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Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Ghana increased by 39% to US$2.6 billion for the year 2021, according to the World Investment Report 2022. This placed Ghana second in West Africa, and seventh in Africa, in terms of FDI attraction. The rise in Ghana’s FDI flows was attributed to major …

The Russian Embassy in Ghana has provided evidence to reiterate its earlier claims that the invasion of Ukraine is not to be blamed for Ghana’s increasing food prices. The Russian Embassy July 1, tweeted that it was wrong to blame Russia for increasing food prices on the African continent. According …

Over 700 Burkinabe nationals who fled terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso have arrived in Ghana. This was confirmed by the Ghana Refugee Board. Most of the refugees who are women and children, are seeking refuge in communities in the Bawku Municipal and Bawku West district. The refugees, are from communities …

Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama has described late President John Evans Atta-Mills as an “honourable and dignified statesman whose love for his country and his people was without question.”   For him, Prof. Atta-Mills was a “phenomenon best felt than described,” he posted on Facebook on Sunday, July 24, …

Ghana has once again been ranked the second most peaceful country in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 2022 Global Peace Index  (GPI). The country is ranked behind Mauritius and followed by The Gambia, Botswana and the rest of least other 39 African countries. However, Ghana was also ranked the 40th most …

A plane has crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia’s capital but there were no fatalities among the 36 people on board.   Dramatic footage shot near the airport in Mogadishu shows thick black smoke rising above the crash site.   Firefighters doused the flames and …

A judge in The Gambia has sentenced to death the country’s former intelligence chief , Yankuba Badjie and four other security agents for the killing in 2016 of a political activist in the final days of brutal rule under former President Yahya Jammeh.   The activist, Ebrima Solo Sandeng – …

Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele, has been named the Peoples Democratic Party deputy governorship candidate of Lagos State. The actress confirmed her deputy governorship candidacy in a video on her verified Instagram page on Tuesday. With this position, she had become the running mate of the PDP Lagos State governorship candidate, …

Ghana’s Member of Parliament (MP) for Mpraeso, Davis Ansah Opoku, has asked world leaders to collectively help fight human trafficking. The lawmaker said the menace cannot be fought by individual countries alone. He, however, acknowledged the importance of local interventions in tackling the problem.   Speaking at the Taskforce of …

A church in South Africa has carried out a virginity test on unmarried female members and gave a certificate of virginity to each female who passed. The test is said to be an effort to encourage chastity among the ladies in society. The church identified as Nazareth Baptist Church is …