In a bygone era, the Western powers developed Africa, but today are remembered only as wicked "Imperialists." Now the Chinese are getting the same treatment.

Accra - The Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment (ProMPT) Project has proposed a model for distributing over 12 million mosquito nets to prevent malaria in Ghana.

The US Food and Drug Administration has launched a new program aimed at detecting counterfeit and ineffective malaria drug treatments around the world.

Around 4 in the morning, she received the call: She is the king of Otuam, Ghana. Now she lives in America while ruling Otuam in Africa.

Speculation in the media has been rife that Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana would emerge from the papal conclave as the new pope.

New York - Ghanaian artist El Anatsui is enjoying his first solo exhibition at a New York Museum. His artwork is constructed from found materials, and offers a thoughtful commentary on his homeland as well as the cultural implications of reclaimed materials.

Ghana has announced plans of a project to build a $10 billion IT hub close to the capital Accra. The project is scheduled to be finished by 2016.

Following the announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will resign later in the month, attention has shifted to the question of who the next Pontiff will be. There is a consensus that chances have never been better that the next Pontiff will be a non-European.

Kano - Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram militants have shot dead at least nine female polio vaccination workers in northern Nigeria. The incident brings back to attention rumors that the vaccination drive is part of a Western plot to sterilize Nigerian women.

Lagos - Nigeria's four major opposition parties have announced a strategic merger with the aim of unseating the dominant ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). The PDP, a formidable centrist coalition, has been in power since the end of military rule in 1999.

Lagos - Its jubilation galore on the streets of Lagos and Ibadan, southwest Nigeria, as the soccer-crazy nation's beloved team the Super Eagles trounce Mali to reach the African Cup final for the first time in more than a decade.

Ghana is enforcing a ban on the import of second-hand refrigerators it says consumes too much electricity and harms the environment.

Around the World 2012 was seen out in a blaze of New Year's Eve celebrations and firework displays. In one such event in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast, 60 people are believed to have been killed.

The government in Ghana has placed a ban on the import of secondhand refrigerators. This has been put in place in order to reduce energy consumption and to protect the environment.

Accra - After more than two months of being held in the port of Tema, Ghana, the Argentine frigate “Libertad” was freed following the Ghanaian government's decision to comply with a UN court ruling ordering its immediate release.

Accra - Ghanaians are voting in their sixth presidential and parliamentary elections since democratic rule returned back in 1992. Ghana, unlike many countries in the region, has had many free and fair polls.

A Customs enforcement operation spanning 16 African countries has led to the seizure of more than 82 million doses of illicit medicines.

Freetown - Kelvin Doe, 16, from the African country of Sierra Leone, has become the youngest person ever to be invited to MIT's "Visiting Practitioner's Program," after he invented batteries and a generator using materials picked from trash bins in his neighborhood.

Accra - A multi-storey department store, the Melcom Shopping Center, in the relatively highbrow Achimota suburb of Accra, capital city of Ghana, collapsed suddenly on Wednesday morning, trapping dozens of people in the rubble.

The Louisiana Municipal Police Employee's Retirement System, a Hershey shareholder, sued the chocolate making company for refusing to disclose its cocoa suppliers from two Western African countries, Ghana and Ivory Coast, known for forced child labor.