah...

Ghanaians can now watch television on their mobile phones following the launch of Africa’s first mobile phone-enabled television content viewing service, FonTv. The service is based on technology developed in South Korea that allows high-quality television viewing on T-DMB (Terrestrial Digital...

On 7 December Ghanaians will go to the polls to elect their next president and parliament. The presidential candidates for the main political parties are already campaigning across the country as the national media turns its attention to the upcoming poll....