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African countries can grow the economy of the continent if they increase trade, Dr. Vera Songwe, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has said. Dr. Songwe who was speaking at the opening of the Regional Trade Forum for West and Central Africa in the …

Operation Vanguard Personnel stationed at their Forward Operating Base in the Western Region on Saturday morning at about 5:30am apprehended 15 suspected Chinese illegal miners in the Juabosu District in the Western North Region. This was contained in a statement issued to the Ghana News Agency by Captain Andy Sowatey, …

Even though some universities in West Africa boast of being among the best institutions for study, none of them appeared on the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World  University Rankings for 2020. The world’s most-consulted independent university evaluation was released to students, policymakers, and academics across the globe and published last week, …

Professor Godfred A. Bokpin, a Fellow of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, has urged government to rationalise the many tax exemptions that are granted multinational companies. Government should also explore and deepen efforts in mobilizing domestic tax revenue and avoid tax exemptions. Speaking at a lecture organized by IMANI …

…Country likely to return to IMF Ghana’s gross public debt has reached GH¢173,068.7 billion compared to GH¢142,616.6 billion in 2017, with an interest rate of GH¢19 billion to be paid on the debts. These figures were presented at a public lecture by the Think Tank, IMANI in Accra on Thursday …

Up to 50 billion metric tons of sand and gravel are extracted every year worldwide.The inexhaustible need for sand from this rapidly-developing country is the breeding ground for illegal activities by what has come to be known as the ​“sand mafias.” ​ It takes nearly four hours by car from …

Ghana’s economy grew 6.7 per cent year-on-year in the first three months of 2019 compared to 5.4 per cent in the same period last year, the Ghana Statistical Service said on Wednesday. The quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted growth rate was 1.6 percent compared to 1.7 per cent for the last three …

A group of fishermen from an indigenous community in Guatemala demanded to know more about the environmental impact of a ferronickel mine established on their ancestral land. One of them was killed, and a local reporter was criminalized for covering the story. If it were not for a journalist taking …

In Tanzania, reporters trying to investigate violence, environmental damage and other wrongdoing connected to a gold mine in the north of the country are trapped between the silence of a mining giant and the lies of a repressive government. At least a dozen reporters – local and international – who …

The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has saved a whooping GH¢43 million as of April this year after deleting over 6,300 ghost pensioners from its payroll. The Trust in February last year, begun an exercise to clean the pension payroll of ghost names in collaboration with the banks, …