Kent Mensah
Ghana Correspondent at The Africa Report
Ghana correspondent The Africa Report |Bylines: VOA, AFP| Al Jazeera | BNE| Fixer| *Views mine.* Email: [email protected] Mob: +233242186493
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4 days ago |
theafricareport.com | Kent Mensah
When former President Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration launched the ‘Year of Return’ in 2019, Ghana burst onto the global tourism map as the ultimate destination for the African diaspora. Through a combination of savvy cultural diplomacy, curated events and the allure of spiritual reconnection, the campaign fuelled an unprecedented surge in visitors – many of African descent – and gave rise to the globally trending ‘December in Ghana’ movement.
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5 days ago |
theafricareport.com | Kent Mensah
Ghana’s former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has officially been declared a fugitive from justice by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), which has initiated proceedings to issue an Interpol Red Notice to facilitate his arrest and extradition. This move follows Ofori-Atta’s failure to appear in person before the OSP on 2 June to respond to a series of high-value corruption allegations dating back to his tenure as the key architect of Ghana’s economic policy between 2017 and 2023.
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1 week ago |
intellinews.com | Kent Mensah
The stench of wet debris still lingers in the Adenta neighbourhood of Accra, where broken mattresses, soaked books and splintered furniture lie heaped by the roadside like corpses after a disaster. For 35-year-old trader Adwoa Manu, the memories of Sunday, May 18, remain vivid and traumatic. “I held my baby on my back and waded through chest-high water just to get out of the house,” she tells bne IntelliNews. “We’ve lost everything.
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1 week ago |
theafricareport.com | Kent Mensah
The fight against illegal gold mining – a multimillion-dollar menace that has devastated forests and rivers – in Ghana has been thrust into the national spotlight with the dramatic arrest of Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi. He is a wealthy businessman and the powerful Ashanti regional chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Get full access to The Africa Report
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1 week ago |
theafricareport.com | Kent Mensah
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