2017

The US State Department has released a report on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) detailing human rights abuses and censorship and identifying seven top officials and two entities as being responsible for serious human…

The National Renewable Energies Agency (ANER), in Senegal has signed a partnership worth €225m agreement with ENGIE to accelerate the development of renewable energies in the country. The first part of the agreement involves the…

The IMANI Centre for Policy and Education has advised the new Government to spend within the national budget and crack the whip on ministers who engage in wasteful expenditures. Mr Franklin Cudjoe, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)…

Parliament on Wednesday announced a break “to afford Leadership and the Committee of Selection the opportunity to compose other committees of the House for the effective conduct of parliamentary business.” The break, would last for two…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday announced the second batch of ministerial nominees. The Ghana News Agency hereby submits the brief profiles of the 12 nominees. Dr Anthony Akoto Osei – Monitoring and Evaluation…

A little over a year ago, the telecoms industry of Ghana witnessed what could be described as a fierce fight from a hurriedly-constituted group of about ten local companies calling themselves the Ghana ICT Chamber against the move by the…

Ethiopian Airlines has added the Madagascan capital, Antananarivo to its global routes. The Airlines, in a press release copied to ghanabusinessnews.com Thursday January 12, 2017, says it will begin flights to the island country as of…

The year-on-year inflation rate for December 2016 fell slightly to 15.4 per cent compared with the 15.5 per cent recorded in November 2016. The monthly change rate in December 2016 was 0.9 per cent while that of November 2016 was 0.8 per…

The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) Financial Stock Index sprout up by 0.7 per cent to close trading at 1,575.5 points whilst the benchmark GSE-Composite Index rose by 0.5 per cent to close at 1,707.3 points. At the close of trading,…

Senegal is the biggest contributor of military, police and other specialists in the West African sub-regional grouping of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) to UN Peacekeeping operations around the world as at the end…