Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Policy and research think tank IMANI Ghana has urged government to as a matter of urgency consider the passage and implementation of the national draft policy on alcohol.

The Managing Director of Kasapreko Company Limited, Mr Martyn Mensah, has intimated that until the government and people of Ghana paid more attention and offered due recognition to local investors and indigenous companies, the local industrial climate will continue to look gloomy and depressing.
In an interview with Spectator Business, Mr Mensah said the preponderance of incentives to foreign investors at the expense of their local counterparts is a real disincentive to those wealthy Ghanaians who would want to invest in the country.
Comparing Ghana to countries like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, …

Some 80 people have died in Uganda after drinking illegal home-made banana gin laced with methanol, health officials say.
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