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ICC declines to refer S.Africa to UN for not arresting Sudan’s Bashir

The International Criminal Court on Thursday rebuked South Africa for not arresting Sudan’s president on a genocide warrant when he visited Johannesburg in 2015 but declined to refer Pretoria to the United Nations for possible censure over the lapse. The ICC indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 2008 over the deaths and persecution of ethnic groups in Sudan’s Darfur province between 2003 and 2008. But he has continued to travel internationally, visiting Jordan as recently as March. The first…

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Govt to meet IMF board this month

The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that government is preparing to meet the board of the International Monetary Fund later this month. A team from the IMF led by Joël Toujas-Bernaté, earlier visited Accra on the 10th of February this year to welcome the government’s intention to conduct a full audit of outstanding obligations under the External Credit Facility (ECF). Ghana entered into the ECF facility with the Fund for a total of 918 million over a three year…

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Top Global Investment Executives to speak at Ghana Investment Summit 2017

Prominent executives from some of the world’s largest investment firms and multinational corporations are confirmed to speak at the upcoming Ghana Investment Summit (GIS) 2017, to be held from August 20-22 at the Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast City in Accra. GIS, organized in partnership with the Ministry of Finance, Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) and global investment bank partners, is the first major investment summit under President Akufo-Addo’s administration which has declared a new era of investments in Ghana and…