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The African nation of Congo has been called the worst place on earth to be a woman. A new study released Wednesday shows that it's even worse than previously thought: 1,152 women are raped every day, a rate equal to 48 per hour. That rate…

Access to hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts may have accidentally been leaked because of a flaw in some applications. Security firm Symantec discovered that programs were inadvertently sharing access tokens which could be used by…

The revised 2010 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Ghana has been estimated at 7.7%. According to the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS), the estimates of the GDP are produced in stages, with estimates generated at each stage being dependent…

Ghana’s inflation rate continues its downward trend for the second time this year. The rate for April stands at 9.02%, the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has announced in Accra Wednesday May 11, 2011. The rate is lower than the March…

Ticket prices for the much-publicized peace soccer match organized by Ghana’s midfielder and Chelsea star, Michael Essien is out. The match, which will be bringing some international stars like Paolo Maldini, Ashley Cole, Didier Drogba,…

Mr. Torgbor Mensah, Executive Chairman of Great Argon Holdings, the largest Integrated Marketing Communications Group in Ghana, has once again been honoured with the Best Entrepreneur Award in Advertising for 2010 at the recently held…

Two Ivorian journalists have gone into hiding after receiving death threats, the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) has said. The two are Zogbo Blé Denis of the state-owned Ivorian Broadcasting Service (RTI) and Claude Kipré of Top…

AngloGold Ashanti says it has recorded adjusted earnings of $203 million in the first quarter of 2011. The gold miner also says it boosted cash flow from its operations after eliminating its hedge book last year to reap the full benefit of…

Analysts have attributed Ghana’s cocoa boost in the 2010-11 season to smuggling from strife stricken Ivory Coast, the Reuters news service has reported. But Ghana Cocobod officials say it is as a result of strategy to improve crop yield…

Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, vice chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has resigned his position and picked the nomination forms to contest the primaries of the party's ticket for the 2012 presidential election. The nomination…