Ghanaian Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas wins $18M in US defamation case against former MP

A U.S. court has ruled in favor of Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, awarding him $18 million (£14 million) in damages after finding that former Ghanaian MP Kennedy Agyapong defamed him.

The dispute traces back to Agyapong’s remarks following Anas’s 2018 BBC investigation into football corruption across Ghana and Africa. In a 2021 podcast, Agyapong accused Anas of being a “criminal” and falsely linked him to the…