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Ethiopian Airlines says it believes 149 passengers and eight crew members were on board a plane that crashed six minutes after taking off from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on a flight to Nairobi. In the latest update, Ethiopian state media reported that all 149 passengers and eight crew on board the Ethiopian Airlines flight died when it crashed shortly after ...

The Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has announced 10 measures introduced by various Ministries, Departments and Agencies over the past nine months in an effort to improve the country’s business environment. A multisectoral technical team from across Government agencies presented the ambitious business reform plan to key stakeholders at Labadi Beach Hotel. The planned reforms are within ...

Further depreciation of Ghana’s Cedi in 2019 is limited based on our outlook on key economic indicators and foreign exchange inflows this year. This expectation firmly stems from our view that we are to witness another period of discipline from the economic authorities regarding the budget deficit. Ghana delivered a strong performance on the budget in the last two years, ...

European Union (EU) member states have unanimously rejected a proposal by the EU Executive Commission (EC) to blacklist 23 countries, including Ghana and territories, it believes pose a high risk of money laundering or terrorist financing. According to the EC, the countries were placed on the blacklist for having strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing frameworks. In ...

Joy News has responded to government’s statement on its latest documentary detailing the operation and training of a pro-government militia group at the Osu Castle. In a press statement to respond to the content of the documentary which was aired on Joy News on Thursday, Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah rubbished the findings. But JoyNews has a response. On Joy ...

BRUSSEL – De Europese Unie en de Verenigde Staten gaan onderhandelen over de uitwisseling van elektronisch bewijsmateriaal in strafzaken. EU-commissaris Věra Jourová (Justitie) heeft toestemming van de EU-justitieministers gekregen voor verkennende gesprekken. Zij gaat volgende maand naar de VS om met de Amerikaanse minister van Justitie te bespreken hoe een akkoord eruit kan zien. Veel gegevens om Europese criminelen op ...

Bethany Vierra (31), een Amerikaanse vrouw die getrouwd was met een Saoedische zakenman, mag sinds haar echtscheiding Saoedi-Arabië niet meer verlaten. Volgens de wet daar is haar ex nog steeds haar voogd, omdat volwassen vrouwen in het patriarchale systeem van de Saoedische overheid beschouwd worden als minderjarigen. ,,Bethany is helemaal ten einde raad’’, vertelt haar nicht Nicole Carroll aan The ...

The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has cut the sod for the rehabilitation of 10 dams across the northern part of the country. The dams are expected to serve as reservoirs for the spilt water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso which has been causing perennial flooding and damage to both crops and ...

Out of Twenty Three oil fields discovered in Ghana in the last 12 years, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) under John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo administrations combined, discovered just two though the party made the first discovery in 2007. On the other hand, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under Professor John Evans Atta Mills and John Dramani ...

The Minority Leader, Mr Haruna Iddrissu, has raised concerns about the pegging of registration fees of companies at GH¢120 in the new Companies Bill before Parliament. He said the amount was too low, particularly for multinational companies that would be registered as limited liability companies or companies limited by guarantee. “We should take a look at the fees and make ...