When a name like Kweku Adoboli instantly becomes public, like the UBS trader who allegedly lost the bank $2 billion in unauthorized transactions and who is suddenly a globally hot Internet search item, many turn to the most public source available -- Facebook, the world's largest social network.
Vancouver-based Abzu Gold Ltd. said Monday it has begun drilling at a gold concession in Ghana.
Brazil manages only one goal against Ghana in London.
Ghana's 45,000 barrel-per-day state-run Tema oil refinery shut its main crude distillation unit on August 28 after running out of feedstock, two sources with knowledge of the plant's operations told Reuters on Monday.
Tales of intimidation, racial violence and even murder are multiplying for the hundreds of thousands of black Africans who came to Libya to find work.
Golden Star Resources said it has resumed mining at its Pampe gold deposit in Ghana, a move that will help increase overall production and slash cash operating costs at the Bogoso/Prestea mine in the region.
Australia's Adamus Resources said on Thursday it expects a friendly takeover by Canada's Endeavour Mining Corp to be completed in early November, creating a West Africa-focused company producing a quarter million ounces of gold annually by 2013.
Akwaaba. Welcome, to the road less traveled!
Before the revolt started, there were an estimated 2.5-million migrant workers in Libya, perhaps the majority from black Africa. Many remain trapped in the country with no way to get home.
Gold's high price spurs private individuals to sell jewelry and other personal items made of the yellow metal.
Here's a bold prediction to feed Western worries that power is shifting inexorably to the East: China's yuan could overtake the U.S. dollar as the world's principal reserve currency as soon as next decade.
Ghana's parliament on Friday approved a $3 billion Chinese loan and the country's finance minister said the west African nation was in talks with China's Exim bank for loans worth another $6 billion, which are part of a broader Chinese package.
Gold Fields Ltd., a major gold mining company, warned Thursday that there were several Web sites that use Gold Fields branding and purport to be investment vehicles on behalf of the company.
Ghana's parliament will begin debating on Monday a $3 billion loan facility awarded by China Development Bank to the west African nation to finance infrastructure projects including in the oil and gas sector, a government statement said.
New names emerge for the Gunners.
Ghana's annual inflation rate fell to its lowest since 1992 in July, potentially paving the way for new cuts in interest rates in the West African state.
Former Germany World Cup winner and manager Juergen Klinsmann was named United States coach Friday, the U.S. soccer federation said.
China's Sinohydro Group Ltd, the builder of the Three Gorges dam, plans to raise more than $2.5 billion in what could be mainland China's biggest initial public offering this year.
In Africa on a goodwill mission Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama defended her husband against criticism that he isn't paying enough attention to the continent. The first lady said her weeklong trip is, actually, proof of the president's commitment to Africa, the Associated Press reported.
Two former presidents were awarded this years World Food Prize. They will split the $250,000 honorarium.
At least 270 migrants from Libya heading towards Europe may have drowned after their ship sank off the coast of Tunisia in a storm, authorities said on Thursday.
A Ghana-bound United Airlines flight 990 last Sunday was escorted back to Washington, D.C., by U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter jets after an argument between two passengers over a reclining seat erupted into a mid-air assault.