GUTA- Ghanaians Not Feeling the Benefit of Import Duty Cut

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE GHANA Union of Traders’ Association (GUTA) has revealed that there has been a major increase in imports in Ghana three months after the government reduced import duties. The government in April slashed the benchmark value for imports by...

Ghana, 1,200 Women Trained in Shea Picking

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS- THE SAMIRA Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects has trained 1,200 women in quality shea picking as part of the first phase of the Shea Empowerment Initiative (SEI), in the northern part of Ghana. The SEI is a livelihood empowerment programme, meant to...

KFED Sets Operational Framework for Entrepreneurship- Togo

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KFED) has disclosed an operational set of standards to be followed under the recently signed Entrepreneurship Support Agreement with the Togolese Government. The strategic...

Zuma Centre Stage at Graft Inquiry- South Africa

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu –   NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- President of South Africa started testifying  at a Judicial inquiry. Erstwhile South African President – Jacob Zuma on Monday testify at a Judicial Inquiry where he faces resilient questioning over allegations that,...

Kenya Breweries Limited Economizes on Energy and Water Usage

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- In 2018, sh70 million was saved, through the energy management measures. At a meeting with officials from the Energy and Water Ministries and the Kenya Association of Manufactures (KAM) KBL Managing Director – Jane Karuku...

Ghana, Joins Commonwealth Nations to Support Press Freedom

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- GHANA HAS joined other commonwealth nations to pledge their commitment to the protection of Journalists at the just ended Global Conference for Media Freedom in London. The two-day conference was also used to discuss ways to ensure...

Ghana, CEO of Menzgold, Caged by Court

BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE EMBATTLED Chief Executive Officer of Menzgold Nana Appiah Mensah, also known as NAM 1 has been remanded into police custody after he appeared before a Circuit Court in Accra on Friday morning. He is to reappear in court on July 26, 2019....

In Guinea, President Receives President Weah of Liberia

By Abdul Rahman Suagibu – NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Freetown, Sierra Leone- Alpha Conde, President of the Republic of Guinea received his Liberian counterpart – President George Manneh Weah of the Republic of Liberia with his entourage in the Guinean capital Conakry on Thursday 11th July, 2019 at...

FSG Wins Supreme Court Ruling over Jurisdiction on Human Right Court Ruling- Ghana

  BY YESMAN ANTOH- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Accra, Ghana- THE FOOD Sovereignty Ghana (FSG) has wined a Supreme Court case in which one of the defendants sought to challenge a High Court ruling on the court’s jurisdiction to hear a petition brought before it by FSG and three others. In a...

Malians took to the Streets of Bamako

By Moses Ben- NEW AFRICA DAILY NEWS, Banjul, The Gambia- Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Mali’s capital BAMAKO demanding an end to attacks and massacre in the North and central part of the country where an increase in ethnic violence has escalated over the period. According to...