The fight against a deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is giving reason for cautious optimism, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. “It’s stabilizing. We’re optimistic, cautiously optimistic,” he told Reuters. He said he would travel to Congo on Sunday to check on progress a month into the outbreak, and would also go to ...

A male student of Mankessim Senior High school (SHS), in the Central Region, had his shorts ripped up and stripped off in the open by some teachers because it was not a prescribed uniform of the school. The teachers’ action reportedly followed the refusal of the 17-year-old Entertainment Prefect, to change the unprescribed attire he had worn to an entertainment ...

MTN Ghana has launched its Initial Public Offer (IPO) for subscribers and stakeholders in Western Region at Takoradi. “We are listing our shares to meet conditions agreed in 2015 when we acquired the right for the 4G license,” Mr Eli Hini, MTN Ghana General Manager of Mobile Money has said. According to him, the company has made a history as ...

Ghana sold GH¢477.6 million worth of a fresh 10-year domestic currency bond on Thursday and will pay a yield of 17.5 percent, transaction arrangers said. The issuance, open to foreign investors, attracted offers worth GH¢523.2 million cedis, Barclays Bank Ghana said in an email to Reuters. Initial pricing guidance for the paper, which matures in May 2028, was set at ...

Stonebwoy has revealed that he was considered for Forbes’ list of 30 young game changers in Africa. The dancehall act told Jessica Opare-Saforo on Citi FM’s ‘Taffic Avenue’ that somebody from Forbes Africa asked him to send his particulars for the project. He said he did not hear from him again even after he had sent information. “We got message ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday assured the white Afrikaner community that it should not view his government’s land reform plans as a threat, but as a way to harness the country’s economic potential and heal divisions from the past. Ramaphosa, who replaced scandal-plagued Jacob Zuma in February, has promised to redistribute land to the black majority to address ...

Thousands of Malians marched through the capital Bamako on Friday against President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who will seek re-election next month. A similar protest last Saturday was broken up by riot police firing teargas but this time the demonstrators, blowing horns and waving Malian flags, marched without incident from Place de la Liberté toward Place de l’Independence about 1.5 km ...

The International Criminal Court on Friday overturned the war crimes conviction of Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba on appeal. Presiding judge Christine Van den Wijngaert said that Bemba could not be held responsible for atrocities carried out by troops under his control in neighbouring Central African Republic, and that trial judges had failed to consider the efforts he made to stop ...

The president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and some other staff of the Association may be in hot waters, but Ghanaians are having a good time trolling them on social media. A new challenge, dubbed ‘Money taking challenge’ is trending on Facebook, making mockery of the Greater Accra regional chairman of the GFA, Eddie Doku who was seen in ...

Not long ago, Ivorian musician Freddy Meiway revealed in an interview with Joy FM how Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie disrespected him by failing to collaborate with him on a song. In the process, Sarkodie took to social media particularly Twitter and in a series of tweets, apologised profusely and narrated events. He admitted that, he had received the song and that ...