Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
News of the death of Ghana’s President John Fiifi Atta Mills was reported in Ghana’s JoyFM on Tuesday, July 24. Dr. Mills who was reported yesterday to be getting ready for a trip to Nigeria celebrated his 68th birthday on July 21. The deceased was elected in 2008 as Ghana’s president on the ticket of […]
Last week, Malian singer and guitarist Afel Bocoum was joined in Mali by British musician Damon Albarn for a unique music project aimed at drawing international attention to the growing humanitarian crisis in Mali and to the regional food crisis in West and Central Africa. More than 18 million people in nine countries across the […]
We couldn’t agree more with President Mugabe’s advice that Africa should pursue African solutions to African problems failing which we should engage the UN system, as inviting outsiders would only bring misery and destruction. Addressing the 19th Ordinary Session of the African Union General Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week, President Mugabe counseled fellow […]
London — Water scarcity is both a natural and a human-made problem. Population growth, rapid urbanization, industrial development, rising agricultural needs and overuse of lakes, waterways and aquifers – all put pressure on water supplies. Additional drivers of water scarcity include drought, desertification, rising sea levels and accelerated melting of glaciers, which scientists say […]
By Francis Ugwoke After years of concerted efforts, the international maritime community, including Nigeria, appears to have forced pirates to a retreat, with a 54 percent fall in attacks on ships as at June this year. Francis Ugwoke reports For a very long time, pirates operating in different parts of the globe have held […]
Nairobi — The Catholic Bishops of Kenya have strongly reacted to an article appearing on the Daily Nation newspaper of Friday July 13 2012 titled Kenya Joins Global Birth Control Push. According to the newspaper, Kenya is among countries that have signed up to a new Sh356 billion global drive to promote family planning services […]
By Ellen Van Den Bovenkamp Should top-level athletes fast or not during Ramadan? The Islamic month of fasting falls at the same time as the Olympic Games, and a quarter of the participants in the London Games are struggling with this question. If they fast, they might diminish their chances of winning an Olympic […]
By Edwin Musoni Following the decision by the United States to cut military aid to Rwanda on grounds that the latter allegedly supports rebel mutinies in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo, has said the donor is free to dispense or withhold support, but that the premise is ill-informed. The […]
By Abiodun Oluwarotimi and Chuks Ohuegbe Nigerians resident in the United States of America have scheduled a solidarity march next Thursday at the country’s embassy in Washington, DC, to protest alleged corruption, money laundering, abuse of power and sundry civil rights violations committed by Ambassador Ade Adefuyi, the country’s ambassador to the US. The […]
Reports from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) indicate a significant reduction in incidences of piracy in the Gulf of Aden in the first quarter of 2012. There were 163 instances in the first quarter of 2011; the first half of this year has so far seen 69 incidences, which indicates a drop in global piracy […]