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Company supports women farmers in Sissala West with fertilizer

A total of 136 women farmers in the Sissala West District have been supported to purchase fertilizer at an affordable price to increase their...

‘A debt crisis looms on the horizon in Ghana’ – Prof. Steve Hanke

Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University-USA, Steve Hanke, has warned that Ghana risks facing a huge debt crisis due to the...

New Management To Take Over At Ecowas – As Dr. Omar Alieu Touray Takes...

There will be a change of Management at the ECOWAS Commission as the tenure of current Management led by H.E. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou comes...

Petroleum Commission empowers artisans to boost local content in petroleum sector

The Ministry of Energy through the Petroleum Commission (PC) has held a day’s consultative forum for hundreds of welders in the Central Region. The forum,...

Central African Republic: Alarming fuel shortage exacerbates worst levels of humanitarian needs since 2015

A growing lack of fuel in the Central African Republic, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, is worsening an already critical situation for the...
Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta

Ghana now classified as high debt distressed country – World Bank report

Ghana has been classified as a high debt distressed country, according to the World Bank. According to the Bank’s October 2022 Africa Pulse Report, Ghana’s...

‘Ghana has become a poster child for economic mismanagement’ – Prof. Steve Hanke

Steve Hanke, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, has for some time now been monitoring Ghana’s economic...
When sugarcane bagasse is burned, the ash contains silica. The race is on to extract this for various uses. Geoff Sperring/Shutterstock

Silicon is used in construction, microchips and more – ‘green’ methods could help extract...

In some parts of South Africa’s Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, sugarcane fields stretch as far as the eye can see. The crop is more...

Entomologist advocates using GMO crops to improve farmers’ productivity

Dr Peter Quandahor, an Entomologist, has stressed the need for the government to adopt Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) crops to help improve the productivity...

Pension Fund Capital as an Enabler for African Infrastructure Growth

One of the challenges in enabling some African countries to reach their full potential is a lack of robust infrastructure, from utilities to roads...

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