By Ernest Addo World leaders, past and present, high and low have since Saturday enjoined President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, and the Kofi Annan  family, in mourning the demise of the first black person to head the United Nations-Kofi Annan, who breathed his last at the in Bern, Switzerland, after a short illness age 80. Consequently, the President has …

Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who won the Nobel Peace Prize for humanitarian work, has died aged 80, international diplomats say. Annan was the first black African to take up the role of the world’s top diplomat, serving two terms from 1997 to 2006. He later served as the UN special envoy for Syria, leading efforts to find a …

Ace Ghanaian undercover investigative reporter, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, nearly died with his colleagues during his latest undercover piece “Malawi’s Human Harvest.” The investigative story for the BBC, which sought to unravel the issues surrounding the mysterious deaths of many in Malawi for ritual purposes, triggered a mob in a Malawian village who resorted to wanting to kill the investigative reporter …

 By Frank Amponsah   President Nana Akufo-Addo has eulogised Nelson Mandela, the first black President of South Africa saying, that the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary “gave us an example of sacrifice, of dedication to principle, and of devotion to freedom that is without equal in the annals of Africa’s modern history.” In a speech at a lecture commemorating the centenary …

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said a strategic partnership between Ghana and South Africa is of the utmost importance, as it will empower the business communities of the two countries, as well as enhance the trade and investment relations between them. With West Africa and Africa’s populations set to reach some 500 million and 2 billion, respectively, in …

By Frank Amponsah The Ghanaian President, HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on the Togolese government and the coalition of opposition parties to table their major concerns about the political crisis in their country by agreeing on a common concern which will guide their mediation effort going forward. President Akufo-Addo and his Guinean counterpart, President Alpha Conde have thrown …

Akon says he’s planning to release a new cryptocurrency named after himself – called Akoin. Speaking at the Cannes Lions Festival on Monday, the Locked Up singer said he believed cryptocurrency could be “the saviour of Africa”. AKoin’s official website says the singer wants the app “on every mobile phone” between now and December. And Akon says he’s also planning …

By Julian Owusu-Abedi Tucked away in some super-crowded Togolese Prisons and pathetically labelled ‘you can’t be helped’ appears to be the verdict passed on hundreds of Ghanaian prisoners locked up in Togolese Jail by the Ghanaian Mission in Togo. Lamenting their ordeal in an interview from their jail cell in faraway Togo, the neglected Ghanaian prisoners who took turns to …

At least 48 migrants died after their boat capsized off the eastern coast of Tunisia, the Tunisian government says. Sixty-seven others – from Tunisia and elsewhere – were rescued by the coastguard. The country has become an important new route for migrants trying to make the crossing to Europe in the past year. This comes after moves against human traffickers …

Cattle thieves have killed more than 20 people in Nigeria’s northern state of Zamfara, officials say. The thieves arrived in the village of Zanoka on motorbikes, shooting at people and setting fire to their homes. Clashes between vigilantes and cattle rustlers in Zamfara have intensified in recent months. Violence related to cattle has been going on for years in Nigeria …