An international conference to review developments in the petroleum downstream sector in the West African sub-region on Wednesday opened in Ghana’s capital Accra.
The conference...
Ghana may begin hedging oil imports under a new risk management strategy to keep fiscal consolidation on track as global crude prices recover.
That’s what the Reuters news agency is gathering from Ghana's Ministry of Finance. Oil hedging is used to reduce or eliminate a country’s exposure to fluctuating oil prices.
South Sudan has removed fuel subsidies in a move many government officials attributed to scarcity of hard currencies, The Sudan Tribune reports. Media report suggest the move is a directive from the president's office.
Report also suggests civil servants have gone for close to a year now without being paid because there is actually no money in the treasury. The Deputy Finance minister Mou Ambrose Thiik told the Reuters news agency in September that ending the fuel subsidies would free up desperately needed cash.
Uganda signed an oil exploration deal with Australia’s Armour Energy Limited on Thursday, the first under a protracted competitive licensing round launched in 2015.
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...