Archive for: March, 2017

Brooklyn DA to hire immigration attorneys to protect borough’s immigrants

Acting District Attorney Eric Gonzalez was at the recent Kings County Criminal Bar Association meeting on Thursday, where he an- nounced that his office will hire a pair of immigration attorneys to work with assistant district attorneys to ensure that immigrants don’t get deported for low-level crimes. “We are going to hire in the Brooklyn […]

Zimbabwe: Why Mugabe Stays But Jammeh Goes

Harare — “We need an Ecowas in southern Africa!” That was the tweeted wail from prominent Zimbabwe lawyer Fadzayi Mahere this week as she and many Zim- babweans watched events up in the Gambia with envy. Much as President Robert Mugabe is widely thought to have done in March 2008, Gambia’s ex-president Yahya Jammeh lost […]

Promoting peace by waging war: African interventionism

By Obi Anyadike Twitter Editor-at-Large and Africa Editor Africa, the world’s poorest continent, faces many security challenges. But its leaders are not slow to intervene in crises when they can, as Yahya Jammeh in the Gambia is now discovering. His refusal to accept electoral defeat on 1 December has culminated in a coalition of West […]

Akwamuhene Storms Manhyia With 400-Year-Old Cloth

By Daniel Bampo The paramount chief of the Akwamu Traditional Area in the Eastern Region, Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III, made history last Thursday when he donned a 400-year-old regalia to the burial rites of the late Asantehe- maa, Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi Ampem II. The paramount chief attended the ceremony at the Manhyia Palace with his […]

Ghanaians abroad want recognition from Akufo Addo government

The new Akufo Addo administration has hit the ground running with the creation of 36 ministers that manifests the NPP’s campaign promise. By the time of going to press the president had sworn in 12 ministers. The minority NDC, as usual, is already raising red flags over some of the ministers and ministries calling them […]

Change is inevitable – Rev. Dr. Quarshie

by Kofi Ayim Akropong-Akuapem   The New York Theological Seminary (NYTS) held its maiden graduate convocation for ten candidates for the Doctor of Ministry Degree at Akropong Akuapem January 14, 2017. The colorful Academic Hooding ceremony was held at the Christ Presbyterian Church. The procession of graduants and faculty led by the Rev. Dr. Eleanor […]

Asanteman and Ghana bid adieu to a great queen

by Kwabena Opong Manhyia Palace, Kumasi Ghanaians from the spectrum of society joined Asanteman and the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to bid farewell to Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, Asantehemaa at the Manhyia Palace last December at the ripe age of 111. The four-day elaborate and very cultural and traditional burial rites, unprecedented in the history of the ancient Asante Empire and […]

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