The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Ghana’s Embassy in Washington DC will resume full operations on Thursday, May 29, just 48 hours after it was temporarily shut down in response to a major corruption scandal. The closure, which was made public on May 26 by Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, followed investigations […]

A major corruption scandal has triggered the temporary shutdown of Ghana’s Embassy in Washington DC, Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has announced. The drastic move follows damning revelations involving a locally hired staff member, Fred Kwarteng, who was found to have masterminded an elaborate fraud scheme within the embassy’s IT operations. According to Mr […]