Ghana

Advanced Fee Frauds or '419s', have become as common in Ghana as in Nigeria, where they were invented. Ghanaian banks have published warnings in the press that their signatures or ...

Ghana Airways, the bankrupt state airline, is to get a helping hand from an unlikely and controversial source ­ two Mormon-owned companies from Salt Lake City in the United Sta...

Confusion and recriminations followed the voter registration process for December's presidential and parliamentary elections, which took place over two weeks last month. Many vot...

In 1982, a few months after Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings successfully staged a coup, three High Court judges and an army officer were brutally murdered and their bodies in...

Ghana's most popular song these days is 'Scent noo, agye bebiara' ('The smell is everywhere', in Twi). Its subject is corruption, still a key political issue three years after the ...

It's election year and President John Kufuor wants to make the struggling economy look good. He promised his party's wealthy patrons a golden age for business; so far, mostly forei...

The row over crude oil supplies to the state-owned Volta River Authority is turning into a full-scale political battle in the run up to next year's general elections. The key figur...

The sacking of Jackson Gaius Obaseki, Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, on 3 November, is linked to the growing problems with well connected firm Sa...

Accra has become the centre for the inchoate efforts to end Liberia's civil war after weeks of hosting inconclusive peace talks and now, planeloads of foreign military planners. Pr...

Three former officials of ex-President Jerry Rawlings's National Democratic Congress (NDC) were gaoled on 28 April for their part in the Quality Grain scandal, involving a loan of ...