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West Africa has been defined as including the 18 countries Benin, Burkina Faso, the island of Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, the island of Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo.

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Photos: The Ghanaian Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale

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Ghana’s cluster of arts galleries telling the story of Ghana’s Freedom has attracted thousands of visitors to the Venice art Biennale. The Ghanaian national pavilion at the art Biennale was designed by architect David Adjaye. The Ghana Freedom display marked the first time Ghana has presented at the prestigious art event. There were works by six invited artists namely Felicia Abban,… Read More
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Ghana gets new football association President

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Ghanaian football delegates have elected Kurt Okraku, as their new football association president. He beat five other contenders for the highest position in Ghana football on Friday in Ghana’s capital Accra. Okraku was declared winner after three rounds of voting. During the third round of voting, his closest contender, contender George Afriyie withdrew from the contest. The position of the… Read More
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IMF says Ghana’s GDP growth will hit 7% in 2019

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The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said on Thursday that Ghana’s economic growth is expected to rise to around 7% this year. That increase from 6.3% in 2018 to 7% this year according to the IMF is boosted by the country’s extractive industries. In a statement IMF said Ghana’s exports oil, gold and cocoa, maintained macroeconomic stability since the conclusion… Read More
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Guinea: Alpha Conde’s possible third term bid sparks protests

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Guinea’s President Alpha Conde is coming under intense pressure following reports he could seek a third term in office. These reports have sparked protests with thousands demonstrating on Thursday after similar actions in the past weeks resulted in the jailing of a dozen opposition campaigners and politicians. On Tuesday, twelve FNDC leaders were sentenced to up to a year in… Read More
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Why Francophone West Africa must take lead in ECO adoption

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The proposed single currency named Eco for the West African sub-region is being pursued by member states in the hope that it will promote trade and economic growth. The acceptance of the Eco would however bring an end to the use of the CFA by members of the West African Monetary Union (WAMU), namely; Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau,… Read More
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Gambian player cleared of ‘double identity’ gets call-up

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The Gambian footballer Bakery Jatta was facing a probe from Germany’s football federation the DFB after reports of him having a double identity emerged in August this year. Jatta plays for Hamburg and first arrived in Germany at the age of 16 in 2015. Now 21 there were doubts over his true identity. Germany daily Sport Bild had then reported that… Read More
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Ghana loses $190m from the US over cancelled power deal

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Ghana has lost the second tranche of a grant amounting to $190 million provided by the United States to improve its power supply. This is based on a decision by the government of Ghana to terminate an agreement with the Meralco-led Power Distribution Services over invalid demand guarantees. The country’s power distributor, the Electricity Company was taken over by the Philippines Meralco… Read More
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Nigeria insists Boko Haram has been ‘technically defeated’

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The Nigerian government has said it stands by a 2015 claim that militant group Boko Haram has been defeated. Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in 2015 made the said statement on behalf of the government. That claim has been ridiculed several times by critics of the government who say that cannot be true when Boko Haram… Read More
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How ex-Jammeh ally tortured and killed political opponents

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A former key ally of former Gambian President, Yahya Jammeh has admitted to supervising the arrest, torture and killing of opposition politicians and critics of the previous regime. The former army captain Edward Singhateh has narrated harrowing stories of how he arrested, tortured and executed suspected political opponents. According to Singhateh, many critics of Jammeh were arrested and never meant… Read More
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The task of changing the ‘Ghana Man Time’ mind-set

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Ghana is seeking to instill discipline and timekeeping at all places in citizens with the launch of a Punctuality campaign. Spearheaded by the Punctuality Ghana Foundation the campaign is hoping to get citizens to respect time and be punctual at all times especially to work. There have been concerns across Ghana about the disrespect for time, with even government officials… Read More
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