GNA’s Solomon Gumah wins 2025 OFAB Media Award 

Accra, Nov 01, GNA – Mr Solomon Gumah, a stringer at the Tamale Office of the Ghana News Agency (GNA), has won the Print/Online Category of the 2025 Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB) Media Awards. The award was in recognition of Mr...

Government working to strengthen peace, security architecture — Vice-President

The government is working to strengthen the country’s peace and security architecture to address the risk of violent extremism in the country. This includes collaborating with Ghana’s neighbouring countries to collectively address the threats of...

How African leaders underdeveloped Africa, by Kazeem Akintunde

The title of this piece was influenced by the book written in 1972 by Walter Rodney, titled: “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.” In the book, which became a Bible of sorts for those who are interested in studying African development and...

Coup, Firing Squad: What Mahama said will happen if he fails Ghanaians

A former Auditor-General (A-G), Daniel Yao Domelevo, has reportedly opened up about a supposed private conversation he had with the President of the Republic, John Dramani Mahama. Speaking in a recent interview on Nhyira FM, Domelevo indicated...

Madinah, Riyadh join UNESCO Creative Cities Network list

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named Madinah a Creative City for Gastronomy and Riyadh a Creative City for Design, reflecting Saudi Arabia’s growing cultural and creative influence on the world...

Intra African Trade Still Faces Border Bottlenecks Despite AfCFTA Progress

More than five years after the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), African businesses continue to face tough barriers when moving goods across borders, a reality that undermines the continent’s vision of creating a single,...

ACN: Religious freedom is a human right, not a privilege

The international pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) this week launched its biennial report Religious Freedom in the World 2025. The report offers a global overview of the state of this fundamental right. The study, covering the...

$124 Trillion And Counting... These Are The World's Largest Economies

The 2026 world economy has a cautious outlook, according to the October report put out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The organization says that global growth is slowing amid fragmentation and rising protectionism. Significant downside...

Mali unveils new biometric passport with Emptech as supplier

Chinese biometrics firm Emptech is the supplier of Mali’s new biometric passport which was officially launched a few days ago. The travel document is modelled in line with the new passport regime of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), made up...

Madagascar and Seychelles: Two Power Transitions, Two Contrasting Tales

In October 2025, two neighbouring Western Indian Ocean island nations, Madagascar and Seychelles, underwent power transitions. Yet, while both marked a power transfer, their trajectories could hardly have been more different. Madagascar descended...

Leopards thrive in Ivory Coast’s Comoe National Park

Published on: October 31, 2025 2:53 PM ABIDJAN — While leopards are endangered across West Africa, researchers have discovered a thriving population of the big cats in Comoe National Park in northeastern Ivory Coast, a rare conservation success...

CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FARMER’S CRY

The Sahel region of West Africa, stretching from Senegal to Chad, was once known for its vast grasslands, rich soil, and rhythmic cycles of rain and harvest. Today, that landscape is changing dramatically. The once-predictable rains now come late,...

Ark Investment boss calms AI bubble fears as investors learned lessons

Ark Investment Management chief executive Cathie Wood has calmed fears of a market bubble following the spectacular rise of artificial intelligence stocks, saying investors have learnt from earlier market crashes. Caution today, however, is...

Endangered across west Africa, leopards thrive in I.Coast reserve

Like other big cats, the leopard is endangered across west Africa. Yet in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, the famously spotted feline appears to be doing rather well -- surprisingly, given the reserve's conflict-riven recent history, according...

‘learning from the local’ book by piers taylor links locality with new era of sustainable design

Learning from the Local: architect Piers Taylor’s new book An exploration of context-specific, locally sourced, and sustainable architecture, Learning From the Local is the new book by British architect and broadcaster Piers Taylor. As the world...

ECOWAS must embrace change to stay relevant- Fayemi

Former Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has warned that the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, risks sliding into irrelevance if it continues to function as an elite club of rulers detached from the needs of its citizens....

The tiny threats facing the kings of the savannah

Lions are often celebrated as symbols of strength and resilience, but new research led by Yale School of the Environment scientists suggests that some of the most serious threats facing West Africa’s critically endangered lions are too small to be...

Hassani identity, explained: the cultural soul of Morocco’s southern provinces

With all eyes on Morocco’s autonomy plan adopted by the United Nations Security Council on Friday, one of its commitments is promoting the Hassani cultural heritage in the Sahara. This element is further emphasized in Morocco’s 2011 constitution,...

How shadowy Russian and US groups are pouring billions into the systematic destruction of women’s rights globally

A highly organised and well-funded campaign to strip women of their rights is gaining global momentum. “Reject harmful sex education in South Africa!” reads the headline of a petition launched in August this year. “The South African Department of...

COUNTER-TERRORISM: Islamic Terrorists Rampage Across Africa

November 1, 2025: Over 200,000 deaths are attributed to Islamic terrorist groups operating in sub-Saharan Africa in the past ten years. Separately, escalating violence in the Sahel and Somalia have caused fatalities linked to militant Islamist...