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The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Muntaka Mubarak-Mohammed, has renewed the curfew imposed on Nkwanta Township and its surrounding communities in the Nkwanta South Municipality of the Oti Region. 

A report by the African Union High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows has found that mobile money transactions have gaps that can be exploited to perpetrate illicit financial flows and money laundering.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has suspended remittance partnerships with five Money Transfer Operators (MTOs) following a series of regulatory breaches.

President John Dramani Mahama has commissioned 18 new envoys as part efforts to align the diplomatic corps with his administration’s Resetting Ghana Agenda.

Ghana’s marine and coastal resources must be safeguarded and harnessed sustainably as they remain vital to national prosperity, Madam Abla Dzifa Gomashie, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, said.

Mrs Elizabeth Adjei, a former Ambassador to Spain, has urged African leaders to explore and forge new economic alliances to achieve development and prosperity.

A severe water crisis has hit Agona Swedru, Gomoa Central and Agona East District for over two weeks with the more than 800,000 people struggling to get water, mostly polluted from streams, wells, and boreholes for domestic chores.

Mr Yussif Issaka Jajah, the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, said he supports the develop a Halal-compliant tourism and hospitality sector in Ghana to attract more tourists, especially from the Islamic community.

The outgoing envoys of Angola, Malta and France on Thursday bid farewell to President John Dramani Mahama at the Presidency in Accra.

Mr Salisu Be-Awuribe, Savannah Regional Minister, has engaged authorities of the Bourkani Region of Côte d’Ivoire to deepen cross-border collaboration following the conflict at Gbinyiri in the Sawla-Tuna-Kalba of the region.