3+ hour, 27+ min ago  (313+ words) A member of Parliament's Defence and Interior Committee has sounded the alarm over Ghana's steady slide down the Global Peace Index (GPI), calling on the government to take deliberate steps to reverse a trend that has seen the country fall…...

17+ hour, 1+ min ago  (360+ words) The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced on Thursday, April 24, a 9 million euro long-term loan to Malagasy family-owned conglomerate Groupe Talys, in a deal aimed at tackling Madagascar's severe housing shortage, expanding modern retail, and creating thousands of formal jobs with…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (494+ words) Ghana's Ghana Gold Board (Gold Bod) has begun formal engagements with Zimbabwe-based Better Brands to establish a dedicated financing centre for artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operators, in what officials are describing as a significant step toward deepening sector formalisation…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (230+ words) Ghana is pushing to deepen technology ties with China, with Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George proposing the establishment of mobile phone assembly and manufacturing plants that could position the country as a production base for West African markets. The minister…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (263+ words) Ghana's poultry industry is caught in a double bind that industry players warn could reverse years of progress in domestic production: soaring feed costs are eroding margins from one direction, while periodic market oversupply is hammering prices from the other....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (291+ words) Police in Zimbabwe were forced to intervene and suspend a church service in Rusape after two rival factions of the Methodist Revival Church (MRC) clashed over control of the same building, bringing a simmering leadership dispute into open confrontation. The…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (457+ words) Fire in Soweto was released in 1978, in memory, first, of the more than 500 South African youth mowed down in June 1976 by apartheid police in Soweto during a three-day youth uprising against racial segregation and minority rule. The Nigerian musician's sentiments…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (198+ words) Ghana has escalated its diplomatic response to xenophobic attacks on its nationals in South Africa, formally summoning the Acting South African High Commissioner in Accra on Thursday to register an official protest. The summons follows a telephone conversation Ablakwa held…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (310+ words) Tanzania has moved to secure a three-month fuel reserve as sharply rising global petroleum prices, driven by geopolitical instability, threaten economic stability, Energy Minister Deogratius Ndejembi told parliament on Wednesday. Presenting his ministry's 2026/2027 budget in the capital Dodoma, Ndejembi said…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (225+ words) Analysts and a presidential staffer have attributed the latest wave of xenophobic incidents in South Africa, including a viral confrontation involving a Ghanaian migrant, to unemployment, inequality, political manipulation, and an erosion of pan-African solidarity rooted in the post-apartheid generation's…...