BP, the oil group, is considering a bid for one of Africa’s biggest offshore oilfields in a move that could pitch it into a direct battle for control with ExxonMobil, its arch US rival.
BP has held talks with Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) about a possible joint bid for a stake in the Jubilee deepwater [...]
A review of a trial of a HIV vaccine in Thailand has concluded that it does show real signs of a protective effect.
Scientists announced last month that a combination of vaccines gave a 31% level of protection in trials among 16,000 heterosexuals aged 18-30.
Doubts had been raised about whether the finding was significant.
But new data [...]
Colleagues of Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso have denied claims that his biography invented comments from Nelson Mandela.
Alain Akouala, former communications minister in Congo, accused Mr Mandela’s aides of treating the anti-apartheid icon’s name “like a brand”.
He told the BBC the foreword came from a 1997 speech made by Mr Mandela.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation [...]
The Chairman of the Commission probing events surrounding the Ghana@50 celebrations has given some DCEs and regional ministers a one week ultimatum to appear before it.
Justice Isaac Duose warned that any District Chief Executive who has been named in the course of the probe who fails to turn up to give evidence will be pursued using the state
It is common knowledge that multi-party democracy that is being practiced in Africa, breeds terrible hatred, jealousy, destructive division, character assassination, destructive conflicts, destruction of property and life, bribery and vote rigging.
Other disturbing appendages of multi-party democracy are that the main opposition party and the party in power, as well as their supporters, are usually [...]
The Custom, Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS) have over the years contributed immensely for revenue generation into the national coffers. Officers of CEPS usually work under extremely dangerous conditions in attempts to curb smuggling. There were several occasions when this august organisation has exceeded its revenue collection targets for the year and the hard working [...]
The world, particularly Africa, is agog with the news of Barack Obama’s triumphant entry to Ghana this week, Obama-mania erupting across the nation. Whilst some African nations are busy licking their wounds, making various excuses for why the most powerful and popular man in the world chose Ghana ahead of them, most are simply relishing [...]
US President Barack Obama, on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa, has said he hopes his trip will prove that Africa is not separate from world affairs.
Mr Obama is spending 24 hours in Ghana and will deliver a speech outlining his hope good governance can flourish.
Ghana was chosen as the destination for the president’s visit [...]
June 16, 2009, Africa observes the Day of the African Child, in memory of, thousands of black school children who were maimed and killed in 1976 Soweto uprising, as they took to the streets to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language.
To honour [...]
Dr Emmanuel Ahiable, Senior Medical Superintendent at the Mampong District Hospital, has stated that in Africa, 200,000 still births occurred as a result of malaria in pregnancy.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Mampong, he said Sub-Saharan Africa was the region mostly hit with malaria.
Dr Ahiable said malaria was hyper endemic in Ghana [...]
