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."
March 20, 2016 Telephone, internet and SMS services shut down for 48 hours for “reasons of security” as Congo heads to the polls.Congo is holding its elections under a media blackout and the tense vote is expected to see President Denis Sassou Nguesso prolong his 32-year rule over the oil-rich but poor nation. Interior Minister […]
March 24, 2016 Months ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections in Zambia, political opponents are being arrested. President Edgar Lungu has a tenuous grip on power after narrowly winning a snap election in 2015. A Zambian opposition leader was arrested Monday and charged with defaming the president, after accusing him of partying at taxpayers’ expense […]
By Anjli Parrin The International Criminal Court has suffered a major blow as the final case in an investigation into crimes against humanity committed in Kenya in post-election violence eight-years ago was dismissed. A majority of the three-bench Trial Chamber yesterday threw out the charges against Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto and former journalist Joshua […]
By Habibou Bangré El Niño affects 550,000 people this season It wasn’t meant to be like this. The separatist rebels that had caused years of chaos in this southeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo were pacified. The people who had fled their homes were back farming. The rains on which they depend […]
The IMF has expressed renewed concerns over Ghana’s deteriorating debt situation. According to the Fund, “Ghana is at high risk of debt distress and faces exceptionally high gross financing needs”. In an exclusive email conversation with Business Finder, the fund recommended a change in the country’s borrowing strategy, to consider changing market conditions when assessing […]
By Manasseh Azure Awuni The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is under serious political persecution. That is the glaringly awful spectacle any objective watcher of our disturbing political scene would see. But I don’t think the NPP deserves the sympathy of Ghanaians in this regard. If you give the NPP power tomorrow, they will do […]
By Jean-Pierre Campagne April 8 N’Djamena (AFP) – In the dry searing heat of Chad’s capital N’Djamena, a single face stares out from election campaign billboards, President Idriss Deby’s, though 14 candidates are running in Sunday’s presidential poll. After 26 years at the helm of the vast largely barren nation that is Africa’s fifth biggest, […]
PRESS RELEASE The New Patriotic Party (NPP) wishes to inform its members, supporters, and sympathisers that the Party has decided to boycott all political programmes on Okay FM and Neat FM, with immediate effect. Programs on the two stations which are hosted by Kwame Nkrumah Tikesie and Adakabre Frimpong Manso respectively have in recent months […]
Three former South African policemen were arrested March 20 in the Central Region of Ghana by the Bereau of National InvestigationS (BNI), allegedly for illegally training fifteen private security personnel of the NPP, the major political opposition party to engage in acts of terrorism. Also, picked up were two former Ghanaian military men, Capt Edmund […]
by Kofi Ayim Ghana’s Minister of interior, Prosper Bani has inadvertently exposed the Electoral Commission of Ghana. He has also contradicted the former chairman of the Electoral Commission, Dr. Afari Gyan .The exposure also indubitably relives the now infamous 2012 Election Petition and vindicates the New Patriotic Party (NPP). In the aftermath of a press […]