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Wings Over the Sahel: Why Ghana and West Africa must build a drone-ready security doctrine
On the night I spent exploring the town of Elubo for my story "In the Dark: The security risk Ghana is ignoring at Elubo” , what surprised me most was not the complaints from community members about the unseen illegal crossings but rather the dark stretches of frontier that no patrol vehicle, no checkpoint lights, and...
Ashanti Region: six injured in Offinso Technical Institute unrest, first years ordered home
Six students have been injured after a violent clash between local youth and students at the Offinso Technical Institute in the Ashanti Region, prompting school authorities to send Form One students home as tensions remain high. The injured students — three boys and three girls — sustained various degrees of harm durin...
Ashanti Region: four killed in collapsed galamsey pit
Four suspected illegal miners have died after a galamsey pit collapsed at Skuumu near Gyaman-Nkwanta in the Ashanti Region, authorities and local sources said on Thursday. The incident occurred around 4:00 pm on Wednesday (27 May) in the Amansie Central District, leaving the community in shock and mourning. According t...
Okatakyie Afrifa arrested as violence erupts at NPP elections at Afigya Sekyere East
Police arrested media personality Okatakyie Afrifa Mensah on Sunday (12 July) after clashes broke out during the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) constituency executive elections at Afigya Sekyere East in the Ashanti Region. The unrest occurred at the polling centre in Wiamoase, where the elections proceeded despite reports...
Prisons Service launches probe into inmate’s alleged role in queenmother’s death
The Ghana Prisons Service has launched an internal investigation into allegations that an inmate at the Ankaful Maximum Security Prison played a role in the murder of the Abamba Queenmother, authorities said. In a statement issued on Saturday (30 May), the service said preliminary findings by the Ghana Police Service h...
Human rights action instituted against MIIF by dismissed employee
A former staff member of the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF), Ms Lisboa Yemotiokor Quarshie, has filed an enforcement action seeking the protection of her fundamental human rights and freedoms against the Fund and the Attorney General of the Republic at the High Court of Justice. The application was filed at the...
Update: Berekum Chelsea player Dominic Frimpong dies after gunmen attack team bus
Ghana Premier League side Berekum Chelsea said its team bus was attacked by armed robbers on a highway in the country’s western belt, leaving one player seriously injured. The club said in a statement that the incident occurred on Sunday (12 April) while the team was returning to Berekum from Samreboi, when a group of....
Police arrest woman accused of threatening President Mahama on social media
Police have arrested a woman accused of issuing threats against President John Dramani Mahama in videos circulated on social media, authorities said on Thursday. The suspect, identified by police as Mahama Aminat, also known as Akosua Serwaa Minat, was arrested on May 20 in Sekyere Zongo in the Ashanti Region following...
Kumasi police inspector remanded over alleged mobile money robbery
A police inspector in the Ashanti Region has been interdicted and remanded into custody over his alleged involvement in a robbery attack targeting a mobile money vendor in Kumasi, police said on Monday. The suspect, Inspector Bright Appiah Dankwah, who was stationed at the Asuoyeboah Police Station, was arrested by the...
Arrest and detention of our lawyers unfortunate, unlawful – MPOBB
A leading law firm in Ghana, Minkah-Premo, Osei-Bonsu, Bruce-Cathline and Partners (MPOBB), has described the purported recent arrest and detention of two of its lawyers, Justice Menka-Premoh and Ms. Sophia Korkor, by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), as an unfortunate and unlawful development. The position...
Opinion: The unaffordability of Accra; The housing dilemma, unresolved realities and the rent question
In 2023, we published a report on the skyrocketing real estate prices in Accra and their exclusionary impact on the average Ghanaian. Several structural concerns were clearly identified. Those concerns remain largely unresolved. The passage of time has not softened these realities. If anything, they have become further...
Gabby Otchere-Darko writes: Ubuntu, Afrophobia and Africa’s unfinished struggle for unity
This month the news about Africa continues to centre around the disturbing images from South Africa circulating worldwide on social media. Not even the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi could shift that. African migrants attacked, their shops looted, people chased, assaulted and blamed simply for being from another Afri...