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The Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) has launched a five-year initiative to restore 50 hectares of degraded forest in the Western Region, in a move that places greater emphasis on the environmental responsibilities accompanying the exploitation of Ghana’s mineral resources.

When a scammer strikes, most of us do the same thing: block the number, delete the chat and quietly move on. It feels like closure.

The cedi's recent appreciation against the US dollar is expected to offer motorists some relief from international petroleum market pressures in November, with petrol prices projected to fall by up to 3.51 percent.

A major constraint on trade financing across Africa has been overcome with the Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry signing an international convention aimed at making goods moving by road, rail and other transport modes easier to use as security for bank loans.

Comprehensive geological mapping is essential to delineating concessions for small-scale and large-scale mining operators and preventing operational conflicts between local miners and multinational companies, Denis Gyeyir, Programme Manager for Resources Futures in Africa at the Open Society Foundations, has said.

Government faces mounting pressure to convert its expanding youth population into productive employment, with nearly two million young people neither working nor in education or training - highlighting the challenge of translating economic growth and macroeconomic stability into decent jobs.

Ghana’s lower-rate cycle is forcing banks to prove that growth can survive without the unusually high yields of recent years.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across all 16 regions are to benefit from a national business pitch competition aimed at improving access to funding, strengthening business capacity and creating jobs.