african american woman checking flight on smartphone at airport with luggage waiting The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) citizens travelling within the sub-region will from January 2020 enjoy no roaming charges following the implementation of the ECOWAS roaming ... Read More

Christoph Retzlaff -German Ambassador to Ghana Germany has launched the new Africa Fund with a volume of one billion euros to foster investment in Africa, the German Ambassador to Ghana, Mr Christoph Retzlaff, has announced. He said Germany and Ghana had ... Read More

Abiy Ahmed - Ethiopian Prime Minister The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who made peace last year with bitter foe Eritrea. He was awarded the prize for his efforts to "achieve peace and ... Read More

  Paul Kagame - Rwanda President Rwanda‘s parliament has passed a law scrapping over 1,000 laws considered colonial and outdated. For months the country debated and discussed plans to scrap all the country’s colonial-era laws. Local media New Times reported that some of these ... Read More

Rwanda has the most inclusive parliament of women representation in the world Rwanda has broken its current world record of 64 per cent female representation in Parliament, setting a new one of 67.5 per cent. Out of 80 seats, women now occupy ... Read More

Mr Charles Adu Boahen (right) exchange pleasantries with Dr Stefan Oswald after signing the agreement. With them is Mr Christoph Retzlaff (middle), the German Ambassador to Ghana The Ministry of Finance and the German Development Bank, KfW, have signed a ... Read More

Rwanda has opened Africa’s first smartphone manufacturing plant in the capital, Kigali, in an event attended by President Paul Kagame. Manufactured by technology company Mara Group – the Mara X and Mara Z smartphones – will use Google’s Android operating system ... Read More

Mr Birender Singh Yadav (left), Indian High Commissioner to Ghana and Mr George Andah (right), Deputy Minister of Communications, jointly launching the stamps to commemorate the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi in Accra. The Ghana Post (GP) and the Indian ... Read More

October is celebrated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink ribbon is used as a symbol of solidarity in all countries. Throughout the month, countries across the world organise events with an aim to help increase attention and support for ... Read More

The European Union (EU) has cautioned Ghana to be proactive in restoring its degraded forest and tree cover in the wake of the changing climatic conditions. “The government needs to take drastic action to reverse the trend for the sustenance of ... Read More