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Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, has fingered land ownership disputes as contributing to the challenges of socio-economic development of the Volta Region. He said businesses in the region are among the most frustrated due to protracted land ownership disputes. Mr Amewu made the comment during the inauguration …

An elephant on an Indian road was filmed pulling a tarp from the top of a truck and stealing some of its load of potatoes. The video, filmed on a road through the Garhbeta forest in West Midnapore, West Bengal, shows the elephant pulling the tarp at the top of …

Young people vote could determine the outcome of next week’s general election in Kenya as nearly half of the country’s more than 19 million eligible voters are under 35. So what are they thinking? The BBC’s Dickens Olewe met a group of 22-year-olds – all first-time voters – in the …

There are mixed feelings among residents of communities in the Amansie West District of the Ashanti Region ahead of the arrival of the joint police and military task force on illegal and small-scale mining. While farmers who are the hardest hit by the devastation caused by illegal mining are excited, galamsey …

The President of the West African Federation of Engineering Organization, Ing Magnus Lincoln Quarshie, says recent comments by the Minister for Works and Housing against Ghanaian Engineers are in bad taste. Atta Akyea had said at a forum that priority will be given to foreign engineers on key government projects …

Deputy Minister of Education, Mrs Barbara Asher Ayisi, has described as worrying the number of uncompleted school projects by successive governments. She said this after inspecting some abandoned school projects in the Cape Coast North Constituency on Monday. Mrs Ayisi said it is unclear why some of the school blocks …

The Auditor General will Wednesday disclose sanctions his office has imposed on some corrupt public officers cited in audit reports. According to Daniel Domelovo, the encounter will afford him the opportunity to share with Ghanaians efforts made to retrieve monies misapplied or lost through corrupt practices. “We want to give …

Zambian drug enforcement authorities have announced the arrest of a South African lady for trafficking in cocaine. The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) in the statement released in the capital Lusaka, confirmed the arrest of 36-year-old, Palesa Ishline Rose Mononela, who is said to be from Blomfontein in South Africa’s Free …

Ex-president John Rawlings has accepted to be the ambassador for a revamped sanitation campaign being championed by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. The campaign is to applaud individuals, houses and companies who keep their surroundings clean in Accra and punish others who live it unkempt. Mr Rawlings was one of the …

Deputy Minister of Defence, Major Derrick Oduro, has asked members of all the mining communities across the country not to be frightened by the presence of the joint military-police task force deployed to those areas to fight illicit small-scale mining activities (galamsey). According to him, the presence of the taskforce …