Renowned Policy Think Tank, Imani Africa, has once again raised doubts over the timelines set by the Electoral Commission for the compilation of a new voters’ register. According to Imani, the process of setting up a whole new system will be humanly impossible considering the limited time between now and the general elections. Addressing the media Tuesday, March 10, Vice ...

An Accra High Court presided over by Justice Eric Kyei Baffour has fixed the 12th of May 2020, as the date to deliver its judgement in the case of the Republic versus Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie and four others. The trial of the five accused persons, Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie; the former Board Chair of the National Communication Authority (NCA), William Tetteh Tevie; former ...

Ethiopia and Egypt have differed bitterly on the status of the negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), threatening the attainment of an ultimate solution. It began last Thursday after the Arab League endorsed Egypt’s position that negotiations had been finalised and that what remained was signatures on a draft that had suggested Egypt’s rightful water share would be ...

Zimbabwe is headed toward the tipping point as the economy continues to implode in the wake of government clampdown against dissent. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government is struggling to put brakes on a multi-layered crisis with the International Monetary Fund predicting stagnant economic growth this year after an 8 per cent decline last year. The country is also battling the worst ...

Morocco’s health ministry on Tuesday said the country had recorded its first death linked to the new coronavirus, an 89-year-old woman who suffered from chronic health problems. The woman, a Moroccan citizen who had been living in Italy, “suffered from chronic illnesses affecting the respiratory and cardiovascular system”, the ministry said in a statement. She returned to Morocco in late ...

The Coalition of Non Governmental Organisations in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) and the Environmental Service Providers Association (ESPA) have jointly called on the President H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his entire government to as a matter of urgency attend to all sanitation related issues critically in order not to loose the fight against filth as a government. In a ...

Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan has disclosed why he adores jersey number 3. Gyan has been wearing jersey number 3 jersey for the Black Stars for more than a decade, after taking over from his senior brother Baffour Gyan. The 34-year-old has worn jersey number 3 than any other number at club level as well. At a point when he even ...

Ahead of their Ghana Premier League week 15 tie, Accra Great Olympics have fired a salvo at rivals Accra Hearts of Oak. On Wednesday, the two foes will face each other in a tie dubbed the ‘Landlords versus the Tenants’. Olympics have over the years lay claim to being Accra’s only traditional club. Fans of Hearts of Oak have always ...

An agreement has been reached between businessman Nana Kwame Bediako popularly known as Cheddar and retired American boxer Floyd Mayweather for the latter to visit Ghana, ghanaweb.com can reveal. A source close to the ‘billionaire’ has told GhanaWeb that the former world welterweight champion will be in Ghana next month. According to our source, Mayweather will be in the country ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has suspended temporarily all foreign travels for all public officials, as part of measures the government has taken to prevent the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. In a circular issued by the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, and addressed to all sector Ministers and their ...