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Parliament has approved a development agreement between the Government of Ghana and Anglogold Ashanti (Ghana) Limited, for the mining company to make a capital investment of $880 million into Obuasi mine, which has seen a lull in its activities for some time now. The agreement, whose execution would end by …

Water pollution from unsustainable agricultural practices poses a serious risk to human health and the planet’s ecosystems, a problem often underestimated by policymakers and farmers alike, cautions a new report. In many countries the biggest source of water pollution today is agriculture — not cities or industry — while worldwide, …

Management of MTN says it has received complaints from some of its mobile money customers, who allegedly contributed to a Ponzi scheme operated by Savannah Brokerage Investment and are demanding reversal of their respective amounts invested. A statement issued by Mr Samuel Koranteng, Acting Corporate Services Executive, MTN, said the …

Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has rallied Africans to have a “can-do mindset” and work together to drive the continent’s economic transformation agenda. “The most important transformation is the transformation of our mindset. We have to believe that we can do what other countries and continents have done. It is not …

Two years after the Panama Papers rocked the offshore financial system, a fresh document leak from the law firm Mossack Fonseca reveals new offshore details about an array of global elites, including soccer superstar Lionel Messi, the Argentine president’s family and a former senior Kuwaiti official convicted of looting his country’s social …

In what would be the first ever resignation of an African Union official over corruption within the institution to be known, a Ghanaian serving on the AU Advisory Board on Corruption has resigned, citing persistent corruption in the organization. Usually, individuals unhappy with issues in the organization leave quietly not …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced plans for a comprehensive strategy to tackle the threat of illegal mining to the nation’s economy and the environment. This, he said was going to address the vexed issue of the lifting of the ban on small-scale mining. It would involve the reclamation …

The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) says barring any hitches, its new deadline of 2020 for the introduction of a single currency for the region will be met. Commissioner for Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Research at the ECOWAS Secretariat, Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku told a high-level technical working …

The West Africa office of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), together with the government of Benin are organizing an ad hoc experts group meeting to discuss applications by three North African countries to join the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the recently established Africa …

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has described as second to none the performance of the Akufo-Addo-led government in the management of Ghana’s currency, the Cedi as against its major trading currencies, particularly the US dollar.  It follows a recent tweet by former President John Mahama in an attempt to ridicule …