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."
As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital. That’s one of the reasons why he, along with other doctors and medical experts, suspect that the omicron version really is causing milder COVID-19 than delta, […]
Depending on which side one belongs, being a Ghanaian in these post-Covid times in Ghana could worsen one’s Maalox moments or give one hope for 2024. It is too soon yet, but the current standoff between the very thin majority and the hilarious minority is a thing to think about. We have a political soccer […]
A Nigerian priest who spent more than a month in captivity following his abduction earlier this year has called on the international community to come to the aid of the people of God in Nigeria’s Kaduna State amid heightened insecurity. Fr. Bako Francis Awesuh, 37, told Aid to the Church in Need Nov. 25 attacks […]
MARIA CHENG & FARAI MUTSAK At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus […]
ERIC LIPTON, DIONNE SEARCEY & MICHAEL FORSYTHE The clean energy revolution is replacing oil and gas with a new global force: the minerals and metals needed in electric car batteries, solar panels and other forms of renewable energy. Places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, which produces two-thirds of the world’s supply of cobalt, for […]
On November 17, 2021, Ghana’s minister of finance, Ken Ofori Atta read his budget for the year 2022 but the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) voted it down late November 26, 2021. The opposition party in parliament would not accept some taxes, including the 1.75 percent tax on electronic money transfers known as Momo among […]
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia of Ghana on Tuesday, November 2 delivered a public lecture on the Digitization of the Ghanaian economy at the Ashesi University and followed it up with a question and answer session. Speaking on the topic: Using digitization to transform an economy – the Ghana Story, Dr. Bawumia explained the digitization drive […]
HENRY WILKINS Terror attacks on gold mining operations in Burkina Faso are becoming a regular occurrence. For VOA, reporter Henry Wilkins looks at the impact the attacks are having on the lives of survivors and what it could mean if extracting gold, the country’s primary source of income, becomes too dangerous. “Boukare,” whose name has […]
New report says Beijing championing development of industry alongside its flagship Belt and Road Initiative. The Beijing-backed expansion of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in many African countries’ risks fueling the illegal wildlife trade and threatens the future of some of the world’s most endangered species, a new report has warned. The growth of the TCM […]
The introduction of Bajaj Qute vehicles by the Coastal Development Authority (CODA) of Ghana into the country’s transportation system is welcome news. The bold initiative was conceived by the ruling New Patriotic Party government in the heat and passion of the 2020 election campaign. After much political wrangling, ‘CODA Drive,’ (as the mini-sized vehicle is […]