Co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Jack Ma has described his visit to Ghana as the most important one yet in Africa. He made the remark in his welcome address at the African Netpreneur Conference in Accra. He said “This is my fourth trip to Africa and this is the most important trip for me […]
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Catholic church investigates how two nuns got pregnant while working in Africa
Two nuns are now under investigation by the Catholic church after they fell pregnant while carrying out missionary work in Africa. The two women, from different orders in Sicily, were on separate charity assignments on the continent. One 34-year-old woman only found out she was pregnant when she went to hospital complaining of stomach pains. […]
African Free Trade Area, a game changer
Ghana has been selected as the country to host the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). A review committee said Ghana was awarded the right based on regional balance formula. Ghana beat six other countries; namely, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar and Senegal, which had submitted their bids to host the secretariat. […]
New Study encourages women to share husbands for better health and wealth
A new study has shown polygamous families thrive better than monogamous ones in poor communities. As a result of the study, researchers are now calling for greater cultural sensitivity among campaigners seeking to ban polygamy. The research carried out in households from Tanzania showed polygamous families owned more cattle and farmed more land than monogamous […]
Akufo-Addo is a visionary leader, Africa needs 20 of his type to progress-Aliko Dangote
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has described president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a visionary leader, whose type Africa needs to progress. Speaking at a forum organized by the Africa Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), the Executive Chairman of the Dangote Group said the continent needs the likes of president Akufo-Addo to get out of […]
Economically and academically successful women don’t respect, Ghana and Africa must break that jinx-Irbard Ibrahim insists
Self-acclaimed security expert, Irbard Ibrahim has lashed out at men who go out of their way to support women to excel academically and economically, saying such empowerment tends in the end to hurt the men. According to him, women tend to look down on the same men who pushed them up the academic and economic […]
You’re not humans, how can you sit on Gold, diamond and oil and still be poor-Donald Trump descends on Africa again
President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has hit hard at Africans once again, this time asking whether they are really qualified to be called humans. He says “if you sit on Gold, diamond, oil, manganese, uranium and your people don’t have food, are you humans?”. See Mr. Trump’s five strong questions he […]
Borrowing can’t sustain economy, enhance domestic tax mobilisation – IMF MD to African countries
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Madam Christine Madeiline Lagarde, says African countries would not sustain their economies by borrowing. She admonished sub-Saharan African countries to enhance their domestic tax mobilisation to sustain their economies and help them to remain sovereign. Borrowing for investment risky She warned that relying on borrowing for […]
Africa needs $20bn investment annually to upgrade railway sector
Prof. Benedict Oramah, President of Afreximbank has cited the huge demand for infrastructure in Africa and said that the continent needs investments of $20 billion per annum in the rail sector in order to bring it up to required level. Prof Oramah has also indicated that Afreximbank’s role will be to find partners that would […]
Full list: top 20 most developed countries in Africa in 2018, Ghana is 14th
While Africa is endowed with plenty of natural resources and a cultural and ecological diversity, the majority of the continent still remains underdeveloped. In fact, no other continent features in the list of the least developed nations more than Africa. Despite the volatile economic situations brought about by civil unrest, corruption, tribal wars, and deep […]
African Unity: create employment for the youth, prevent them from joining terrorist organisations-Akufo-Addo to African leaders
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the objective of an integrated Africa cannot be achieved without peace and stability on the continent. “Efforts at integration of the continent will be negatively affected if African countries continue to battle with the human security challenges which confront their peoples. No country would want to integrate with […]
PHOTOS: see rare photos of Rihana in a village in Africa and what she has been up to
Robyn Rihana is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress, diplomat and businesswoman. Recently she landed in one of the African countries and has been up to some stuff. In one of the villages in Africa, Rihanna gets into the skin of African women who do hard work to survive and tries to understand their daily pain. […]