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One person has died of suspected anthrax in the Binduri District of the Upper East Region after eating the carcass of an anthrax-infected dead cow. According to the Upper East Regional Health Directorate of the Ghana Health Service, four cows died of anthrax in one of the suburbs of Binduri …

The Mozambican cabinet has approved a bill proposing pay cuts for ministers, deputy ministers, state secretaries and MPs as the government grapples with a rising wage bill.   Finance and Economy Minister Max Tonela on Thursday said the proposal was also seeking to address concerns over provincial assemblies members’ salaries, …

The Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) has made a cannabis burst worth $127,000 at the cargo terminal of the Kotoka International Airport.     The burst was made on May 23 and the consignment was destined for the United Kingdom.       A statement signed by the Commission’s acting director …

A high-powered government delegation from the Republic of Vanuatu, led by the Speaker of the Parliament of the Republic, Hon Seoule Davidson Simeon and four other senior Ministers and Members of Parliament will visit Ghana from 3rd to 14th July 2023.   The visit which is at the invitation of …

Akyem Aboabo-based Ahenkan FM’s News team and Developmental Journalists, a nonprofit journalism organization have expressed concern about the deplorable state of the entrance to Ghana and West Africa’s ‘Big Tree’ tourist site in the Eastern Region. The Big Tree tourist site which is located at Aprokumasi Akyem-Manso in the Asene …

Barbara Mills KC has been elected as the vice chair of the UK Bar Council for 2024, becoming the first specialist family practitioner in 35 years to take up the role and the first black person and first person of colour to assume the office. Barbara was called to the …

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has described government’s flagship Free SHS Senior High School (SHS) programme as poorly targeted. The Fund made this observation in its latest country report on Ghana, whose request for a $3 billion bailout it recently approved. According to the report, the Free SHS programme “which …

Multi-talented Broadcast journalist with Ahenkan FM, Adwenpa-Hene Kofi Mensah makes headlines on social media after reading a viewer’s comment on Facebook on Saturday’s afternoon Akan News . A multi- talented and renowned broadcast journalist, Mr Adwenepa-Hene Kofi Mensah of Ahenkan FM has made waves on social media after reading a …

The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has asked the British Museum to return gold items in its collection to Ghana. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II recently met the museum’s director Dr Hartwig Fischer for discussions. The museum’s collection includes works taken from the Asante palace in Kumasi during the war with …

David Nwamini, the would-be kidney donor in the organ trafficking case that sent Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, to jail, has said he wants to remain and work in the UK, as “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria”. His impact statement was read in court, at the …