March 2011

The Minister of the Interior on the advice of the Northern Regional Security Council imposed a curfew on Tamale and its environs with effect from Tuesday, March 29, 2011. A statement in Accra on Wednesday signed by the Minster, Dr…

Cocoa production in the Central Region increased from 35,000 tones in the 2008/2009 season to 62,000 tones in 2009/2010 season, Mr Ebenezer Opoku-Agyemang, Central Region Quality Control Unit Manager of COCOBOD, has said. He attributed the…

Gold inched up on Thursday and was on track for its 10th consecutive quarterly rise since 2008 as an early drop spurred cautious bargain hunting ahead of U.S. February employment data at the end of the week. U.S. private employers added…

Forces loyal to one of Ivory Coast's rival presidents, Alassane Ouattara, have captured the administrative capital Yamoussoukro, residents say. Fighting erupted when they later entered the key port of San Pedro on their advance from the…

Guatemala's most wanted suspected drugs lord, Juan Ortiz Lopez, has been captured by US and Guatemalan agents. Soldiers and police in helicopters swooped on Mr Ortiz's home in the city of Quetzaltenango. He is accused of smuggling tonnes…

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa is in Britain and "no longer willing" to work for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's regime, the UK Foreign Office says. He flew in from Tunisia on a non-commercial flight and was questioned for several hours…

Very low levels of radiation turned up in a sample of milk from Washington state, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, but federal officials assured consumers not to worry. The FDA said…

CIA officers are on the ground in Libya, coordinating with rebels and sharing intelligence, U.S. officials say, but the Obama administration has not yet decided whether to take the further step of providing weapons to those trying to oust…

Mr Tony Oteng-Gyasi, a former President of the Association of Ghana Industries, has suggested that every adult Ghanaian be taxed a small amount towards a fund for financing political parties and processes of political change. This, he…

The government has entered into a credit agreement with the International Development Association for an amount of US$38 million to finance the oil and gas capacity building project, which is aimed at enhancing local skills and competencies…