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Newmont Africa says it looks forward to the investigation reports of the Ghana Police Service, and the National Investigation Bureau, to understand and address the root cause of the recent shootings, at Kenyasi, one of its host communities. The company’s statement follows the recent shooting and rioting incident, that unfortunately, claimed the life of one community member and injured four ...

It appears that a consensus is being reached that although external developments and governmental policies may be chiefly to blame, a lot of the hardship in Ghana is also due to the greed of some traders and businesses – which has ripple effects. Yet Ghana is always described as a deeply religious country.Who would have thought that so many of ...

A former Finance Minister, Dr Kwabena Duffuor, has proposed the establishment of a National Economic Rescue Team to help find immediate and lasting solutions to the current economic challenges. He said the depth of the economic crisis and the ongoing attempt to restructure the domestic debt towards macroeconomic stability and recovery of the economy call for the establishment of an ...

Ghana’s government has taken inadequate steps to end the chaining and inhumane treatment of people with real or perceived mental health conditions – psychosocial disabilities – in faith-based and traditional healing centers despite a 2017 ban on such treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. A decade after the adoption of the 2012 Mental Health Act, which establishes a structure to ...

A record $51.5 billion is needed to help 230 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in nearly 70 countries next year, the UN said on Thursday. The size of the appeal – 25 per cent higher than this year’s – reflects the fact that the total number in need is 65 million more than in 2022, the UN and partner ...

The Internal Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed that the government of Ghana has declared its intention to conduct a debt operation ( also called debt restructuring) in 2023. According to an update on the fund’s website, “authorities [Ghana] have assessed their public debt as being unsustainable over the medium term. Together with efforts to bring the government deficit down, they ...

The Minority in Parliament has described the 2023 budget statement and economic policy presented by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, yesterday to Parliament as not encouraging as it provides no hope for the youth because there will be a freeze on employment. It has, therefore, urged the citizenry to brace themselves up for a “maximum hardship” in the coming ...

More iron deposits have been discovered at Nkwanta in the Oti Region, a Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Benito Owusu-Bio, has said. It adds up to the recent discovery of the mineral resource in that region around Gyamurume and Wawaso in commercial quantities. Question It adds up to the recent discovery of the mineral resource in that region ...

The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has pledged the European Union’s (EU’s) support to the government’s efforts to develop the country. He said the EU considered President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as an important partner and Ghana as a close friend, and that the EU would “support your personal commitment to democratic principles and values, which are extremely ...

Eighty percent of road projects being pre-financed by Ghanaian contractors across the country have stalled, the National Chairman of the Association of Ghana Road Contractors, John Afful, has estimated. He attributed these challenges to the depreciation of the cedi and the increasing cost of petroleum products. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, Mr. Afful said it has become practically impossible for ...