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Today the World Gold Council announces the release of a new documentary: GOLD: A Journey with Idris Elba, created in partnership with Pioneer Productions. Immersed in adventure, Idris Elba (Luther, Beast of Nations, Hijack) explores the mysteries, stories and untold human relationship with our most precious metal: gold. As his journey unfolds, we’re taken around the globe as he conquers ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has called on the government to promptly scrap import charges and taxes on medication and kits for dialysis treatment in the country. This is in response to a recent increment in the cost of dialysis treatment by more than 100 percent at the Renal Dialysis Unit of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Speaking at an ...

Thirty-eight percent (38%) of global criminal proceeds are derived from nature crimes according to data provided by Interpol. Across West Africa, recent data further indicates that illicit trade in marine resources, alone, including illegal fishing, is said to cost the region over $26bn annually, in economic and household impact losses. Speaking at the Solutions Journalism on Nature Crime In Ghana Workshop organised ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has charged the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament to come up with concrete proposals to help governments across West Africa deal with the rising and rampant insecurity and coups d’états. The president believes finding the root causes of military insurrections will better place the sub-region in dealing with the recent security challenges ...

Women’s rights advocacy Organization, ABANTU for Development has intensified its clarion call for Ghanaian Electorate to vote for women candidates in the upcoming District Level Elections which is scheduled for October this year. . Voting for women, ABANTU believes, would consolidate the gains in Ghana’s democratic credentials, while promoting development and women empowerment.  The call was made at press a ...

Some 29 Civil Society Organisations are demanding the immediate removal of GNPC’s Chief Executive Officer, Opoku Ahweneeh Danquah, and Board Chairman, Freddie Blay. The CSOs made up of the Africa Centre for Energy Policy (ACEP), Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC), Imani Centre for Policy and Education and 25 others accuse the two men ...

Although COVID-19 may no longer be a global public health emergency, countries must still strengthen their response to the disease and prepare for future pandemics and other threats, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday in Geneva. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was delivering his report to the 76th World Health Assembly, the UN agency’s decision-making body, which ...

A Ghanaian peacekeeper, Captain Cecilia Erzuah, will receive the 2022 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. Captain Erzuah, who has been serving the United Nations Interim Security Force in Abyei (UNISFA) since March 2022, will receive the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres award. It will be at a ceremony to mark International Day of UN Peacekeepers on Thursday, ...

An executive of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Nurudeen Hamidan, has warned all party agents in the ongoing by-election in the Kumawu constituency not to sign pink sheets until voting ends. Mr. Hamidan gave the warning to party agents after the NDC claimed that it had detected some pink sheets being used for the elections have already been signed even ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has deployed all 47 MMDCEs in the Ashanti Region, a good number of MPs, and Deputy Ministers as polling agents for the ongoing Kumawu bye-election. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) is also underscoring its high stakes in the by-election by fielding high-ranking party officers and MPs to give the polls a close watch. North Tongu ...