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."
ALEXANDER ONUKWUE Overwhelmed by high costs of food, transportation, and other necessities, Ghana is hoping that a new increase in the cost of borrowing will quell a streak of 11 straight months of rising inflation. After an emergency meeting on Aug. 17, the Bank of Ghana raised interest rates from its July level of 19% […]
ALLEN G. BREED Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center when an Associated Press colleague from the opposite end of the country walked into her workspace behind the event stage and handed her a thin manila envelope. “I’m not an investigative reporter,” Edith Lederer told the 29-year-old Heller […]
Mysterious authors penned these holy texts some 2,000 years ago, but modern archaeology is shedding new light on who they were. JEAN-PIERRE ISBOUTS In November 1946, as the sun slowly rose over the Judean Desert, three Bedouin cousins went looking for a lost goat in the hills close to the Dead Sea. Intent on finding […]
CHRIS NUNOO President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated that reparations for Africa and the African Diaspora are long overdue. He has, therefore, called for more dialogue on the issue. “Reparations for Africa and the African Diaspora are long overdue.” Predictably, the question of reparation becomes a debate only when it comes to Africa and […]
Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, they’re being auctioned off for drilling. RUTH MACLEAN & DIONNE SEARCEY The Democratic Republic of Congo, home to one of the largest old-growth rainforests on Earth, is auctioning off vast amounts of land […]
TIMOTHY OBIEZU Cryptocurrency experts say Nigerians are hedging against the drop in value of their currency, the naira, by trading more dollar-denominated digital assets. The naira has been falling to new lows on the black market in Nigeria, Africa’s largest and most populated economy. But experts say investing in cryptocurrency is also driving the Nigerian […]
Within five years of breaking away from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with glee and fun fare, the West African country couldn’t survive its independence. Like a spouse returning to rejoin its partner after a make-up, Ghana reneged on its own promise never to return to its “matrimonial home.” But we dare ask: 17 times […]
CHRIS MFULA Zambia is cancelling more than $2 billion worth of projects financed by commercial loans to reduce the risk of accumulating more non-concessional debt, the ministry of finance said. In 2020, Zambia became the first nation to default in the COVID-19 era. At the end of 2021, its external debt stood at $17.27 billion, […]
Ghana lost approximately GHS5 billion in cash through the payment of bribes to public officials in 2021, the Ghana Integrity of Public Services Survey (GIPSS) has disclosed. This is equivalent to almost one-third of the 2021 budget of the Ministry of Education, which is implementing one of the Government’s flagship programs, Free Senior High School […]
The calm air cloaking Lupembe, a sleepy village on the sandy shores of Lake Malawi, conceals a dark secret. On December 26 2019, a mob driven by rumors of sorcery hunted down and lynched a grieving family. The killings are among dozens of witchcraft slayings that have shaken the southern African country, prompting talk of […]