Health
West Africa's labs team up to start outbreak research within 15 days
A new hub-and-spoke programme links Noguchi, MRC The Gambia, Africa CDC and others so trials can begin fast.
West Africa
Ghana
The latest news from Ghana: politics, business, technology, culture, sport and more.
Sport
Stonebwoy gives GH₵100,000 to Ghana's amputee team before the World Cup
The dancehall star visited the Black Challenge in training at the University of Ghana before they leave for the Amputee Football World Cup in Mexico.
Technology
Spiro brings its first 100 electric motorbikes to Accra
The battery-swap company says riders can save up to $2 a day; it already has more than 156,000 bikes on African roads.
Business
Ghana sets 2030 to stop exporting raw mineral ore
President Mahama says a phased ban, backed by law, will push bauxite, manganese, iron, lithium and diamonds through local processing first.
Climate
ECOWAS gives $250,000 for victims of Accra's June floods
An independent relief agency, not the government, will choose who gets the money, the foreign minister says. The floods affected more than 38,000 people.
Politics
Mahama tells new envoys to judge diplomacy by the jobs it brings home
Ghana's ambassadors to Angola, Qatar and Israel and its envoy in Geneva were sworn in with instructions to find investors, open markets and look after Ghanaians abroad.
Diaspora
Ghana to sign a deal sending nurses and teachers to the US Virgin Islands
A memorandum due in November follows talks on St Thomas, as Ghana widens a programme that has already placed health workers in Antigua and Barbuda.
Politics
University of Ghana reopens after administrators suspend their strike
Students return to halls from 19 October, freshers' orientation runs 21 to 23 October and lectures begin on 26 October.
Health
Ghana trains nearly 200 teachers and health workers to spot teenagers in distress
The training, in five regions, teaches the adults around young people to recognise emotional struggles early and respond before a crisis.
Business
Accra's bus lanes cut a two-hour commute to under half an hour
The Aayalolo contra-flow system now carries more than 8,000 passengers a day on three corridors, and the transport agency wants to extend it.
Climate
Ghana's teachers learn beekeeping to start "Buzz Clubs" in schools
Bees for Development Ghana trained teachers in Techiman to build hives from bark and bamboo and pass the skills, and the business sense, on to their pupils.
Business
Accra will host the signing of a UN treaty that lets cargo papers go digital
The Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents, to be signed in Ghana on 26 October, would give electronic bills of lading the same legal force as paper ones.
Culture
Nkrumah's cameraman, the Obamas and IShowSpeed take "The Eyes of Ghana" to US cinemas
The documentary follows Chris Hesse, 93, who smuggled Ghana's independence-era film reels to London after the 1966 coup and is now working to bring them home. It shows in US cinemas on 28 October.
Sport
Ghana's Black Starlets face Côte d'Ivoire for a place at the U-17 Africa Cup
Ghana topped their group unbeaten at the WAFU B championship in Burkina Faso; Nigeria's Golden Eaglets are out after a 1-1 draw with the Ivorians.
Technology
Ghana plans to link 48 government databases to plan with evidence, not promises
Communications minister Sam George says a national data exchange, alongside a $250m AI computing centre, would let budgets be built on "hardcore data at the click of a button".
Sport
Ghana's amputee footballers aim to "make the continent proud" in Mexico
The Black Challenge are in a World Cup group with Angola, Iraq and Colombia and head to a training camp in Turkey before the tournament.
Health
Ghana plans to take cancer care beyond Accra and Kumasi
An international review backed by WHO, the IAEA and the cancer research agency is shaping a new five-year cancer plan, as screening moves into community clinics in 150 districts.
Business
Bank lending in Ghana grows by a third
Loans reached GH¢128.3bn by the end of August, up 34.6% in a year, with almost all of it going to the private sector, the Bank of Ghana says.
Business
Ghana's oil output is up 30% after five years of decline
New wells at the Jubilee field, licence extensions to 2040 and a $2bn agreement with Kosmos Energy are behind the rebound, the energy minister says.
Technology
How a Ghanaian fintech used AI to help find electricity theft
Hubtel's AI lab helped the Electricity Company of Ghana flag suspected theft. Its chief executive says Ghana now needs data-sharing rules and engineers, not just computers.
Health
Ghana launches a policy to look after mothers' mental health
Seventy per cent of health workers surveyed did not know maternal mental health disorders. A new national policy, backed by WHO training, aims to change what happens in antenatal clinics.
Health
Ghana drills its outbreak command centres
Fifty specialists from across the country trained in Accra to run the operations rooms that coordinate a response when disease strikes.
Sport
Ghana look for another coach after Queiroz leaves for the second time in three months
The 73-year-old returned to the Black Stars in September and lasted a month, after qualifying defeats to Ivory Coast and Gambia.
Politics
Ghana's cabinet backs a formal bid to join BRICS
Accra has asked India to support its application as it looks to widen its economic and diplomatic partnerships, the foreign minister says.
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