Kuukuwa Manful has been awarded a grant by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme for a project titled ‘Building Early Accra: Preserving Historical Building Permits in Ghana’. It seeks to digitise extremely at risk and vulnerable architectural and planning records in Accra, Ghana and to make digital versions of the material accessible in perpetuity for […] The post Ghanaian

Sudan’s pro-democracy movement has achieved its biggest victory – getting the junta to agree to a civilian government. The Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) have hammered out a deal with the generals who took power after the fall of long-serving ruler Omar al-Bashir. They have agreed to a 39-month transitional period. During this time, […] The post Sudan crisis:

A woman who accused the late financier Jeffrey Epstein of sex abuse and alleged she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew as a 17-year-old has urged the UK royal to “come clean”. Speaking after a hearing for alleged victims in the wake of Epstein’s death, Virginia Giuffre told reporters the prince “knows what […] The post Prince

The Electoral Commission’s ongoing votes transfer exercise for persons who wish to contest in the upcoming District level and Unit Committee elections in electoral areas other than where they originally registered is expected to end today. The exercise is in line with Regulation 20 (1) (3) (a) of the Public Elections Regulations, 2012 (C.I 75). […] The post Votes

An Ethiopian man in Kenya was sentenced to four months in prison on Thursday for joking about a bomb after boarding a Kenya Airways flight, the BBC has learned. Chifraye Bekele’s joke led to the cancellation of the Johannesburg-bound flight in April and to a three-hour shutdown of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in the […] The post Passenger jailed for bomb joke on

The Ghana Water Company Limited is hopeful the water shortage problem in the Ho Municipality will end by close of today, Wednesday. The company in a statement announced that repair works have been completed and that the pumping of water has commenced. The company had been working with the Ministry of Works and Housing to […] The post Ho water situation to normalize today – GWCL

Over 100 members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) in the Volta Region, have alleged the association is making wrongful deductions from their salaries. The teachers said they have seen deductions of between GHc31 and GHc41 from their salaries by NAGRAT with no official explanation. One of the affected teachers, Foster Gavor, shared […] The post V/R:

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has distanced itself from allegations by its Ashanti Regional Chairman that the party meddled in the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) parliamentary primaries. The NPP’s Director of Communications and MP for the Adentan Constituency, Yaw Buaben Asamoa in a Citi News interview said there was no need for a probe into […] The post We

The Director of Policy Research at the Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr. Kojo Asante, has expressed fears that the recent public disclosure and accusations of vote-buying in party elections could cripple the country’s democracy. This follows claims by the Ashanti Regional Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, who said that […] The post Monetization