The Ghana Gold Board (GoldBod) has announced an immediate, temporary suspension of new applications for several categories of gold buying licences. The move signals a significant...
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a one-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), providing immediate duty-free access and retroactive tax refunds to...
In a quiet but unmistakable escalation of economic influence across Africa, China has agreed to provide zero-tariff access to its massive market for 53 African countries....
Fearless Fund, the U.S.-based venture capital firm dedicated to investing in women of color, has officially expanded into Africa with the launch of a dedicated microfinance...
President John Dramani Mahama has announced plans to halt the export of raw bauxite and manganese by 2030. The move is aimed at boosting local industrialization,...
In a potential breakthrough with far-reaching implications, Israeli scientists have become the first in the world to successfully apply a blood cancer treatment to reverse Alzheimer’s...
Yesterday, Thursday, February 12, 2026, Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson stood before the nation and did something unprecedented: he named the rot, itemized the failures,...
For 32 years, it was the envy of commodity-dependent developing nations: a billion-dollar syndicated loan facility that allowed Ghana to borrow against its cocoa harvest months...
Ghana will mandate that a minimum of 50 percent of all cocoa beans be processed domestically beginning in the 2026/27 crop season. Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel...
Nearly 70,000 metric tonnes of Ghanaian cocoa beans are stranded at ports and warehouses with no buyers, as international traders reject the country’s expensive beans in...
