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."
This year marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s economy and its people. The country is on the brink of finalising an historic deal which will end a decade and half of sanctions and unlock substantial new funds for economic growth and development. At the heart of this are the negotiations between the Zimbabwe government and […]
By Robert Kibet The Kenyan authorities have promised dire punishment for all those responsible for the collapse of a six-storey apartment building in Nairobi’s low-income Huruma suburb on Friday, in which at least 22 people died and scores are still missing. The draconian response is familiar to Kenyans, but it doesn’t seem to put an […]
By Justin Lynch Twitter South Sudan may finally, perhaps, be on the road to peace. Rebel leader Riek Machar is expected in the capital, Juba, next week in the final step towards a government of national unity that seeks to end the fighting and glue together a country torn apart by more than two years […]
Aryn Baker/Cape Town@arynebaker April 18, 2016 Mike Hutchings—Reuters President Jacob Zuma answers questions at Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, March 17, 2016. A nephew of Zuma’s was mentioned in the Panama Papers. Despite the negative insinuations, there are good reasons why African investors named in the Panama Papers would want offshore accounts According to […]
Richard Miniter Congo, one of the poorest nations on Earth, offered former President Bill Clinton a speaking fee of $650,000–a sum equal to annual per-capita income of 2,813 Congolese. Indeed, the International Monetary Fund ranks the Democratic Republic of the Congo dead last in its global income rankings. What did it expect in return for […]
By E. Obiri Addo “We live in a troubled world, but it is still God’s world. Humankind should be partners with God to bring peace to the world”. Professor Andrea Bartoli, Dean of the School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University, South Orange in New Jersey made this urgent call at a recent public lecture […]
Amandla Reporter in Accra Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) on April 28, started a limited registration exercise for qualified Ghanaians to have a chance to vote in the November elections. Reports so far indicate that in many places, particularly the NPP strongholds in Ashanti and Eastern regions, there have been incidences of violence in which some […]
NPP-USA Women’s Wing Meet Simon-Peter Frimpong, a 13-year old Ghanaian American from Aurora, Colorado. The 8th-grader is one of about 100 top science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students from across the USA who have been invited to the 2016 White House Science Fair, scheduled for this Wednesday, April 13th. The fair, which is President […]
The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) has accepted the resignation of Very Rev. Dr Yaw Frimpong-Manso, the immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly of the church. With this development, Very Rev. Frimpong-Manso would, by implication, forfeit all rights, titles, entitlements, privileges and protocols ordinarily enjoyed by or accorded a former Moderator and/or Reverend Minister […]
by Kwabena Opong When the NPP announced its intention to boycott Neat FM and Okay FM shows of Adakabre Frempong Manso and Kwame Nkrumah Tikesie, it became fodder for political discourse. After a few ten or so days the intensity has died down. No surprises there. That is Ghanaian press. The only media house that […]