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Africa’s Fossil-Fuel Trap

A Response to “The Divestment Delusion”

Foreign Affairs

Drug smugglers hid £3m of cocaine in luggage on flights from Ghana to UK

While some suitcases had hidden compartments, others had illicit narcotics stashed in packets of traditional African food mix

Wales Online

What Ghana can do to combat corruption: educate, prevent, enforce

Ghana’s finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, estimates that the country loses over US$4 billion annually to corruption: abuse of entrusted power for advancing private interests. The loss is about 20% of Ghana’s budget, reckons Richard Quason, deputy commissioner of Ghana’s Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice. This money could instead…

The Conversation

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Four jailed after trying to bring £3m of cocaine through Heathrow

Four members of a Ghanaian cocaine smuggling ring have been jailed for more than 28 years following a National Crime Agency investigation (NCA).

Evening Standard

After blow of Beijing, Olympians ask: What about Africa?

African representation has shriveled at the Winter Olympics

The Independent UK

Une brève histoire des nations africaines aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver

Un nombre record de huit pays africains ont participé aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2018 à PyeongChang, en Corée du Sud. Aux jeux d'hiver de Pékin de 2022, actuellement en cours, l'Afrique est représentée par six athlètes issus de cinq pays : l'Érythrée, le Ghana, Madagascar, le Maroc et le…

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Transformation of Ghana's legal profession. A return to Kwame Nkrumah's vision?

Late last year the University of Ghana School of Law at Legon held a conference to discuss the future of legal education in Ghana. The keynote speaker, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo called for a reform to meet the current and future needs of the country. His remarks came at a…

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Not just fancy moves: how Ghana’s DWP dance academy is transforming lives

When Ghanaian dancer and choreographer Laud Konadu teamed up with two of his friends Ernest Kwablah, aka Quables, and Nicholas Botchey, aka Afrobeast, to set up the Dance With A Purpose Academy (DWP) in 2017, they knew it was a huge gamble. But four years later, their decision is paying…

Radio France Internationale

What it would take for more Ghanaians to adopt mobile payment systems

The introduction of information and communication technologies has created an opportunity for consumers to pay for products and services online and offline using mobile phones.

The Conversation

Tribalism has always existed among those of us who are Black — but why?

If we stand divided, divided we will keep falling.

Chicago Sun-Times

Israeli STEM Program Empowers Girls In Ghana

World ORT Kadima Mada trains female university students in Ghana in coding, animation and other science and technology skills

Zenger

'Honestly not sure' - Nottingham Forest fans divided after Chris Hughton news emerges

Former Nottingham Forest manager Chris Hughton has joined the Ghana national team as an adviser and supporters are split about him

Nottingham Post

Ghana's electronic transaction tax: not a bad idea, but must be properly designed

The government of Ghana’s revenue collection has performed poorly for some years now. The average growth rate of total government revenue and grants has fallen sharply from 32.6% (2009-2012) to 19.9% (2013-2016) and 14.6% (2017-2020). The total revenue as a ratio of GDP currently stands at 16%. This is lower…

The Conversation

A brief history of African nations at the Olympic Winter Games

A record number of eight African countries competed at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. At the 2022 Beijing winter games, currently underway, Africa is represented by six athletes from five countries: Eritrea, Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco and Nigeria. Five are competing in Alpine (downhill) skiing and one…

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Spanish firm fined $6 million for Ghana explosives truck blast that killed 13

The Spanish company that owned a truck that exploded and killed 13 people last month en route to an internationally-run gold mine in western Ghana violated storage and transport laws and has been fined $6 million, the lands ministry said on Tuesday.

Daily Mirror

Off-duty doctor delivers baby using dental floss in middle of long-haul flight

Dr Stephen Ansah-Addo, a dermatology resident, was on a flight from Ghana to Dallas, Texas when the emergency call went out on the tannoy - he and a nurse converted a part of the plane into a makeshift operation room to deliver the baby

Radio France Internationale

S2, EP11: Kenyan Nubians' ID dilemma, Malawi mental health, and a Ghana dance academy lifting up youths

This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you audio-rich stories and voices from the African continent, with our African correspondents. In Kenya, our reporter looks into the Nubian community and its quest for identification cards; from Malawi, the rising numbers of suicide has the government looking into possible options; and in…

France 24

Egypt beat Cameroon on penalties at AFCON semi-final

In tonight's edition: ECOWAS leaders hold an emergency summit in Ghana after a series of coups on the continent. Also, Mali's cotton sector is hit hard by ECOWAS measures after its military coup. In Nigeria, an explosion on an oil vessel off the coast sparks fears of environmental damage; the…

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Mum gives birth to baby boy at 30,000ft on board 11-hour transatlantic flight

Cabin crew and passengers helped to deliver the baby boy after the mum went into labour weeks before her due date onboard a United Airlines flight between Accra, Ghana, and Washington, DC

Sports Illustrated

The IOC’s Quota Decision for Beijing Sends a Message to Black Winter Olympics Athletes

Despite calls to reinstate spots in bobsleigh and skeleton, there will be no sliding sport athletes from African delegations at the 2022 Games in Beijing.

Reuters

One trans woman's fight against a bill that would criminalise Ghana's LGBT+ community

In a dimly-lit room with racks of women's clothing, Ghanaian artist and LGBT+ activist Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi flipped through photo self-portraits illustrating her transition to womanhood.

Daily Mirror

Chris Hughton looking to woo Callum Hudson-Odoi as he nears shock international job

The former Republic of Ireland international has been out of work since leaving Nottingham Forest last September, but he could now be set to return to the dugout with African giants Ghana

The Conversation

Ghana’s COVID lockdown: why it triggered a toxic mix of mass defiance and police violence

Ghana confirmed its first 2 cases of COVID-19 infections on March 12, 2020 which increased to 152 with 5 deaths by March 30. Sensing that the virus may spread and overload the healthcare systems, the President imposed a three-week lockdown in the communities considered as infection hotspots. These included Accra,…

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Mobile money service quality: what's important to customers in Ghana

Mobile money is an essential retail financial service offered by telecommunications and other financial institutions in sub-Saharan African countries. The region recorded 159 million active users of mobile money in 2020 and US$490 billion in transaction value. People use the services to send money to each other, pay bills, disburse…

Chicago Sun-Times

Black people have the resources to heal our own communities

China’s presence here in Ghana is as conspicuous. It makes me reflect on the presence of outsiders in Black communities back in America.

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