Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
When in 2019 the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to adopt a common currency to be named the ‘ECO’ by 2021, little did they envisage the roadblocks facing it to be as insurmountable as they are now. The Eurozone experience has shown that common currencies in regional bodies can be unwieldy. […]
Maxine Angel Opoku has found a new audience for her music with songs opposing a proposed law that would make it illegal to identify as gay, transgender or queer. KWASI GYAMFI ASIEDU When Maxine Angel Opoku was still an upstart musician, relatively unknown and struggling to stand out in Ghana’s competitive music scene, she sang […]
Gabon knows its oil won’t last forever, so officials are turning to the Central African nation’s rainforest for revenue — while also promising to preserve it. DIONNE SEARCEY Evening and the rainforest. A riverbank packed with elephants. Treetops so dense they obscure all but a chimpanzee’s hairy arm. And, as the sun sets, a twinkle […]
ED HOLT As a new report lay bare the massive financial costs to developing states of illegal fishing, campaigners are hoping that drawing attention to the practice’s devastating economic effects will help push governments to greater action against the illicit trade. Research by the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) released at the end of October showed […]
The actual amount of damage could be up to five times higher than the amount stolen. The attacker uses old-school hacking methods. FAUSTINE NGILA Singapore-based cyber security firm Group IB and Orange CERT, the IT security arm of French telecommunications company Orange have revealed in a new report that 12 African countries lost millions of […]
Uganda is riding on a biofabrication 3D printing technology to print human organs to help thousands of patients who die of organ failure in the country. FAUSTINE NGILA Uganda has gone to space. Despite a fire alarm causing delays on Nov. 6, the country’s first satellite, PearlAfricaSat-1, finally launched successfully into space on the morning […]
KOFI AYIM For the past years, Afrochella has gradually organized events in the last week of December. Now in its 6th year, the cultural festival entity plans to storm Ghana with added value and expanded cultural extravaganza. Founded in 2017 by a group of young Ghanaians living both in Ghana and the U.S., the yearly […]
SIMON JESSOP, KATE ABNETT, VIRGINIA FURNESS Finance took center stage at the COP27 climate talks on Wednesday November 9, with U.N. experts publishing a list of projects worth $120 billion that investors could back to help poorer countries cut emissions and adapt to the impacts of global warming. A $3 billion water transfer project between […]
RYAN TRUSCOTT Conservationists on São Tomé, a tropical island that is home to a rich diversity of plants, birds, and butterflies, have launched a project to help local farmers breed butterflies to boost incomes and incentivize the protection of the island’s forests. Under a pilot project three farmers on the island, located around 200 kilometers […]
Love it or loathe it, one of the hallmarks of the current NPP administration is its propensity to become a major driver of Ghana’s digital revolution. From healthcare delivery through drone technology to Global Positioning System (GPS) of house identification and street naming, among others, the NPP government stands tall among its peers in Africa […]