Africa's best international player prize for 2012 went to Yaya Toure, center forward of both Cote D'Voire national soccer team and English team of Manchister city, it was reported here today.
According to the Confederation of African Football (CAF), (...)
Ghana's parliament approved a 17.5 billion cedis ($10.7 billion) budget for 2012 on Tuesday, aimed at developing the West African nation's infrastructure in order to fuel economic growth and job creation, according to Reuters.
The government of (...)
The euro zone crisis will continue to hamper African countries' trade and economic growth because of the continent's dependence on exporting to European markets, Reuters quoted the World Trade Organization chief as saying on Saturday.
"The European (...)
AlQa'dah 29, 1432, Oct 27, 2011, SPA -- The Charge d'affaires a.i. of Saudi Embassy in Ghana Abdullah bin Faleh Al-Arjani received here today ??Vice President John Dramani of Ghana who came to offer condolences on the death of Crown Prince Sultan (...)
AlQa'dah 26, 1432, Oct 24, 2011, SPA -- The International Monetary Fund hailed the medium-term outlook for Ghana's oil-fueled economy as positive on Monday, but warned it would have to rein in public finances to keep the public deficit under (...)
Ghana's fiscal performance is strongly improved on last year and the country's full-year fiscal targets are within reach but spending must be closely scrutinised and kept in check, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, according to (...)
The Bank of Ghana cut its prime rate by 50 basis points to 13 percent, its governor said on Friday, confounding most analyst expectations that it would keep the rate on hold for a fourth meeting in a row, according to Reuters.
The announcement came (...)
A cholera epidemic in Ghana has killed 60 people and infected almost 4,000 since the first cases emerged last September, with 482 new cases reported this week alone, Reuters quoted health authorities as saying on Friday.
The outbreak, which (...)
Ghana reported on Wednesday a further fall in annual inflation to 10.68 percent in May, a near one-percentage-point drop on April's figure that buoyed hopes of a further interest rate cut next month.
However, analysts warned that increases in (...)
Ghana"s inflation rate will "definitely" fall in December and will continue to ease throughout next year, Central Bank Governor Kwesi Amissah-Arthur told Reuters on Friday.
Year-on-year inflation in Ghana, which is set to become Africa"s latest oil (...)
US President Barack Obama in Ghana Saturday toured a major port in the great slave trade, calling it "a moving experience," on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office.
His trip to the fort came as part of a visit to Ghana and (...)
US President Barack Obama arrived here this morning on an official visit to Ghana, the German News Agency "DPA" reported.
An overnight flight took Obama from Italy, where he had been
attending both the G8 summit in L'Aquila, and a meeting with the (...)
US President Barack Obama on Saturday toured
Cape Coast Castle on the West African coast, the 17th century
headquarters of the British colonial administration and key centre
for the gold and slave trades, according to dpa.
Obama was accompanied (...)
Ghanaians gave U.S President
Barack Obama a jubilant welcome on his first visit to
sub-Saharan Africa as head of state on Saturday, hailing his
achievements and his African heritage, Reuters reported.
Accra residents applauded the message from (...)
U.S. President Barack Obama says his trip to Africa at the end of a whirlwind world tour is designed to illustrate that «Africa is not separate from world
affairs.»
The U.S. president made his comment Saturday at the start
of a busy visit to (...)
U.N. climate talks in Ghana are
making progress on ways to help developing nations slow
deforestation and have eased disputes over use of greenhouse gas
targets for industrial sectors, delegates said on Monday, Reuters reported.
"It's moving (...)
The president of Ghana and the U.N.'s top climate official have warned that time is running out to negotiate a new agreement on global warming, Associated Press reported.
President John Kufuor says his country already is witnessing severe droughts (...)
