The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has charged West African states to implement robust systems that will help cut the flow of financial resources to criminals who cause terrorism and political insurgence in the sub-region. He noted that Africa was losing an average of $88 billion a year to illicit financial flows, with a chunk of […]
The Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS has appointed Dr Mohammed Ibn Chambas as a Special Envoy to Guinea to strengthen dialogue with the authority towards the successful and short transitional process. The decision was taken at the extraordinary session of the authority held in Accra yesterday. The President of the ECOWAS […]
The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has placed a travel ban on all the members of the military junta in Guinea and their immediate family members. In addition, the regional political and economic bloc has placed a freeze on the financial assets of the coup makers and their immediate family members. This was […]
The Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) rose from their Extraordinary Session on Guinea with demands for presidential and legislative elections in six months. The meeting in Accra, Ghana, on Thursday, 16 September, 2021 concluded that the Republic of Guinea remains suspended from the fold […]
Ghana is hosting an Extraordinary ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Summit on Thursday, September 16, 2021 to deliberate on the coup d’état in Guinea. About 13 Heads of State are expected to attend the Thursday meeting. Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, at a press briefing on Wednesday, said that Guinea […]
Senior Research Fellow and lecturer at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy, Dr Ken Ahorsu, has opined that, it is not advisable for ECOWAS to issue sanctions against Guinea due to the recent coup. According to him, because President Alpha Conde did not play by the rules, he cannot be seen as a […]
The Guinean government has announced incentive packages aimed at making the country’s citizens comfortable as they observe a lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 in that country. BestNewsGH.com reports President Alpha Conde as ordering the free supply of water, electricity, transport as well a freeze on the payment of rent until December. The President has […]
Ghana is facing a diplomatic hurdle as it attempts to repatriate Burkinabe and Guinean citizens who tested positive for coronavirus in Tamale, the Northern Region capital. Northern Region Minister, Salifu Saeed, has disclosed that authorities in Guinea are reluctant to receive eight of their citizens who tested positive for coronavirus in Ghana. The eight Guineans […]
One of the eight Guineans who tested positive for the novel coronavirus has escaped from the facility in which they are being quarantined in Tamale. According to the Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed, the patient, a woman in her early 20s, scaled over a wall leaving behind her belongings on Monday. He described it as […]
Mr. Arafan Kabine Kaba, the outgoing Guinean Ambassador to Ghana shocked many including President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Jubilee House on Wednesday, January 8, 2019 when he openly shed tears during a farewell ceremony organized for him and other colleagues from other countries. BestNewsGH.com can report Mr. Arafan Kabine Kaba who has been […]
Ghana and Guinea are set to begin discussions for bilateral cooperation in bauxite industry development, similar to the trade cooperation between Ghana and Ivory Coast in the Cocoa sector. This was made known by Ghana’s Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia after a bilateral meeting between him and the Prime Minister of Guinea, H.E Ibrahima Kassory […]
