Ghana’s confirmed cases of the global pandemic, the Coronavirus have risen to 5,408, the Ghana Health Service has confirmed. The number of recoveries now stands at 514 with 24 deaths. The current development shows that as of Wednesday, May 13, 2020 the country has recorded 281 more positive cases of COVID-19 while 20 more patients have recovered. Two more casualties have also been recorded. ...

The Accra High Court has sentenced three former government officials to various terms in prison after convicting them of willfully causing financial loss of $4m to the state. Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, a former board chairman of the National Communication Authority (NCA) will serve six years imprisonment for his part in the $4m NCA scandal. William Matthew Tetteh Tevie, a former Director-General ...

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said it would be “madness” to hold general elections while still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. He told the Ugandan broadcaster NBS that if the pandemic was not brought under control by July, then plans to hold the elections in early 2021 would have to be reviewed. There are 122 confirmed cases of coronavirus in ...

Two babies and 12 mothers and nurses were killed in a militant attack on a hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning. Another 15 people, including a number of children, were injured in the attack by several gunmen, officials said. Meanwhile, in the east, a bombing at a funeral killed at least 24 people. In the wake of ...

The US Supreme Court has heard arguments on whether President Donald Trump should be allowed to keep his financial records secret, in a major showdown over presidential powers. Mr Trump has refused to share documents that could shed light on his fortune and the work of his family company. Two congressional committees and New York prosecutors demand the release of ...

The European Commission (EC) has added Ghana to the countries that pose money-laundering risks to the commission. The revised money-laundering list, expanded to include 22 from 16 states, is set to take effect from October. The Commission added Panama, the Bahamas, Mauritius, Barbados, Botswana, Cambodia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe to its list of countries that “pose significant ...

Canada shed three million jobs in the last two months due to the coronavirus lockdown, causing the unemployment rate to shoot up to 13% in April, the government reported Friday. That rate more than doubled, following a relatively small increase the previous month when restrictions started to be put in place, its statistical agency said. The new rate is second ...

AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi mine is expected to ramp-up its mining rate from 2,000 tonnes per day to 4,000 tonnes per day in the first quarter of next year. This is due to slower shipments of certain equipment to Ghana and difficulties in ensuring key, skilled employees can travel to the site amidst COVID-19-related border closures. The project, it stated, remains ...

Ghana’s COVID-19 case count has increased by 427, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 5,127. According to the Director General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye, 272 of the cases were recorded in Obuasi in the Ashanti Region Dr Aboagye, who made this known at a press briefing in Accra on Tuesday, said the total ...

Mr Kwame Amoah, the Awutu Senya East Municipal NADMO coordinator, has revealed that his organization is seeking court approval to enable it pull down some buildings on waterways within the Kasoa area in the central region. This, he said, is intended to prevent the perennial flooding of the area. His comments follow the Sunday downpour that destroyed properties belonging to ...